Specifications

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Bydefault,thebackupfilesonViewConnectionServerarestoredinthefollowing
location:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
Data\VMware\VDM\backups
ViewComposerbackupfilesusethefollowingnamingconvention:
Backup-<Year><Month><Day><Count>-<vCenter Server Name>
_<Domain Name>.SVI
Forexample:
Backup-20090304000010-foobar_test_org.SVI
Use Case
UsethiscommandwhenyouwanttoreplicateorrestoreViewComposerdatabasedata
afterasystemfailure,orifyouwanttorevertyourViewComposerdeploymenttoan
earlierstate.
Usage
Beforeyoucanimportbackupdata,youmustfirstshutdowntheViewComposer
servicerunningonthevCenterServer.Restarttheserviceonceyouhavesuccessfully
executedthecommand.
SviConfigrestoredatacommandinstructionsareissuedfromaWindowscommand
promptinthefollowingform:
sviconfig -operation=restoredata
-DsnName=<target database source name (DSN)>
-Username=<database administrator username>
-Password=<database administrator password>
-BackupFilePath=<path to View Composer backup file>
Forexample:
sviconfig -operation=restoredata -dsnname=LinkedClone -username=Admin
-password=Pass -backupfilepath="C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View
Composer\Backup-20090304000010-foobar_test_org.SVI"