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Thernlund · 03-23-2015

I'm having this issue with Backup Exec 2014 where my Exchange transaction logs are not being flushed when doing a VM backup through vCenter. I discovered the issue because I was running out of space. Turns out I had over 360,000 Exchange transacti...

Thernlund · 01-16-2015

I've been looking through technical document for a couple days and I'm either not seeing or not understanding some technical details concerning VMWare backups. Sme of the document are long winded and not particularly direct in some details, so it's ...

Thernlund · 03-30-2015

Sunday backup worked as expected. Exchange logs were flushed/truncated. Seems like removing the conflicting VSS provider and the above registry key did the trick. I also unchecked the AOFO as suggested. As a side note on that, seems like the AO...

Thernlund · 03-27-2015

Now that I've had some sleep, that sounds reasonable to me. Hmm. I'll see on Sunday if this thing is working right.

Thernlund · 03-26-2015

Alright. I ran a few incremental backups after the above-mentioned full backup completed. The logs are not being flushed with the incrementals. They *did* flush the logs on that full backup though. The only difference I can see here that the full...

Thernlund · 03-23-2015

Thank you for the reply. If I were to turn that off, wouldn't it be a problem for backing up VMs? Or does that option not apply to VM backups? Please advise. As it happens, last night shortly after posting I noticed that both the BE VSS provider ...

Thernlund · 01-16-2015

Since I wrote this I found some other 3rd-party documentation that describes the process a bit more succintly. The gist is that backups don't really take long enough to allow the snapshot to grow very much, especially when done during non-business h...

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Sunday backup worked as

Now that I've had some sleep,

Alright. I ran a few

Thank you for the reply. If I

Since I wrote this I found