VDR Looping

[KevinAnderson]

I have a vdr backup that I need to recover a VM from.  My problem is that each maintenance cycle takes 3 days, and some of the index is corrupt.  So, In order to correct the index, I need to prevent maintenance from happening, so I can see the corrupt items and delete them.  But I can't do that because the indexing starts again immediately upon completing so there is never a window where I can see the items that need to be deleted.  Clicking stop does stop it (once), but it will immediately restart.

So, is there a way to prevent automatic indexing from happening?

Or can I set a maintenance schedule in a file on the command line?  It doesn't appear that I can change it while the task is running.

Any other suggestions on how I can get at this data?

Thanks in advance,

Kev.

[dbalcaraz]

I used a lot VDR and it always took a while with maintenance windows and sometimes I had to delete all backups in order to work correctly...

My suggestion here is to quit from vdr...

It's really a pain in the ass and it's discontinued, so why keeping it?

There a lot of better solutions than this one...

[SavkoorSuhas]

VDR is legacy to VDP which by itself is EOL now. Why do we use this yet? 😮