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August 8th, 2006 23:00
Moving Extended Drive data to a new Extended Drive
On our DX Server we have 2 Extended Drives. 1 old and 1 new. We want to migrate the old drive into the new drive. Is there a way of using Volume Mount Point within Windows 2003 to mount this drive to a folder on the new drive ? Will DX still works afterwards ? Reputing all data back to disk copy files to new disk and re purge them is not an option as the old drive has about 800GB of stub files.
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mwolfe01
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August 11th, 2006 06:00
Volume mount points are not supported on a DiskXtender Extended Drive. This is because the DxSpy Filter Driver does loads on the local NTFS partition, and does not have any knowledge of where the mount point is pointing to (regardless of whether it's another Extended Drive).
How long does it take to run a Drive Scan?
You can remove the media from the Media Folder on the old Extended Drive, de-allocate it, then allocate the media to the new Extended Drive, add the media to the Media Folder on the new Extended Drive, and then run File Restores.
This will restore all of the file and directory structure to the new Extended Drive. All data will be restored in a 'Purged' state, so available free space on the new Extended Drive should not be an issue.'
Depending on the amount of time it takes to run a Drive Scan (since this has to be done to remove the media from the old Media Folder) and the amount of time it takes to complete File Restores on the media, this process can take hours or days to complete.
bwallebroek
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August 11th, 2006 07:00
What do you mean by:
All data will be restored in a 'Purged' state
Isn't the full file restored and purged afterwards? Or is the
application intelligent enough to restore the file and check the
Purge rules at the same time and purge the file immeditately after it
gets restored ?
The new Extended Drive is unfortunately not big enough to host all the
stubs, that's why we thought about Volume Mount Points.
Any other suggestion ?
mwolfe01
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August 28th, 2006 05:00
If the new Extended Drive isn't large enough to host all of the stubs, then there's unfortunatley not much you can do. You will either need to get a larger drive which can hold all of the stubs, or you will need to split the data between 2 smaller drives, so there is enough space to hold all of the stubs.
Sorry for the late reply, I've been out on vacation.