Best practices for backup jobs to a Deduplication device with Cataloging enabled (4038490)

When running a backup of a VM with a large amount of files to a Deduplication device, default timeout of 10 minutes requires a significant increase.

In some cases Cataloging process would take almost 20 hours.

By default, Cataloging process occurs after the backup job finishes. Data is being read from the savepoint in the Repository location, back in to the Catalog database.

Reading data back from the Deduplication device causes the process to run much longer than expected.

Modify vRanger configuration file to have Cataloging running at the same time as the backup is occurring.

Browse to "C:\Program Files\Quest\vRanger\Vizioncore.vRanger.Service.exe.config" and modify the following value from “true” to “false”

<!-- Sets virtual backup to catalog savepoints in the repository instead of vmdk files using vddk connections -->

    <add key="CatalogSavepoints" value="false"/>

Restart vRanger service.

Run the backup again.