Säkerhetskopiering av Avamar VM-avbildning tar ibland längre tid att slutföra på grund av att man använder nbd i stället för hotadd

Tiden för säkerhetskopiering av Avamar VMware-avbildning är inkonsekvent.

Ibland går det snabbt att säkerhetskopiera.

2017-09-21 05:15:08 avtar Info <5156>: Backup #223 timestamp 2017-09-21 05:15:08, 0 files, 925.0 GB (0 files, 352.2 GB, 38.07% new)
2017-09-21 05:15:08 avtar Info <6083>: Backed-up 925.0 GB in 192.63 minutes: 288 GB/hour (0 files/hour)
2017-09-21 05:15:08 avtar Info <7883>: Finished at 2017-09-21 05:15:08 CEST, Elapsed time: 0003h:12m:37s

På "långsamma" dagar tar säkerhetskopieringen mycket längre tid. Den nedan tar 24 timmar.

2017-09-23 02:10:04 avtar Info <5156>: Backup #224 timestamp 2017-09-23 02:10:04, 0 files, 925.0 GB (0 files, 334.5 GB, 36.16% new)
2017-09-23 02:10:04 avtar Info <6083>: Backed-up 925.0 GB in 1447.94 minutes: 38 GB/hour (0 files/hour)
2017-09-23 02:10:04 avtar Info <7883>: Finished at 2017-09-23 02:10:04 CEST, Elapsed time: 0024h:07m:56s

Säkerhetskopiorna har liknande storlekar och ändringshastighet. Båda körs som "synthetic full". Loggarna indikerar att den snabbare säkerhetskopieringen använder "hotadd"

2017-09-21 02:03:06 avvcbimage Info <0000>: Connected with hotadd transport to virtual disk [XXXXX] XXXXXXXX.vmdk. Time to connect: 35082 msecs

Den långsammare säkerhetskopieringen rapporterar ett problem med att ansluta med hotadd. Det faller tillbaka till att använda nbd.

2017-09-22 02:13:22 avvcbimage Info <12006>: hotadd transport is recommended for faster backups and restores and less exposure to network routing, firewall and SSL certificate issues. 
2017-09-22 02:13:22 avvcbimage Info <12007>: One or more of these items may be preventing use of hotadd transport with this VM: 
2017-09-22 02:14:03 avvcbimage Info <12013>: Check that the VM being backed up is in the same datacenter as the backup proxy VM. Hotadd transport cannot cross a Datacenter boundary. . . . 
2017-09-22 02:13:22 avvcbimage Info <0000>: Connected with nbd transport to virtual disk [XXXXX] XXXXXXX.vmdk. Time to connect: 353256 msecs

Varje dag användes en annan proxy för säkerhetskopieringen.

Snabb säkerhetskopiering:

2017-09-21 02:00:09 avvcbimage Info <18672>: proxy VM Instance name is: xxxxx-proxy-8 

Långsammare säkerhetskopiering:

2017-09-22 02:00:15 avvcbimage Info <18672>: proxy VM Instance name is: xxxxx-proxy-2 

Proxyn som användes den 21 september var inte tillgänglig den 22 september.
Säkerhetskopieringen använde en annan proxy, som hade konfigurationsproblem.
När du använde den här annorlunda proxyn kunde den inte utnyttja det snabbare "hotadd"-transportläget.

Loggen rekommenderar vad du ska kontrollera om hotadd-transport inte kan användas.

Om VM-konfigurationen inte har ändrats kontrollerar du proxyrelaterade konfigurationskontroller.
 

2017-09-22 02:13:22 avvcbimage Info <12007>: One or more of these items may be preventing use of hotadd transport with this VM:
2017-09-22 02:14:03 avvcbimage Info <12008>:  Check that the backup proxy VM(127.0.0.2,xxxx-avpro4,10.10.8.53,10.10.7.53) is deployed on an ESX(i) host that has a path to the storage holding the virtual disk being backed up ([XXXXXXXX] XXXXX.vmdk). Also check that the proxy is configured to protect this datastore
2017-09-22 02:14:03 avvcbimage Info <12009>:  Check that the vmfs holding the backup proxy VM has a total capacity equal to the size of the largest virtual disk being backed up. (Capacity merely has to be present - Free space can be less than this amount)
2017-09-22 02:14:03 avvcbimage Info <12010>:  Check that the vmfs holding the backup proxy VM is formatted with a vmfs block size which supports the size of the largest virtual disk being backed up
2017-09-22 02:14:03 avvcbimage Info <12011>:  Check that the VM being backed up has no virtual hard disks designated as independent
2017-09-22 02:14:03 avvcbimage Info <12012>:  Check that the VM being backed up has no IDE virtual hard disks, usually an artifact of a P2v conversion - use SCSI virtual disks instead
2017-09-22 02:14:03 avvcbimage Info <12013>:  Check that the VM being backed up is in the same datacenter as the backup proxy VM. Hotadd transport cannot cross a Datacenter boundary.
2017-09-22 02:14:03 avvcbimage Info <12014>:  Check that no VMs, and no vmdk's within the vCenter have the same name as those associated with the VM being backed up. (unusual but possible)

Mer information om möjliga transportlägen finns här:
https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vddk.pg.doc_50%2FvddkDataStruct.5.5.html