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AmarPatel
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VCB Error : 'blocklist' warning - Could not renew disk lease. Aborting operation

HI,

I use the VCBmounter command (VCB Proxy) to backup VMs, I'm having problems backing up one VM and noticed that it has snapshots, can I backup a VM with existing snapshots?

I need to keep the snapshots so I thought I ask

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Amar

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AWo
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In fact, if you use VCB it creates snapshots when a system is backed up to quite the disk to be copied to the proxy.

What kind of problems do you face?

AWo

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AmarPatel
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Hi AWo,

Thank you for your reply, what did you mean when you said: "it creates snapshots when a system is backed up to quite the disk to be copied to the proxy"

I understand that VCB creates a snapshot and backs the VM to a chosen location and this is what is not happening with this VM.

Thanks

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AWo
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Hi AWo,

Thank you for your reply, what did you mean when you said: "it creates snapshots when a system is backed up to quite the disk to be copied to the proxy"

I understand that VCB creates a snapshot and backs the VM to a chosen location and this is what is not happening with this VM.

I meant exactly this. You asked if a backup is possible while snapshots exist and I wrote that this is possible as VCB does exactly this.

Please describe what is not working exactly. Any messages?

AWo

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AmarPatel
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Thanks AWo

I found the below in the logs:

Converting "D:\Images\VMWare\Backups\Server1\scsi0-0-0-Server1.vmdk" (compact file):
        0%=====================50%=====================100%
        *********************************[2011-08-25 17:35:29.902 'blocklist' 3028 warning] Could not renew disk lease.
[2011-08-25 17:35:29.918 'App' 13044 warning] Need to re-acquire lease for snapshot-5480[ESXProd3] Server1/Server1-000004.vmdk after failed lease renewal (Attempt #1).
[2011-08-25 17:35:30.887 'App' 13044 error] Acquiring disk lease for snapshot-5480[ESXProd3] Server1/Server1-000004.vmdk failed with No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. .
[2011-08-25 17:35:31.871 'App' 13044 error] Acquiring disk lease for snapshot-5480[ESXProd3] Server1/Server1-000004.vmdk failed with No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. .
[2011-08-25 17:35:31.871 'App' 13044 error] Giving up.
[2011-08-25 17:35:31.871 'BlockList' 13044 error]

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[2011-08-25 17:35:34.059 'BlockList' 13044 error] Other error encountered: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.
[2011-08-25 17:35:35.043 'BlockList' 13044 warning] Could not log out (VC_Server.ashmore.local:nt_domain\vcbuser)
[2011-08-25 17:35:36.027 'vcbMounter' 13044 error] Error: Failed to export the disk: I/O Operation failed
[2011-08-25 17:35:36.027 'vcbMounter' 13044 error] An error occurred, cleaning up...
[2011-08-25 17:35:38.106 'vcbMounter' 13044 warning] Snapshot deletion failed. Attempting to clean up snapshot database...
Deleted directory D:\Images\VMWare\Backups\Server1

I did a little search for "'blocklist' 3028 warning] Could not renew disk lease" and found: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/117962 but the solution here doesn't resolve my issue Smiley Sad

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