Backup a Windows server VM

cazz

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Hi
Not sure why but when I did try to backup a VM that running Windows Server I did get big problem.
At first the disk is only 60 GB but after a 6 hour it stop running backup and did say my 1 TB space is full.
I did look inside the datastore and it was full but did not show any VM inside??

What I have to do to fix that was I have to remove the datastore (that did take sometime) and clear the harddrive from shell.
After that I have to reboot the PBS and then add a new datastore with another name.

Now I have backup some Linux VM and was no problem but wonder if I going to try again with the Windows Server VM

Maybe is more save to shutdown the VM before running backup?
 
Hi and thanks for the replay
I think I did find the problem
I did forgot to uncheck backup for the extra harddrive that I have add to the Windows Server VM
So it did try to backup alot more then 60 GB :)
 

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