Error 'extended partitions not supported' while using FLR

Question

Hi community We use Avamar 6.1.1-87 I have a problem when i use the FLR-Feature. By some VMs, where we make image backups, there appears the message 'extended partitions are not supported' when I use FLR. I know that extended partitions aren't supported, this is a documentated limitation. But the VMs don't have an extended partition as far as I see. The affected VMs contains Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems. The VMs contains two Disks. On one disk there are the system and Windows partition. On the second there is a partition for data and third part applications (see attached image) Does anybody know what that could be?

Peter_Neiger · Accepted Answer

Hi F@b

Thank you very much for your answer.

Rebooting and reregistering the proxies was the first thing I tried.

I found the solution for our problem. The problem wasn't the Avamar system but the Windows Server.

The partition of the "System reserved partition" ( which is 100 MB) was buggy.

We copied the data from this partition to the volume c:, recreated the "sytem reserved partition" and then copied them back. Now it works properly.

FabEdf · Answer

Hello Peter,

Not sure that it will be the solution but did you tried to reboot your(s) Proxy(s) ?

I know that it seems to be strange, but I had same trouble (after an upgrade, to be honest), when reboot is done all is working as before.

Regards,

F@b

Avamar

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