Hi, I am in the process of adding storage to one of my servers. It's a member of a dfs replication group, and the data is in an MBR partition. In order to get the space I want, I'll need to format in GPT. The data is backed up using DPM.
Can anyone confirm for me that this is the best path to use?
1. Verify the backup
2. Adjust the replication schedule so that replication will not occur during my format process.
3. Format the drive using GPT.
4. Replace the data from backup.
5. schedule the DFS replication to start.
It's my hope that once the data is replaced, and DFS starts replication, it will only see the changes made during the time of the format, and will gracefully resume replication.
If anyone has advice, I'd be happy to have it.
Thanks,
Kevin