VDR 1.2 Reliability

[dustinn3]

Just curious if VDR 1.2 is improved over previous versions. I tried using all the previous versions and couldn't get any of them to work consistently. They would backup for a few days, then suddenly they would start failing and eventually all my backups would get corrupted. Consistency checks would take days. Supports only resolution was to reboot the VDR appliance and delete the restore points. I've been burned so far, so I'm hesitant to try it again until it's a bit more mature.

[aarondovetail]

Switched to Veeam essentials and never looked back, VDR really is garbage in comparison. I wouldn't trust my backups with VDR

[craiggunson]

Move to block based datastore (either NFS or RDM/SAN datastore)...

We had same problem on CIFS (never worked for us).... moved to NFS based store in Oct 2010 and still stable.  (Touch wood)

Also make sure it's fast (1GB wont complete an integrity check in a reasonable time, 10GB will).

GL.

[BrianLangstaff]

IMHO - VDR 1.2 is not ready for production use.

I could detail the problems we have encountered, but they are already documented a 100 times over.

VMWare should never have released the VDR product.