How to change the location of the FPI data folder utilized by Generic S3 Storage Device backup indexes in NovaBACKUP 19.8 and 20.x. You can utilize this method to change the location and move the existing "FPI" data folder, which stores backup index data which are necessary to be able to perform restores of backups.
A new ‘FPIDataDir' variable and value can be added to nsconfig.ini, which can be anwhere inside the [configuration] section which is at the top of the file, which could be just under the existing ‘baseDataDir’ variable (which has to do with the ‘Default Settings > Advanced Options > Temporary Files directory’ setting where the default there would be ‘C:\ProgramData\NovaStor\NovaStor NovaBACKUP’, and in this example client we have changed it via the GUI to be 'C:\NBKTemp’, once a new folder location is specified, usually to change the hard drive from the C: drive to another drive, in this example we used "D:\FPIData" as the new storage location, and after the OK button is pressed in the above dialog, only if the folder differs from how it was set prior, then certain folders are moved from the old specified location to the new specified location).
After saving that setting in that file, you will exit out of the backup client application (which has the process name "NovaBackX.exe") and then you will restart the nsService.exe process / service in Windows Services, which is the service labeled as "NovaStor NovaBACKUP Backup/Copy Engine service".
The next backup job operation that is executed, that is started either manually or on a schedule, will perform the move operation to the new folder location that you specified in the FPIDataDir value.