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How-to enable verbose logging in VDR – VMware Data Recovery

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 9, 2014

A quick post about how to enable verbose logging in VDR. Update: VDR has been replaced in vSphere 5.1 by VDP (vSphere Data Protection). The product is based on EMC’s Avamar code and present an interesting upgrade for existing customers which are upgrading from vSphere 4.x where vSphere Data Protection (VDP) was bundled. But to transition […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: VDR verbose logging, VMware Data Recovery

If you’re trying to use Windows CIFS with VDR

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 9, 2014

Error when trying to use CIFS share as a destination for backup. If you’re trying to setup Windows CIFS as a destination deduplication store for your VMware VDR (VMware Data Recovery) appliance, you might run into an error. It’s an error which you can see at the console of the VDR appliance: Status code returned […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: VDR, Vmware Backup solution, VMware Data Recovery

How to fix damaged restore points in VDR

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

VMware Data Recovery Integrity Check Fails

VDR – VMware Data Recovery, fixing damaged restore poins. VDR is a part of vSphere Essentials PLUS and above versions (except standard) and it’s a virtual appliance which helps you to protect your Virtual Machines running under VMware vSphere 4.x by using deduplication and CBT. It’s a simple backup solution with no e-mail reporting (yet), […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: destination datastore locked in VDR, Fixing damaged restore points, VDR destination datastores locked, VMware Data Recovery

Using VMware Data Recovery without vCenter?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

Using VDR without vCenter, in which situations? I wonder why would someone would want to use VMware Data Recovery (VDR) without vCenter. Yes there might be a case for that. In case you’re running vCenter as a Virtual Machine (which is good practice) and this VM is being protected by High Availability (HA). Then if […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Best practices VDR, VDR, VMware Data Recovery

VDR appliance not mounting automatically the backup destination after reboot

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

VDR not mounting automatically a deduplication store. I was having issues with not mounting automatically the backup destination after rebooting the VDR appliance since some time now. This was happening in my environment since I upgraded to the VDR 1.2. This is something that I was aware of and I usually mount the destination deduplication […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: deduplication store not mounted automatically, not mounting automatically after reboot, VMware Data Recovery

VDR – how to get a log bundle before you call the support

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

VDR – VMware Data Recovery While listening this year’s VMworld Session on VDR – VMware Data Recovery  – while on many of the information I already knew and was aware of, because I install and use VDR quite often. There was an information about how to collect the diagnostic logs, in case anything gets wrong. […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: VDR, Vmware Backup solution, VMware Data Recovery, vSphere Essentials Plus

Integrity check with details in VDR 1.2

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 30, 2011

Detailed Informations about Integrity scan. This is a quick follow up post after explaining how to initiate a manual integrity check in VMware Data Recovery – backup solution provided with vSphere Essentials Plus package. In my last article I showed you that sometimes you have to initiate the manual integrity check to correct an error […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Deduplication store for VDR, VDR 1.2, VDR backup appliance, VMware Data Recovery

How-to update VDR to 1.2

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 22, 2022

How to update VDR without loosing all restore points and configuration. With the update of VDR – VMware Data recovery the question is how to proceed to an update to the latest version without loosing the configuration settings, backup jobs and the deduplication stores. In my lab I tested the step by step solution provided […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: VDR, VMware Backup with VDR, VMware Data Recovery

Do you want to see a little magic?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 9, 2014

VDR – VMware Data Recovery – Verbose Logs where to find that? I was just reading the VDR Admin guide once more. In details and I found some information that I have overlooked the last time I was reading the pdf guide. Usually when you want to see VDR logs you go and connect to […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Backup vSphere, VDR, VMware Data Recovery, vSphere Essential Plus

VDR backup fail error

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 21, 2020

VMware Data Recovery error – Trouble writing files, error -1020 (Sharing violation) Sometimes you came out in a trouble when your VDR backup does report an error. Trouble writing files, error -1020 (Sharing violation) And when you manually trigger the backup it fails with the following error: The destination is not available for a backup […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: VDR, VDR Error, VDR error -1020, VMware Data Recovery, VMware VDR

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