Hi all.
I've been advised to look at this as part of a home server refresh.
Currently I have:
4x3TB
2x6TB
4x2TB
All with data on and these are backed up via a HP P212 to a LTO4 tape autoloader by Backup Exec.
While I have not got the capacity to add another drive, I do have the ability to 'free up' a drive by shifting data around so could I.
Free up a disk.
Create a pool.
Copy data to that pool to free up another.
extend the pool.
Repeat until all drives are within the pool?
Is this possible?
I don't need to protect data over multiple disks due to the LTO but the single disks are becoming hard to manage so ideally with this I can replace the smaller disks with larger ones as I grow data.
Cheers.