You can move them manually and then move them back, but the optimizer won't move the drives to a network drive nor will Exchange use them while they are there. Take a good backup or 3 first.
Chris -- Chris Scharff Senior Sales Engineer MessageOne If you can't measure, you can't manage! > -----Original Message----- > From: "Østensvik, Eirik (F-GAS)" > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 5:00 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Moving information store to a network drive > > > Did not seem to go through the first time, sorry if it turns > out to be a double.. > > > Hi Gurus! > > > > I have been lurking here for a year or so, but I have to ask > > you guys a question now, so here we go. > > Version: Exchange 5.5 SP3, NT4.0 SP5. > > Information store: 18GB. > > > > We ran out of space on the raid containing the information > store. To > > fix this quick, I added two disks in the server, and moved the > > information store to the new 20GB disk. This helped the > problem, but > > the new disks are not redundant/raided/mirrored. > > > > My plan to fix this is to move the private information store > > to a mapped network drive using exchange optimizer, delete > > the 17GB raid we used before, the reconfigure the raid with > > more disks, and then move the information store back. > > Is this possible? > > > > I plan to do this at night, to minimize downtime. > > > > Thanks, > > Eirik O. Østensvik > > Fugro-Geoteam > > Marine Operations/IT-ADM _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
