vSphere Data Recovery stats/ reports?
I was wondering if anyone can tell me how to get some stats or reports on how the backups of the VMs are performing? Such as transfer rates, size of VM compared to size on disk, deduplication %,...
View ArticleHost is not licensed for VMware data recovery appliance?
Hey, Last week I installed VDR on ESXi4, I assigned an enterprise license and it worked just fine.We were planning to do some in-depth testing now but all the backups fail!?It says my hosts are not...
View ArticleVDR problems / anyone actually USING VDR successfully?
I have been trying since vSphere and VDR came out to get some successful backups and rehearsal restores. I am just trying to get backups to be stable for more than a week at least.. I have reinstalled...
View ArticleIsolating Backup Traffic
I'm using Image level backup with both Veeam and Avamar on vSphere 5.1. When the backup software access an ESXi host to backup all of its vmdks, we are wanting to make sure that traffic is not sent out...
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New Data Recovery Tool Questions
I think these are questions which many of us might like to know about. Perhaps some of the current beta testers et al. can now comment?? 1. How well does it work compared to current 3rd-party tools --...
View ArticleBackup Exec 12.5 Vs 11d
Hi,I'm currently using Backup Exec 11d & just wondering if anyone is using version 12.5 & what advantages it has over version 11D? Would it be worth upgrading? Thanks in adance guys.
View ArticleSCSI card to be used for tape drive
I am trying to set-up a SCSI card to pass through devices such as tape drives for backing up folders in a w2k3 VM. I have installed the SCSI card and can see it in Storage adapters. Shown below: -...
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Unable to connect to VDR in vSphere Client
I have deployed the VDR, I can access it via https://servername:5480 and can ping it, but I am unable to connect to it via vSphere client. Any ideas why, I am also logged in as a Domain Admin which...
View ArticleVDR fails on snapshots (so no backup)
Hi, I'm trying to setup VDR and managed to get 3 windows machines out of 6, a little too low (test environment btw). All failing vm's fail to get a snapshot: Windows server 2008 (1 server, 32 bit):...
View ArticleNew VDR Appliance, old dedupe store: config and backups not restored
Hello everyone, I've set up a new appliance, and connected it to an already existing dedupe store. The dedupe store has many gigs of backups and was created by the same version of the VDR appliance....
View ArticleBackup Exec 12.5, ESX 4.0, SBS 2008
Hello all, this is probably a tried and tested discussion; so apologies if this is the case. I installed ESX 4.0 on a Dell T710 recently. On this I installed SBS 2008 as a guest. The Dell...
View Articlewhat kind of vm-OS can be backed up with vmware data protection?
Hi all, can I use VDP to backup domain controller, exchange cas&hub, AD Certificate service server in virtualization? thanks.
View ArticlePresenting RDL's to VCB proxy question
Hello, I have my windows proxy setup and I have a bunch of SAN datastores presented to the proxy which allows me to backup VM's residing on them. I have automount disabled and have scrubbed the...
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Reserving a SAS card for a VM (tape backup)
I just had the idea that I could perhaps reserve a PCI Express SAS card for a VM and attach the tape library directly to the ESXi host. I've monitored the CPU load on the physical machine that...
View ArticleVDR integrity check- how to bypass?
Hi all- I have a 400gb destination, however its mounted on a slow CIFS mount point (get about 125Mb/sec to it) the integrity check has been running since 9am yesterday (24.5 hours) and its currently...
View ArticleBackup VM´s on a SAN over Ethernet
Dear Community, one of our customers had a three ESXi Hosts running Essentials Plus. This Environment uses shared Storage (a SAN with IBM DS3524). Now he wants to take one host with local storage in a...
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 does not delete the snapshot files when job terminated at the end of...
Hi, VDR seems to have a serios bug when the backup job is terminated at the end of the backup window(i.e. the backup is incomplete) - it does not delete the snapshot file although it says it does....
View ArticleDeduplication store integrity and recatalog problems
I have Data Recovery running for just over a week and the Integrity check has completed OK each day until now. Now it seems to hang at 33%. The current task name is 'Recatalog' and the Status is...
View ArticleVDR: Trouble writing to destination disk. Error -1115 (disk full)
Hey guys, I am seeing this error in my logs 7/27/2009 9:49:34 AM: Normal backup using Backup Servers7/27/2009 9:49:39 AM: Copying dev27/27/2009 9:52:34 AM: Performing full back up of disk "[data2]...
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