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You could do the following.<br />
1) Take the share offline and use secure copy &nbsp;or robocopy to copy half of the file / folders to a new share called Archive two.<br />
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2) Remove the second half of the copied files from the source<br />
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3) COpy the Archive and Archive2 folders to your taget file servers then use DFS to point to them
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You could do the following.
1) Take the share offline and use secure copy  or robocopy to copy half of the file / folders to a new share called Archive two.

2) Remove the second half of the copied files from the source

3) COpy the Archive and Archive2 folders to your taget file servers then use DFS to point to them

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We currently have a DFS namespace set up named &quot;shares&quot; which has all our shared folders underneath it. We are running Windows Server 2008 R2. <br />
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One of these shares (Archive) is getting quite large and we would like to split it across multiple disks using DFS to keep everything easy for the users. Is this possible? <br />
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In my head we would have a second namespace below the root named Archive which would point to the different disks/folders.
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We currently have a DFS namespace set up named "shares" which has all our shared folders underneath it. We are running Windows Server 2008 R2. 

One of these shares (Archive) is getting quite large and we would like to split it across multiple disks using DFS to keep everything easy for the users. Is this possible? 

In my head we would have a second namespace below the root named Archive which would point to the different disks/folders.

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