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Disable CBT for Copy Jobs

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Is it not possible to Disable CBT for a job copy, like you can for B&R jobs?

Annoyingly get warnings, when I'm fully aware CBT wont work (while copying an existing replica to disks that get taken periodically offsite).

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Re: Disable CBT for Copy Jobs

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Matthew, VM Copy jobs do not use CBT at all, so no warning should be displayed. What kind of warnings do you get?
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Re: Disable CBT for Copy Jobs

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Just to clarify, its a "VM Copy" job.

Each VM gets a "Changed Block Tracking cannot be enabled: one or more snapshots present."
In addition the VM is off, so this would not work anyway (its an powered-off replica).
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Re: Disable CBT for Copy Jobs

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http://forums.veeam.com/viewtopic.php?f ... 3&start=45

v.Eremin suggested a solution of using the power shell to set the setting... will see how the job goes on sunday.
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Re: Disable CBT for Copy Jobs

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I've just talked to QC, actually CBT is used in VM Copy jobs to avoid copying of zero blocks. Since you are copying replica (which has snapshots), it cannot be enabled and you get the warning. And since there is no CBT setting in the VM copy job properties, you cannot avoid getting this warning. Probably, the suggested script will help.
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Re: Disable CBT for Copy Jobs

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OK, so unfortunately the script did not disable the warnings for all the VMs:

But oddly, on two of the replicas, which are replicas of Veeam Proxies, I dont get the error anymore.
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Re: Disable CBT for Copy Jobs

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CBT is disabled automatically on Veeam backup proxy VMs (due to the known hot add issue around CBT initialization).
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[MERGED] vm copy warning

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I'm using vm copy for my offsite dr - copying a separate set of replicas (other than normal daily series of replication) with 1 restore point and no cbt. Most (but not all) the replicas give a warning about changed block tracking because there's a snapshot present. I'm not seeing the option in vm copy to disable cbt - what am I missing? Oh, running 6.5
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Re: Disable CBT for Copy Jobs

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so I just need to ignore the warnings?!
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Re: Disable CBT for Copy Jobs

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Either ignore them or use the script suggested above to disable CBT on your jobs.
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Re: Disable CBT for Copy Jobs

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is this setting still not fixable via the GUI in v7?
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Re: Disable CBT for Copy Jobs

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Yes, there's no CBT setting available in the VM Copy job wizard in v7.
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Re: Disable CBT for Copy Jobs

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I use VM Copy to copy VMware Horizon base images. It activates CBT on both sides. This is very bad, because Horizon does not like CBT - Composer cloning operations will error all over the place. So, after making the copy, we have to manually disable CBT on both sides, and re-clone the images. Kind of a pain. It'd be nice if Veeam would recognize that the source of a VM Copy doesn't have CBT enable to start with, then disable it automatically after the copy is done. We're on the latest update of v8.
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Re: Disable CBT for Copy Jobs

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Chuck, ability to disable CBT for VM Copy jobs sounds reasonable, thanks for the feedback.
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Re: Disable CBT for Copy Jobs

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A simple workaround for now might be usage of PowerCLI scirpt that would disable CBT in automatic fashion. Thanks.
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