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Recording System Configuration

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As a part of the backup process, you must record the system information of your machine and store this information to a configuration file. When you perform data recovery using the recovery image, you will need the recorded configuration along with the file-level backup created with Veeam Agent for IBM AIX.

Recording System Configuration Important!

The configuration file that you use to restore your machine must contain up-to-date information about the backed-up system configuration. Thus, you must record the system configuration every time the system configuration of your machine changes. For example:

After a network interface or another device was added to or removed from the machine.
After disk partition settings were changed for the machine.
After a volume or a volume group was added or removed.

To record system configuration, use a command with the following syntax:

veeamcfg [--output <file.xml>] [--log_level <log_level>] [--log_file <logfile.log>]

The command has the following options:

Option	Required	Description
--output	No	Specifies a path to an XML file containing machine configuration. The default path is /VEEAMCFG/disrec.xml.
--log_level	No	Specifies the logging level. The following values are available: 0 — Level 0 (ERROR): only errors are logged. 1 — Level 1 (WARNING): errors and warnings are logged. 2 — Level 2 (INFO): errors, warnings and information are logged. 3 — Level 3 (DEBUG): debugging information is logged. 4 — Level 4 (TRACE): all possible information is logged. The default value is 2.
-log_file	No	Specifies a path to the log file. The default location of the log file is /var/log/veeam/veeamcfg.log.

Examples

The following example displays a command to save the machine configuration to the default configuration file (/VEEAMCFG/disrec.xml).

veeamcfg

The following example displays a command to save the machine configuration to a configuration file in the mounted NFS directory.

mkdrcd --output /mnt/veeam/machine01.xml