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When doing image level backup for VMware virtual machines, you may see the backup fails and you notice the followings: 1. In the Avamar backup log you may see this error: avvcbimage Info <0000>: Snapshot 'Avamar-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' creation for VM ' [<Datastore_Name>] VM_Name/VM_Name.vmx' task still in progress, sleep for 3 sec. avvcbimage ...

If you see the error "An error occurred while saving the snapshot - QUIESCINGERROR" when you try to backup a VM this article will help you.

Jul 19, 2011 · The snapshot cannot be created if the "Enable VMware tools quiescence" option is enabled in the job's properties. The same operation fails when trying to take a Snapshot via vSphere client with the option "Snapshot the virtual machine's memory" unchecked and the "Quiesce guest file system (Needs VMware Tools installed)" option enabled.

19.07.2011 · This issue occurs when the I/O in the virtual machine is high and the quiescing operation is unable to flush all the data to disk, while further I/O is created. This issue also occurs if you try to create a quiesced snapshot on a virtual machine that does not have free space. That is, if the free space on the virtual machine is 0 bytes. Solution

17.08.2020 · Veeam Support Knowledge Base answer to: SureBackup job fails with error "Invalid Change Tracker Error Code"

Or eating, he eats a lot. I recently ran into a strange issue in my home lab, running ESXi 7.0.2, build 17867351 where Veeam Backup & ...

Got the same error today, basically triggered from Veeam, but related to taking snapshot of my VM, before backup. Finding I did a quick ...

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May 10, 2021 · Please search for more details of possible causes in the vmware.log file via running the following command, especially when you try to generate the snapshot: cat /vmfs/volumes/ [datastore-name]/ [vm-name]/vmware.log. You can also mix the command with the ( | grep -i "snapshot ) to search for related keywords.

Using Veeam to do the backup, and both get the same error from Veeam: An error occurred while saving the snapshot: Failed to quiesce the virtual machine.

nufael wrote: Error: An error occurred while saving the snapshot: Unable to save snapshot file. Are talking here about manual snapshot creation?

"An error occurred while saving the snapshot: Failed to quiesce the virtual machine". However, quiesced snapshots can be created ...

An error occurred while saving the snapshot: Failed to quiesce the virtual machine. Performing standard troubleshooting, I restarted the VM, ...

09.09.2014 · Veeam Community discussions and solutions for: An error occured while taking snapshot of VMware vSphere

06.12.2016 · Looks the snapshot-chain no longer matches the content of the vmsd-file. This often happens when automatic backups tools are used and backup jobs fail. Please post the vmdk-descriptorfiles that you have in that directory. Also list the *.vmsn files you have. A quick and ugly fix would be to move the vmsn-files and the vmsd-file out of the way ...

Jun 18, 2014 · Hi Vitaly, I run the job with multiple VMs. Seem like only one VM has an issue as mention earlier. And I believe there is no modification on the Virtual Disk.

19.02.2018 · Veeam backup jobs are failing for virtual machines in vsphere 6.0 The following message is displayed " An error occurred while saving the snapshot: Failed to quiesce the virtual machine " However, quiesced snapshots can be created successfully within vpshere. Disabling VSS on the virtual machine and updating vmware tools did not resolve the issue.

Aug 27, 2020 · The VMware Snapshot Provider service only runs on demand when the quiesce snapshot is requested from the backup application or the vSphere client. It will run temporarily and then will stop until the next backup run.