Can we Change Or Move the Qlik Sense Disk Driver From C in Qlik Sense?

[MohamedZaitoon]

Hi,

I want to change the installation files and program data of QlikSense Enterprise on Windows into another driver (ex. E:/ Driver).

The problem is that the C:/ driver is only 100 GB and QlikSense is installed on it, and the driver is currently full because the QlikSense and its Postgres database occupied around 55% (53.8 GB) of the driver.  So, I want to know how to move the Qlik sense from C:/ to E:/ which is around 4 TB on the same server. 

Thanks in advance.

@Troy_Raney @Bjorn_Wedbratt @Andre_Sostizzo 

Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows 

[Seanog_Murphy · Accepted solution]

Hi @MohamedZaitoon,

Perhaps you can look into reducing the space taken up in the C drive. See the articles here:

• Qlik Sense: Steps to reduce Excessive HDD space occupied by PostgreSQL
• Excess space consumption by the Repository folder of Qlik 
• _deletedentitylogs take up disk space on C:\ 

You may also find the article here interesting
- Move the QSR database to another drive in the same server 

[Albert_Candelario · Accepted solution]

Hello @MohamedZaitoon,

Thanks for posting.

I was wondering if you have tried to take a backup of the PostgreSQL DB (after cleaning it as @Seanog_Murphy has suggested), then uninstall Qlik Sense, afterwards install Qlik Sense by selecting another disk different to C, restore the DB you had backup and see if all works as expected.

I would suggest to try on a Sandbox and if successful plan your backup/rollback plan (as best practise) and perform such action on the affected server.

Let us know how it goes.

Cheers,

Albert