How to Increase Your Overall Backup Storage Capacity

When you decide to add additional storage to your Backup Storage Group, you can:

Before proceeding through the steps that follow, here's a few things to keep in mind:

Backup for Workgroups does not format or partition your storage drives. Backup for Workgroups uses standard Windows file access to store files on your storage equipment. Any hard drive that is accessible through normal Windows access can be used as a storage device in Backup for Workgroups.
When you attach a new drive, you will need to first partition and format the drive using Windows Disk Manager (Right Click on My Computer, select Manage, under Storage, select Disk Management.)

To add a new hard drive to your Backup Storage Group

Go to the computer running the Backup Server.
Attach you new storage equipment and make sure Windows has normal access to this new device.
Run Backup for Workgroups and select the Storage panel.
In the Backup Storage Group section, press the Add button.
Select the path to your new storage device or use the Advanced button to specify the location if it does not appear in the drop down list.
Press OK. Now you will see the name of your new storage device included as part of you Backup Storage Group.

Go to the computer running the Backup Server.
Attach you new storage equipment and make sure Windows has normal access to this new device.
Run Backup for Workgroups and select the Storage panel.
In the Backup Storage section of the Storage panel, press the Replace button.
Select the path to your new storage device or use the Advanced button to locate it.
Press Begin Replace.
The Backup Server will move your existing backup data from the old storage device to the new storage device. Backups will occur normally during this process.
When the data transfer process is complete, your old storage device will be removed from your Backup Storage Group.
Now you can remove the old storage device and repurpose it as applicable.