SCCM-MECM 2006: How to move new content Lib from new Disk to Disk with existing Content Library ?

Question

Dear community

I have here MECM 2006 with Disk C (System Disk) Disk D (SCCM) and a new Disk E

MECM started to use Disk E as storage for Contend Lib cause D was run out of space. Now i made Disk D bigger and i would like to move the new content from Disk E
back to Disk D so that the whole Content Library is on Disk D.

Is this possible with the "Content Library Transfer tool" or is that tool only for moving the whole Content Library from old disk to new disk ?

Thank you very much for your feedback and your help

Answer 1

Hey, I saw your question on my question (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/168199/sccm-content-library-drive-spanning-remove-drive.html?) and I'd completely forgot I posted it here.

The answer to your question is yes, you can move it to a drive that already has part of the content library on it.

Answer 2

Hi @IT Guy ,

Yes, it's possible using the Content Library Transfer tool, for more details:

• Content Library Transfer tool

To avoid that ConfigMgr uses a specific drive for its content, you have to create a file named no_sms_on_drive.sms in the related drive.

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Answer 3

Hi,

Thanks for posting in Microsoft MECM Q&A forum.

Yes, we can use "Content Library Transfer tool" to move the new content from Disk E back to Disk D if the Disk D have enough space now. I have done a test before and the result is yes, the command line is as below:
ContentLibraryTransfer.exe -SourceDrive E –TargetDrive D

Thanks for your time.
 
Best regards,
Simon

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Answer 4

Thank you all very much for your feedbacks - i was not sure if this tool is only to move the whole content library from disk to disk or also just a part back to the disk where the content library was created when SCCM was installed first.

Answer 5

Hi all together.

Thank you for your feedback.
Today i tried finally to move the content library from Drive E to drive D and that does now work.

The tool says: Input Arguments are invalid.

My situation is not the normal one for this tool, i do not want to move a whole SCCMContenLib to an other drive - i want to merge two SCCM ContentLibraries together on Drive D (where already a Content Library exists).

I have D:\SCCMContentLib with three subfolders (DataLib, FileLib, PkgLib) about 80GB and on drive E:\SCCMContentLib with one subfolder (FileLib)about 6 GB

The normal usage would be : ContentLibraryTransfer –SourceDrive <drive letter of source drive> –TargetDrive <drive letter of destination drive>

I tried the following commands:

ContentLibraryTransfer –SourceDrive E –TargetDrive D
ContentLibraryTransfer –SourceDrive E:\SCCMContentLib –TargetDrive D:\SCCMContentLib
ContentLibraryTransfer –SourceDrive E:\SCCMContentLib\FileLib –TargetDrive D:\SCCMContentLib\Filelib

I get always the same error: Input arguments are invalid

Is there an other way to get rid of that content on E? What happens when i delete that content ? Will SCCM download this deleted content again on drive D ?

Thank you very much for your help