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Home > Forums > MIS/IT > Operating Systems - Hardware Independent > Microsoft: Small Business Server 2003 Forum

Move SBS 2003 w/ Exchange to Temporary Server

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rivang (ISP)

1 Apr 10 15:50

Due to low space on Drive C, I would like to move my current SBS 2003 w/Exchange to a temporary server long enough to rebuild the current server.

I see there are several paths to accomplish that task, but which would be the better path?

ShackDaddy (MIS)

1 Apr 10 16:26

Well, which paths are you seeing? Here are three common ones:

- Use Shadowprotect to snapshot your C: drive. Restore that same image to a larger drive connected to another system. Swap out the larger drive with the smaller drive on your SBS server. Downtime - maybe 2 hours.

- Use ShadowProtect to take a snapshot of your server and temporarily run it in a VM on another system while you add more storage to your existing server. Snapshot the VM when you are ready to migrate back and restore it to original hardware. - Downtime - maybe an hour when moving stuff around.

- Use Smbmigration.com's techniques to do a "swing" to the same hardware. This will involve bringing in a temporary server, joining it to the domain, running DCPromo on it, fiddling with ADSIedit, wiping the original server, reinstalling SBS 2003 on original server, joining it to existing domain, etc. It will accomplish what you are trying to do. Downtime - as long as it takes to reinstall SBS 2003 on your original hardware. Most of the initial prep work is done while production server is online.

Dave Shackelford MVP
ThirdTier.net

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