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VMware image restore fails with a 'Job manager lost message channel unexpectedly' error.
Description
NetVault Backup environment information...
NetVault Backup: 9.2 CentOS 5 Plugin: VMware 2.6.5 installed on the NetVault Server. ESX Server: 4.0 Backup Device: Dell TL4000 attached via SCSI to the NetVault Server.
The folloiwng messages and errors were within the NetVault logs:
1] Information 2015/01/15 18:23:10 1958 Schedule netvault_server Starting phase 1 on netvault_server 2] Job Message 2015/01/15 18:23:12 1958 Data Plugin netvault_server Plug-in for VMware 2.6.5 restore 3] Information 2015/01/15 18:23:12 1958 Data Plugin netvault_server Address of the target server for this restore job is 172.16.10.15 4] Information 2015/01/15 18:23:12 1958 Data Plugin netvault_server Version of plugin which created the backup saveset determined
With sub text: Version is 2.1
5] Job Message 2015/01/15 18:23:12 1958 Data Plugin netvault_server Initiating restore for VM 'Webserver1' 6] Background 2015/01/15 18:23:12 1958 Data Plugin netvault_server Data transfer started on restore stream 7] Job Message 2015/01/15 18:24:32 1958 Media netvault_server (netvault_server: SL_00X4U78C4554_LL0 (IBM 3573-TL)) Media in 'DRIVE 2:netvault_server' assigned to job ready for data transfer 8] Job Message 2015/01/15 18:24:32 1958 Data Plugin netvault_server Retrieved server inventory details successfully
With sub text: Folder:/ha-datacenter/vm, Host:sovh4.sodc.com, Datacenter:ha-datacenter, Inside vApp:FALSE
9] Warning 2015/01/15 18:24:32 1958 Data Plugin netvault_server VM is being restored to the root resource pool of the target host 10] Information 2015/01/15 18:24:32 1958 Data Plugin netvault_server VM files will be relocated to the datastore 'datastore1' 11] Job Message 2015/01/15 18:24:34 1958 Data Plugin netvault_server Will restore nvram file for the VM, if any 12] Job Message 2015/01/15 18:24:34 1958 Data Plugin netvault_server Will restore log files for the VM, if any 13] Job Message 2015/01/15 18:24:35 1958 Data Plugin netvault_server Restoring data for VM disk '[datastore1] Webserver1/Webserver1.vmdk' 14] Error 2015/01/15 18:24:36 1958 Jobs netvault_server Job manager lost message channel unexpectedly
With sub text: Channel '0x8e5a130': process ID '3' connected to process ID '640' running on 'netvault_server' has been lost.
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