Error E30927

[jvanick]

I've recently upgraded to vCenter 5.1 and decided to try out the new VDP (big mistake on my part)...

Anyways,

now I'm getting the following error in the backup tasks:

VDP: Backup job (Lab) failed to backup client Lab-MiscServices.

Execution error: E30927: An attempt was made to backup a virtual

machine client which noloinger exists in vSphere.. Job Id: Lab-Lab-1350950000105. (Full client path:)

and none of my VMs are being backed up... the guests are absolutely in vcenter and are running fine, so this has to be a VDP problem.

[futureauto]

I have the same problem, all my backups instantly fail with that error.  I gues I'll add it to the service request I already have open.  I'll let you know what I learn.

[Paul11]

Same problem here after the update to ESX V5.1 but only for one VM. There was no problem with this VM in Version ESX V5.0.

Have done the following:

Shut down the VM

Remove it from the inventory

Edit the Backup-Job -> a message will be displayed that the VM is no longer a part of the Backup-Job

Klick next unitl finish

Browse the Datastore and add the VM to the Inventory

Edit the Backup-Job and add the VM again

After that the backup works.

I don't know, if removing the VM from the Backup-Job is really necessary, but I have done it this way.

This VM was also affected from the following problem: (Could not be moved from ESX V5.0 to ESX V5.1)

http://www.vdsyn.com/vmotion-failure-between-esxi-5-0-and-esxi-5-1-hosts-with-a-uuid-error/

So may be there is a similar problem in the vmx Config file.

Hope you get a better solution from VMware support.

Paul

[GSergey]

Open a command line VDP:

root@vdp:~/#: dpnctl stop mcs

and

root@vdp:~/#: dpnctl start mcs

and run manually or backups run as scheduled

[jhunter1]

vSphere Data Protection (VDP) backups fail to start and report error E30927