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
Thanks
Amar
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
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
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
Thanks AWo
I found the below in the logs:
Converting "D:\Images\VMWare\Backups\Server1\scsi0-0-0-Server1.vmdk" (compact file):
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*********************************[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