Resetting the deduplication registry

If you reconfigure your deduplication environment, one of the steps is to reset the deduplication registry.

Warning:

Only follow these procedures if you are reconfiguring your storage server and storage paths.

To reset the deduplication registry on Windows

  1. Delete the contents of the following keys in the Windows registry:

    • HKLM\SOFTWARE\Symantec\PureDisk\Agent\ConfigFilePath

    • HKLM\SOFTWARE\Symantec\PureDisk\Agent\EtcPath

    Warning:

    Editing the Windows registry may cause unforeseen results.

  2. Delete the storage path in the following key in the Windows key. That is, delete everything after postgresql-8.3 -D in the key.

    HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\postgresql-8.3\ImagePath

    For example, in the following example registry key, you would delete the content of the key that is in italic type:

    "C:\Program Files\Veritas\pdde\pddb\bin\pg_ctl.exe" runservice -N postgresql-8.3 -D "D:\DedupeStorage\databases\pddb\data" -w

    The result is as follows:

    "C:\Program Files\Veritas\pdde\pddb\bin\pg_ctl.exe" runservice -N postgresql-8.3 -D