[DRBD-user] Backing up VMware VM's running DRBD with VMware Data Recovery (VDR)

[Andreas Kurz]

Hello,

On 02/17/2012 10:28 AM, Mark Watts wrote:
> 
> I have a pair of CentOS 5.7 VM's running an LVM/DRBD/EXT3 Pri/Sec cluster.
> 
> Since we use VDR to take snapshots of our VM's I naturally added these
> two VM's to the backup rota.

So you installed latest VMware tools to the VMs and you are sure they
are running?

> 
> Pretty much every night I get hundreds of errors in the VDR logs
> relating to the Primary, giving the message:
> 
> "Failed to create snapshot for VDR01, error -3960 ( cannot quiesce
> virtual machine)"

Any logs from vmware-tools in the VM?

Regards,
Andreas

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> 
> 
> I'm taking a wild guess at this perhaps being related to DRBD; can
> anyone suggest whether this is the issue.
> 
> 
> Mark.
> 
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