VM Stops Communicating on Network after Snapshot
Hello All, I am hoping you can shed some light on an issue we encountered today. We run on a NetApp SAN and use a NetApp backup application called Virtual Storage Console for backups. This tool...
View ArticlevDR problem after vCenter IP change
I am having an issue getting the vDR plugin to connect to my vDR instance since I changed my vcenter IP... The data recovery log shows that when I try to connect, the old vCenter IP is being used......
View ArticleError: 2147754774 - VMWare Standalone Converter
Hi dudes, I can't do the backup of virtual machine (VMWARE Vsphere Hypervisor 4.1) using "VMWARE Standalone Converter 4.3". I tried to move this to another VMWARE Vsphere Hypervisior 4.1. When started...
View ArticleConsistency of VM with Netapp Snapmirror
Hi All, We use Netapp filers to present LUN's to our ESX 4.1 servers and backup our VM's using SMVI. SMVI makes sure we have consistent VM's by first putting the VM's in snapshot before it takes a...
View ArticleFailed to create snapshot for vm error -3960
Hi,I am using VDR and getting this error for one of VMs. Failed to create snapshot for vmname, error -3960 ( cannot quiesce virtual machine)Taking the sanpshot manually with quiesce enabled works just...
View ArticleSnapshot SQL Server
Snapshot of SQL 2008 Server fails with "cannot create a quiesced snapshot...exceeded time limit for holding off I/O" is due to the number of IO's? Is snapshoting SQL supported and is there a good...
View ArticleVMWare Data Recovery / Snapshots and Backup Exec 2010 R3
Hello VMWare Community. I am having a bit of a problem with vDR & vSnapshots working after installing Backup Exec 2010 R3 with latest and greatest patches and I'm hoping you might be able to help...
View ArticleUnable to backup with the BAckup Exec Agent for VM's 2012
The Vm is connected to the Active Directories and authenticated ok through the Symantec BEThe Vss is the one provided by Vmware toolsThe GRT options are unchecked, checked options does not work...
View ArticleTime Sync Issue with Data Protection Appliance
Hello, I installed vDP in lab environment to test the product. Everything was working well for few days. Since Saturday, I am facing with this error “the most common cause for this error is that the...
View ArticleConverter Error
Hi, I am using VMware converter 5.0. I have vCenter and ESXi 5.0.Before I was converting all online VMs into local HDD successfully.Even all VMs are converting fine except one machine that is Exchange...
View ArticleClone fails with error: error caused by file vm/vm-0000002.vmdk
I was trying to make backup to a the vcenter vm with Veeam B&R 6.5 last patch, and i got the followed error: timed out waiting for all VDDK disks to close, so i tried to fix the error restarting...
View ArticleVDP crash
Hi,Two days ago i need to restore some file from a vm with windows 2003. The restore job started but it hang at 92%. After several hours I decided to cancel the job.The vdp vm crashed. After a "Restart...
View ArticleVDP reporting/monitoring
I have VDP deployed to our cluster, and for the most part, I do like it, however, it is severly lacking in any kind of reporting. I see that in the last two backup runs, I have had 2 hosts fail to...
View Articletask terminated unexpectedly possibly due to a power failure or system crash
When I try to recovery my portal with VDR, I faced the issue with log as below: Feb 3 18:49:23 localhost datarecovery: Chunkdedupe WARNING: Duplicate value for key...
View ArticleData Protection 5.1 will not start up - DNS error
We are small users with only 3 hosts. 2 hosts are running ESXi 4.1, and I am in the process of installing a new third host. We currently rely on Data Recovery and so the new, allegedly more robust,...
View ArticleVDP 2TB image ran out of space on root
/usr/local/avamarclient folder seems to be full of huge log files. Are these safe to delete? 0 bytes left on / How could I have prevented this?
View ArticleBackup on NFS Share - questions
Hi,Just have a few question about my backups: Backup Scenario Source: Windows Server 2008 R2 Virtualized on VMware 5.1. C: Disk is "System" D: is "Data". D: size is 1 TB. Purely a File Server.Target:...
View ArticleVDP 5.1.x Read Only Web Access
hi guys Now since Web client is the only way to access VDP, is there a way to create a read only user that has access to VDP in any way?At least to check if the backup was OK. I create a read only user...
View ArticleVDR 1.2.1 Challenge
Hello I am hoping that someone could point me in the right direction in resolving my VDR challenge. I had followed documentation and videos on installing this product but when it starts up, it...
View ArticleData Recovery backup job fails with error -3902
Whenever I run the Data Recovery backup job it creats the VM snapshop and then immediately removes it and fails with the following errors: 6/2/2009 9:11:24 PM: Normal backup using Backup Job...
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