VDP not sending Summary Report since Sunday (time change).
I just noticed that the (4) VDP appliances I am testing all stopped sending the Email Summary Report after the Daylight Savings time change on Sunday. the last report was generated Sunday morning at...
View ArticleVDP - File Level Restore - UAC Issue
Hi @all! I've installed VDP-Appliance as documented and have successful made backups for all VM's in my Cluster (3 ESXi-Hosts).Today I tried to use the feature "file level recovery" for some...
View ArticleBreak VDP on first run by filling it up
Hello - We're really trying to make VDP work, but this is our 3rd attempt and it still seems to lack some key (basic) management functionality. Here's the scenario: Create a backup jobBackup job...
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 ArticleHow to make full guest OS backup?
What is the best way to make a full guest OS backup in the case that the hardware failed? I want to be able to simply re-install the hypervisor and restore the guest OS instead of reinstall everything...
View ArticleConvert Physical server with 4TB of storage to VM
VmWare 4.1 with Vcenter I am trying to wrap my head around how to convert a physical server (2008R2) to a VM. The server is a file server with 4 TB of storage on an IBM XIV SAN (Fibre).I...
View ArticleEnabling CBT for all ESX VMs ?
Hi, Does enabling CBT for all of the Virtual Machine that is managed by my Virtual Center is a good idea or not supposed to be due to the CBT overhead files ?Do I need to reboot all of the Virtual...
View ArticleAny changes to file level restore in 5.5
Hi I've been struggling with file level restore since we started using vdp. I'm not able to login to the flr client on the vm.See this earlier thread:...
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 ArticlevDP 5.5 deployment issue
We upgraded vCenter successfully to 5.5 and have been unable to get vDP 5.5 to deploy.Importing the ova and powering it on seems fine, DNS looks good. We step though initial config and disk setup then...
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...
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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 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 ArticleVDR error -105
Hello, Has anyone else encounter or know how to resolve a error -105? The exact error message is "Trouble writing to destination volume, error -105 (unexpected end of data)". This is only occuring on...
View ArticleError Messages in VDP
I have crate Backup Job in vSphere Data Protection 1 VM ... Server 2008 R2 ... 1 thin virtual Disk 40GB ... the Backup Job fails with Error message -> E10055:failed to attach disk Anybody same...
View ArticleE10007 Miscellaneous Error Backing Up VM
I have recently setup a small new virtual environment. One of the key features is a vDP backup appliance running on a host at physically separate location, with backups being performed over the...
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vSphere Data protection, flr - failed to mount disk
Hi, When I try to do file level recovery from a window server 2003 SP1 machine, I am getting the following error. "Failed to get disks: this is an unsupported partition layout. Please verify that this...
View ArticleAlternative to VDP or what’s good for backup?
Does anyone have any recommendations for a backup alternative to VDP? I tried deploying the VDP appliance on our HA cluster and even VMWare doesn’t know what’s wrong. DNS is resolving on the VDP, the...
View Articlepre-freeze and post-thaw scripts help
Hi I've got an environment where I want to use Veeam as the backup tool but I'm having issues with a non VSS aware application and pre-freeze scripts.Essentially, I need to freeze an old Oracle...
View ArticleSnapshot backup failed due to VM quiescing
Hi All,When we take snapshot through NetApp VSC plugin most of the VMs not backed up due to the below error. Is there any other method available? How can i fix this? Please suggest me on this.Date-WARN...
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