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Why backup job and integrity check collide??
Hi everybody I'm a new member here . I've just upgraded VDP to 5.5 and found some strange things. The VDP running with integrity check during backup window. Backup job and integrity check collide....
View ArticleVDP - Limit concurrent backups
Hi, Has anyone tried to limit concurrent backups? Default number (8) is just too much for our NAS and i'd like to have 4 or even 2 backups running at the same time. Jeff Hunter mentions that it's...
View Articlecan i have 2 x vdp appliances backing up the same guests??
being a bit paranoid about backups and really liking VDP i am wondering if having 2 appliances backing up the same guests would be ok. i would of course stagger the time of backups to not overlap. as i...
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Management service start failed and MCS service down, an error is something...
Hi, everybody I have a problem about management service on VDP start failed and I can't get into VDP panel on Vsphere Client. I have faced this problem last 2 month and it was solved by deploying new...
View ArticleUnable to backup VM image with Arcserve 16.5 (patched to release 3)
Just wondering if anyone using Arcserve r16.5 successfully knows how to overcome this error i get when i run a job. I wish to backup a VM through the VM agent etc. Its configured for RAW etc. I have...
View ArticleVDP ends up dying at every site.....always have to rebuild.
Ive got the basic version of VDP running at three sites (Vsphere 5.5, VMware vCenter Server 5.5.0b, VCB 5.5). Without fail, after a moth or two, its quits running. Vsphere then gives four or more...
View ArticleVDP backup optimization
how to optimize backup time, deduplication, performance of appliance. Thanks in advance
View ArticleDoes VDP support multiple data stores?
I noted that VPD has limit of 2TB data store and 8TB for VDPA. Can I create multiple data stores if I have data size more than that?Thanks in advance.
View ArticleVDP configuration shows license but backup will not run; cluster or host not...
I am evaluating VDP Advanced wtih vCenter 5.5 also with an eval license. The VDP show up in vCenter. I can add the license to the configuration tab and assign to a host but when I configure a backup,...
View ArticleVDP Backup Failure with Windows 2012 R2 Domain Controller
I've tried several times to backup our domain controller (NTS501-PDC01), each time it fails at the 'create snapshot step', with the 'VDP: Backup Job' task, for it, failing shortly before the (separate)...
View ArticleWhat's causing VDP to fail installation? VDP: Configuring Install Storage...
I have been pulling my hair to figure out what's going on here. I can deploy the VDP ovf appliance fine, it's allowing setup to finish so I can start using it. It fails at the final stretch, during the...
View ArticleVDR - Reclaiming space on the destination
We haev a1 TB disk attached to one of our VDR appliances, the free space has now reached 0. I have deleted a number of restore points by marking them for deletion and then running integrity check yet...
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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 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 ArticleFLR restore is showing error most of the times
Hi, While we try to use FLR for restoring the backup from VDP we are getting the following error message Failed to browse backup '<folder name>'. Unable to browse as proxies are unavailable This...
View ArticleVDP: Host is in a state that cannot perform snapshots
We have an VDP Appliance that is backing up one Guest VM fine but the second Guest VM it continues to error out after 10-30 seconds stating "VDP: Host is in a state that cannot perform snapshots." I...
View ArticleHow many VMs can you backup through one vCenter server?
Hi all, we have a fairly large vSphere 5.0 environment with 2x vCenter servers, each with ca. 2000 VMs using about 600 TB of FC-attached SAN storage.The majority (~90%) of these VMs are backed up with...
View ArticleVDP Upgrade - stalls at 45% - Installation of the package stalled
Hi,i just tried the upgrade from VDP 5.5 to 5.6 and it stopped with this error message: Installation of the package stalledThe installation stalled due to an error. Please use your snapshot to rollback...
View ArticleVDP incremental backups ?
Dear guys, so far i'm not able to say if with standard VDP version it is possible to have incremental backups, do you know if is it possible ?Cause i need to run full backup and many incremental, or...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 - Automount Disable does not work
I am configuring Windows 2008 R2 64bit for BackupExec 2010 but when I run Diskpart Automount disable and automount scrub. After I rebooted the server 2008 still asked me do I want to initilize the...
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