Virtual Drive Settings

The Virtual Drive is usually used with predefined settings. If needed, advanced users can change them through the configuration file (config.ini).

  1. Open the config.ini file, which can be found at:

    C:/Program Files/Backup Manager/config.ini

  2. Add the [VirtualDrive] section (if it is not there yet)
  3. Populate the section with the parameters you want to configure as shown in the example below
  4. Restart the internal backup process to apply the new settings (view instructions)

Example

[VirtualDrive]
ShowAllSessions=1
VirtualDriveRestoreCacheType=memory

The settings listed below are disabled by default (set to =0). To enable any of them, change 0 to 1.

  • ShowLatestAvailableFiles – gives you access to files that were removed or excluded from the backup selection
  • ShowAllSessions – gives you access to failed backup sessions (on condition that some valid data got successfully backed up)
  • ExtendedVirtualDriveLogging – starts extended logging. The logs are written down to the application log. Keep in mind that the logs can take up a considerable amount of disk space

The following setting is enabled by default (set to =1):

  • VirtualDriveRestoreCacheEnabled – starts Virtual Drive caching to speed up viewing and copying large data sets
  • VirtualDriveRestoreCacheType – defines a storage type for Virtual Drive cache. Supported values: memory (default) and FS. When VirtualDriveRestoreCacheType is set to memory, the cache files are kept in the operation memory (it helps improve performance). When VirtualDriveRestoreCacheType is set to FS, the cache is saved to the file system (your hard disk). This can lower overall performance but lets you allocate more space for the cache
  • VirtualDriveRestoreCacheLocation – defines a directory that the cache is written to (if VirtualDriveRestoreCacheType is set to FS). By default, the value is set to your temporary folder. You can change it to another location, for example: C:\virtual-drive\vd-restore-cache

    • Network Shares cannot be used for the cache location, only local paths can be used.

    If the cache folder becomes too large, you can clear the contents without issue.

  • VirtualDriveRestoreCacheSizeLimitInMb – defines the maximum memory or disk size (set to 256 MB by default)
  • InitialVirtualDriveLetter – the drive letter the Virtual Drive must use (instead of the default "B:" drive). In case the specified letter is taken, the Virtual Drive will search for the next available letter in the alphabet. For example, if InitialVirtualDriveLetter=M, the Virtual Drive is mounted to the "M:" drive. If this is not possible, it will try "N" and so on