using ghettoVCBg2 over slow nas advisable?
Hi! does anyone has any experience with ghettoVCBg2 with remote NAS targets? The Nas would be at an other geographical location so the effective bandwidth would be about 60-80 Mbps so the backups...
View ArticleVDR 1.2 Reliability
Just curious if VDR 1.2 is improved over previous versions. I tried using all the previous versions and couldn't get any of them to work consistently. They would backup for a few days, then suddenly...
View ArticleVDP vs VDR
Hi everybody, i couldnt help myself starting this conversation. i was very suprised for VDR being shutdown.i knew VDR would be updated, but was not expectng so soon, since the latest 2.01 was released...
View ArticleClik here to view.
VDP backup jobs hung at 92%
Most backup jobs are hanging at 92% completion. I see some posts about recovery jobs hanging, but nothing about backups. Logs on this beast are not user frendly so I've got no direction yet. Any...
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 ArticleClik here to view.
Safe to delete snapshot from failed vdp backup
Hi I had some backups fail last night and on 4 VMs I can see a snapshot that the VDP appliance made during the backup but was unable to remove automatically. (I assume)Since these are some pretty...
View ArticleTransfer Speed slower for Fulls than Incrementals?
Why oh why would transfer speed be significantly less for full jobs than incrementals? I'm talking about the difference between 2MB/s and 15MB/s I have a 2 vSphere 5.0 datacenters, separated by 1200...
View ArticleVPD vCenter Registration Test Connection fail
Hi everyone, I come across a problem while setting up VPD, I am trying to deploy VDP for our foreign office, their ESXi hosts are managed under our vCenter, The installation looks fine, DNS...
View ArticleBackup as image to different host
Back in the day of VM-server, I had 2 identical servers - one live, the other for backup. The backup server powered on at 3am each day and ran a script that shut down a VM on the server PC then copied...
View ArticleI can't manually hot-add one snapshot vmdk file to another VM.
Hi. Due to a backup issue, (hot-add jobs fail over to network mode), Veeam support suggest me to try to add a snapshot disk manually. I did the next steps: - Take one snapshot.- Edit settings of...
View ArticleVDP Backup job failed E10057
HiI create a new backup job. after 20-30 seconds the start of the backup i see error "VDP: Backup job failed (xxx) to backup client (name). Execution error E10057:A backup/restore/validate activity...
View ArticleStuck on 5.0 because I don't want VDP...5.5 version any better?
Running a 5.0 environment with VDR 2.0.1 and while it is not great, for the most part it works. After reading so many horror stories and limitations with VDP I have been avoiding 5.1 updates but with...
View Articlevdp 5.5.5 advanced cannot add a license to a host
i have downloaded and installed the 60 day eval mainly to test the replication feature.i have the license provided by vmware and added it during the install/configuration go into the web client then...
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...
View ArticleVDR 2.0.1, /dev/sdb/ - unmounted physical disc, destinations
Hi All, I have a problem with my VDR 2.0.1, last backup was failure due to power problems and after that on VDR destinations where i had normally one network destination, stay another one, unmounted...
View Articlesnapshot on Oracle and SQL servers
All, I am a big fan of snapshots for application servers, file servers, etc. I wanted some input on the behavior of taking snapshots of Oracle and SQL severs. Is it supported? I am no DBA, but it seems...
View ArticleVDP Scheduler won't start
hi guys suddenly my Backup Scheduler won't start (I can see that in status VDP configure tab). It was working fine.I manually start it. No go.I used command: dpnctl stop mcs - dpnctl start mcs. Same...
View ArticleIntegrity Check Status -> Out of Date
hi guys It's been for a week or so my integrity check status is Out of Data.I try manually running it and it fails. All VDP services are up and running, VDP is at 86% storage utilization. Something...
View ArticleClik here to view.
VDR (daterecovery process) suddenly started repeatedly crashing
Hi, Suddenly all of our Data Recovery appliances started repeatedly crashing. The appliance VM itself is running OK, but the datarecovery service is crashing soon after the service starts. So all of...
View ArticleEnabling CBT for all ESX VMs ?
Hi, Does enabling CBT for all of the Virtual Machine that is managed by my Virtual Center is a good idea or not supposed to be due to the CBT overhead files ?Do I need to reboot all of the Virtual...
View Article