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Mike_Sr_'s avatar
Mike_Sr_
Level 3
11 years ago

Restoring a Hyper-V vm fails accessing staging directory

Hello all. I'm attempting to restore a single Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V virtual machine using BE 2012, but it fails when trying to access the c:\Temp staging directory. Here is the exact error:

The job failed with the following error: An error occurred while creating or accessing the directory specified for this operation. Check to make sure that the B2D folder and/or the temporary path specified for this operation are valid.

And-

 

V-79-57344-4611 - An error occurred creating or accessing the directory z:\TEMP specified for this operation. Ensure that the directory is accessible and can be written to.

I've tried changing the path to another drive, same error, checked permissions to the directories, they are accessible by the service account, but no luck. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks.

2012
Backup and Recovery
Backup Exec
Restore
Windows Server (2003-2008)

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  • pkh's avatar
    pkh
    Moderator
    11 years ago

    If you are restoring from tape, duplicate the backup set to disk before doing the restore.

    Ensure that you have sufficient space on your C: drive to stage the entire VM.

  • Mike_Sr_'s avatar
    Mike_Sr_
    Level 3
    11 years ago

    I'm apologize, I've left out important information:

    • We are restoring from disk.
    • We have plenty of space on the C: drive.

    Also, the job fails immediately after the initial phase. Thank you for the comments pkh-any idea why this is happening?

  • VJware's avatar
    VJware
    Level 6
    11 years ago

    What is the type of the disk where the backup sets are stored ? Is it non-NTFS formatted ?

    Have you recreated the restore job to rule out any corruption issues ?

    Lastly, we may need to enable debugging for finer detail regarding the restore failure..

     

     

  • RahulG's avatar
    RahulG
    Level 6
    11 years ago

    As per the error you posted it is failing to access Z:\temp , did you changed the staging location for the restore Job ?  

    Z:\Temp is this accessible and an NTFA drive ??

  • Mike_Sr_'s avatar
    Mike_Sr_
    Level 3
    11 years ago

    VJware, yes the disk is NTFS and I have recreated the job without success.

    RahulG, I attempted to change the staging location to a disk on the locally connected JBOD device, the same device that we write our backups to.

    I read somewhere that the 'PureDisk' service should be running-is this applicable? I did try with the service running, but received the same error.

  • Kunal_Mudliyar1's avatar
    Kunal_Mudliyar1
    Level 6
    11 years ago

    Hi Mike Sr,

    Is the Backup Exec patched to Sp2 , if not please run a live update and patch backup exec.

    Also if the Hyper V and the Backup Exec servers are different update the remote agent on the Hyper V server too.

    Thanks!

  • Mike_Sr_'s avatar
    Mike_Sr_
    Level 3
    11 years ago

    When I attempted to run Live Update it failed with an error, LU1852 I believe, and I found a suggestion to reinstall Live Update, which I did, but now it won't run at all because it fails to register. Two steps forward, one step back. Any idea how I can get Live Update working again?

  • Mike_Sr_'s avatar
    Mike_Sr_
    Level 3
    11 years ago

    I have installed SP2 on the media server, but have yet to install it on the hyper-v servers, which leads to this question:

    Is a reboot required after the service pack is installed? These are production servers and, if a reboot is required, I'll have to schedule for after hours. Also, backups are now failing because of the different software levels-is this expected?

    Thanks,

  • Kunal_Mudliyar1's avatar
    Kunal_Mudliyar1
    Level 6
    11 years ago

    Yes a reboot is required but BE will not force the reboot , you can choose to reboot later.

    Yes the error is expected, are you still seeing the error which was there pre SP2?