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  2. NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide
  3. Appendix C. Encryption Crawler
  4. Advanced options
NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide

Advanced options

You can specify the options that are shown under the EncCrawler section in contentrouter.cfg to change the default behavior of the Encryption Crawler. The options only affect the Graceful mode and these options don't exist by default. You must add them if needed.

After you change any of these values, you must restart the Encryption Crawler process for the changes to take effect. Restart the Encryption Crawler process with the crcontrol command and the --encconvertoff and --encconverton options. You do not need to restart the MSDP services.

After the initial tuning, you may want to occasionally check the progress and the system effect for the active jobs. You can do further tuning at any point during the process if desired.

Table: Advanced options

Option

Value

Description

SleepSeconds

Type: Integer

Range: 1-86400

Default: 5

This option is the idle time for the Graceful mode after it processes a batch of data containers. The default setting is 5 seconds and the range is 1-86400 seconds.

BatchSize

Type: Integer

Range: 1-INT_MAX

Default: 20

This option is the data container number for which the Graceful mode processes as a batch between the idle time. The default setting is 20.

CheckSysLoad

Type: Boolean

Range: yes or no

Default: yes

The Graceful mode does not run if it detects an active backup, restore, duplication, replication, compaction, or CRQP job.

When you set this option to no, the Graceful mode does not do the checking. Instead, it processes a number of BatchSize data containers, then sleeps for a number of SleepSeconds seconds, then processes another batch and then sleeps. It continues this process until complete.

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