Urgent : Move of database files failed

[Soniya]

I have a newly installed Virtual master server but the Catalog database is installed on C: drive and I want to move it to E: drive now. When I try the command from the installlation path ''C:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin>nbdb_move -data E:'' it is failing with 'Move of database files failed'

[Mouse]

Try to run it from command prompt with elevated privileges - use "Run As Administrator"

And yes, you need to provide the full path to destination folder as the argument. Create a folder under E:\ structure first

[Soniya]

Hi Mouse,

I have restrarted the NB services and ran the command and it worked fine.After this I started a Catalog backup but it is still backing up the previous db file which is in my C: drive. Do I need to make any other changes?

[RiaanBadenhorst]

How exactly do you know its backing up the files in C? Are you sure its not just staging to C? Did you update the staging location too when moving the databases?

nbdb_admin [-vxdbms_nb_staging directory]

[Soniya]

I could find that the files databases.conf and server.conf are not copied. How to copy these files through command line

[RiaanBadenhorst]

Those files are not to be moved. If you move them your services wont start. They would contain the locations of the database and log files so its should not be an issue, and they're small.

[Marianne]

Since this is a new installation, why not start from scratch and install to E-drive? The move of db to E will only move the EMM db, not images and other folders under Netbackup\db.

[Mouse · Accepted solution]

nbdb_move is not enough to relocate all catalog files.

Follow instructions from this technote to correctly relocate ALL items, including image database, transaction logs and NBDB staging locations: http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH144969

[Soniya]

I have already installed everything and the server is about to be live.So it is difficult for me to do all the configurations again.Is it the only resolution for moving the dbs?

Still my catalog backups are running to the C: drive.

[RiaanBadenhorst]

Still my catalog backups are running to the C: drive. <<<Explain that please.

[Marianne]

To C-drive or from C?
As we've tried to explain - moving EMM db will not move any of the catalogs under Netbackup\db.

How much 'config' has been done already?

Reinstall, device and media config will take less than an hour.

Policies (class folder under Netbackup\db) can be copied out before you remove and reinstall software.

If you did this 2 days ago when I suggested this, all would've been fine by now....

[Mouse]

As explained above, follow technote http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH144969 to relocate whatever is required to another drive. It's not difficult

[Marianne]

No update in 2 weeks....

I guess no longer 'urgent'?