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VDR Snapshots fail with VMware tools VSS support installed posted: Nov 5, 2009 11:07 PM

Click to view ydnA's profile Lurker 2 posts since
Nov 5, 2009

Hi Guys

I'm getting:

Cannot create a quiesced snapshot because the create snapshot
operation exceeded the time limit for holding off I/O in the frozen
virtual machine. (under VDR Configuration, log, it says "error -1 ( unknown)")

...when I try to VDR a vm with the VMWare tools VSS support installed. If I remove vss support, it will work but from what i've read that would mean that the backup does not truncate logs etc. I've created a new VDR machine, created freshly installed servers to test on, even added the vm hostnames and ip's to VDR's host file, i've tried a LOT of stuff. Any still that error.

Has anybody successfully resolved this issue?

Thanks

Andrew


Click to view mightyman's profile Enthusiast 23 posts since
Sep 8, 2008
What OS is installed in the VM? Are you able to take a manual VSS snapshot through the VI Client?

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