a power outage some time ago messed up the VDR backup destinations. recataloging nor integrity checks would ever finish. i finally gave up and decided to reformat the destinations and start anew.

the weird thing was that even after being reformatted one of the destinations would still fail an integrity check.

the following article describes and the exact same situation and the solution:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&docname=c02058236

i think i experienced a bit of deja vu here, because i feel like i went through these exact steps before with ben.

summarized solution:
login to VDR appliance
service datarecovery stop
cd /SCSI-1:0/VMwareDataRecovery
rm BackupStore.cat
rm BackupStore.cat.bak
service datarecovery start

then attempt integrity check on destination again (may take more than once for a success).

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