What you can do is shut the services down; back up all the files; swap the "disks", leaving the drive letters consistent as before; then restore all the files.
Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP kcCC+I Tech Consultant hp Services Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Parker Race Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 3:06 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Installing Exchange 5.5 on a Windows 2000 cluster I'm not getting new servers,just storage,these servers are low profile and don't have enough slots to have the SCSI and fiber adapters in them at the same time. > Why can't you just move the databases? > > Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP kcCC+I > Tech Consultant > hp Services > Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups! > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Parker Race > Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 12:16 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Installing Exchange 5.5 on a Windows 2000 cluster > > > I'm changing the disk storage on a Exchange 5.5 cluster from fiber to > SCSI. As long as I have to restore my whole database I figured I would > take the opportunity to upgrade the server OS to 2000. I've tested > restoring my 5.5 databases on to Windows 2000 successfully a number of > times. Has anyone had experience with installing and running Exchange > 5.5 on a Windows 2000 cluster? I don't have the spare hardware to test > this scenario. Thanks > > _________________________________________________________________ > 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] _________________________________________________________________ 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] _________________________________________________________________ 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]
