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iwantam
Level 3
9 years ago

NetBackup for VMware orphaned snapshots best practice?

Hi All, We have the NetBackup for VMware, one of the backup has 170 snapshots because of the NetBackup kept on failing and nobody really take care (because it was just migrated from the agent base n...
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  • watsons's avatar
    watsons
    9 years ago

    What's your Netbackup and vSphere version?

    I know of an issue that when you upgraded your Netbackup to 7.6.1.x  from older version in a vSphere 4.1 environment, the snapshot removal stop to work properly. The workaround is simply to upgrade your vSphere version, or downgrade your Netbackup version. There was still a confusion and debate of whether 7.6.1.x  supports vSphere 4.1 or not, but I guess when the backups keep failing, you will need to go either the upgrade or downgrade way.

    Also you can check out more discussions from VMware:

    https://communities.vmware.com/thread/430928?db=5

    Basically snapshot removal is still a task of VMware, backup software is usually doing the backup and merely being the messenger (to notify create or remove snapshot).

watsons's avatar
watsons
Level 6
9 years ago

What's your Netbackup and vSphere version?

I know of an issue that when you upgraded your Netbackup to 7.6.1.x  from older version in a vSphere 4.1 environment, the snapshot removal stop to work properly. The workaround is simply to upgrade your vSphere version, or downgrade your Netbackup version. There was still a confusion and debate of whether 7.6.1.x  supports vSphere 4.1 or not, but I guess when the backups keep failing, you will need to go either the upgrade or downgrade way.

Also you can check out more discussions from VMware:

https://communities.vmware.com/thread/430928?db=5

Basically snapshot removal is still a task of VMware, backup software is usually doing the backup and merely being the messenger (to notify create or remove snapshot).