WHS 2011 Help Please

[ristac]

WHS 2011 installed on a HP Proliant Microserver and upgraded to 4GB RAM.

I might have made an error when I installed WHS on to the HD that came with the Microserver, I believe it is something like 250GB.

I have installed 3 x 2TB drives into the empty slots. I have two networked computers that I would like to back-up with little to zero effort.

In server manager I see the three disks I have added and formatted. I also see the system disk which WHS has broken into two C and D

C = 60GB NTFS Healthy (Boot, Page, File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)
D = 172.79 GB NTFS

When I explore D it contains ServerFolders >> Client Computer Backups (with a lock symbol) and the folders for music, movies, pictures etc.

Problem
I can get most things worked out apart from one: When I attempt to back up one of my networked attached PC's I receive an error message saying that there is not enough space on the disk.

From what I can make out, the backup of my PC is lets say 300GB but there is not enough room on C or D

How can I make the back-ups point to one of my 2TB drives?

Any advice appreciated

 

[lokkers]

WHS 2011 doesn't have the Drive Extender technology the original WHS had (which is a massive shame). Thus your server shares, by default, reside on the second partition of the primary disk. You'll need to move the shared folders off onto their own disks to avoid filling up the second partition.

Open the Dashboard, open the Server Folders tab and select the folder you want to move. Then, on the right, is a button (link) to move the folder. A wizard will open that will walk you through the process.

My advice would be to reinstall WHS on one of the big disks and ditch the small one. I have a 1TB and a 2TB in my box - the OS and shares are on the 1TB, except for the Video share which lives on the 2TB disk.

 

[ristac]

Thanks for that, I have already installed whs on the smaller disk not realising it wasn't easy to nominate the drives and as it is OEM I assume I can't move it to another disk?

 

[lokkers]

OEM is only tied to the motherboard, so you can reinstall it on the same hardware as many times as you like.