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Hi Danny,

We currently don't have any setting to disable quiescing of VMs in backup options, so the only way would be to disable it on VM side:

  • you can either uninstall VMware Tools / Hyper-V Integration Services (or their respective VSS function) from the VM so that quiesce-commands are not passed through from the hypervisor
  • or you can disable respective VSS service inside the VM

If you could describe your usage scenario we could better understand the necessity of this feature.

Thank you,

Dmitry,

We have more than 100 vm's and on some of them we have problems backing them up.
We get the message in the log that it could not quiesce the vm.
However that is not that big of an issue wether quiesce is active or not because during backup no one is on that server and working in documetns (Fileserver).

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Hi Danny,

Thank you for clarifying your scenario.

It does make sence to disable quiesce as a temporary workaround for numerous problems. But it is still not the best solution since quiesce function works not that much for protecting locked files (we don't do file-based backup of VMs anyway and they cannot be skipped) but to consistently backup file system and applications of the VM. In case you turn off quiesce function, backup is performed in crash-consistent state and may result in some transactional data loss.

As you said, on a fileserver that may not be a big issue, so it's up to you whether to localize the VSS problem (which is the most common root cause for quiescing failure apart from intergration tools problems) or completely disable it.

Best regards,