backup in vsphere

[Centosuser]

Dear All,

tried to create schedule task to run backup of my VM,however the task didn't finished succecefully

i am using Vmware data recovery!

3/4/2013 12:02:14 PM: Normal backup using Backup Job 1
3/4/2013 12:02:39 PM: Created snapshot "_datarecovery_"
3/4/2013 12:02:39 PM: Copying "DC" to destination "/FS/Vm-backup$/"
3/4/2013 12:02:58 PM: Performing incremental back up of disk "[Datastore1] DC/DC-000002-flat.vmdk" using "SCSI Hot-Add"
3/4/2013 12:11:19 PM: Trouble writing to destination, error -102 ( I/O error)
3/4/2013 12:11:41 PM: Removed snapshot "_datarecovery_"
3/4/2013 12:11:41 PM: Task incomplete
3/4/2013 12:11:41 PM: Remaining: 5 files, 66 GB
3/4/2013 12:11:41 PM: Completed: 0 files, 4.1 GB
3/4/2013 12:11:41 PM: Performance: 481.0 MB/minute
3/4/2013 12:11:41 PM: Duration: 00:09:27 (00:00:43 idle/loading/preparing)

please advise!

[LennieDH]

Hello,

have you already tried the procedure listed in this KB??

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=101486...

Regards,

Paolo.

[Centosuser]

yes i did however there is no data in the folder ( still empty)

any more suggestions?

[LennieDH]

Hello,

sorry, no further suggestions about your specific error!

...anyway last week I had a trouble on a data recovery appliance which cannot complete backups of VMs.

In "var/log/messages" got a lot of:

"CIFS VFS: Send error in Flush = -9"

I followed this KB:

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=200004...

Updated appliance with this kernel: http://elrepo.org/linux/kernel/el5/x86_64/RPMS/kernel-lt-3.0.67-2.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm

After update VMs backups started flawlessly.

Hope this could help,

Regards,

Paolo.

[Centosuser]

i've applied the kernel and rebooted the server,

but it still shows the old kernel!

[root@Vmware-recovery /]# uname -r
2.6.18-194.32.1.el5
[root@Vmware-recovery /]#

[Centosuser]

anyone?

the only back up that works now, is windows server back up!