Moving a Mount Path - Support

Supported Mount Paths

  • A disk library with multiple disk devices. For example, a disk library Lib1 with disk devices Device_1 and Device_2.

  • You can move multiple disk devices pointing to the same path on multiple libraries to new location or consolidate with another existing device on that library. For example:

    • Disk devices Device_1 and Device_2 pointing to path D:\MP1 on disk library Lib1 and Lib2.
  • You can move multiple disk devices pointing to the same path on the same disk library to new location. For example:

    • Disk devices Device_1 and Device_2 pointing to path D:\MP1 on disk library Lib1.

Unsupported Mount Paths

  • You cannot move mount paths on HyperScale nodes.

  • You cannot move mount paths across two different libraries. For example, from Magnetic_Lib1 to Magnetic_Lib2.

  • You cannot consolidate multiple disk devices pointing to the same path on the same disk library. For example:

    • Disk devices Device_1 and Device_2 pointing to path D:\MP1 on disk library Lib1.

Refer the following support matrix to verify MediaAgent version, platform and paths that support moving a mount path:

Source

Destination

Support

Local Path or UNC Path

Operating System

MediaAgent Version

Local Path or UNC Path

Operating System

MediaAgent Version

Local Path

Windows

v10

Local Path

Windows

v10

check_markYes

Local Path

Linux

v10

Local Path

Linux

v10

check_markYes

Local Path

Windows

v11

Local Path

Windows

v11

check_markYes

Local Path

Linux

v11

Local Path

Linux

v11

check_markYes

Local Path

Windows

v10

UNC Path

Windows

v10

disabled_x No

Local Path

Windows

v11

UNC Path

Windows

v11

check_markYes

UNC Path

Windows

v10

Local Path

Windows

v10

disabled_x No

UNC Path

Windows

v11

Local Path

Windows

v11

check_markYes

UNC Path

Windows

v10

UNC Path

Windows

v10

disabled_x No

UNC Path

Windows

v11

UNC Path

Windows

v11

check_markYes

Additional Information

  • You cannot perform cross-platform move mount path operation. For example, you cannot move a mount path from Windows to Linux or from Linux to Windows.

  • You cannot perform cross-version move mount path operation. You cannot move a mount path from V10 MediaAgent to a V11 MediaAgent or from V11 MediaAgent to V10 MediaAgent.

  • You cannot perform move mount path operations on V9 MediaAgents.

  • To avoid slow data transfer, do not move mount paths between UNC paths.

  • You can move a mount path across V10 MediaAgents that are pointing to V11 CommServe.

  • You cannot move a mount path shared using the Data Server-IP, SAN or iSCSI to a UNC destination path.

  • If you move from a local mount path to a UNC mount path, and the UNC mount path does not support sparse files, then the data will grow in size.

  • On Linux MediaAgents, sparse files are not supported.

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