You know you have run out of space in the drive, when your clients are storing more and more data in your Backup Server. The time for a new drive to be in place and you have done it. Now how do you move some of the existing clients to the new drive and have room for the rest of the clients in the old drive. I believe this article should be helpful for you.
In previous StoreGrid Releases [prior to 2.3] till 2.2.5, you would move the data manually and then update the StoreGrid internal database about the move. All this will be done with StoreGrid stopped. This meant valuable time lost when the rest of the clients could have been backing up. Hence, in 2.3 there is new feature which enables you to move the Backup Data from the old location to the new Location when you edit the client backup location in the Edit Client [Server Admin -> Customer Mangement -> Click on the Customer -> Edit Client Action for particular Client] page. Just mention in the GUI to move the old backup data to the newer location. This will trigger a scheduled move of the backup data from the older location to the newer location. This will temporarily suspend any backup activity from the client and will safely move the backed up data to the new location [new drive in your case].
This will also enable other clients to continue backing up to StoreGrid Backup Server without any interruption. All with the click of a button. Do take a look at detailed documentation at the following URL, http://www.vembu.com/storegrid/sp-help/PageHelp/client-backup-configuration.html .
This and a lot of useful features are available in 2.3, do give it a try.
In previous StoreGrid Releases [prior to 2.3] till 2.2.5, you would move the data manually and then update the StoreGrid internal database about the move. All this will be done with StoreGrid stopped. This meant valuable time lost when the rest of the clients could have been backing up. Hence, in 2.3 there is new feature which enables you to move the Backup Data from the old location to the new Location when you edit the client backup location in the Edit Client [Server Admin -> Customer Mangement -> Click on the Customer -> Edit Client Action for particular Client] page. Just mention in the GUI to move the old backup data to the newer location. This will trigger a scheduled move of the backup data from the older location to the newer location. This will temporarily suspend any backup activity from the client and will safely move the backed up data to the new location [new drive in your case].
This will also enable other clients to continue backing up to StoreGrid Backup Server without any interruption. All with the click of a button. Do take a look at detailed documentation at the following URL, http://www.vembu.com/storegrid/sp-help/PageHelp/client-backup-configuration.html .
This and a lot of useful features are available in 2.3, do give it a try.
