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VMware Data Recovery: Enabling verbose logging and datarecovery.ini options

Purpose

This article provides:
  • Steps to create the VMware Data Recovery (VDR) datarecovery.ini configuration file.
  • Information about datarecovery.ini configuration options.
  • Details on setting verbose logging on the VDR Appliance.

Resolution

To create the datarecovery.ini file:

  1. Log in to the datarecovery appliance with the credentials:

    Username: root
    Password: vmw@re
  2. Run this command to stop the datarecovery service:

    service datarecovery stop
  3. Create the file /var/vmware/datarecovery/datarecovery.ini.
  4. Add [Options] to the first line in the file. You must include this header tag.
  5. Populate the file with the appropriate options after the [Options] tag.

    Example:

    [Options]
    SetVCBLogging=6
    SetVolumesLogging=6
    SetRAPILogging=6
    DisableHotaddCopy=1
  6. Run this command to start the datarecovery service:

    service datarecovery start

This table lists the datarecovery.ini file options:

Note: For a complete list of options, see Understanding the datarecovery.ini File in the VMware Data Recovery Administration Guide for yout version of VDR.

Option Description Syntax Default Value Value Range
MaxLogFiles Sets the maximum number of log files before log rotation occurs MaxLogFiles=20 10
DisableHotaddCopy Disables SCSI Hot-Add or forces the use of Network copy DisableHotaddCopy=1 0 0 - 1
DisableNetworkCopy Disables Network copy as an option DisableNetworkCopy=1 0 0 - 1
SetVCBLogging Sets the internal logging level for vcbAPI SetVCBLogging=6 3 0 - 7
SetRAPILogging Sets the internal logging level for VDR API SetRAPILogging=6 3 0 - 7
SetEngineLogging Sets the internal logging level for VDR engine SetEngineLogging=6 3 0 - 7
SetDevicesLogging Sets the internal logging level for interactions with dedupe store SetDevicesLogging=6 3 0 - 7
SetAppLogging Sets the internal logging level for basic application logic SetAppLogging=6 3 0 - 7
SetVolumesLogging Sets the internal logging level for interactions with virtual machines and volumes SetVolumesLogging=6 3 0 - 7
SetBackupSetsLogging Sets the internal logging level for catalog operations SetBackupSetsLogging=6 3 0 - 7
IntegrityCheckInterval Sets the number of days before doing an integrity check. For more information, see the Integrity check section of the VMware Data Recovery Administration Guide. IntegrityCheckInterval=7 1 1 - 7
BackupRetryInterval Sets the time in minutes to retry a source BackupRetryInterval=20 30 1 +
RetentionPolicyInterval Sets the number of days before doing an reclaim on the dedupe store RetentionPolicyInterval=7 1 1 - 7
DedupeCheckOnRecatalog Indicates if an integrity check should be run after a recatalog DedupeCheckOnRecatalog=1 0 0 - 1
EnableFileRestore Enables file level restores EnableFileRestore=1 1 0 - 1
MaxBackupRestoreTasks Sets the maximum number of simultaneous backup and restore tasks MaxBackupRestoreTasks=1 8 1 - 8

Notes:

  • The default logging level is 3. In most cases, logging level of 6 is enough to diagnose an issue.
  • Any option that is not listed in the file uses the default value.

Additional Information

For more information, see the Understanding the datarecovery.ini File section of the VMware Data Recovery Administration Guide.

Tags

enable-logging

See Also

Update History

08/02/2010 - Added link to VMware Data Recovery Administration Guide

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