09-28-2015 04:08 PM
Hello friends,
To ask you to make a backup to a virtual machine of 1.5 TB and fails the job, when you leave the snapshot in vmware and when I manually remove vmware collapses. If there is a method to delete the snapshot.
Thank you.
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10-13-2015 02:14 AM
Verbatim from TECH200709
How to configure Backup Exec 2012 Agent for VMware to retry snapshot removal and cleanup orphaned snapshots when backups begin.
Note: All keys are DWORD (32-bit) Value and all value data settings should be set to Hexadecimal. Setting the key to a value of "0" will disable the functionality.
Note: Any orphaned snapshots left prior to installing and configuring these settings will have to manually be removed.
10-13-2015 01:41 AM
Not sure why this wasn't picked up. Ideally Backup Exec would remove the snapshot, but sometimes this is left orphaned. I've seen another backup application do the same thing.
The only way around this was to commit the snapshot and delete it from VMware itself manually.
Thanks!
10-13-2015 02:14 AM
Verbatim from TECH200709
How to configure Backup Exec 2012 Agent for VMware to retry snapshot removal and cleanup orphaned snapshots when backups begin.
Note: All keys are DWORD (32-bit) Value and all value data settings should be set to Hexadecimal. Setting the key to a value of "0" will disable the functionality.
Note: Any orphaned snapshots left prior to installing and configuring these settings will have to manually be removed.
10-13-2015 11:52 AM
Just for info this is our attempt to retry snapshot removals against timeout issues (as a workaround to an environmental condition), at the end of the day it may not solve 100% of causes and you may sometimes have to take manual actions inside of VSphere
Also whilst written for 2012 with a specific patch it also applies to all newer updates and versions of Backup Exec in terms of using the registry keys
10-13-2015 12:43 PM
Thank You for your comments.
Now I begin to configure the recommendation. I notice the results.
Regards.
Javier Huaman | Especialista de Backup