NetWorker Virtual Edition: How To Expand /data01 Partition (EXT3)

This Article describes how to increase the /data01 partition size on a NetWorker Virtual Edition (NVE) server. Since the index database is stored on the /data01 partition, environments where clients have large file structures or long retention policies can lead to increased disk space requirements. 

To identify the file system type of the NVE run the following command from ssh session: mount
The output will list all the mountpoints but data01 will show:
If filesystem is XFS, see: NetWorker Virtual Edition: How to increase /data01 partition size (XFS)  

Process:

To increase the size of this partition on your NVE server:

1. Increase the Hard Disk 2 disk size for your NVE VM in vCenter and snapshot the VM.

NOTE: The NVE will need to be powered off. The option to increase disk size may be greyed out if snapshots exist.
 

2. Create a VMware snapshot of the NVE and power it up.

NOTE: This snapshot can be deleted once the disk expansion is complete and the NVE/NetWorker is in operational state.

3. Once the VM has rebooted open an SSH session to the NVE VM
4. Switch to the root user by running: sudo su -
5. Run the following commands to stop NetWorker services by running:

 

6. Once services have stopped, unmount the /data01 partition: umount /data01
7. Use the YAST curses utility by running entering yast on the command line.
8. Use Tab to change frame or menu, and arrow keys to select within a frame, and Enter to confirm: Tab to System frame, use arrows to select Partitioner and confirm with Enter.

9. Partitioner frame will reflect /dev/sdb the size increase to Hard Disk 2 in VMware; /dev/sdb1 is the current size of the /data01 partition.

10. Change to the Available storage on host frame and select /dev/sdb1.

11. Confirm to see a summary of the device. Change to Resize menu option and confirm.

12. The default option is set to Maximum Size. This option should retrieve the newly changed size from VMware. Ensure that the Maximum Size option is selected and select OK.

   

13. Confirm Finish and review the summary indicating that the partition /dev/sdb1 will be extended:

14. Confirm Finish when finished reviewing the summary to proceed.
15. Once progress window completes, select Next and confirm.
16. Select Quit and confirm at  the main YAST menu.
17. Remount the /data01 partition: mount /data01
18. Start NetWorker services by running:

19. Confirm nsrd, nsrexecd,and gstd have started:

20. The output of df -h will reflect the increased /data01 partition size

Realtime rendering, log rollover by size, and number of copies can be modified for NetWorker's /nsr/logs/daemon.raw and the NMC's /opt/lgtonmc/gstd.raw. These settings are not enabled by default. The daemon.raw is on the NVEs disk 2 under /data01/nsr/logs. The NMC's gstd.raw is on disk 1 under the NVE's root (/) partition /opt/lgtonmc/logs.

NetWorker: How to automatically render daemon.raw to daemon.log in real time
 
 Another method to configure log rollover, which will persist even if nsrladb is renamed is to configure logrotate settings on the NVE's operating system for the NetWorker service log files.

# NetWorker log files
/nsr/logs/daemon.log {
    rotate 5
    weekly
    create
    missingok
    compress
}

/nsr/logs/daemon.raw {
    rotate 5
    weekly
    create
    missingok
    compress
    delaycompress
}

/opt/lgtonmc/logs/gstd.log {
    rotate 5
    weekly
    create
    missingok
    compress
}

/opt/lgtonmc/logs/gstd.raw {
    rotate 5
    weekly
    create
    missingok
    compress
    delaycompress
}

• weekly this is the log rotation period; the logs will be rotated every week. Other possible values are daily and monthly.
• rotate 5 indicates that only 5 rotated logs should be kept. The oldest file will be removed on the subsequent run.
• missingok If the log file is missing, go on to the next one without issuing an error message.
• compress all rotated logs should be compressed.
• delaycompress can be used when some program cannot be told to close its logfile and thus might continue writing to the previous log file for some time
• Additional options can be found in the logrotate man page. https://linux.die.net/man/8/logrotate