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commsatwork
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VCB Error

Hi Guys

Ill try provide what information I can before asking my questions

Enviroment:

3 Hosts

2 Iscsi SANS

All hosts running 3.5 u5, all hosts running Dual Port Qlogic Iscsi HBA's

Each uses one port per SAN.

The error is being replicated on 3 of 19 VM's..

None of them are SQL based servers, they have up to date VMware tools and were previously working fine.

The problem is this, I have a VCB script that backs up all my VM's.. even if I run the backup for the erroneous VM's I still have the same problem.

Problem is when backing up the VM it appears to backup fine and then at the end of the backup it goes off and tries to backup a bit of another VM?!/!?

Below is the output from vcb

Copying "[LUN Fileserver] FNAS/FNAS.vmx":

0%=====================50%=====================100%

**************************************************

Copying "[LUN Fileserver] FNAS/FNAS.nvram":

0%=====================50%=====================100%

**************************************************

Copying "[LUN1] Arrow 2003//vmware-56.log":

0%=====================50%=====================100%

**************************************************

Error: Could not back up config file: Arrow 2003//vmware-56.log

An error occurred, cleaning up...

Deleted directory B:\vcb\mnt\FNAS

As you can See LUN1 with Arrow has nothing to do with LUN Fileserver yet its attempting to add this into the backup???

My script waits 3 minutes between the end of a backup job before starting the next but even doing the backup from CMD I get the same problem.

In my example the command Im using is

@vcbmounter -h 10.5.1.xx -u vcb -p example -a name:"FNAS" -r B:\vcb\mnt\FNAS -t fullvm > "%vcbfolder%/FNAS.doc"

And its not due to piping the output to a doc file as removing this also still creates the error

any ideas? previously worked fine..

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commsatwork
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Anyone?

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FranckRookie
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Hi,

If VCB tries to backup a file on another LUN, it's because it thinks that this file is part of the VM. Have a look at what this file contains, how it could be linked to the VM vmx file and you should solve your problem.

Regards

Franck

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