Backup multiple VMs on ESX never finish
Updated: 18 Oct 2010 | 6 comments
We are backing up several VM Guest (FreeBSD), thus no agents are installed. Looking at the job log all the server complete backup, but the job will run on for hours and never finish/complete; forceing me to cancle the job.
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Correction, even when I
Correction, even when I cancel the job, it never cancels. The only way to stop the job is to restart the Backup Engine on the server, which is great becuase I have to stop all other running jobs.
Have you updated with the
Have you updated with the latest patches available for BEWS 2010?
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I run Live Update every day.
I run Live Update every day. Are there patches lurking somewhere else?
Best way would be to check
Best way would be to check your installed updates in BEWS and compare to what is out there.
Is there no prompt waiting for input, which would cause the job to run for longer?
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No prompts. This morning: -I
No prompts.
This morning:
-I have 1 ESX job still canceling.
-1 ESX Job w/ multiple VMs finished (YAY!)
-Exchange backup hung backing up utility partition. Canceling never cancels this one either. (have I have backed this server up sucessfully)
I can see in task manager BEengine.exe pegging one core at 100%. (8-total cores)
backup VM's snapshot
Hi im new to Vmware ESX but i notice that there is a snapshot feature, what if you can just backup the snapshot from the datastore directly rather than running the BE agent on every VM's. i havent try this but just wondering.
Cheers
Server Specs: SBE 12.5 sp2 64Bit Win 2003 Server Ent Ed R2 Sp2 64 Bit DL380 G4 intel Xeon 3.2 Ghz (4cpu) 5056mb Ram 2gb LAN and 2gb Backup LAN (4 Physical NIC) lan Team TLB HP LTO3 1/8 Thecus NB5200 5TB NAS MSA30 1.8TB SCSI
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