Unable to attach to media server

[Bryndis]

I had someone else (who didn't know what they were doing apparently) set up my Veritas. And they set it up so that it was using backup folders.

My server has only 4 GB on C: and they accepted the default location for backupfolder1 which is on C:. Yesterday, I noticed that the backupfolder had ballooned to over 3GB and I had less than 500KB left on C:. I could not open Veritas to delete the folder from in there and so I moved the backup folder1 to D: manually in order to prevent the network from crashing. I cannot simply move it back b/c of its size.

As you might expect, Veritas didn't like that very much and now I get service failures from the backup folder being missing and can no longer attach to a media server.

Is my only option now to uninstall and reinstall the software? Can I do it while my network is active or should I wait until I get some downtime?

How do I disable backup to folder? I have tapes and that's just fine for me.

TIA to any and all that respond.
Bryn

 

[Qdog]

Step 1. Delete the current entry for your Backup Folder in the Devices tab.
Step 2. Right click the Backup-To-Disk folders and choose New Backup Folder.
Step 3. Make sure the path to your folder that has your backups in it is correct.
You should be good to go. If not, you may have problems because it was deleted and your pvl.mdb datebase is corrupt.
In that case. Stop all BE services. (Stop the Notification service first, it stops 4 others)
Go into %systemroot\Program Files\Veritas\Backup Exec\NT directory and rename PVL.MDB. Next, copy the PVL.MDB from the installation location of Backup Exec (most likely your Veritas BE CD) to the above location. Restart BE services.

NOTE: By replacing the PVL.MDB, you will have to redo all your jobs configs, overwrite protection periods, append periods, reinventory/recatalog all backup media and reconfigure everything. You will lose all configs, including scheduled jobs.
Hope this helps!!