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Upgrading vRanger

johnfli
over 6 years ago

I am new to vRanger, just had it dumped in my lap actually.

Anyway, we have vRanger 7.1 and I see vRanger 7.6 is available.

Can I just download the upgrade and install it on-top of 7.1?

We currently have vSphere 5.5

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  • 0 over 6 years ago
    Hmmmm, wish I would have noticed your question earlier. ;)
    I went ahead and upgraded straight to 7.6.4.0
    Upgrade went just fine, only issue I had was not being able to connect to 'services', but a quick search on here showed that I just needed to download a file from MS. Appeared to go great. When I open vRanger, all my jobs are there, the history is there everything.
    BUT (notice the big but?)
    all the jobs fail now. the logs are not helpfull at all.
    Here are the answers to your previous questions:
    1. vRanger is on a physical machine
    2. repositories are all windows cifs shares
    3. vRanger database is on another machine
    4. vRanger is only doing backups, no replication
    5. no virtual appliances
    6. 12 hosts, over 200 vm's
    7. 14 jobs, each job covering several vm's
    8. we are planing on upgrading vSphere.

    Below is the end part of the log file:
    [2018-03-16 04:15:55.620]: Beginning backup task for BackupGroup-TestDev-DIFF-G1VTFMS01
    [2018-03-16 04:15:55.620]: Starting task validation.
    [2018-03-16 04:15:55.620]: Connection to g1ppvcs01.firemountain.local was properly validated.
    [2018-03-16 04:15:55.620]: g1ppesx11.firemountain.local is properly licensed.
    [2018-03-16 04:15:55.620]: Test connection to repository TESTDEV-Diff-g1ppbtgt01 starting...
    [2018-03-16 04:15:56.025]: Test connection to repository TESTDEV-Diff-g1ppbtgt01 successful!
    [2018-03-16 04:15:56.025]: Ending task validation... success!
    [2018-03-16 04:15:56.025]: Beginning initialization of backup information.
    [2018-03-16 04:15:56.914]: Retrieving the tasks parent information.
    [2018-03-16 04:15:56.946]: Retrieving save points for any full backups associated with this job.
    [2018-03-16 04:15:57.320]: Verifying content of repository.
    [2018-03-16 04:16:01.126]: Finished initialization of backup information successfully.
    [2018-03-16 04:16:01.126]: Initialization was sucessful. Backup type to run: Differential
    [2018-03-16 04:16:02.187]: A block size change was detected in the vRanger configuration file. The previous blocksize will be used until the retention policy triggers the next Full backup.
    [2018-03-16 04:16:03.857]: Retrieving the VM BIOS configuration completed.
    [2018-03-16 04:16:05.151]: Setting VM event completed.
    [2018-03-16 04:16:07.398]: Error:
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  • 0 over 6 years ago
    Hmmmm, wish I would have noticed your question earlier. ;)
    I went ahead and upgraded straight to 7.6.4.0
    Upgrade went just fine, only issue I had was not being able to connect to 'services', but a quick search on here showed that I just needed to download a file from MS. Appeared to go great. When I open vRanger, all my jobs are there, the history is there everything.
    BUT (notice the big but?)
    all the jobs fail now. the logs are not helpfull at all.
    Here are the answers to your previous questions:
    1. vRanger is on a physical machine
    2. repositories are all windows cifs shares
    3. vRanger database is on another machine
    4. vRanger is only doing backups, no replication
    5. no virtual appliances
    6. 12 hosts, over 200 vm's
    7. 14 jobs, each job covering several vm's
    8. we are planing on upgrading vSphere.

    Below is the end part of the log file:
    [2018-03-16 04:15:55.620]: Beginning backup task for BackupGroup-TestDev-DIFF-G1VTFMS01
    [2018-03-16 04:15:55.620]: Starting task validation.
    [2018-03-16 04:15:55.620]: Connection to g1ppvcs01.firemountain.local was properly validated.
    [2018-03-16 04:15:55.620]: g1ppesx11.firemountain.local is properly licensed.
    [2018-03-16 04:15:55.620]: Test connection to repository TESTDEV-Diff-g1ppbtgt01 starting...
    [2018-03-16 04:15:56.025]: Test connection to repository TESTDEV-Diff-g1ppbtgt01 successful!
    [2018-03-16 04:15:56.025]: Ending task validation... success!
    [2018-03-16 04:15:56.025]: Beginning initialization of backup information.
    [2018-03-16 04:15:56.914]: Retrieving the tasks parent information.
    [2018-03-16 04:15:56.946]: Retrieving save points for any full backups associated with this job.
    [2018-03-16 04:15:57.320]: Verifying content of repository.
    [2018-03-16 04:16:01.126]: Finished initialization of backup information successfully.
    [2018-03-16 04:16:01.126]: Initialization was sucessful. Backup type to run: Differential
    [2018-03-16 04:16:02.187]: A block size change was detected in the vRanger configuration file. The previous blocksize will be used until the retention policy triggers the next Full backup.
    [2018-03-16 04:16:03.857]: Retrieving the VM BIOS configuration completed.
    [2018-03-16 04:16:05.151]: Setting VM event completed.
    [2018-03-16 04:16:07.398]: Error:
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