Symbolic Link for tasks folder

[Björn]

Due to size restrictions on the drive/mount of our /data/attunity/server/tasks folder we keep running out of disk space when the SORTER is doing its work.

We do have a larger mount available and I was wondering if there would be any issues if we'd just create a symbolic link for our tasks folder to point to the larger mount and hopefully have enough disk space for the SORTER. 

Alternatively would it be feasible to change the installation configuration to point the whole data folder to another location?

[Heinvandenheuvel · Accepted solution]

Yes, you can move the whole data folder.

Essentially you shut down the Replicate service, copy the data folder to the new location, change the service startup to point to the new locaction and restart.

The details  depend on whether this is Windows or Linux. 

For Windows check 'properties' for the Attunity Replicate Server and specifically look at (and change!) the 'path to executable. It may look like "C:\Program Files\Attunity\Replicate\bin\repctl.exe" -d "C:\Replicate\data" service start name=AttunityReplicateServer address=127.0.0.1 port=3550 . Just change the  -d arguments to point to the new location.

Appendix D, whilst talking about clusters, has some hints in this space for Linux (D2).

As always ... try in DEV or a throw-away instance on workstation first!

hope this helps,

Hein