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Hi,

Every time when I start diff. backup it goes full. First time it goes full backup and then when it should go diff., again starts full. Here are the two logs :
Backup is on SAN LUN.

First ( full) :

vRanger PRO Hot Backups for VMware ESX Server
Version: 3.2.4.2 (Revision 4611)
CommandLine: "C:\Program Files\vizioncore\esxRanger Professional\esxRangerProCli.exe" 192.168.2.58 "/vmfs/volumes/storage1 (1)/ROXE/ROXE.vmx" -copylocal "F:\VRangerBCK" "-drives:all" -vmnotes -noquiesce -zipname "[config]_[year][month][day][hour][minute][second]" -autodiff -diffratio 50 -maxfullage 14 -retendays 31 -vmkey vm-148 -temp /vmfs/volumes/SAN2T/VrangerBackup

27.11.2008 10:06:58: Executing Archive Retention Policy.
27.11.2008 10:06:58: Acquiring VM Lock. This may take many minutes!
27.11.2008 10:07:02: VM Lock Acquired.
27.11.2008 10:07:06: Backing up the VM 'ROXE'.
27.11.2008 10:07:06: Beginning Testing Phase.
27.11.2008 10:07:06: Testing Destination Path.
27.11.2008 10:07:17: Snapshotting VM.
27.11.2008 10:07:24: Starting Server Component.
27.11.2008 10:07:26: Performing Backup.

27.11.2008 10:28:32: Backup Completed w/o Errors.
27.11.2008 10:28:32: Removing Backup Snapshot.
27.11.2008 10:28:58: Setting Final Backup Data.
27.11.2008 10:28:59: Total Input Size: 71904,0 MB
27.11.2008 10:28:59: Archive Size: 4955,68 MB
27.11.2008 10:28:59: Compression Ratio: 93,11%
27.11.2008 10:28:59: Archive Transfer Time: 00:21:06.0005796
27.11.2008 10:28:59: Total Run Time: 00:21:52.4855496
27.11.2008 10:28:59: Backup Result: Success
27.11.2008 10:28:59: Writing Backup Information.
27.11.2008 10:29:01: Writing VM Note.
27.11.2008 10:29:02: Mailing Log Information.
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Second ( diff ):
vRanger PRO Hot Backups for VMware ESX Server
Version: 3.2.4.2 (Revision 4611)
CommandLine: "C:\Program Files\vizioncore\esxRanger Professional\esxRangerProCli.exe" 192.168.2.58 "/vmfs/volumes/storage1 (1)/ROXE/ROXE.vmx" -copylocal "F:\VRangerBCK" "-drives:all" -vmnotes -noquiesce -zipname "[config]_[year][month][day][hour][minute][second]" -autodiff -diffratio 50 -maxfullage 14 -retendays 31 -vmkey vm-148 -temp /vmfs/volumes/SAN2T/VrangerBackup

27.11.2008 10:31:47: When the parent backup was performed, snapshots may have been present and so keys were not saved.
27.11.2008 10:31:47: Parent backup keys can not be read. Doing a full backup.
27.11.2008 10:31:47: Executing Archive Retention Policy.
27.11.2008 10:31:47: Acquiring VM Lock. This may take many minutes!
27.11.2008 10:31:51: VM Lock Acquired.
27.11.2008 10:31:55: Backing up the VM 'ROXE'.
27.11.2008 10:31:55: Beginning Testing Phase.
27.11.2008 10:31:55: Testing Destination Path.
27.11.2008 10:32:07: Snapshotting VM.
27.11.2008 10:32:13: Starting Server Component.
27.11.2008 10:32:15: Performing Backup.

27.11.2008 10:54:09: Backup Completed w/o Errors.
27.11.2008 10:54:09: Removing Backup Snapshot.
27.11.2008 10:54:25: Setting Final Backup Data.
27.11.2008 10:54:26: Total Input Size: 71920,0 MB
27.11.2008 10:54:26: Archive Size: 4955,88 MB
27.11.2008 10:54:26: Compression Ratio: 93,11%
27.11.2008 10:54:26: Archive Transfer Time: 00:21:53.8449420
27.11.2008 10:54:26: Total Run Time: 00:22:30.0797808
27.11.2008 10:54:26: Backup Result: Success
27.11.2008 10:54:26: Writing Backup Information.
27.11.2008 10:54:27: Writing VM Note.
27.11.2008 10:54:29: Mailing Log Information.
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Thanks in advance,

Regards ,
eLeL

Do you have an open snap shot on the VM? You should also try and update to the latest version of vRanger. If you still have issues try and rename your vRanger MDB.

Thx Jmattox,

I think the problem is because of open snapshot. Can you please explain me that a little bit more?
I tried to backup different VM where there is no snapshot at all, and it worked. So what's the catch ?


Regards,
eLeL
 

To perform diff backups we need files that are static in nature, we are doing checksums on blocks of a file x size in bytes. The base VMDK will be this way, but your open snap shot will not and its checksum will change because of the nature of snap shots are growing files. Thus diff backups of VM's with open snap shots are not supported.

Thx for assistance.

Over and out.

eLeL