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danguss
Level 4
3 years ago

VM Backup failed with status code 6

Hello Guys! Can you help me? I have some virtual server backups that are failing with status code 6 when backing up via san. Servers are only backing up via network (nbd) I checked the disk confi...
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    danguss
    3 years ago

    We ran bpclntcmd -clear_host_cache, restarted VM Host and the backups started working again.

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X2
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danguss Have you tried running a backup manually for just the VM which did not run backup via SAN? I usually test that by adding a string in the Notes field of VM (in vCenter) and then adding that criteria in the query for the policy. In the test policy, you can also choose just to use SAN transport, so that it does not failover to nbd.

 

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danguss
Level 4
3 years ago

We ran bpclntcmd -clear_host_cache, restarted VM Host and the backups started working again.