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VMWare backup failed with RC 156

All, I have created a policy with 22 clients and 16 failed with below error and rest 6 successful at 1st attempt. Please share your suggession!!! Error log as below. 10/9/2012 6:16:50 AM - Info nbjm(pid=15412) starting backup job (jobid=142...

NBU 7.1.0.4 and VPX_DISABLED_METHODS

We have an issue that has popped up since upgrading to 7.1.0.4. Seems that NBU is leaving an entry in the VPX_DISABLED_METHODS table in the vCenter DB that prevents svMotion during backup. To get around this you have to remove/add the VM from the inv...

Vmware backup: "Vcenter vs ESX"

Hello, I need to configure a backup environment that will backup vmware VMs. Unfortunately I cannot use the vcenter to discover the VMs but only the ESXs even there is a vcenter installed. The Vcenter is in an unsupported version (5.1) and it is har...

Resolved! Issue with backing up from VMWare Windows2008 server machine

Hi All, I am moving over from the old netbackup 6.5 to 7.5 and am trying to iron out some of the issues before turning off the old system. I have a policy which backs up all VMware hosts. It does most of them without too much bother but gets stuck w...

Resolved! Cannot select clients using the "automatically through query"

All, We are trying to configure the vCenter backups for vmware using netbackup 7.5 and vmware 4.x and 5.x. I can back my servers up no problem but I can only select clients manually. If I use "Select automatically through query" and go to the query b...

Status Code - 636

Hello - Currently I am running Netbackup 7.5.0.1 on Linux master connected with two media servers, and current biggest challenge is my whole Netbackup infra accommodates more than 95% of VMware backups and both media servers acts as VMware hosts. At ...

Resolved! Failed VMWare jobs keep retrying until windows is closed when they're not supposed to.

Hello: I'm using NetBackup 7.5.0.1 and am encountering an annoying issue. My backups are set to retry up to 2 times in a 12 hour period on failure. This works fine for all jobs except the VMWare Policy jobs. When these jobs fail, they keep retryin...

Netbackup 7.5 vmware backup SAN transport and slow backup speed

I am doing VMware backup policy using a media server dedu pool(the disk LUN is on the 4G FC SAN). The datastore is on the FC SAN. I am getting the backup rate from anywhere 8Mbps to almost 100Mbps. I check the resouce monitor for both the media serve...

VMWare Backups using SLPs & MSDPs

Running NetBackup 7.1.0.3, using Media Server Deduplication Pools, and trying to back up some large file servers that are VMWare guests. When doing full backups to tape, it just takes too long. Created an SLP to write to the disk pools, Set up the ...

Resolved! Retrieving details of resource pools - Failed system call failed (11) with Alternate location Option (Netbackup 7.5.0.3)

Hello, I have got error " Retrieving details of resource pools - Failed system call failed (11) " after i had tried to recover virtual machine with Alternate location option. Here is the pertinent information and error details: Client: Windo...

NetBackup 7.5 - VMware Backup - Snapshot Jobs stay active for long time even snapshot is already removed

Hi, we are using NetBackup 7.5.0.3 to Backup a VMware vCloud Infrastructure. Backup works fine but there is a very long delay (at least 10min) between the point were the snapshot removal tasks completes (in vCenter) and the snapshot job finishes in ...

Question on Resource Limit with VMWare snaps.

Fellow Backup Admins, At our company we seem to be running into some sort of resource contention with VIP's. My question is if anyone knows/has references to what the snap limitations are on the datastore level, cluster level, and datacenter level. ...

VMware v-ray Backup with Symantec Netbackup 7.5.0.3

Hi Everyone, I have a vSphere ESXi 5.0 Environment with three ESXi hosts in HA cluster on VMware Vcenter Server. The Storage LUNs are provided from NetApp and NetApp vStorage Console 4.0 has been integrated with vCenter Server. I will have NetBAckup ...

Enquiry if NBU Standard Client can be applied to VMware environment

Hi, We have 2 esx hosts and need to purchase the appropriate NBU licenses. Our vm are based on windows/redhat linux. Can 2 x NBU standard client address my current environment or do I need to get NBU enterprise client instead. Here's a table which I'...

Netbackup 7.5.0.1 TMG running in VMWare Application State Capture Failure

I am running Netbackup 7.5.0.1 and I am trying to backup a Microsoft TMG server that is running on VMWare ESXi. Application state fails Snapshot succeeds Backup succeeds The backup policy is setup using a query against ESXi to grab all the hostna...

Resolved! VMware restore - EXIT code 183 tar received an invalid archive

Hi guys! I'm trying to restore individual files from VMware virtual machine backup, the job failed with status code 5 the restore failed to recover the requested files and EXIT code 183 tar received an invalid archive, tar log says: TAR stream can ...

backup virtual machine with agent - error 156

Hi all, I am trying to backup a VMware virtual machine with agent. All policies on master serveur use ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES selection, and I use exclude_list files. But I get an error 156 (snapshot error) with some virtual machines. Error bpbrm (pid=260...

Netbackup + VMware 7.5.0.1: only first client in list backed up, another clients are hanged.

I have a problem with backup of VmWare VM's w\NBU7.5.0.1. I've tried new type policy - "VMWARE" as well as "FlashBackup-Windows" and the problem occurs in both cases. Problem in only first client in backuplist backed up, another clients are hanged. I...

Resolved! Error 25 when Browsing for VMWare Clients

Hi, Since my upgrade from NBU 7.1.0.2 to 7.5.0.1 I am having problems when browsing for VMWare clients when setting up a policy, I can use the Query option which works without error. I have tried the following suggestion but to no avail: http://ww...

Resolved! VMware backup - question on powered down guests

This might be a silly question, but it's one I was asked by our VMware admin today and didn't know how to ask, and haven't been very successful searching for answers. We're on NetBackup 7.5, with a 5200 appliance (not yet updated to 7.5) as our...

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