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Error: The WSUS repository data is not stored locally.

We have SBS 2008. We previously moved the WSUS Content and Database (to the D Drive) using this link:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2009/09/23/how-to-move-wsus-content-and-database-files-to-a-different-partition.aspx

Reason: C Drive was not partitioned correctly and was running out of free disk space.

We now have a Larger Disk (Physically installed as the I Drive), and would like to migrate the data off of the D Drive and onto the I Drive.

When we run through the wizard this time we get this error:
Window Title: Move Windows Update Repository Data.
Error Message: An error occurred while attempting to move the Windows Update Repository data.
Exact Error: The WSUS repository data is not stored locally.

Troubleshooting Steps:
We CAN move the Database, and has been moved back to the C Drive.
We can NOT move the WSUS content.
WSUS content is stored: D:\WSUS\WsusContent (8.5GB) - Modified 09/29/2011 10:27AM
Ran WSUS "Server Cleanup Wizard" & Restarted Server. (did not help, but shows that WSUS can access the Content)

The only thing we've found online is to repair WSUS.
Link: http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2009/08/27/repairing-wsus-3-on-sbs-2008.aspx

I'd like to save the "Repair" option as the very last thing we do to correct this issue.

Please help.

Thank you in advance,
Joshua.

Don

Try using the WSUSutil command line tool

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc708480%28WS.10%29.aspx

(Changing the Location where You Store Update Files Locally)

For example, type:

wsusutil.exe movecontent D:\WSUS1\ D:\move.log

Don

More on WSUSutil here

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc720466%28WS.10%29.aspx

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Hi DStewartJr,

I'm not a guru (yet) with WSUS or it's CLI. This is what I tried:

C:\Program Files\Update Services\Tools>wsusutil.exe movecontent D:\WSUS\ D:\Change.log
Content location is being moved. Please do not stop this program.
Content move failed. Please refer to the log file for more details.
Fatal Error: The new content file location is the same as the old location: D:\WSUS\
Parameter name: fileLocationNew

C:\Program Files\Update Services\Tools>wsusutil.exe movecontent I:\WSUS\ I:\Change.log
Fatal Error: You must specify an existing local directory on an NTFS partition as an absolute path or specify an existin
g UNC path for the new content file location.

Before I mess things up, can you please help me with the exact command I should type out?

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It's always the small things... I could have sworn I made a WSUS folder on the I Drive, but apparently not.

Thanks for your help!!