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September 7th, 2015 16:00

I need to Move Networker Server Installation between partitions in Windows 2008

Hello,

I have a NetWorker server 8.1 installed on a server running Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, the partition where this is installed the NW Server is the partition C, I need to move it to D: where there is more storage space.

The server is the same and will not change its hostname or IP

Anyone know the procedure to make this move from one partition to another?

Regards

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September 8th, 2015 03:00

Just to expand on what nicola already said:

- stop NW

- make copy of mm, res and index (or better said, rename them)

- uninstall NW

- install NW, this time on D or wherever you want

- stop services

- delete mm, res, index on new location

- move old mm, res and index to new location

- start services

Note that if you had any resource which on backup server had pointed out to C: drive (like custom notification) and which was refering to NSR path, it will need to be altered manually.

September 8th, 2015 01:00

Hi

you can try :

shutdown nw services

uninstall nw

install nw on D: partition

keep your original nsr (in C:\Program Files\...\nsr) and substitute the new one (just created on D:)

start nw services

let me know

regards,

-nicola

September 8th, 2015 03:00

Hi,

Please refer below article

https://emc--c.na5.visual.force.com/apex/KB_BreakFix_1?id=kA1700000001MhN

This is for unix , but its slimier in windows also

To move some of the NetWorker folders to a different mount point you have to follow these steps:

1 - Stop NetWorker services.

2 - Rename the desired directory.

          For example: /nsr/tmp /nsr/tmp.old

3 - Create a new folder with the same name: /nsr/tmp

4 - Now we assign the new mount point to the new created folder:

  • At Windows: You can assign a mount point folder path to a drive in two ways:

                1 -  Go to Disk Manager, right-click the partition or volume where you want to mount-point folder path, and then click Change Drive Letter and Paths.

                      Click Add. Click Mount in the following empty NTFS folder, type path of an empty folder on a NTFS volume.

                2 - Using command line:               At command prompt: diskpart                         At diskpart prompt: list volume

                         At diskpart prompt: select volume

                         At diskpart prompt: assign [mount=path]

           Now copy all the data from the old directory (/nsr/tmp.old) to the new one (/nsr/tmp).

  • At Linux:

               Identify the partition/moint point you want to use:

           df -k

               Move the old directory to the moint point, but with the original name:

           mv /nsr/tmp.old /newmount/nsr/tmp

               Create a soft link between folders:

           ln -s /newmount/nsr/tmp /nsr/tmp

5 - Start NetWorker services.

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September 8th, 2015 09:00

Many Thanks for the suggestions, will try to test them and tell them the result

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