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VMware Data Recovery: Enabling verbose logging and datarecovery.ini options
Purpose
This article provides:
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Steps to create the VMware Data Recovery (VDR) datarecovery.ini configuration file.
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Information about datarecovery.ini configuration options.
- Details on setting verbose logging on the VDR Appliance.
Resolution
To create the datarecovery.ini file:
- Log in to the datarecovery appliance with the credentials:
Username:root
Password:vmw@re - Run this command to stop the datarecovery service:
service datarecovery stop - Create the file
/var/vmware/datarecovery/datarecovery.ini. - Add
[Options]to the first line in the file. You must include this header tag. - Populate the file with the appropriate options after the
[Options]tag.
Example:[Options]
SetVCBLogging=6
SetVolumesLogging=6
SetRAPILogging=6
DisableHotaddCopy=1 - 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.
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