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Can I add another drive to the Recovery Archive if I'm out of space? - Connect IT Community | Kaseya
<main> <article class="userContent"> <h2 data-id="summary"><strong>SUMMARY</strong></h2> <p>This article provides information about adding drives to your recovery archive unit.</p> <h2 data-id="issue"><strong>ISSUE</strong></h2> <p>All drives within the recovery archive unit that are attached to a single system are treated as one logical volume. Data is written across all drives in the logical volume. Once you archive to a logical volume, these drives must be treated as a single entity. Removing a drive from the logical volume corrupts archived data. </p> <p>To add a drive, you must prepare the media to create a new logical volume (see <a rel="nofollow" href="/home/leaving?allowTrusted=1&target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.unitrends.com%2Fdocuments%2Flegacy-rs-ueb-admin-guide%2Fdefault.htm%23cshid%3D1528">Preparing archive media</a>) . The prepare operation removes all existing data on the media. If you have a set of 3 archive drives and you are running out of space, you can add a 4<sup>th</sup> drive and prepare to create a larger logical volume, but any existing archives are deleted. If you need to preserve existing archives, remove that set of drives and insert 4 new ones. For more information, see <a rel="nofollow" href="/home/leaving?allowTrusted=1&target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.unitrends.com%2Fdocuments%2Flegacy-rs-ueb-admin-guide%2Fdefault.htm%23cshid%3D1453">To add a drive to a multi-drive system</a>.</p> <p>Also note that all drives within the recovery archive unit that are attached to a single system must have equal capacity. Drives may be of varying capacity if they are attached to different systems.</p> </article> </main>