Move tape data store to Home partition

[pdewitt]

At work I inherited a CentOS MHVTL server from a fellow that is not available for info.  He did not get backups working on the setup.  I am new to MHVTL and haven't worked with nix for a long time, but have a full / diff test backup working now with iSCSI to BE on a 2008R2 server.  Problem is everything is on Root, I need to move at least the tape data store (opt/mhvtl) to the Home partition where there is enough room for the backups.  Moving the files is not a big problem, but where are the config / pointer files I can modify so VTL will find the tape store?  Actually I wouldn't mind moving all of VTL to the Home partition if that is possible.  TIA

[Mark Harvey]

Best practice is to setup another disk (or file system) and either mount or (symbolic) link /opt/mhvtl to this other file system.

If you setup the other disk/file system on an LVM rather than a raw partition, the size of the LVM can be dynamically changed to allow file system growth in the future.

Currently the 'mhvtl' package has no neat method to move individual media to separate file systems.

You as an 'admin' can manually move the media to other file systems and place symlinks back to the /opt/mhvtl/<barcode>.

Yes this could be done better / made easier...
It's one of those to-do items which is a long way down the list.

Cheers
Mark