Detailed Informations about Integrity scan.
This is a quick follow up post after explaining how to initiate a manual integrity check in VMware Data Recovery – backup solution provided with vSphere Essentials Plus package. In my last article I showed you that sometimes you have to initiate the manual integrity check to correct an error in your backup job.
With the new release of VDR, released together with vSphere 4 Update 2, there is a nice little feature which shows you the progression, since the integrity verification cant take a quite long time to finish…
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On which store to store a deduplication store?
As for the storage used for the deduplication store you can use any of the formats, virtual disks (VMDKs) or RDMs are recommended but consistent performance varies for CIFS shares, which are not the ideal solution.
Source: VMware Data Recovery 1.2 Administration Guide
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