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April 7th, 2017 12:00

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

498 Posts

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.

7 Posts

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

7 Posts

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

498 Posts

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.

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