Hi,
Our current server only has 2 drives(mirrored). This has now ran out of space, so I need to add more drives.
What would be the best way to do this. Is it possible to move over only the maildatabases, or would Domino need reinstalled on the new drive?
As you can tell I am a beginner.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Subject: Out of Diskspace
You can just move oarts of your Domino Data Directory to the new disc. Search the Administrator Help file for the document titeld “Creating directory and database links”, this will enable you to distribute your databases on different HDD.
Subject: Out of Diskspace
You can also copy your entire Data directory over to a new bigger drive. Then just change the directory line in the servers notes.ini file to point to the other drive. Then you don’t have to reinstall the Domino server or modify it much. So if you added a D drive to your server:
Change: Directory=C:\Lotus\Domino\Data
To: Directory=D:\Lotus\Domino\Data
I’ve done this before and it worked fine. I’d definitely suggest copying the data and not moving it. Start up the server with the data on the new drive and make sure everything is working fine before getting rid of the data on the C Drive.
I have seen people post opinions that copying databases through Windows is not the best way to do it but I have never had a problem. You might do some research and get comfortable with this solution before implementing it if you choose to do so.