01-21-2008 01:25 AM
04-25-2008 06:20 AM
Hello Mark
I hope that you had a good break away from work (and Netbackup!).
Since you have been away I have been made aware of several problems in VCB backups in Netbackup and I believe that they are applicable to your installation. The fixes are in Netbackup 6.5.2. but this is not available until the end of May at the earliest.
There are binaries available meanwhile and I am preparing an escalation today so that my backline engineers can review your errors & may provide the binaries if applicable.
I will be in touch as soon as I have more information for you.
Best Regards
Alan Thomas
Associate Technical Support Engineer
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09-02-2009 09:14 AM
Have any check if the clients who fail have Raw partition mounted? I understand that VCB will not work with clients who have an RDM mounted, this if you are using the SCSI Hot-Add Mode. Other restriction to mention is with the LAN Mode is that your virtual disks cannot be bigger than 1TB each.
There are a lot of more details under the Virtual Machine Backup Guide from VMware I will highly recommend to read it and see if your configuration is messing up with your backups.
hope this helps
regards.
09-02-2009 09:18 AM
Under certain circumstances, you cannot use Consolidated Backup for backing up data
in a virtual machine.
Consolidated Backup in SAN mode cannot back up virtual machines with disk
images stored on a storage device that the VCB proxy cannot access.
Consolidated Backup cannot back up RDMs in physical compatibility mode.
CAUTION Because the VCB proxy can recognize only volumes that have drive
letters assigned to them, make sure that each volume on a virtual disk has a drive
letter.
Consolidated Backup cannot perform file‐level backups of virtual machines
running operating systems other than Microsoft Windows.
You cannot use Consolidated Backup to backup virtual machines in a cluster.
These virtual machines share an SCSI controller and snapshot operations cannot
be performed on them.
If you are unable to use Consolidated Backup, deploy a backup agent in the virtual
machine and perform the backup from within the virtual machine. The backup agent is
supplied by your third‐party backup software vendor.
For details on installation of the backup agent, refer to the documentation provided
with the integration module matching your backup software.