Relocating NBU Catalog to different Windows volume

[CadenL]

Hi

I'm in the process of building a new Windows 2012 master server for a new NetBackup environment. Prior to putting the Master server into production I want to move the catalogs to a larger volume. eg NetBackup is installed on the d:\ and I want to put the catalogs onto the e:\ as this is a new drive that has more capacity. 

I think I will only need to move the \images folder and the following technote suggests using mklink to create a symbolic link. But I'm not quite following the syntax and hoping someone can help me.

https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.TECH144969

So currently the path to the images foolder is d:\program files\veritas\netbackup\db\images and has just a single file in it called db_marker.txt

I want to create a symbolic link to e:\nbu_catalogs\images

the mklink command is mklink /d <link> <target>

I need to know if the e:\nbu_catalogs\images will be my link or my target? and do I need to manually copy the db_marker.txt file to the new location and should it be left alone?

Is there perhaps an easier way to do this bearing in mind that this is a fresh build with no existing backup image data yet?

many thanks in advance

[Deb_Wilmot · Accepted solution]

If possible, I would suggest simply ,mounting the disk to NetBackup\db\images using the Disk Management Windows tool to do so.  This makes the  move transparent to NBU and is the easiest way (in my opinion) to have a separate disk for the catalog.

The db_marker.txt file does have to exist in the db/images folder, or bpdbm will not start.

Deb

[sdo · Accepted solution]

Maybe this tech note might help:

Title:  How to use the Microsoft Logical Disk Manager to move the NetBackup images database to another partition.

https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.TECH16793

[CadenL]

Thanks both

Sounds like you're both suggesting the same procedure so I will try that and it should be exactly what I need.

cheers