VDR 1.2 giving me error -1115 ( disk full), error -1103 ( write protected) on...
Dear, We are using Vmware Data Recovery (1.2 on esx4) to backup some VM machines on a CIFS share of DataDomain server, in total 4, 2 go well, the other 2 I receive the following errors when they are...
View ArticleWAN based backup solution for virtuals
Hi. I work with small and mid-sized firms. I have a client with 25 users. I'd like to give them a VMWare virtual Small Business Server on a NAS unit. Netgear has their NASReady units which...
View ArticleRestore - System Recovery Option
Hi, My VM got corrupted. I restored it from backup tool (commonvault). I restore from backup of 23rd Aug. I went back to vm console and i saw it was displaying "System Recovery Option" dialogue box....
View ArticleVM's unable to communicate with each other on the same vswitch
Hi Guys, I have a strange issue where I have used VDR to recover several servers that are a mixture of windows operating systems, 2008, 2000. I have restored a domain controller, SQL server and...
View Articlevmware data recovery deep dive
Hi, I am using vDR to backup data from remote sites. in each of these remote sites I have 1 - 5 ESXi hosts, I am backing up VMs to local datastore in each location. In addition to this, I am backing up...
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VMware Data Recovery keeps asking for vCenter credentials
Recently I deployed the VDR VM and configured the network settings. If I am trying to connect it is asking for the vCenter credentials like : As you can see I cannot...
View ArticleBackup Strategy....VM - physical machine
hi guys Kinda confused that's why I am asking.... I like everything virtualized but so far I was not worried about tape strategy.....I usually use vDR/vRanger product to create backups.... but new...
View ArticleSlow throughput on vSphere and Arcserve r15 VDDK
Hey Guys, I am recently experiencing a performance issue with Arcserve R 15.0 on vSphere 4.1 using VDDK. Without any documented change to our backup environment certain VM Guests have slowed down to...
View ArticleIs vData Recovery really dependable?
Is vData Recovery really dependable.? I am just unsure! Any expert suggestions? ThanksRJ
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vdr - cannot login to advanced mode - normal mode works fine.?
colleagues -- I'm testing VDR v1.2.0.1131 in our vSphere 4.1 Update 1 environment and am testing File Level Restores. When I launch the "vmwarerestoreclient.exe" file and login to my VDR appliance...
View ArticleAdvice for SQL DIFF backup failure
Hi, I'm a DBA. We support a few SQL Servers in ESX. Most of our SQL Servers are physical. We have SQL Server jobs that do full, diff, and log database backups. Recently the SQL Server jobs that do...
View ArticleBackup of procuction Servers to Remote site
Hello Fairly new to Vmware. Currently I have 2 clustered Vmware hosts with about 8 servers, DC's, SQL, Exch and file server. Storage is a Dell md3200i. Current total stoage is about 1TB Using BUE 2010...
View ArticleHas anyone gotten Data Recovery to work?
I have installed Data Recovery, installed the plugin, and configured the network. However the plugin is missing in VCenter so I cant do anything with it. The installation document says:...
View ArticleVDR reclaim job and shrinking datastore?
Has anyone actually been able to tell if the reclaim job actually does anything to reclaim space because my storage usage only increases and never shrinks in size. I've even decided to do a test where...
View ArticlePossible to backup a virtual server to a removable disk to take offsite?
Hello, We have a server that is virtualised and I was wondering how I backup the server to a removable drive and take it offsite to our DR centre to do some testing? I heard I can just take the server...
View ArticleHow to Backup VMs Directly from SAN with Backup Exec 2010?
Hello, We have a 4.1 vCenter structure with Backup Exec 2010 and his VMware Agent in a SAN environement. All is working as we want except for the route used to access the SAN.The backup don't use the...
View ArticleHow to backup a VMDK
I want to backup our VMDK, on a tape drive if possible, with netbackup. Does netbackup is the best software for that? or which netbackup version do the best job? thanks
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Unable to power on VMware Data Recovery
Hi All,Newbie here. Apologies in advance if this is not in the right section or if this has been answered before.I'm having a hard time powering on vDR in vCenter 4.1 with an ESX host 4.1.U1 (installed...
View ArticleVMware Data Recovery
Hi, In the VMware Data Recovery Administration Guide it states that VDR can run up to 8 concurrent backup jobs at a time.Does anyone know if this number is considered by each VDR appliance or by...
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,...
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