11-28-2012 01:55 PM
When doing backups of VM servers I get the following error and some of my backups don't comlete.
e000959a - An attempt to take a snapshot of a virtual machine failed because it was unable to quiesce an application
This happens with both Full backups and Differentials. I am running Backup Exec 2012 fully patched. The VMWare environment is version 5.
Any thoughts or ideas are appreciated.
11-28-2012 02:06 PM
11-28-2012 02:30 PM
Hi,
Do you have the remote agent installed on your server?
11-28-2012 05:02 PM
I hope that you are not using ESX 5.1 because it is not supported.
See whether you can take a manual snapshot of the machine.
11-30-2012 06:19 AM
@Imosla, I do not have the remote agent installed on any of the Virtual servers. I am using the VMWare agent on the media server to do the backups.
@pkh, We are running ESX 5.
12-03-2012 08:11 AM
Is GRT enabled for your backups? If it is make sure you install the Remote Agent on the guest machine (s).
12-06-2012 08:54 AM
No GRT is not enabled for our backups.
12-06-2012 09:05 AM
I think I've seen this error before. Are you using a snapshotting technology based on VSS? Is it taking a backup at the same time?
On one of the failed machines can you perform the following commands and give us the output?
vssadmin list writers
vssadmin list providers
03-24-2013 11:20 PM