issue with VDR

[beckham007fifa]

Hi guys,

I am facing issues with VDR at one of our client locations. Backup is getting failed for around 10-15 servers, others are getting backed up.

few servers which were getting backed up successfully are giving problems now.

attaching you a document which would help you in getting a proper idea.

[beckham007fifa]

can anyone please help me out of this.

[MartinAmaro]

Did you look at this "Troubleshooting VMware Data Recovery backup issues"

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=103892...

Sorry I just saw your attachement

VMware Data Recovery backups fail with the error: failed, error -2241 (Catalog File invalid/damaged)

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=101590...

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=101806...

I hope this helps

[beckham007fifa]

i am going through the links. Meanwhile I would like to send you the logs. Hope i would get some more information from you guys beacuse i am not that good at VDR.

[beckham007fifa]

Hi Guys,

I have got this.

To remove the lock files:

1. Log in to the VMware Data Recovery appliance through the console with the root username and password.
2. Change to the destination datastore and remove all .lck files from all destination datastores. For example, to remove the file store.lck file from destination SCSI-0\:1, run the commands:
   
   # cd /SCSI-0\:1/VMwareDataRecovery/BackupStore/
   # rm -rf store.lck
   
   Note: To find all *.lck files, run this command:
   # find / -name *.lck

and also in some links got this warning as well..

If this folder  exists and you are certain there are no other instances of VDR using  this deduplication store, delete the lock folder. After deleting the  lock folder, VDR can complete operations as expected.

Warning: If you delete this folder and other instances of Data Recovery are using the deduplication store, corruption may occur.

please let me know how to check for there are no other instances of VDR using this deduplication store. How to check and when I will 100% sure that I can delete the .lck files please guide me.

Thanks

[beckham007fifa]

can anyone please look into this please.

[beckham007fifa]

guys,

I have decided to follow vmware kb article.

steps:

1. first stop vdr services.

2. deleted lock files.

3. start vdr services and start creating jobs.

please let me know if there is any flaw in my plan.

thanks.