Ja, ich suche eine Lösung
Backup Exec 2012 German with SP4 running on Windows Server 2008 backing up several Windows and Linux VMs from a VMware ESXi 5.0 host in a D2D2T scheme with daily incremental and weekly full backups. RAWS is installed on the Windows VMs. Consequently, the Windows VMs appear as servers on the Backup and Restore pane of the Backup Exec console. However these entries behave a bit strangely.
- The Status column displays "Backed up", "Backup failed" or "Never backed up" without discernible logic. In fact, one of the VMs triggers daily errors on the "duplicate to tape" stage (Symantec support case open, no solution in sight) so the status of the ESXi host itself is always "failed", but the failing VM itself is displayed as "Backed up", while two other VMs whose backups went actually fine show "Backup failed", and another one "Never backed up".
- The Last 7 Days column displays patterns of white, red, yellow and green which again match neither the one of the VMware host nor the reality of that particular VM.
- The Backup Exec Version column displays the current version for all of the VMs except one, where the column is just blank. The VM where the column is blank is otherwise inconspicuous, not one of those displaying "failed" or causing errors.
- On all the VMs, if I try to examine their backup status more closely (eg. to find out why they display as "failed") I hit a wall. On the detail page of every server that is a VM, the "jobs", "job progress" and "active messages" panes are blank; the "backup sets" pane shows backup sources (volumes) and backup sets below them but if I try to expand one of the sets the expand icon (black triangle) just vanishes.
Is that how it works for everybody or is there something wrong with my installation?
Thanks,
Tilman