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Re: Moving the MTADATA folder

Author
25 Mar 2005 11:08 AM
Richard Quick
Basicly I will be moving the folder and others onto an new storage platform.
I want to move the whole folder, if I move the database other files are left
in the folder.

Unfortunatly it appears that I can not just move the folder and reassign the
drive letter to the new disk, the system generates errors. Assume it looks
at the disk signiture or somthing. I assume ghosting the disk will not keep
the signiture?

Thanks
Richard


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"Johan Strange" <JohanStra***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Is this because of space restrictions? if so you may be best using a
> different method such as creating a new volume with new disks and
> relocating
> the Database or even consider ghosting to the larger.
>
> "Richard Quick" wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does anyone know of a way to move the MTADATA folder. All the documents
>> which I can find seem to say you can not move the directory as a whole,
>> just
>> the data files.
>>
>> The reason I need to move this is that I am migrating the data to a mew
>> storage solution.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> Richard
>>
>>
>>

Author
25 Mar 2005 5:02 PM
Todd J Heron
"Richard Quick" <Rich***@kjhfdkjdhfkd.com> wrote in message
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>Basicly I will be moving the folder and others onto an new storage
>platform.
>I want to move the whole folder, if I move the database other files are
>left
>in the folder.

>Unfortunatly it appears that I can not just move the folder and reassign
>the
>drive letter to the new disk, the system generates errors. Assume it looks
>at the disk signiture or somthing. I assume ghosting the disk will not keep
>the signiture?

Is this Exchange 5.5?  If so then use the Performance Optimizer to move the
MTADATA folder.

--
Todd J Heron, MCSE
Windows Server 2003/2000/NT; CCA
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Author
14 Apr 2005 11:47 AM
Richard Quick
Just to clarify I am using Exchange 2003 in a 2 node cluster

Thanks


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"Todd J Heron" <todd_heron_no_spam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Richard Quick" <Rich***@kjhfdkjdhfkd.com> wrote in message
> news:OaLF2rSMFHA.3320@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>>Basicly I will be moving the folder and others onto an new storage
>>platform.
>>I want to move the whole folder, if I move the database other files are
>>left
>>in the folder.
>
>>Unfortunatly it appears that I can not just move the folder and reassign
>>the
>>drive letter to the new disk, the system generates errors. Assume it looks
>>at the disk signiture or somthing. I assume ghosting the disk will not
>>keep
>>the signiture?
>
> Is this Exchange 5.5?  If so then use the Performance Optimizer to move
> the
> MTADATA folder.
>
> --
> Todd J Heron, MCSE
> Windows Server 2003/2000/NT; CCA
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> This posting is provided "as is" with no warranties and confers no rights.
>

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