|  |     Hi Simon,
    
    There is a Stars article addressing this issue even though it was
    written for version 2.3 it's still valid.  The article is called
    "How To Move Shared Mail Area and Directories To Another Device in
    V2.3".
    
    >What precautions should be made ?
    
    The precaution I would take is to make a backup copy of the
    OA$DATA_SHARE:OA$SHARED_DAF_MASTER.DAT and
    OA$DATA_SHARE:OA$SHARED_DIRECTORY_MASTER.DAT, files before you alter
    them.
    
    If there is more to it under version 3.0 I am sure someone will provide
    the additional information.
    
    Regards,
    
    Sunil
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|  |     I will probably regret saying this, but here goes . . .
    
    I just did this last week for County of Santa Cruz Health Services.  We
    did the following steps:
    	1. Shutdown ALL-IN-1 (and killed all waiting sender and fetcher
    	   parts)
    	2. Backed up all mail directories to their new disks (we split them
    	   up onto multiple spindles for performance and balancing reasons)
    	3. Modified the appropriate datasets with their new disk names.
    
    This part was quite simple and very straight forward.  The harder parts
    was using the MDK option to move user accounts from one disk to
    another.  They wanted to balance the load which meant individual jobs
    for each move.  487 mail messages saying success or failure was not all
    that great, but it appears to be operational.
Dan
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