BackupExec 2010 Thin VMDK but Thick Backup
Hi, I'm trying BackupExec 2010 R2 AVVI to backup some virtual machines on a NetApp NFS datastore. All machines have thin provisioned disks. I'm using NDBSSL transport mode.Every time I do a backup of a...
View ArticleHP Tape Drive not detected on Virtual Machine
I recently build a ESX server as Vpshere 4.0 and have HP local disk attached with it and configured raid over same. Over my physical ESX server i have a tape drive attached " HP storage works 1840...
View ArticleResolution: VDR "Trouble writing to destination" errors with CIFS target on...
VDR users, We recently switched our CIFS backup destinations from a Windows 2003 server to Windows 2008 R2 (SP1, 64-bit). Since that point, we had nothing but problems: nearly all backups were...
View ArticleRestoring VMs from NetApp snapshots
vSphere 5NetApp FAS2040 I tried restoring a VM using NetApp SMVI, the VM was 40GB thin provisioned.I right clicked the VM > NetApp > Backup and Recovery > Restore > Picked the Backup >...
View ArticleData Recovery error -1103 (write protected) during backup
Hello,I have a problem during backup of a couple of virtual machines.Every time job starts, following error occurs: Can't access destination /SCSI-0:1/, error -1103 (write protected). See attached...
View ArticleScheduled Backups stopped running
Our VDP appliance has been setup a couple of weeks ago to run daily one backup job of about 12 VMs. It ran successfully for a week or so, until the VDP crashed due to a power cut on the underlying...
View ArticleVMware Data Recover Upgrade - Question
We are currently running vCenter 4.1 and preparing to upgrade to vCenter 5.1. We have a version 1.2 VDR appliance with a backup store (RDM). I'm looking through the instructions specified here for...
View ArticleVDP fails with no events or task
I'm trying to set VDP up in a test lab. Enviroment has two host in a cluster and about 25 VM's. Two NFS datasores. One with the vm's on it and the other dedicated to the VDP VM. I've deleted and...
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 ArticleBackup solution for (free) ESXi
Is there any backup solution (freeware, if possible) for VMware ESXi free version?Regardsmarius
View ArticleBackup vCenter Server virtual machine with vSphere Data Protection 5.1
Hi all.I'm using vSphere Data Protection 5.1 on a vCenter Server 5.1 infrastructure and I noticed that all bakcups works fine except for the vCenter Server virtual machine.Looking at the logs, there...
View ArticlevSphere Data Protection - File Level Restore
I am hoping that someone can help me or point me in the right direction. I have installed vDP 5.1.10.32 and am using it to backup my vSphere 5.1 Update environment. I have approx 40 VMs with about 30...
View ArticlePass through SCSI tape drive from host to Virtual Machine with backup...
Can I attach an external SCSI tape drive to one of my hosts and then add it as a device on a virtual machine. I want to use backup exec on a virtual machine rather than having to have a separate...
View Articleerror -1103 ( write protected)
I am using datarecovery and i have some error that i don´t know their cause. I have configure a RDM destination of 2 TB, and i have 900 GBs free, but i have this errors: - Can't save Catalog File,...
View ArticleAll VDP Servers Stopped working
We have 8 VDP servers running in our environment and about 10 days ago they all stopped working. We haven't made changes to the firewalls nor have we made changes to vCenter but when I tail this log...
View ArticleBank6: Not a vmware boot bank - Imaged old boot mirror to larger drives.
As title says, we have a server that had 146Gb mirrored SAS drives and we used Acronis Backup and recovery Advanced server to save a disk image from the raided mirror. After replacing the drives with...
View ArticleVeeam Bottleneck=Source
I'm using Veeam Backup & Recovery version 6.5 with VMware vSphere ESXi 5.1. The VM storage is local to the ESXi server in a RAID5 SAS array. Veeam is running on a separate physical machine and...
View ArticleVDP Error at vCenter Registration
Hi,I am unable to register VDP to vCenter, i am getting the following error "Unable to find this VDP in the vCenter inventory." or sometimes i am getting "The connection test did not complete...
View ArticlevSphere / Veeam Backup 3.1 - Stumped by decrease in backup performance
We have upgraded to vSphere (full) and we're seeing a drastic reduction in backup speeds. Where guest backups would previously report 50-70MB/s, we're now seeing things top out at 25MB/s, even for the...
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