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[maxihost]

Hello,

I have updated my vCenter to 4.1 and my ESXi hosts to the latest 4.1 version.

I am also running the latest version of VMWare Data Recovery, that is the 1.2.

My issue is that the Data Recovery is having hard times to backup the VMs.


7/20/2010 8:33:26 PM: Normal backup using Lapa Backup
7/20/2010 8:33:31 PM: Copying 11753 - srv01.david-allonby
7/20/2010 8:34:08 PM: Performing incremental back up of disk "[LUN6-MD3000i] 11753 - srv01.david-allonby/11753 - srv01.david-allonby-flat.vmdk" using "Network"
7/20/2010 8:53:22 PM: Trouble reading files, error -3956 ( operation failed)
7/20/2010 8:53:31 PM: Task incomplete
7/20/2010 8:53:31 PM: Remaining: 5 files, 40.1 GB
7/20/2010 8:53:31 PM: Completed: 0 files, zero KB
7/20/2010 8:53:31 PM: Performance: 0.0 MB/minute
7/20/2010 8:53:31 PM: Duration: 00:20:07 (00:00:38 idle/loading/preparing)

Anyone have any ideas ?

[fastdeploy]

Originally Posted by maxihost

Anyone have any ideas ?

Though I don't see an answer specifically related to your scenario I'd consult the VMware Knowledge Base and/or the VMware user community.

Fastest solution may ultimately be to open a support ticket up with VMware as I don't think you're going to find too many hosts here who are using VMware or at least in the combination of tools you are using to maintain your VMware environment.

[Jeremy]

Yea anything here related to VMware is ignored... trust me.

Any chance you have Fault Tolerance (FT) on the VM? or open snapshots? Is VMware tools installed?

I haven't used VDR...

For my backups... I have a task that snapshots all the VMs, then on the shared storage i have it take a snapshot. Back up the storage snapshot to disk and compress it.

Check this thread out... http://communities.vmware.com/thread...tart=60#250667