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g_pozdnyakov
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10 years ago

VMWare VM backup destroys shadow copy of a file backup job

Hello, everyone. Recently we ran into an issue with overlapping backups. We have defined some backup jobs and one of them is taking a long time to be finished because of a huge amount of data. Thi...
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g_pozdnyakov
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10 years ago

This articles are related to BE 2010 and BE 2012. I forgot to mention that we use BE 2014 SP1.

Even if this articles are related to BE 2014 too, then how could I be able to perform backups with exclusion successfuly?

Snapshots should not be used in conjunction with VMs containing RDM disks

Are you talking about AVVI only? Why does a vCenter snapshot processing destroys VSS shadow copies inside the machine? I'm going to check this on another machine to verify if this issue exists when I create a shadow copy manually and then create a VMWare snapshot.