Replication to Cloud / Offsite storage method?
Hello, I am running vsphere essentials plus and have VDP 5.8 set up and running very well on site. However, I am looking for how to replicate this to an off site storage unit. How are people...
View ArticleShould I quiesce for backup snapshots?
I have some Windows 2008 R2 guests that are mostly used for running statistical data jobs and utilities such as printing, SFTP and application sharing. There are 2 that run SQL, but no Exchange,...
View ArticleVDR checksum errors
Hello, From time to time I see messages in the VDR message log like this: Oct 1 11:49:10 vmdr-a datarecovery: Chunkdedupe WARNING: Slab file 354: Header 1 at header offset 34604544 is invalid...
View Articlevdr backup repository file system corrupted
Hi, we are using vdr 2, the volumes on which we save backups are ISCSI volume directly mounted on the appliance.On the appliance I see errors about corrupted file-system of the ext3 partition. Can I do...
View ArticleVDP 5.8 - Datastore does not have enough free space for snapshot. Mk II
Hi, I have a backup that worked fine in 5.6 that fails in 5.8 with the 'not enough free space for snapshot error' the DS in question is indeed full, but the disk image in question is independant...
View ArticlevSphere Data Protection 5.5 - MSG_ERR_OFFLINE
Hello,I'm searching your help to my VDP appliances, because the checkpoint end with errors and backup's fail with the error "An unexpected error occurred with the following error code: 10014". After...
View ArticleVMs backup best tools
dear gurus good day we are using vsphere 5.1 essential plus, can you advise what is the best tool available VMs (guest os) to backup. is vmware provide their own tool set, are they friendly user, easy...
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Restore client - login failed.
Hi.On last week I updated my Vcenter and hosts from 5.1 to 5.5 And tried to use VDP 5.5.6.56 All installed fine and I created one backup job. But when I tried to make file level restoration using...
View ArticleUnable to configure Single Machine Recovery Options in SRM 5.8 Web Client
I already have a case open with VMSupport but since they are not being helpful, was wonder if anyone else is having this issue.I installed SRM 5.8 (new install of VCenter 5.5 U2 and SRM 5.8) Of course...
View ArticleVDP Appliance Clone not working, unable to access VDP-Configure
I was having problems with a VDP appliance after performing and upgrade. Essentially, the appliance had several snapshots that would not delete, this was preventing performing an update to the...
View ArticleVC 5.5 and VDP 5.5.7
I have configured a backup Job for backup individual Disks. That is working fine. Now i want to add another Server for backup inividual Disks. Now when i change the Job I get the message can not...
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VM didnt continue rebooting after restoration (ghettoVCB)
Hi All. I backup the VM using ghettoVCB then try to restore it using the ghettoVCB-restore.sh. the restoration process is complete without errors. But when I try to power on the VM, the rebooting...
View ArticleVDP Scheduling Backup and Maintenance.
Hi Guys, We're setting up VDP but the storage latency gets affected when it does a maintenance during the day. Here's our schedule right now:20:00-06:00 Back Up08:00-18:00 Maintenance We were thinking...
View ArticleVDP 5.5 list protected VMs
Hello everyone, Is there a way to export a of list all VMs being protected by a VDP appliance? (powershell command or just CLI command)I'm actually trying to build a report of all VMs protected by our...
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Error #1009 after upgrading from 5.5.6 to 5.8.0
Environment:vCenter Server 5.1.0-1123961ESXi 5.1.0-1065491VDP 5.5.6.180 Followed the usual upgrade procedure:VDP Appliance snapshottedMounted ISO containing 5.8.0 upgradeStarted upgrade from service...
View ArticlePlacing Backup Repositories
We have some Windows and Linux VMs used as repositories for backup products like Veeam. These tend to require very large virtual disks >3TB, greater than our normal LUN size on ESXi clusters (2TB)....
View ArticlevDP 5.8 looses all backups and schedules after reboot of vDP and vCSA
Hi! Have a issue with vDP 5.8 with vCSA 5.5U2b. After both of these VMs are restarted (ie the ESXi's) all created jobs and backup are lost. Rebooting either of the VM's the data and or schedules are...
View ArticleVDP upgraded from 5.5 to 5.8.
We recently upgraded from 5.5 to 5.8 because of VDP 5.5 failure. All is well, we can see some of the improvements of VDP 5.8. We have noticed that you can no longer observe the individual VMs being...
View ArticleRecovering Accidentally Deleted VM Folder in DataStore
I accidentally deleted a folder while browsing datastore thru VSphere Client containing the VM on ESXi 5.5. Can I recover it, I am new to this, can someone please help me.
View ArticleKernel Panic while VDP backup for RHEL 5 VM
The error i see in logs is 2014-11-11T01:01:32.703-5:00 avvcbimage Warning <0000>: vSphere Task failed (quiesce, snapshot error=35): 'An error occurred while saving the snapshot: Failed to...
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