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Initial Replication to External Drive Stalls at 99%

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Hello All...

I am currently testing out a replication job to a removable storage hard drive so I can take the rather large replica off site manually to copy off at the DR location so replication wont take as long initially. I ran the job and the backup created a file on the local USB drive I have plugged into my backup host server. For some reason the job has stalled at 99%. I have the replica disks set to Force thin, not sure if that is impacting the backup or not, but it seems to just sit there. Anyone see this issue using the initial replication to external drive feature?

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Re: Initial Replication to External Drive Stalls at 99%

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Hello Jonathan,
sixth wrote:I have the replica disks set to Force thin, not sure if that is impacting the backup or not, but it seems to just sit there.
This shouldn't impact the entire process, but please note that thin disks can only reside on VMFS file systems, meaning that your target VM will have thick disks.

As to the stalled job issue, our support would be able to tell what is causing it after reviewing the log files.

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Re: Initial Replication to External Drive Stalls at 99%

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Thanks....I'll open a ticket and get the logs to them..

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Re: Initial Replication to External Drive Stalls at 99%

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What was the final outcome?

I seem to have a job stalled at 99% as well, with 5.0.1.198 (64-bit).
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Re: Initial Replication to External Drive Stalls at 99%

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Denis, unfortunately, I cannot update you on the resolution as Jonathan hasn't posted his support case number, so I think you should call our technical team for assistance.
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