Backup Errors

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A backup task that was working fine failed last night. There are about 9 VMs in it. I ran it manually and the same errors were produced for every VM (I have obfuscated the VM name with "X" for privacy reasons):

Any ideas?

Failed to open raw hard disk data file '[Datastore1] XXXXXX/XXXXXX-000002.vmdk'.
Additional info:
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Error code: 94
Module: 83
LineInfo: 1b5da992938b2ae1
Fields:
Message: Failed to open raw hard disk data file '[Datastore1] XXXXXX/XXXXXXX-000002.vmdk'.
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Error code: 207
Module: 83
LineInfo: c7610e0a857bedf4
Fields:
Message: VMware error: 'Operation failed since another task is in progress.'.
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Error code: 166
Module: 0
LineInfo: c7610e0a857bedf4
Fields:
Message: Awaiting task 'AttachScsiHardDisk' has failed. Reason: Another task is already in progress..

Tue, 11/27/2012 - 15:24
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To answer myself, this appears to be a "bug" in VMWare related to snapshots, or something not being cleared properly.

To fix it, I logged onto the ESXi host via SSH (I used putty) and ran /sbin/services.sh restart

And now the backup appears to be working.

Maybe you can add this to your knowledge base?

Tue, 11/27/2012 - 20:02