Hello all,
I'm having an issue with VDR (1.1.0.707 Build 207380) where it backs up all or our VM's (only talking about 6 at this point) with out any problems except for one. This particular VM backup gets to around 33-66% (varies) and stays there. Status Message is "Copying 'vm_name'" I've left it in this state for a couple of days at one point, but it doesnt' progress any further. The other VM's will still kick off as scheduled and run while this one is still hung. We are running IBM Blade center with ds3200 SAS storage. I can not seem to find any logs or event messages telling me what is going on. I tried using the 'Stop' link for the job, but after 4 hrs of that doing nothing either, i've been having to shutdown the VDR appliance - restart - let the snap shot roll back, then re-start the job. That worked for a several weeks, the VM in question would backup ok on the next try, sometimes even twice or three times in a row.. but would always hang up again. However - Now i've been un-successfull for four days trying to get it to backup. The other VM's are still backing up ok. My datastore is currently a mapped network share to my vCenter4 server (waiting on another ds3200 to create a vmdk datastore on the appliance itself). As we are just starting our road down the Virtulization path, I have a lot to learn yet, and we've had the luxury of all of our VM's being in the beta stage, but three of them will be going into production next month, and of course one of those is the problem VM. Any ideas on where I could possibly track down a log of what is happening?
I have to say, so far i'm not to impressed with VDR other then the de-duplication. Besides the problem i've mentioned, i've seen many other wierd quirks since installing it and running backups. What is everyone elses opinion of VDR? Unfortunately our budget is not the greatest this year, but should I be looking into other solutions? I tested the Acronis product briefly but it seemed pretty robust, and the appliance used Quite a bit less system resources on the ESX host.
Thank you for any ideas you can pass along!
Have a great day,
-Rick
Anyway to move this post to the backup and recovery discussion area? -- I should of created it there, sorry.
Message was edited by: rpayne1322
I am having the same issue. I have 40+ vms and 3 of them occasionally hang. Right now I have two hanging at 31% and one at 64% and the backup window ended 10 hours ago. Could the problem be the backup window is to short?
I have seen other threads discussing this issue, it would be nice if VMware had a fix for this problem.
