I know this is a noob question. I have searched the forums, but have not found anything exactly to my liking and would appreciate a few tips.
Currently, I have the following Logical drive letters on our Win2k3 File Server:
C: = Raid 5 internal array and primary storage
D:, E: optical drives
K: External drive
L: External drive
M: External drive
I have added a new Raid 5 array into the server and am going to make it Logical drive letter K:, and therefore am going to "bump up" the current K-M to the next highest letter, and make my new Raid 5 Logical drive K: I know, I know, this is creating more work - I could make the new letter N:, but my boss does't it want it that way :)
My noob questions are:
How will backup exec react when I change the logical drive letters? Will it crash out in any way until I get the jobs modified to reflect the logical drive lettering change?
In other words, the file selections on my jobs will no longer be valid. For instance, I have a nightly backup that backs up certain folders in K:\vol2\, but of course after I change the logical drive letters, that location will no longer exist (it will be L:\vol2\).
The selections are more complex than that (I backup certain things on different nights to balance out my tape usage), but I think you get my drift.
What would be great would be if there was some .ini file or backup data file in which I could simply close out of Backup Exec (10.x), make my drive changes, modify said backup job ini file/database simply changing the drive letters in the paths, then simply restart backup exec and the changes would be made.
Does any type of job database exist, one that I could change the letters.
Thanks in advance for any tips/tricks
Rob Catron
Lexington KY