Uninstalling and Reinstalling Arcserve

[arfjay]

I am going to be removing Arcserve from the c: partition in the Server [ NT 4.o SP6] and re-instaling it to the D: drive where there is more room. I am doing this so I can properly defragment C: and have enough room to defragment the pagefile to free up network resources. At the moment there is no other program big enough to make it worth while.

Are there any pitfalls we should be careful of while doing this? I have never instaled Arcserve so I am not clear as to whether I can copy the log of what it backs up and copy it to the new instal. The plan is to remove both the Arcserve and Alert folders which are currently taking up about 1/2 gig.

If anyone has any information regarding this with reference to what logfiles they are and if there is an order to the process I would be most appreciative.

Thank you.

 

[farmerami1]

There are no pitfalls to loading it on another drive or another partition. I do not have arcserve loaded on C. I have it loaded on E. It will create a share on E just the same. You will just need to do a custom install to change the location. The services that run in the background on the server do all of the checking to see if there are Arcserve client machines out there. It will do this no matter what drive or partition you install to. It's called the Arcserve Discovery service. Setting up ArcServe is very easy.

 

[SjrH]

Be sure to save your backup jobs as script files first, they are not saved as part of the backup or database. As long as the arcserve folder is selevted as part of the backup, you can recover the database from the last backup before uninstallation. Again, with alert, be sure to save any configuration you have, it can be a pain to have to set it all up again.

Rgds

SjrH - Data Security Storage & Availability Specialist

http://www.sjrh.co.uk