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Administering DevOps Code ClearCase®
Learn about performing administrative tasks for a DevOps Code ClearCase® community including managing software licenses, user and group accounts, ClearCase server and client hosts, shared data, and the network that connects them.
Moving VOBs and relocating VOB data
DevOps Code ClearCase® includes tools for moving data and metadata to another VOB and for moving entire VOBs to another disk or host. You may need to use these tools to reorganize VOB directories, redistribute data storage, or rebalance server loads.
Moving VOBs
You cannot use an ordinary file-system copy utility to copy a VOB to another location. You must follow special procedures that maintain the integrity of VOB data and preserve permissions and ownership on VOB storage directories.
Moving a VOB to network-attached storage
All procedures for moving VOBs refer to the architecture, or binary data format, of the VOB host. VOB database formats are architecture-dependent, and the database must be reformatted if the VOB is moved to a host of a different architecture.
Moving a VOB that has remote pools
Remote pool consolidation is an optional step when moving a VOB to a NAS device.

Moving a VOB that has remote pools

Remote pool consolidation is an optional step when moving a VOB to a NAS device.

About this task

A VOB hosted on a computer running Linux or the UNIX system can have one or more of its storage pools on a remote host running Linux or the UNIX system, accessed through a symbolic link. If you move a VOB with this configuration to a NAS device, you may want to consolidate the remote pools by replacing the symbolic links with local directories. You do not need to consolidate the remote pools as long as they are accessible to the VOB server host, but doing so simplifies VOB backups and other administrative tasks. See Consolidating remote pools.