Replace a physical archive device

Replace a physical device to correct an archive hardware failure or to upgrade the archive device. The new physical device can be associated with the existing drive name to maintain all of the settings of the previous physical device.

Procedure

Click Operations > Archive > Drives.
Select the target archive drive, and then click Edit.
Change the Physical Device field from the current value to empty, and then click Save.
Physically remove the old local archive device and add the new local archive device.
If installing the new device required the system to reboot, the new drive has already been auto-detected.

Otherwise, click Operations > Start and Stop and restart the Archiver service. This causes the new drive to be auto-detected.
Edit the target drive again from the drive management window.
Select the new physical device to be associated with the logical drive name. Windows may use the same physical device name as the replaced device or generate a new one.
Click Operations > Start and Stop as prompted and restart Archiver.

The new drive settings take effect and the archive drive is now operational.