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I have a problem that need AT input.
I facing a problem network/server that were created by some idiot. We have a server that have 2 hdd with 3 partitions.
Dev0 ? 2gig C: Primary Active Boot partition, W2Kserver, Exchange, Web, Dynamic database, Veritas BackupExec & drivers
Dev0 ? 8gig D: various Programs & Data (virtual memory paging).
Dev1 ? 18gig E: Data.
C: - 54meg free space (512meg after compression).
D: - 3.9gig free space.
E: - 12gig free space.
The server is flaky due to low memory on the boot partition, and we are looking at adding another database service to this server. I have 4 options of resolving this head ache, and have to find the solution don?t take too much down time for the server.
1. Use Pqmagic 6.0 to resize the disk partition and to give the boot drive more space (but heard that Pqmagic don?t do Win2k Server).
2. Disk Image C: & D: to a new hdd and get ready for the new database.
3. Backup C: & D to the backup tape, then use recover to rebuilt the system onto the new hdds.
4. Since the layout of the installed programs are so irlogical I feel like rebuilding the server form scratch, but that would take days of install/config associations & rights.
Please give me a an idea here of how to minimizes head ache & time (we are looking at keeping this box for another 3 years before the next upgrade).
I facing a problem network/server that were created by some idiot. We have a server that have 2 hdd with 3 partitions.
Dev0 ? 2gig C: Primary Active Boot partition, W2Kserver, Exchange, Web, Dynamic database, Veritas BackupExec & drivers
Dev0 ? 8gig D: various Programs & Data (virtual memory paging).
Dev1 ? 18gig E: Data.
C: - 54meg free space (512meg after compression).
D: - 3.9gig free space.
E: - 12gig free space.
The server is flaky due to low memory on the boot partition, and we are looking at adding another database service to this server. I have 4 options of resolving this head ache, and have to find the solution don?t take too much down time for the server.
1. Use Pqmagic 6.0 to resize the disk partition and to give the boot drive more space (but heard that Pqmagic don?t do Win2k Server).
2. Disk Image C: & D: to a new hdd and get ready for the new database.
3. Backup C: & D to the backup tape, then use recover to rebuilt the system onto the new hdds.
4. Since the layout of the installed programs are so irlogical I feel like rebuilding the server form scratch, but that would take days of install/config associations & rights.
Please give me a an idea here of how to minimizes head ache & time (we are looking at keeping this box for another 3 years before the next upgrade).