Hi Dojo,
In our setup, the database and the destination folder for backup packages are on the drive E:\, which has sufficient free disk space. However, backups are failing, supposedly because there is not enough disk space on drive C:\ for the temporary backup file C:\Windows\Temp\tmpXXXX.tmp. As far as I understand, this file includes all DataMiner files and the database snapshot, which are ~150 GB in our case.
So the question is, is there a way to redefine the path for the TMP file created by the backup utility and create the temporary file on drive E:\ instead?
I know about a workaround with replacing C:\Skyline DataMiner\Backup\ with a symbolic link (Taking a backup using a symbolic link to another drive | DataMiner Docs), however, I'm not confident that applying the same approach to the Windows system folder would be a good idea.
Looking forward to your advice, thanks!
From what I understand, it's just how windows handles the archiving/zipping. I'm not sure if we can change this.
There is a way to move the TEMP folder to a different drive, which is mentioned here:
https://superuser.com/questions/376588/change-the-temp-folder-used-when-zipping-archiving-files
and
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/change-location-of-temp-files-folder-to-another/19f13330-dde1-404c-aa27-a76c0b450818
DISCLAIMER
To be clear, this is not a default configuration nor is it related to Dataminer. So should something go wrong, please be aware that this will not fall under the support services.
The main solution is using a bigger C drive, so by providing these links, I’m just pointing to a possible workaround. It’s up to you to implement and to verify the functionality(, should it go wrong, for you to investigate and debug).