Vmware Datarecovery – finetuning!
8 december 2009
I would like to do some finetuning in the Vmware Datarecovery appliance at one of my customers. Vmware made it possible to bring a datarecovery.ini file into the appliance:
- Log in to the datarecovery appliance with the credentials:
Default Username: root
Default Password: vmw@re
- Stop datarecovery with the command: service datarecovery stop
- Create the file /var/vmware/datarecovery/datarecovery.ini and populate it with the appropriate options . For more information, see the File Options section.Here is an example of a datarecovery.ini file:
[Options]
SetVCBLogging=7
DisableHotaddCopy=1
!! Note: Any option that is not listed in the file uses the default value.
4. Start datarecovery with the command: service datarecovery start
Here you can find the datarecovery.ini options:
| Option | Description | Example |
| MaxLogFiles | Sets the maximum number of log files before log rotation occurs | MaxLogFiles=20 |
| DisableHotaddCopy | Disables SCSI Hot-Add or forces the use of Network copy | DisableHotaddCopy=1 |
| DisableNetworkCopy | Disables Network copy as an option | DisableNetworkCopy=1 |
| SetVCBLogging | Sets the internal logging level for vcbAPI | SetVCBLogging=7 |
| SetRAPILogging | Sets the internal logging level for VDR API | SetRAPILogging=7 |
| SetEngineLogging | Sets the internal logging level for VDR engine | SetEngineLogging |
| SetDevicesLogging | Sets the internal logging level for interactions with dedupe store | SetDevicesLogging |
| SetAppLogging | Sets the internal logging level for basic application logic | SetAppLogging=7 |
| SetVolumesLogging |
Sets the internal logging level for interactions with virtual machines and volumes
|
SetVolumesLogging=7 |
| SetBackupSetsLogging | Sets the internal logging level for catalog operations | SetBackupSetsLogging=7 |
| IntegrityCheckInterval | The amount of days before doing an integrity check (values 1 – 7) | IntegrityCheckInterval=7 |
| BackupRetryInterval | The amount in minutes to retry a source | BackupRetryInterval=20 |
| RetentionPolicyInterval |
The amount of days before doing an reclaim on the dedupe store (values 1 – 7)
|
RetentionPolicyInterval=7 |
| DedupeCheckOnRecatalog | Indicates if an integrity check should be run after a recatalog | DedupeCheckOnRecatalog=1 |