VDP 5.5 Restore Disk (How to view properties before restore)
When restoring individual vmdks from a vm backup in VDP 5.5 is there a way to see more details or properties of the drive before restoring? As far as I can tell it just says Disk 1....Disk x but its...
View ArticleBackup Exec 2012 backup through SAN (Exchange database, SQL Server)
Dear Experts, We have the following environment,- 2 DL380p Gen8 Servers running vmware Esxi 5.0- 1 HP Storage P2000- 2 SN6000 switches- LTO 6250 FC autoloader- DL 360p gen8 server (running backup exec...
View ArticlevSphere Data Recovery error -3948 ( vcb api exception)
Hi all, I have a problem with the data recovery, I am not able to backup my machines I only get following error: error -3948 ( vcb api exception) Hope anyone has a idea what this error mean and...
View ArticleFailed to create snapshot for XXXX, error -3902 ( file access error)
Hi all, We're using VDR 1.0.2. Often I get the the following error until I reboot the vdr-appliance: Failed to create snapshot for XXXX, error -3902 ( file access error) When I get this...
View ArticleVDR 1.1 How to Remove Damaged Restore Points
I need to remove some damaged restore points, but what do i need to do after i mark them for delete, i.e. how do i delete them or run a manual reclaim job? also. what is the ramification to restore...
View ArticleCA ArcServe: Unable to map the VM volume to a VM disk image file
Hi, Although this isn't strictly a VMware issue i was wondering if anyone could help me out. My VMware RAW backup using CA Arcserve 12.5 has started to fail with error: AW0551 2010-02-15 12:13:03...
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 ArticleVMware Tools custom quiescing scripts failed because of thumbs.db
Hi Everybody The last few hours i was working on creating custom quiescing scripts.I tried to keep at close as possible to KB 1006671. Every time i tried to start a snapshot with memory "False" and...
View ArticleFailed to create snapshot for vm error -3960
Hi,I am using VDR and getting this error for one of VMs. Failed to create snapshot for vmname, error -3960 ( cannot quiesce virtual machine)Taking the sanpshot manually with quiesce enabled works just...
View ArticleVDR 2.0 cifs errors
Hi. I have upgraded from VDR 1.2 to 2.0 and have problems with dedupe store on cifs share on Windows 7. Previous VDR had no problem with backup on cifs share, but new version throws me this error in...
View ArticleErr_code: -110 SnapshotVM: Exception Raised - fault.RestrictedVersion.summary
Hi,We use VMware ESXI version 4.1.0 as a host with vSphere Client Version 4.1.0. There are guests with Windows 2003 Srv and Windows 2008R2 Srv. The backup runs on another Windows 2008R2 with CA...
View ArticleVDP 5.1 E30931 Failed to initiate a backup
Hello, I have a problem with VDP backups.Yesterday I restarted my ESXi servers and my SAN. We are using 2x Dell PowerEdge R805 for hosts and a Dell PowerVault MD3000i SAN.Because we are changing to a...
View ArticleVDP CPU Usage
Hi All,I recently deployed a VDP appliance to replace VDR in our 5.1 enviroment, backing up through a FC EMC CX3-40f SATA array. As soon as I setup the appliance (which was a nightmare due to the DNS...
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 ArticleVDR to VDP Migration error
I am trying to perform a migration from Vmware Data Recovery 2.0 to vSphere Data Protection 5.1 2.0TB (Standard). vCenter 5.1u1 in managing a single ESXi4.1 host which is running all of my VMs and both...
View ArticleData protection vs. Data recovery
Hi, folks! I can't realize difference between VMware Data Protection and VMware Data Recovery?Can you tell me, please. Sorry for dumb question =)
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VMware Data Recovery 2.01 - Destination Disk Mounted but does not get Ready
Hello everyone, I have ecounter this issue weird issue with VMware Data Recovery 2.01 where the destination disk gets Mounted but does not get Ready as you can see below. I can´t find a solution for...
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Virtual Data Recovery Appliance configured at 4vcpu 8GB and still runs at...
Hi folks -- I'm tired of some users constantly using 'snapshots' as a backup mechanism, and it's tedious to manually clone or backup vmdk's for them, so I thought I'd give VMWare's "Virtual Data...
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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 ArticleData Recovery Snapshot Error -3941
Hi All, I am currently experiencing an issue with the backup of one VM using Vmware Data Recovery. The VM in question is a Windows 2003 DC. Initially the error we were experiencing was along the...
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