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Vmware data recovery error -2241 ( Destination index invalid/damaged)



Starting Integrity Check
To destination /SCSI-0:2/...
Starting full integrity check
Trouble reading from destination, error -2241 ( Destination index invalid/damaged)
Destination "/SCSI-0:2/" will be locked until integrity check succeeds.
1 task errors
Completed: 1939 files, 13664,7 GB
Performance: 56671 MB/minute
Duration: 1.17:09:08 (00:00:03 idle/loading/preparing)


Integrity check taking not hours, but days and failing with these kind of errors, failing and starting again and failing and starting again and f.........


Solution:

1. increase open file limits. edit /etc/security/limits.conf
add these lines to limits.conf:

root hard nofile 100000
root soft nofile 100000


Reboot vdr, check if these settings applied.

ulimit -a
2.
Create datarecovery.ini file in /var/vmware/datarecovery/
(/var/vmware/datarecovery/datarecovery.ini)

Add these lines to the datarecovery.ini file:

[Options]
DedupeFullIgnoreDataCheck=1
DedupeIncrementalDoDataCheck=1

optional parameter:
MaxBackupRestoreTasks=1 (prevents other tasks from running, while running integrity check on datastore)

Hope it helps to save your time


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