vmprotect 8 Restore of Exchange 2010 mailbox fails
I've already opened a support case for this but this is unsolved since 20 days (!). Very bad support if you demand on a restore! Case-ID is 01952033.
When I start a restore of a mailbox the temporary VM is created in my vCenter. I can also see the temporary NFS datastore from the Acronis appliance and also access this datastore. But right after the temporary vm got started the connection to that temporary NFS store fails and it will be shown greyed out. The task persits for another hour at 18% and then fails.
I have to manually deregister the temporary vm in vCenter and also have to manually remove it's files from the datastore. Also any access to a SMB share from the Acronis Appliance VM fails afterwards. I have to restart the Appliance. When it got restarted I am able to access the temporary NFS share again (as it didn't got removed after cancelling the task). I can find stale files of the temporary exchange vm there.
It seems that the NFS daemon inside the Acronis Appliance crashes. But I cannot see anything in the normal logs of Acronis.
Thank you for a fast answer and workaround as this Problem persits for a long time
Dennis Koerner

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Hi Vasily,
thanks for the fast response. I'll try the beta and let you know.
Thank you
Dennis
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Hi Vasily,
the beta9 worked for me. Will this get fixed in a 8 release or do we have to upgrade to 9 for this essential functionality to work? I ask because I have one customer who didn't get the update subscription. So he will be stuck to a non working version 8. I don't think I can tell him: "Oh yes they sold you vmprotect8 for exchange restore but it is not working. You have to upgrade to version 9 which will cost you another $$$ and they don't care to fix their bugs for versions you already paid thousonds of $ for".
Thank you
Dennis
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Hi Dennis,
Thank you for the confirmation. In fact the issue you've got is specific to particular environment (i.e. it is not reproduced everywhere), so there are quite a lot of chances that your customer who doesn't have valid maintenance won't run into it. However if it is the case then we are still committed to provide support for 8th version and deliver the solution (which can be either 9th version or some kind of custom build for 8th version) for non-working critical functionality to particular customer. Typically such questions are resolved by support managers who take the decision, but in any case we always try to find solution which satisfies the customer in the first place (additional charge for new version is always an exception rather than a rule, but again all depends on exact circumstances).
If you are sure that your customer who doesn't have valid maintenance has the issue described in this thread, then I'd recommended to contact our support team with reference to this thread/post in order to get the final solution from Acronis support managers.
Thank you.
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Best regards,
Vasily
Acronis vmProtect Program Manager
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