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Populate the CA ARCserve Backup Database Using the ca_vcbpopulatedb Command Line Utility
-VCBMountableVM
-Silent
-Debug
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4. Execute the command.
The ca_vcbpopulatedb utility populates the CA ARCserve Backup database
with information about the VMs that are in a running state in your
environment.
Gives you the following options:
If you execute the ca_vcbpopulatedb command-line utility with this
switch, you must run the utility on a backup proxy system. Without
this switch, you can execute the vcbpopulatedb utility on the backup
proxy system or any other Windows 2003 system where the CA
ARCserve Backup Client Agent for Windows is installed.
If you specify this switch as a parameter, the utility populates the
database with the names of the VMs that are running and mountable.
You should run the ca_vcbpopulatedb command-line utility with this
switch when you have VMs in an ESX Server residing on multiple
storage media, such as the local disk of an ESX Server, SAN LUN,
NAS/NFS, or iSCSI storage device.
Note: If you run this utility with the VCBMountableVM switch, the
utility would take longer to run because it performs a mount and
unmount operation of each running VM.
Prevents the utility from printing messages to the command line
console.
Directs the utility to write a detailed debug log. The log will be created
in the Client Agent for Windows installation directory. By default, this
directory is as follows:
C:\Program Files\CA\ARCserve Backup Client Agent for Windows
Note: The name of the log file is ca_vcbpopulatedb.log.
Execute the command using the arguments described in the following
syntax:
Note: You must create a configuration file to use this syntax. For more
information, see Create a ca_vcbpopulatedb Configuration File
page 42).
ca_vcbpopulatedb –config <config_file_name>
<config_file_name>
Indicates the name of the ca_vcbpopulatedb configuration file.
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