Does the backup complete if you don't restart the VM? I'm assuming you saw nothing of interest in the logs of the VM, either.
* * *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… * On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Carl Houseman <[email protected]> wrote: > I've got Hyper-V 2008 R2 fully security-patched running at home. I've > done few if any non-security patches on this server, certainly none > recently.**** > > **** > > It's running two VMs, both Windows 2003, a DC and an Exchange (2003) > server. Every day @ 11 pm the Hyper-V server kicks off a Windows backup > (wbadmin) of the system state, system partition, and partition with the > VHDs. This happens while the VMs are running of course. The backup > destination is an external USB drive that's generally spun down when idle. > These backups have been working fine for about a year. The Hyper-V > hardware itself was replaced about a month ago, the VHD's copied over to > the new instance and new VM's created using them, and the backups have been > working fine for a couple weeks, until this past week.**** > > ** ** > > So, on two occasions (not every occasion) in the past week, about the time > the backup starts, the VM for the DC simply stops, and shows the state as > "saved". I can start it up again and everything continues like nothing > happened – the backup completes successfully. Looking through the Hyper-V > server's event logs shows no errors, nor any other events different from a > backup where the VM doesn't stop.**** > > ** ** > > Now that I think about it, about a week or so ago, I installed the latest > version of the integration services into both VMs, and one of those enabled > services is volume shadow backups.**** > > ** ** > > So it appears I have two choices of 'things to try'. Either attempt to > revert to an older version of integration services, or apply all of the > non-security updates I've been avoiding.**** > > ** ** > > What would you do?**** > > ** ** > > thanks,**** > > Carl**** > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
