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File Server crashes During or After Backup

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I have a Windows 2012 file server with around 1 TB of data on it. I ran my first full backup which looked as though it finished but then the server crashed and would not boot back up because there wasn't enough space available. I found that there was a snapshot still in VMware so I removed that and then needed to do a consolidation in VMware to recover the disk space in order to boot my server up. The consolidation is still running and the process to bring up the server looks to probably take about 20 hours based on where I am at in the process.

Does anyone have any idea what is going on? I'm very upset with this product right now and also very vulnerable because I don't have another backup process to rely on.

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Hi John,

The VMware snapshots are supposed to live for the duration of the backup task and removed after the backup job is finished. In the backup log you should see the stroke that the snapshot was removed. In the end of the backup Acronis Backup for VMware sends a request to VMware to remove the snapshot so either the backup job hasn't finished properly OR the snapshot delta files have grown too large before the backup managed to finish. It makes sense to check the log file + events in VMware related to this VM (whether there were failures to remove the snapshot) in order to localize the problem and identify what was the root cause.

Thank you.
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Best regards,
Vasily
Acronis Virtualization Program Manager

We have a daily Problem with our VMware Server. (please have a look at the screenshot, i´ve take)

Is there any solution available?

Thank you.

Best regards
Volker

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Hi Volker,

According to the screen shot you are using 9.1 or 9.5 version of Acronis True Image Server (quite an old version), however the problem doesn't seem to be related to the product version. There is a failure reading from volume E:, so first of all it makes sense to verify the volume via chkdsk inside the VM and re-try the backup operation after that. Also it can be that the E: volume is larger than 2TB while 9.1 or 9.5 (don't remember exactly) versions of Acronis True Image Server had problems reading from 2TB+ volumes.

Thank you.
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Best regards,
Vasily
Acronis Virtualization Program Manager