VCB Backup Failed (snapshot removal issues)

[runclear]

Figured I would hit you guys up to get your thoughts on this..

Took a VCB Full-VM Backup last night of a single VM, after sometime the backup failed for whatever reason.. .well since the VCB Cleanup process didnt run, the snapshot was still there. No biggie i thought and logged into the Console to commit the snapshot it wasnt all that big 90mb or so, and ran >vmware-cmd server.vmx removesnapshots this returned "Error: no snapshots exsist... hmmm thats strange,

Then Ran -> ls -lh and saw the snapshot delta files still there.... even in VC i could see the VCB snapshot but was unable to remove it....

So vmware "thinks" the vm doenst have a snapshot but it does, and all new data is being written to the delta file.....

Have any of you run into this issue before, and were able to fix it without having to do "some kind of a restore", i used the importer tool, and reimported the VM to another datastore.... I'm assuming something got jacked up in the mappingfile some where?

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[jrVMguy]

what we have done in the past and has worked for us is to create a snapshot on the VM and then remove all snapshots.

I got that from a few posts here on the forums

[runclear]

That's not a bad idea at all.... I'll re-add the VM to a test server and give that a whirl for kicks to see what happens.

Thanks

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[dconvery]

There is a vcbCleanup.bat utility on the VCB Proxy. If you are running via COS, then use the vcbSnapshot utility to list, then remove the snapshot.

Dave Convery

VMware vExpert 2009

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