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November 7th, 2017 11:00

VBA VM backup schedule is not working

ESXi 5.5.0 1331820

vCenter 5.5.0     (Windows 2008 R2 64 bits)

NetWorker 8.1.0.1 (Linux nwserv1 2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64)

DataDomain DD2500 5.4.6.0-503967 FLC0014250032

EBRA  1.0.0.199

Hi,

I have a VM backup group configured with  a weekly backup schedule but the backup gets run every day.  Can anyone help?

type: NSR data protection policy;

name: vm_backup_be_group_02;

comment: ;

          policy description: \

"Backup to DDR 'datadomain1vm' with expiration of 'Month', and using the Weekly_Tue schedule; Clone to DDR 'datadomain2datadomain1VmClone' with expiration \

of 'Quarter', and using the Weekly_Tue schedule; ";

autostart: [Enabled] Disabled    Start now ;

                      status: idle;

                  last start: "Sun Nov  5 22:00:00 2017";

                    last end: "Sun Nov  5 22:40:19 2017";

                  next start: "Mon Nov  6 22:00:00 2017";

                  start time: "22:00";

interval: "24:00";

                    VBA list: ebra01.cone.prod;

          policy action list: Weekly_Tue_Backup_Incr_To_datadomain1vm, clone-vm_backup_be_group_02;

           preceeding action: " ", Weekly_Tue_Backup_Incr_To_datadomain1vm;

          action concurrency: n, n;

              action enabled: y, y;

state:  create pending    delete pending    update pending   [Success] Error ;

         configuration error: ; 

Ren Wong

November 8th, 2017 02:00

Hi Ren,

This how Networker works. It always starts the group or policy and looks at the schedule if it needs to run or skip.

Looking at your versions it might also be a good idea to upgrade your environment. The version 8.1.0 you are running is out of support anyway. When you upgrade to 9.x you can take advantage of the vProxy technology, which is far more robust than the VBA.


--Nick

155 Posts

November 11th, 2017 09:00

As answered by Nick it will run a policy and skip if the schedule says skip for that particular day. Do you see it doing data transfer daily?

NetWorker upgrade is highly recommended, you will have to upgrade you DD as well to be able to use 9.1 which has vProxy capabilities.( 9.0.x still has VBA but with few more capabilities added to it)

Thanks,

Suraj S. Pujari

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