H-Sphere Sysadmin Guide

Moving User Homes (Windows)

 

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Winbox Directory Structure Migrating Winbox Adding Directories For User Homes (*nix)

This document explains how to move the directory for user homes to a different location. This may be required, for instance, if you are replacing your hard drive with a bigger one.

Winbox supports only one directory for user homes, which means you can't add another directory for user homes to use alongside with the one you already have.

  1. Link the new HDD to the old home dir location. This can be done with Sysinternals Junction or any other utility of this kind.
  2. Copy all user content into the HSHOME directory on your new disk.
  3. Set new path to the home dir in \hsphere\scripts\conf.inc and '\HSphere.NET\bin\hsphere.config'.
  4. Restart hsphere services.
  5. Move quota entries for all accounts using the QuotaMove utility. For example, to move quote entries from disk D: to disk F:, execute in the command prompt:
    QuotaMove.exe d:\ f:\

 


Related Docs:  

Winbox Directory Structure Migrating Winbox Adding Directories For User Homes (*nix)



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