Slow backup of VMware guest with GRT

[Leo_S]

Hi all,

I have a VMware virtual machine (Windows Server 2003 SP2) with Microsoft SQL server installed. I want to backup this server with Backupexec 2010 R2 with the VMware agent. I also have a license for the agent for SQL server.

With GRT enabled, the backup of this server takes 4 times longer than a backup without GRT plus a seperate SQL backup together. With GRT enabled I see in Backupexec that is "updating catalogs" for a very long time.

In the backup logs I noticed an entry about the VMware VSS provider that has to be uninstalled, wich I did already. Has anyone seen this issue before, of has a solution to this?

[Bob-Aces]

did you also tried to uninstall the File System Sync driver ?

[Bob-Aces]

did you also tried to uninstall the File System Sync driver ?

[Leo_S]

Hi Bob,

Thnx for your reply. I just tried again with the file system sync driver uninstalled, but my problems remain...

[ZeRoC00L]

Have you installed the backup exec VSS provider ?
It is located on the installation DVD.

[Leo_S]

Isn't the Backupexec VSS provider installed as part of the remote agent? The remote agent is installed on the server, but I'll try to install the VSS provider seperately...

[Leo_S]

I just installed the VSS provider maunally and started another backup job. Still no luck...