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rnick1952
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VCB Proxy server backup to tape

I set up our proxy server to backup our VMware servers to tape using EMC Networker 7.3.2. When I kick off the Networker group that has the proxy server in it, the VM:server name.xxx.com mounts on the proxy server as c:\mnt\server name.xxx.com but never moves data to tape. What am I missing?

save_vcb.bat

@ECHO OFF

SETLOCAL

REM Change this variable to point to the VCB base directory.

set VCBBASE="C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Consolidated Backup Framework"

REM no more user-servicable parts beyond this point

REM A workaround around the fact that only the first 10

REM command line options are easily accessible in a DOS

REM batch file.

shift

set arg=%0

:loop

shift

IF %0.==. GOTO save

SET arg=%arg% %0

GOTO loop

:save

REM Since VCB backups are snapshot based, we have to tell

REM Networker to ignore the archive bit for incrementals and

REM only use timestamps.

set NSR_AVOID_ARCHIVE=YES

REM Call into the VCB framework.

cscript /nologo %VCBBASE%/legato/vcb-backup.wsf %VCBBASE% %arg%

ENDLOCAL

Prebackup.bat

cd "C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Consolidated Backup Framework\generic"

cscript pre-command.wsf "C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Consolidated Backup Framework" "server name.xxx.com" file

Postbackup.bat

cd "C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Consolidated Backup Framework\generic"

cscript post-command.wsf "C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Consolidated Backup Framework" "server name.xxx.com"

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att_118
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Can you check if save.exe (hung) was still running when you cancelled the savegrp? I hit this issue recently and found that it was caused by setting a directive in the client profile for the proxy. You cannot use directive with VCB backups and EMC is saying its caused by VMware and customers should contact VMware for a fix.

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