Hi Derrick,

We did that a year ago, while changing the mount point as
part of setting up a shared file system between our Galaxy
node and a cluster. Naturally we did a backup first, but I
don't recall any issues from this. At the time Nate just advised
not to have any jobs running at the time (and stop Galaxy of
course).
http://lists.bx.psu.edu/pipermail/galaxy-dev/2012-February/008383.html

Peter

On Thursday, February 14, 2013, Derrick Lin wrote:
Hi Shantanu,

We are facing the same situation that migrating galaxy dataset to a new location is needed. I am wondering if you have done it successfully? Would be nice if you can share your experience with us.

Cheers,
D


On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Shantanu Pavgi (Campus) <pavgi@uab.edu> wrote:

We are planning to change datasets directory location (file_path setting in universe_wsgi.ini) in our Galaxy installation. We will be moving existing datasets to the new directory location and updating XSendfile setting in Apache as well.  I was wondering if there are any side effects that we should be considering before making this change. There are certain fields in the database (e.g. command_line in jobs table) which contain absolute path of datasets. Do we need to update any of these fields to make sure Galaxy is functional after file_path is changed?

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Thanks,
Shantanu
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