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January 21st, 2026 11:11
Move /nsr in another path
Hi all
Actually we have NSR directory mounted in a LUN (/dev/mapper/vgnsr-lvnsrdb 985G 222G 713G 24% /nsr) on a storage need to be replaced.
We want add another LUN on a new storage. So I need to relocate this data to the new volume.
I think the main steps are as follows:
1. Make a NMC server backup. Or is needed to have a backup of the index and critical files in the /nsr directory with "savegrp -O" command?
2. Stop the NetWorker services.
3. Copy of the data from the /nsr directory to the new path (/nsr_new), keeping the same permissions.
1. Make a NMC server backup. Or is needed to have a backup of the index and critical files in the /nsr directory with "savegrp -O" command?
2. Stop the NetWorker services.
3. Copy of the data from the /nsr directory to the new path (/nsr_new), keeping the same permissions.
4. rename /nsr in /nsr.old and /nsr_new in /nsr.
5. Make a symbolic link from the new path to /nsr.
6. Check if is necessary to update the paths in the client configuration.
7. Restart networker services
5. Make a symbolic link from the new path to /nsr.
6. Check if is necessary to update the paths in the client configuration.
7. Restart networker services
Do you see other steps to do? Do you think there could be any problems?
Thanks for your assistance
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bbeckers1
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January 23rd, 2026 11:36
nmc backup? why that one specifically? the NW server data is more important for a NW backup server (so a bootstrap backup incl. the nw client indices, so that it is working and schedules backups and can be used for restores) than its NMC configuration (as that is to manage the NW server). Also might wanna run a filesystem backup of /nsr (that typically would skip various sub directories as those would be backed up by the bootstrap/client index backup), so to also have a backup from for example /nsr/logs and other directories.
What is /nsr at the moment? Only a link or an actual filesystem? Isn't the filesystem mounted as /nsr? So why not do that for the new filesystem via fstab or whatever approach you would have? But either would be OK.
As we have some split up nsr directories for performance reasons, there are different filesystems :
/nsr
/nsr/res
/nsr/logs
/nsr/mm
/nsr/index
So in your case it is all on one filesystem? Just to be sure?
I assume that we are dealing with a regular linux deployment here and not a NW virtual edition appliance?
Andanet
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January 23rd, 2026 12:07
Hi @bbeckers1
thanks for your reply.
As I wrote /nsr is mounted on a LUN and contains all subfolders in same FS.
Yes is a linux server not an appliance.