My VDR not run when my PC is shutdown
Hi All, I'm sorry to start discussion in this subforums, because i cannot find where is VDR (vmware data recovery) subforum. I have 10 VDR in my vsphere. When i activate the VDR and i have set all the...
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 ArticleScript to Boot up VMs after Backup Jobs ?
Hi, I do have the need to perform some "powered off" backups using Veeam (or any other software for the matter).The "Powered off" backups would be performed like once a Qtr and I was looking if I can...
View ArticleProblem in VDP with linked clones
Hi: I am testing VDP in my environment and I have found problems when I try backup linked clones VM's. In my environment I have: VM1: parent of linked clonesVM2: child deployed like a linked clone of...
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VDP: A backup/restore/validate activity did not start within the alloted time
Hi, If anyone can help me that would be appreciated. I have setup VDP to backup my VMs individually. Previously my backup used to work but recently, I keep getting the error saying " VDP : A...
View ArticleVCB Help
Hello Could you please help me to find out root cause of below error, i am trying to mount VM manually as daily backup is not happening but i am getting following message 2014-08-12 11:15:54.336...
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Long story... Replication crippled most of our backups. What can we do now?
And here we go... On March we decided to use VDP and VR. We're running vSphere 5.1 U1, according to the matrices below we have installed VDP 5.5.5 and VR 5.1.2. Later, on April, we've patched VDP...
View ArticleDisaster Recovery - Best Practice
Hi, I’m trying to understand how I can DR our vmware environment. We currently run ESXi 5.1 and NetBackup Enterprise 7.6. Our datastores are stored on a NetApp FAS2070. We use a Scalar i80 tape...
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VDP 5.5 - Fun with Snapshots
Hi, Okay, I know, the title is misleading. This actually wasn't all that funny I ran in to an episode with snapshots hanging after a VDP failure. It's all sorted, just thought I'd share my...
View ArticleCan't install DP / DNS Issues
Receiving this error message IP/DNS could not be resolved. Please check the hostname, domain, and DNS values for forward and reverse lookup validation. I have manually added the static record to my...
View Article"Failure" question
I am very new to VDP and am having some trouble understanding some of the things it's telling me. In our testing, we really didn't see anything like this. We are now in the process of moving our...
View ArticleLast hfscheck failed with result MSG_ERR_HFSCHECKERRORS
Hi, For few days VDP has not been able to complete integrity check launched fromweb client so I tried running it manually: 1. Stop all VDP services (dpnctl stop)2. Unmount the mount point (umount...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 delay startup for 2 minutes
Hi, How can I program a delay for a ESXi 5.1 for start for 2 minutes?It boots to fast now..
View ArticleThis destination is not available for a backup job
Hi all, I'll use VDR 2.0.3.I mounted a network share without problem (with the administrator right)When I want to create my backup task, I select the network share and I have this message. "This...
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Problem restoring a Centos Machine
Hi, I had my data protetion working from some time now, and kust now i had been in the need of restoring a linux machine. the restore appear to be working just fine but when the machine is powered on...
View ArticleVCB VM backup fails
hello Could you please help me for the backup issue which is failing morethan 20+ VM's error[2014-08-22 08:59:37.166 'vcbMounter' 4500 info] Connected using API Namespace vim25.[2014-08-22 08:59:37.416...
View ArticleVDP scripting
Hi, Is there a scripting solution for managing vdp appliance ?ex : powercli, powershell, avamar ... ?
View ArticleRestore VM Offisite
Hi guysI have a customer that wants to backup their VMs and send them to our Virtual Datacenter, using a USB Hard Drive they want to export the VM files and we are going to import them in our...
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How does VDP incremental backup really work?
Hi, I'm a little bit confused about how VDP incremental backup really work. Let's say I use 7 days retention policy.On the first day, VDP does full backup. Then on, the subsequent backups after full...
View ArticleBackup Fail || 2010 Exchange VM Have RDM Partition ||
ESXi : 5.0 Ent plusVM1 : Exchange 2010 on Server 2008 R2VM2 : DAG 2010VDR : 2.0.3Except Exchange all vm Backup is...
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