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Administering HCL VersionVault
Learn about performing administrative tasks for an HCL VersionVault community including managing software licenses, user and group accounts, VersionVault server and client hosts, shared data, and the network that connects them.
Moving VOBs and relocating VOB data
HCL VersionVault 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 a different operating system type
When you move a VOB from a Windows® host to a host running Linux or the UNIX system or vice versa, all user identity information stored in the VOB storage directory and VOB database must change. The binary data format of the VOB database must change also.

Moving a VOB to a different operating system type

When you move a VOB from a Windows® host to a host running Linux or the UNIX system or vice versa, all user identity information stored in the VOB storage directory and VOB database must change. The binary data format of the VOB database must change also.

About this task

When moving a VOB to a different operating system type, you must take a number of additional steps beyond those required in most other VOB move scenarios:

Run vob_sidwalk before the move to capture information about ownership of VOB objects.
Use reformatvob to dump the VOB database into a portable form.
Copy the VOB storage directory, which includes the dumped database, to the new host.
Use reformatvob to load the VOB database in the proper binary format.
Reset the file-system protections on the VOB storage directory after the move.
Remap the SIDs (or, on Linux or the UNIX system, UIDs and GIDs) of owners of objects in the VOB.