After upgrade of vRanger that resides on a physical server LAN Free backups begin to fail with
vRanger backups fail with error: Error Message: 2654 - can't read vix:r:...[datastore name] vmname/vmname.vmdk:moref=vm-###:snapshot-#### [at io_size:125]
and failover to network (Service Console) mode and succeed.
To resolve open the vRanger Application:
- go to My Inventory view
- locate the vm and select it
- remove the current backup job
- click on the update inventory button located at the top of the My Inventory view
- locate the vm and right click
- select "Bacck up" to create a new backup job
