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Need to move DB to external hard drive

PostPosted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 6:58 pm
by eiger84
Running out of space on my laptop and need to move my database. Can someone lay out the steps for me? Any known problems doing this? Thanks.

Re: Need to move DB to external hard drive

PostPosted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 8:14 pm
by kraada
What sort of connection are you going to be using? If you're using a USB drive, I feel that I need to warn you: it will cause everything to slow down as the latency on the USB connection will be the bottleneck for you.

Re: Need to move DB to external hard drive

PostPosted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 8:51 pm
by eiger84
kraada wrote:What sort of connection are you going to be using? If you're using a USB drive, I feel that I need to warn you: it will cause everything to slow down as the latency on the USB connection will be the bottleneck for you.


Yes, USB. Appreciate the heads up. I may need to give it a shot and see what happens.

Re: Need to move DB to external hard drive

PostPosted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 9:04 pm
by kraada
It's doable; you'll want to follow this tutorial, just as I said, expect nontrivial performance issues.

highfalutin