Moving DPMDB to another volume ON THE SAME DPM BOX

Please tell me I don't have to re-install DPM to do this!

We've come to realize that we put the DB on a volume that is just too busy.  
I want to create another mirror on the DPM server with some new drives and 
move the database there.

I was hoping I could shut down the DPM services, detach the database in mgmt 
studio and then move / reattach it the way we do with other SQL dbs.

Would this work, or is this a more complicated process?

Thanks,

Hi Steve,
This is not a recommended process and DPM is not designed to handle such 
migrations. We have configuration information stored in Windows Registry 
regarding the location of DPMDB among various other info. So, we do not 
recommend migrating DPMDB

As a work-around, I will recommend the following...
- Take a backup of existing DPMDB
- Uninstall DPM and choose to retain the disk-based replicas. Reinstall DPM 
(Choose appropriate location for DB files during DPMSetup)
- Use DPMSync.exe to restore  backed-up DPMDB

You can refer to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb808877.aspx 
and http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb808944.aspx for details on 
the usage of DPMSync

-- 
Thanks
Madhan S

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"sgravel" <sgravel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
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> Please tell me I don't have to re-install DPM to do this!
>
> We've come to realize that we put the DB on a volume that is just too 
> busy.
> I want to create another mirror on the DPM server with some new drives and
> move the database there.
>
> I was hoping I could shut down the DPM services, detach the database in 
> mgmt
> studio and then move / reattach it the way we do with other SQL dbs.
>
> Would this work, or is this a more complicated process?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve