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Solved1.08K views17th July 2023agent_backup backup Skyline DataMiner Backup

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Jaime Leal [SLC] [DevOps Enabler]553 26th January 2022 0 Comments

Hi Guys

I've been facing some issues with backups when is not too much space on the C drive, and the backup is configured to be placed on a different driver or a network path, seems that this option is not working as it presented to the user, because if you select any of these options (different drive/network path). Keep doing a temp file on C

So still you need enough space to allocate this file in a temporary and if you haven't you will end up with errors and no backup created.

I tried selecting both options local path on an E drive and network path where the backup should be copied but is still doing the temp file on C:\Windows\Temp

Is there a way to complete this without using the C drive?

Thanks

Marieke Goethals [SLC] [DevOps Catalyst] Selected answer as best 17th July 2023

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Miguel Obregon [SLC] [DevOps Catalyst]16.30K Posted 26th January 2022 2 Comments

Hi Jaime,

Please check the answer elaborated by Alexander in this question:
Backup folder is not used when renamed. How does this work?

There is no way to change the location of the temporary files, however there is a workaround using a symbolic link. If you plan to proceed with a workaround, I would recommend to test it first in a Staging environment.

Marieke Goethals [SLC] [DevOps Catalyst] Selected answer as best 17th July 2023

Jaime Leal [SLC] [DevOps Enabler] commented 26th January 2022

Hi Miguel Thanks for your comments and indeed I made a MOP to use symbolic links to try to address this issue time ago but the problem is that Dataminer not only uses the default path: C:Skyline DataminerBackup is also using C:WindowsTemp folder to create the temporal files. I was thinking that maybe we can create another symbolic link to this other folder but I think is not recommendable because it’s an OS folder, what do you think?

Miguel Obregon [SLC] [DevOps Catalyst] commented 2nd February 2022

Hi Jaime,
Indeed, making a symbolic link to a OS folder is not recommended. This folder is also used by other OS processes and this action could potentially break some OS activities.

Hi Miguel Thanks for your comments and indeed I made a MOP to use symbolic links to try to address this issue time ago but the problem is that Dataminer not only uses the default path: C:Skyline DataminerBackup is also using C:WindowsTemp folder to create the temporal files. I was thinking that maybe we can create another symbolic link to this other folder but I think is not recommendable because it’s an OS folder, what do you think?
Hi Jaime,
Indeed, making a symbolic link to a OS folder is not recommended. This folder is also used by other OS processes and this action could potentially break some OS activities.

score 1 · Answer 1 · 2022-09-14T17:48:46+00:00

So is there any official resolution to this issue? I am having same problem on 2 production systems. The temporary mysql backup file getting created exceeds the free space on C drive so the Backup fails and the server ends up with 0 disk space left. Apparently, from this and other threads, even if you tell DM to store the backup on a different drive, the temp files still get created on the c drive which is the main cause of the issue.

Thanks

Backup on a different drive or network path, without impact C drive space

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