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Hannible's avatar
Hannible
Level 4
11 years ago

Hyper-v Backup failing with Snapshot error 156

Hello friends, we have Netbackup Master server on Windows 8 R2 and client machine is a virtual server on Hyper-v which is failing with below error..  what possible could be the reason..?? an...
  • sri_vani's avatar
    11 years ago

    As suggested please verify the bpfis,event viewerand  post us the details

    Please have a look at this below link

    http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH152313

     

    There are two possible solutions to this issue:

    1. Open the Hyper-V policy in the NetBackup Administrators Console and click the Options button under Snapshot Client on the Attributes tab.  Change the "Allow Offline Backup of VM" option to Yes, or
    2. Resolve the situation with the virtual machine(s) that causes Microsoft to place it into a 'Saved' state.  This could involve making changes to the virtual machine configuration.