Disappearing VM's after restore
Found another bug with B&R10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition 11345...
I've been using (or should I say continuously testing) this product and decided after weeks of backups, consolidation, etc to try a restore of one of my smaller servers. I've got to say, the restore was fast and flawless, but as a customer, expected that much. So kudos Acronis.
What I was not expecting, was every VM that was in a group to disappear. That's right, gone. I just happen to notice when I checked the tasks and saw them missing. Shocked, I went to the groups I created, looked in the group, no servers listed. Now the fix was easy, kind of, I just put the servers back in the groups, the tasks recreated and all seems to be well. I'll know for sure after the backups run tonight. In the meantime, I have errors in my log that I don't know how to fix or get rid of.
Help.
(So Acronis, you have a major bug to go along with the other bug I pointed out in another post, but hasn't been responded to adequately...see: http://forum.acronis.com/forum/8041 for more info.)
I have attached the xml log (contained in the zip file) for you to look at in hopes you can fix this in the next update. In the log file, the task "test" is the restore of the "SMGWEB" server. After that, the bug. Coincidence? Nope. The restore trigger something.
Looking forward to your response.
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Hello Jeff Yates,
Thank you very much for posting and I will definitely assist you with this.
I would like to thank you for bringing up this issue. I contacted our development team about this problem, and they requested additional diagnostic information, so that we can try and reproduce this issue in our testing lab.
As soon as we reproduce this problem, we will start working on implementing a fix for it in our software.
Would you be kind enough to collect the following logs and submit a support request. I will make sure that the support case gets to the correct person.
1. AcronisInfo report from the Acronis management console machine.
2. ESX Virtual Appliance logs.
Please provide me with a case number either here or via a PM and let me know if you have additional questions.
I will also address your other thread right away.
Thank you.
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1) I can't "submit a support request" because I don't have that option when I log in, that's why I always submit PM's to Oleg and Yana. See the attached pic "support.jpg".
2) attached is the AcronisInfo report from the AMS server.
3) I can't get the ESX Virtual appliance logs because it's Linux, your ESX agent, which in my update above, I mention I had to delete it and recreate it anyway.
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Jeff,
Thank you for replying.
If you do not mind, I will send you a PM, because I need to clarify something about the inability for submitting a support request, it involves some personal information.
I would like to apologize for the typo in my previous post, I have now corrected the hyperlink for the ESX Virtual Appliance logs. We have a specific way for getting these logs, it is described in detail in this article:
- Collecting Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for ESX/ESXi Virtual Appliance Logs
Since you deleted the virtual appliance, the new one will not contain any useful information. Do you think you could get those logs if you run into the same issue again, I would really appreciate it.
If we do not resolve the support request issue, I will create a case for you and contact you through it.
Please let me know if you have additional questions.
Thank you.
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When will I know if you are able to duplicate?
Thanks,
jeff
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Hello Jeff Yates,
Thank you for responding.
To answer your question, let me please briefly describe our support case management procedure.
Once I receive all the necessary logs, I will then escalate this case to our Expert team. From then on, they will start working with our Quality Assurance team to get this issue reproduced. Once it has been reproduced successfully, the expert engineer in charge of your support case will notify you of the results and ETA of a fix or a patch.
If you are willing to work with us on this, once you get the same result mentioned above, the ESX Agent logs will greatly help us in resolving this issue. I have also sent you a PM to try and resolve your web-account issue, that you cannot submit support requests from your Acronis web-account.
Please let me know if you have any other questions.
Thank you.
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