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Can Avamar restore to a Simple Dynamic Disk?
All,
I am new to Avamar.
Can Avamar restore to a Simple Dynamic Disk?
I am trying to troubleshoot why our Avamar will not restore a VM image to an existing VM.
Each time I attempt a restore, I receive the error code 10056.
Error Code 10056 states:
avvcbimage FATAL <0000>: [IMG0019] The pre-existing snapshots from VMX… will not permit a restore.
avvcbimage Error <0000>: [IMG0009] createSnapshot: snapshot creation failed
Searching the Internet, DellEMC says:
The following virtual disk configurations are not supported:
· Unformatted disks
· Dynamic disks (Windows) / Multi-Drive Partitions (that is, any partition that
consists of 2 or more virtual disks)
· GUID Partition Table (GPT) disks
· FAT16 file systems
· FAT32 file systems
· Deduplicated NTFS
· Resilient File System (ReFS)
· EFI bootloader
· Extended partitions (Types: 05h, 0Fh, 85h, C5h, D5h)
· Encrypted partitions
· Compressed partitions
From <https://community.emc.com/thread/201404?start=0&tstart=0>
Microsoft says:
A simple volume is a dynamic volume made up of disk space from a single dynamic disk
From <https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc758035(v=ws.10).aspx>
The disk on VM targeted to be restored:
Disk 0 |
Disk 1 |
|
Size |
40GB |
4GB |
Layout |
Simple |
Simple |
File System |
NTFS |
NTFS |
Compression |
None |
None |
Encrypted |
No |
No |
So, are my restores failing because my disk drives on the targeted VM are set to Simple?
Thank you,
tjreeddoc
J_H_
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April 10th, 2017 07:00
I get this some time. it could be that there are too many snapshots of the vm?
ask the VM admin if a consolidation could be done.
this gets rid of the extra snapshots (not sure what goes on behind the screen as I do not work with the vms)
This is just my first thought on the issue.
I admit I get this error a lot in DOING backups, never saw the error doing restores.
tjreeddoc
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April 10th, 2017 14:00
J.H.,
Thank you for the tip!
Once I removed ALL of the Snapshots for the VM, it restored.
So, yes. If a drive is set to Simple, Avamar will restore it IF the snapshots have been deleted for the VM.
tjreeddoc
tjreeddoc
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April 11th, 2017 10:00
All,
I took J.H.'s advice and deleted all Snapshots. I was able to restore the VM.
Does anyone know why deleting the snapshots allowed me to restore the VM?
Regards,
tjreeddoc
J_H_
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April 11th, 2017 12:00
from what my vm guys have told me; you are only allowed so many snapshots of a server.
if some where done by hand or one was not finished correctly and left behind, you get too many of them. and no more can be completed.
so that is what I have in my head. not sure if that is always the case, but it is what I have been told.