I want to move my Exchange transaction logs to a new drive because the disk space is low on the current drive. After reading through many articles, I'm a bit confused as to whether I need to dismount the store to move the logs. Something I read earlier seemed to imply that I could change the path and wait for the management process to change to the new drive. If so, this should happen at midnight in my case.
Something else I read seemed to imply I could restart the system attendant to immediately push the new settings. Then I could copy the existing logs to the new drive and make sure the date precedes the new files to prevent issues.
The other articles I have read mentioned doing this with the store dismounted as well as a possible registry change for attachement issues.
If possible, I would prefer to do this without dismounting and would appreciate any insight into what I should do.
Thanks in advance.
So, for clarity. If I go to the system manager and move the location of the transaction logs, I should be prompted to dismount the store and then the move will begin after the dismount? Does the system path option need to be changed? I didn't think it mattered as much.