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
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.
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.
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
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?