Moving Dedup Store with little downtime
I encounter a problem with Windows Block size.
My Dedupe store would not be able to be larger than 16TB, so we need to format volume again with a larger block size
To solve this, we consider ...
The best way that I've found is to stop all services, copy directory, make sure new location has same path/drive-letter, start services. It works.
Using rsync/robocopy and resyncing at a later time is an unsupported complexity that is not needed when a proper outage is planned.
Moving a number of TB's of data over the local PCI buss and fast disk is not terribly slow. It's better on a SAN with snapshots and clones, but workable with a quality JBOD and SAS too.
