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Issue with Backups ESX 5

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Hi,

My employer owns vmProtect 6 but the guy who registered it is on holidays and I was tasked with setting it up but I don't know the logins for the support site so I hope you all can help.

I am trying to backup our ESX 5 server which has 4 VMs running on it. I've been able to do it in the past but today I changed the task to a different sftp server and now I am unable to backup. I have ruled out the sftp change as I have moved it back to the org. sftp and the same results.

I was watching vSphere client during the backup, it does the snapshots of each vm and then deletes the snapshots right away and the backup fails. I found another post where someone said to do full snapshots and then delete them but this has not worked.

I'm looking in the log files in vsphere and I don't see any errors but I am not sure what I am looking for.

The only thing I cannot do is a complete reboot of the ESX box as it's in production already.

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Do you get any error messages when the task fails?

As you've changed a server, have you tried creating a new task to run the image operation?

I've tried recreating the task about 15 times. Also with the archive errors below the sftp server does work with the logins which I provide to vmprotect but I think it's part of a bigger issue that those errors are being displayed.

Error1:
Task 'Backup 01/04/2012 16:35:01' failed: 'Failed to create the backup.
Additional info:
--------------------
Error code: 3
Module: 435
LineInfo: 555b5abba0950053
Fields:
Message: Failed to create the backup.
--------------------
Error code: 32786
Module: 114
LineInfo: 28314c961de7d2fd
Fields:
Message: Failed to prepare for backing up.
--------------------
Error code: 353
Module: 149
LineInfo: a71592046cb2c5c6
Fields:
Message: Failed to back up the group.
--------------------
Error code: 2
Module: 218
LineInfo: 600f7166ce397de5
Fields:
Message: Error occurred while running the backup and recovery engine.
--------------------
Error code: 3
Module: 64
LineInfo: 3f26773fab7bd966
Fields: path : avfs:/sftp?sftp://10.176.32.9/mnt/serverbackups/PBVM01/
Message: Failed to open the archive for writing.
--------------------
Error code: 14
Module: 4
LineInfo: d18a9c757ef1333e
Fields:
Message: The operation is not supported.
--------------------'.

Error2:

Failed to open the archive for writing.
Additional info:
--------------------
Error code: 3
Module: 64
LineInfo: 3f26773fab7bd966
Fields: path : avfs:/sftp?sftp://10.176.32.9/mnt/serverbackups/PBVM01/
Message: Failed to open the archive for writing.
--------------------
Error code: 14
Module: 4
LineInfo: d18a9c757ef1333e
Fields:
Message: The operation is not supported.

Error 3:

Failed to open the archive for writing.
Additional info:
--------------------
Error code: 3
Module: 64
LineInfo: 3f26773fab7bd966
Fields: path : avfs:/sftp?sftp://10.176.32.9/mnt/serverbackups/PBVM01/
Message: Failed to open the archive for writing.
--------------------
Error code: 14
Module: 4
LineInfo: d18a9c757ef1333e
Fields:
Message: The operation is not supported.

Error 4:

Failed to run the task with ID '218B4EEA-5B1F-4D81-A635-229E2A2A3F17' (internal run).
Additional info:
--------------------
Error code: 41
Module: 144
LineInfo: 5ee2c4bb8ba04c1a
Fields:
Message: Failed to run the task with ID '218B4EEA-5B1F-4D81-A635-229E2A2A3F17' (internal run).
--------------------
Error code: 3
Module: 435
LineInfo: 5ee2c4bb8ba048d5
Fields: IsReturnCode : 1
Message: Failed to create the backup.
--------------------
Error code: 32786
Module: 114
LineInfo: 28314c961de7d2fd
Fields:
Message: Failed to prepare for backing up.
--------------------
Error code: 353
Module: 149
LineInfo: a71592046cb2c5c6
Fields:
Message: Failed to back up the group.
--------------------
Error code: 2
Module: 218
LineInfo: 600f7166ce397de5
Fields:
Message: Error occurred while running the backup and recovery engine.
--------------------
Error code: 3
Module: 64
LineInfo: 3f26773fab7bd966
Fields: path : avfs:/sftp?sftp://10.176.32.9/mnt/serverbackups/PBVM01/
Message: Failed to open the archive for writing.
--------------------
Error code: 14
Module: 4
LineInfo: d18a9c757ef1333e
Fields:
Message: The operation is not supported.
--------------------

Ok so that is solved. sftp was the issue but no idea why. Switched it to normal ftp and it works.

It could be the firewall or the sftp service was just not started. Which was my case though.