"Damien" wrote:
>
>Greatings,
>
>I have an issue where I am out of disk space on the default system volume
>of my NetBackup 5.1 MP5 Master server (windows Server 2003) and 80% of the
>space is taken up by the \NetBackup\db\Images and subsequent directories.
>I have compressed the images which helped for a little while but am now
almost
>done with only 300MB left. So now I have added a second RAID1 volume which
>has 106GB free and would like to relocate the catalog to that volume, I
am
>sure it is possible I just haven't been able to find out how. I have googled
>to no avail so i am hoping it is something simple that someone can answer
>for me. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

On a Unix box, you just move the image structure (in whole or in part) to
somewhere else and replace the original with a symlink, or mount the new
volume in the original location. Doesn't Windows now have the capability
of mounting a directory onto any other directory? Second choice is to use
the "catarc" family of procedures, which are described in the System Administrator's
Guide.

The SAG and Installation Guide have complete info about how to determine
the space requirements for the catalog. Too late for you now, but will
be helpful in estimating how long that 106GB will last.

This hasn't been tested yet, but I believe if you copy the db folder to the
new volume and change the drive letter within HKey_local_Machine\software\veritas\netbackup\curr entversion
it may work. Just make sure you have a good backup of your cataloges and
db before you attempt.

Damien" wrote:
>
>Greatings,
>
>I have an issue where I am out of disk space on the default system volume
>of my NetBackup 5.1 MP5 Master server (windows Server 2003) and 80% of the
>space is taken up by the \NetBackup\db\Images and subsequent directories.
>I have compressed the images which helped for a little while but am now
almost
>done with only 300MB left. So now I have added a second RAID1 volume which
>has 106GB free and would like to relocate the catalog to that volume, I
am
>sure it is possible I just haven't been able to find out how. I have googled
>to no avail so i am hoping it is something simple that someone can answer
>for me. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

You can just use the ALTPATH functionailty built in to NetBackup to move the
images catalog to you new drive letter. It's covered in some detail in the
Sys Admin Guide Vol I. I've done it before (on version 4.5 IIRC) and it
works OK.

Hope this helps


"Joe" wrote in message
news:44b507eb@ROSASTDMZ05....
>
> This hasn't been tested yet, but I believe if you copy the db folder to
> the
> new volume and change the drive letter within
> HKey_local_Machine\software\veritas\netbackup\curr entversion
> it may work. Just make sure you have a good backup of your cataloges and
> db before you attempt.
>
> Damien" wrote:
>>
>>Greatings,
>>
>>I have an issue where I am out of disk space on the default system volume
>>of my NetBackup 5.1 MP5 Master server (windows Server 2003) and 80% of the
>>space is taken up by the \NetBackup\db\Images and subsequent directories.
>>I have compressed the images which helped for a little while but am now
> almost
>>done with only 300MB left. So now I have added a second RAID1 volume which
>>has 106GB free and would like to relocate the catalog to that volume, I
> am
>>sure it is possible I just haven't been able to find out how. I have
>>googled
>>to no avail so i am hoping it is something simple that someone can answer
>>for me. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>

"Damien" wrote:
>
>Greatings,
>
>I have an issue where I am out of disk space on the default system volume
>of my NetBackup 5.1 MP5 Master server (windows Server 2003) and 80% of the
>space is taken up by the \NetBackup\db\Images and subsequent directories.
>I have compressed the images which helped for a little while but am now
almost
>done with only 300MB left. So now I have added a second RAID1 volume which
>has 106GB free and would like to relocate the catalog to that volume, I
am
>sure it is possible I just haven't been able to find out how. I have googled
>to no avail so i am hoping it is something simple that someone can answer
>for me. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Hi Damien,

my english is not good -
You must in the path netbackup\db\images\clientname create a new file with
name
"altpath".
Please stop the NB-Services with bpdown -f.
Open the file with a editor and write the new path (example e:\alternate_db\image\clientname)
without Space.
Move the DB-Files to the alternate_db (exclude the file altpath).
Restart NB with bpup -f.

Best Regards Rico