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Título
How to Move Repository To Another Folder or Volume Location -
Descrição
How to move repository to another folder or volume location -
Causa
Sometimes due to changes on the company / network / or just due to lack of space it is required to change the repository from one folder or volume to another location. The following article explains how to move the repository from one location to another location without doing an archive. -
Resolução
Follow this steps to move the repository from one location to another location:
1) Pause any replication and backup jobs
2) Stop the Core service
3) Search for the folder where the repository is located and copy the folder with all the Core files to the new location (Copy the files do not cut them) also if the metadata and datapath are located in another location please copy those folders to the new location as well
Note: Please use Robocopy or another hash-checking (MD5 or SHA1) copy utility to copy the repository from one location to another and not Windows default copy.
Note 1: Repository may span across multiple extensions, like RAID0, so please copy them all separately. Do not mix Data/Metadata folders together from different extensions
4) Once the metadata and data path folders got copied to the new location, rename the original folder to something like (oldlocationNAME) and then start the core service
5) Open the Core GUI and there will be an error about the repository path, click on the option Fix path and enter the new location where you copied the folders.
6) Resume protection and replication
7) Once you have confirmed that everything is ok you will be able to delete the older repository filesSometimes repository is migrated from NAS CIFS share to DAS or iSCSI-connected LUN. In such case, the process will be slightly different
1) Stop the Core service
2) Copy all repository folders, if repository is scattered across multiple extensions, to the new location
3) Open regedit and navigate to HKLM\Software\Apprecovery\Core\Repositories
4) Locate and export repository GUID key, which is located directly under the \Repositories key, to file for backup purposes
5) Delete that GUID key
6) Start the Core service back
7) Open Core console, More (...), Repositories and click on Open existing DVM repository
8) Click on change path and fix repository paths in the provided dialog, pointing to new repository folder(s) for data and metadata
9) Click OK