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How to resize the Phoenix Backup Store (PBS) restore volume
How to resize the Phoenix Backup Store (PBS) restore volume
Updated over 10 months ago

Overview

The default size of the restore volume is intentionally small, and will need to be increased to accommodate the database restore needs.

Prerequisite:

  • Ensure there is enough space on the VMware datastore

Procedure title

  1. Expand the volume on the PBS appliance. The default deployment size of this volume is 200 GB.

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  2. In this example we will resize the volume to 350 GB:

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  3. To make the kernel aware, one can issue the following command as root.

    echo 1 > /sys/class/block/sdd/device/rescan
  4. Run the following commands to grow the volume:

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    growpart /dev/sdd 1
        resize2fs /dev/sdd1
  5. Verify the size of the volume using ‘df -h’.

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