Data recovery stops working after a few days

[caddo]

Hi everyone,

here's the thing: i have Data Recovery installed and it works fine, but after a few days it stops backing up!

The virtual machine seems ok, the curious fact is that if i try to check the logs with VI client the data recovery "wakes up" and starts the job that didn't run in the schedule!

It's like sleeping, i don't know what to do to fix this other then scheduling a reboot every week.

Anyone experiences this before?

[AndreTheGiant]

Can you run a job manually?

Space in the destination is enough?

Andre

[caddo]

I can't tell you if i can run a manually test when this happens because as soon as i get in the data recovery appliance it starts working again, i have no time to do anything before that! And then after that everything is back to normal.

There is space in the destination, that's not the problem.

[AndreTheGiant]

Maybe the service was down.

You have only used the plugin to connected to VDR?

Andre

[DSTAVERT]

How many VMs are you backing up? How large is the destination disk? Where is the destination? CIFS? VMDK? Has / does the integrity check complete daily and weekly? Errors?? What times have you blocked out? Is there enough time for the backups to complete?

[caddo]

I also logged in with the console from command line, i didn't check if the deamon was down.

I could do that next time it happens... but it's weird how systematic this is, i am starting to think there's something wrong.

[caddo]

It's about 5 VMs per night.

Destination is CIFS, several hundreads of gb.

Integrity checks are good

No errors

The time is enough because when it's not it does report a specific error

The problem here is "just" that randomly it doesn't start backing up at all. I backup from 8pm to 7am

[DSTAVERT]

CIFS in't the ideal destination. If you have the space elsewhere I would try a VMDK as the destination.

Otherwise I would try a call to VMware support.