[There's a reason that Yoda is the unofficial mascot of SBS. Size indeed matters not.] Are you needing move your Exchange databases to another partition? - THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS DIVA
Tue, Jun 22 2004 12:48 bradley

Are you needing move your Exchange databases to another partition?

 as mentioned before in this newsgroup, here are the steps (brought to you by
Sean Daniel):

- Open Server Management
- Expand "<Domain> (Exchange)"
- Expand "Servers"
- Expand "<server name>"
- Expand "First Storage Group"

- Right Click "Mailbox store"
- Click on "Properties"
- Select the "Database" tab
- Change the location of the "Exchange Database" by browsing to a volume
with
   more space (Note: DO NOT CHANGE THE DATABASE NAME)
- Change the location of the "Exchange streaming database" to the same
   location (Note: DO NOT CHANGE THE DATABASE NAME)
- Choose OK -> The dismounts, moves and remounts, this make take some time
   & email will be unavailable to your users while this happens

Repeat for "Public Folder Store" if you want to.

Also, if you're running out of space, make sure you're doing Exchange-aware
backups (either with a 3rd party or the SBS backup solution).  Your log
files could be growing on your system for no reason

Finally, if you want to move the log files to another location too, you can
follow these steps:

- Right Click on First Storage Group
- Choose Properties
- On the General tab
- Choose Browse for each of the "Transaction Log Location" and
   "System Path location"
- Choose Yes to the: are you sure dialog --> The dismounts, moves and
   remounts, this make take some time & email will be down during this time.

I hope this helps,
   Sean
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# re: Are you needing move your Exchange databases to another partition?

Wednesday, June 23, 2004 2:55 AM by bradley

You add the note about moving the log files, almost as an afterthought. Why would anyone want to move the databases but not the logs? Isn't it safer to keep these together?

# re: Are you needing move your Exchange databases to another partition?

Wednesday, June 23, 2004 4:16 PM by bradley

Hi Phil and Susan ;-)

It´s a better idea to have them separated that way if databases HD is gone you can recover with the latest full backup and log files up to the point of failure without mail loss.

Another reason is the system performance. Because of the way Exchange works (accesing DBs & Logs) it´s better to have them separate.

Hope this help.

PS. On a normal installation I use i.e. C for OS, D for Logs and E for databases; ideally C -> Mirror, D -> RAID 0+1, E -> RAID5

Saludos from Spain.

Benji

# re: Are you needing move your Exchange databases to another partition?

Tuesday, May 24, 2005 3:27 PM by bradley

How long may it take? I'm moving an sbs database right now due to running up against the size limit of the mail store. I need to move it to another partition so I have room to defrag, though I'll use the temp file switch if it doesn't work this time.

I think what happened is that the registry hack to up the limit to 1GB reset to 0 when I first tried the move.

This time I hope it works... but we'll see. The counter is cycling at 100% so progress is not really reported.

Thanks,
Fred