Hi Dojo,
Every night I take a backup of my system that I put on a remote location. I noticed that the backup is stored in folder C:\Skyline DataMiner Backups before it gets moved to the remote location.
Because I don’t have much disk space left on my C drive, is it possible to configure the folder in which DataMiner is storing the backup before moving it?
I’m assuming the drive you want to store the backup on before copying it remotely is your D-drive.
You can set a local path in DataMiner and set it to your D-drive, while also enabling remote backups. Then the file is created on my D-drive before being copied to the remote share.
Jens,
I haven’t noticed this behaviour – but if the local path is used also as some sort of buffer before transferring the backup to the remote path, I think the above suggestion will work – however, if no local path is selected (network path only), can we still change where this “buffer” is hosted locally?
Hi Alberto,
I don’t believe it will be possible to change the path without activating a local backup…
If this is for a non-production environment, so only for test of lab environments, you could use linkd.exe. But be careful with this! You can either run a command like this: linkd.exe “C:\Skyline DataMiner\Backup” D:\Backup, to add a permanent NTFS junction, and everything you store in the default backup location on the C-drive, will in reality end up on the D-drive. Alternatively, you could use the config switcher in the task bar utility to link your complete Skyline DataMiner directory to a location on the D-drive, more info here: https://help.dataminer.services/dataminer/#t=DataMinerUserGuidepart_3DataminerAgentsGeneral_DMA_configuration.htm&rhhlterm=switchingdataminerconfigurations&rhsyns=
The linkd.exe file can be found in the installation directory of the taskbar utility, which is by default: C:\Program Files (x86)\Skyline Communications\Skyline Taskbar Utility.
Remember, this is not for production environments.