I recently set up VDR v1.0.2. I installed the appliance onto a "data recovery" datastore that's located on a 4TB Buffalo TS-RIGL/R5 iSCSI NAS unit (only 2TB are assigned the data recovery datastore). The reason for this was to keep the backups away from the main VM datastore, which is located on our SAN, which means that if something happened to the SAN, we can quickly restore the VM's from the backup appliance's VMDK/dedupe store, which is 1TB in size to the remaining 1TB of space on the datastore.

I configured this at the start of October and everything has been working well, with test restores to the data recovery datastore proving a success.

I went away for a few days training last week and when i returned i noticed that the VDR software was reporting that there were no restore points. I restarted the appliance and started a Data Integrity Check, which took almost a day to run. Once it had finished i could see the restore points again, but all of them apart from the most recent for each VM are now flagged as damaged and are now unuseable and need to be deleted.

The VDR docs tell you how to delete a damaged restore point, but don't dive any indication as to what might've caused them in the first place.

Anyone know what could cause this and is there a way to repair them instead of deleting them all and starting again?

Paul