Backup getting stuck in queued state

Hi there,

First thing to check up on is whether or not there is a prompt in your job. If there is (green icon), right-click it, and choose: Respond to alert. See what it is...

Laters!

The job is in the queued status without any messages in alerts or an alert to respond to.

What are you backing up to: tape, disk or deduplication storage?

...and if you go through to Devices, is your backup device being accessed? Does this occur on the same day at the same time, or is it totally random? I am trying to eliminate some sort of maintenance task that is running that might be interfering with your backups.

The device this is backing up to is an attached drive from a SAN network.  I know the device is able to be inventoried.  All the jobs I have created that use this device have worked at times.  I actually created a job for each Hyper-V server because when there was only one job it seemed if any server was not responding the whole job would not work.  I have been usually able to reboot the backup or Hyper-V server and sucessfully start the job but I tried a few again yesterday and current operation says none, job status says queued and elapsed time is over 23 hours.

OK...inventory works. Does a small, new backup job work?

If not, could be time to check the configuration of how your VM is connecting to your SAN via Hyper-V.