Backing up VMs to a portable NAS?
I am looking at an inexpensive way to backup my virtual machines. The best solution I have found is to use TriLead with something like a Lacie or a Buffalo portable NAS. The issues here is they only...
View ArticleBackup entire virtual infrastructure to secondary location
Hi, the goal is to backup all virtual machines and to copy the backup data to secondary location in vsphere 5 without using any third party backup SW with possible exception of Windows backup...
View ArticleSetup VDP fails during vCenter registration
Hi, I want to setup the vSphere Data Protection VM. The Import was successful.But after that I opened the Webbrowser, entered "https://IP-aress:8543/vdp-configure". At the side "vCenter registration" I...
View ArticleTime Sync Issue with Data Protection Appliance
Hello, I installed vDP in lab environment to test the product. Everything was working well for few days. Since Saturday, I am facing with this error “the most common cause for this error is that the...
View ArticleHP RDX - testing restore but unable to see RDX drive
We have a Proliant server with an internal (USB-connected) RDX backup drive.I am using Vsphere ESXi 5.1 (free version).The main VM is running Windows Server Essentials 2012 and I have installed the HP...
View ArticleBackup solution for ~2000 VM's
Opening up a thread for exchange of thoughts and experiences about backup of greater vmware environments. ~2000 VM's with ~100 TB of data volume.Requirements are:1. Data Backup should run as fast as...
View ArticleVDP appliance is not responding issue
Hi, We are seeing troubles accessing VDR from the Web Client. When go to the vSphere Data Protection plugin tab, and click [Connect] for our VDP instance, getting the following error: ERROR:...
View ArticleBackup / copy of a thin, nonpersistent disk?
We have a VM which includes a thin allocated, nonpersistent independent disk. Is it possible to copy the unprovisioned version of this disk? When viewing this disk in the datastore browser it's ~95MB...
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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 ArticleAll backup jobs are failing - getJobError... ???
Hello,I´m running vSphere Data Protection 5.1. and I have a "little" problem that needs to be solved. All my backup jobs are failing and I can´t find out why. When I look into...
View ArticleVDP Logs and Troubleshooting.
Hi All I have been using VDP for a few weeks now and it has been running without too many issues. In the last day or so I have seeing backups fail on 2 of my appliances. I would like to know the reason...
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 ArticleVeeam Nightmare
http://vbscs.wordpress.com/2013/08/31/veeam-nightmare/ I am IT consultant for a few companies and all of them use different software packages for the same purposes of virtualization and backup. All of...
View ArticleRestoring VM's from Data Recovery to new infrastructure
Hello everyone. I recently started using VMware Data Recovery, and I have a big question. If my virtual infrastructure failure, how can I restore my VM's from Data Recovery to a new infraestructura? I...
View ArticleData Recovery to what type of destination?
Hi,Which types of destinations are supported for the new Data Recovery backups in vSphere 4? Does it only backup to existing datastores? Or can you backup to NFS or SMB shares? Thanks,Dennes
View ArticleVDR: Correct time configuration
Located in Germany, I installed a vSphere environment (all GA versions) with the appropriate time config.Hosts, Virtual Center and the Data Recovery VM are set to Europe/Berlin (GMT +2:00). After...
View ArticleEmail reporting for VDR
After much hassle I eventually got DR working but how do you setup email reporting so you know if a job was successful ot not? According to the DR FAQ PDF on page 3...
View ArticleNow Available: VMware Data Recovery version 1.0.1
All, VMware Data Recovery version 1.0.1 was released today and is available from http://www.vmware.com/download/vsphere/ Note that updates are happening, so the listing on the page may still say...
View ArticleHow does one cancel vDR backups ?
I have two backups that have been running for days .... and I wanted to know what the best practice was to stop/cancel/abort them ?
View ArticleTrouble reading from destination volume, error -2241 ( Destination index...
Hi guys, I have started seeing this error everytime the daily integrity check is ran. 9/6/2009 3:36:40 PM: Executing Integrity Check9/6/2009 3:36:40 PM: To Backup Set /...9/6/2009 3:36:40 PM:...
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