Status 156 snapshot error encountered

Hello Friends, i am facing an issue in VMWare VSphere Backup issue with the error code snampshot error encountered - 156.   Master Server :- 7.6.1.1 / Windows 2008 Enterprise 64 bit Media Server:- 7.6.1.1/Red Hat Linux VMWare : - VMWare VSphere 6.0 Job Details: -  5/25/2016 1:31:05 PM - Info nbjm(pi...

1. Master Server — Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise Sp1

2. Sp1

3. NTFS Only

4) ok

5) ok

6- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.4 Beta (Santiago)

Linux pbad-fsmedia 2.6.32-343.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Nov 19 16:46:10 EST 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

7-  [root@domainName-fsmedia admincmd]# ./bppllist VMWare-vCenter -U
————————————————————

Policy Name:       VMWare-vCenter

  Policy Type:         VMware
  Active:              yes
  Effective date:      07/23/2012 15:58:53
  File Restore Raw:    yes
  Application Consistent:    yes
  Block Incremental:   yes
  Mult. Data Streams:  no
  Client Encrypt:      no
  Checkpoint:          no
  Policy Priority:     0
  Max Jobs/Policy:     Unlimited
  Disaster Recovery:   0
  Collect BMR info:    no
  Residence:           DomainName_fsmedia_Dedup_STU
  Volume Pool:         NetBackup
  Server Group:        *ANY*
  Keyword:             (none specified)
  Data Classification:       —
  Residence is Storage Lifecycle Policy:    no
  Application Discovery:      no
  Discovery Lifetime:      28800 seconds
  ASC Application and attributes: (none defined)

  Granular Restore Info:  no
  Ignore Client Direct:  no
  Enable Metadata Indexing:  no
  Index server name:  NULL
  Use Accelerator:  yes
  HW/OS/Client:  vmx-08        windows7Serve pbad-vc

  Include:  ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES

  Schedule:              Daily
    Type:                Full Backup
    Calendar sched: Enabled
     Included Dates————
        Sunday, Week 1
        Monday, Week 1
        Tuesday, Week 1
        Thursday, Week 1
        Friday, Week 1
        Saturday, Week 1
        Sunday, Week 2
        Monday, Week 2
        Tuesday, Week 2
        Thursday, Week 2
        Friday, Week 2
        Saturday, Week 2
        Sunday, Week 3
        Monday, Week 3
        Tuesday, Week 3
        Thursday, Week 3
        Friday, Week 3
        Saturday, Week 3
        Sunday, Week 4
        Monday, Week 4
        Tuesday, Week 4
        Thursday, Week 4
        Friday, Week 4
        Saturday, Week 4
        Sunday, Week 5
        Monday, Week 5
        Tuesday, Week 5
        Thursday, Week 5
        Friday, Week 5
        Saturday, Week 5
     Excluded Dates———-
        No specific exclude dates entered
        No exclude days of week entered
    PFI Recovery:        0
    Maximum MPX:         2
    Retention Level:     1 (2 weeks)
    Number Copies:       1
    Fail on Error:       0
    Residence:           (specific storage unit not required)
    Volume Pool:         (same as policy volume pool)
    Server Group:        (same as specified for policy)
    Residence is Storage Lifecycle Policy:         0
    Schedule indexing:   0
    Daily Windows:
          Sunday     18:40:00  —>  Sunday     20:30:00
          Monday     18:40:00  —>  Monday     20:30:00
          Tuesday    18:40:00  —>  Tuesday    20:30:00
          Thursday   18:40:00  —>  Thursday   20:30:00
          Friday     18:40:00  —>  Friday     20:30:00
          Saturday   18:40:00  —>  Saturday   20:30:00

  Schedule:              Weekly_Tape
    Type:                Full Backup
    Calendar sched: Enabled
     Included Dates————
        Wednesday, Week 1
        Wednesday, Week 2
        Wednesday, Week 3
        Wednesday, Week 4
        Wednesday, Week 5
     Excluded Dates———-
      EXCLUDE DATE 0 — 01/08/2014
      EXCLUDE DATE 1 — 12/30/2015
        No exclude days of week entered
    PFI Recovery:        0
    Maximum MPX:         2
    Retention Level:     0 (1 week)
    Number Copies:       1
    Fail on Error:       0
    Residence:           NetBackup_Disk_Tape
    Volume Pool:         (same as policy volume pool)
    Server Group:        (same as specified for policy)
    Residence is Storage Lifecycle Policy:         1
    Schedule indexing:   0
    Daily Windows:
          Wednesday  18:40:00  —>  Wednesday  21:40:00

  Schedule:              Yearly_Tape
    Type:                Full Backup
    Calendar sched: Enabled
     Included Dates————
      SPECIFIC DATE 0 — 12/26/2014
      SPECIFIC DATE 1 — 01/08/2015
      SPECIFIC DATE 2 — 12/30/2015
         No days of week entered
     Excluded Dates———-
        No specific exclude dates entered
        No exclude days of week entered
    PFI Recovery:        0
    Maximum MPX:         2
    Retention Level:     0 (1 week)
    Number Copies:       1
    Fail on Error:       0
    Residence:           NetBackup_Disk_Tape_yearly
    Volume Pool:         (same as policy volume pool)
    Server Group:        (same as specified for policy)
    Residence is Storage Lifecycle Policy:         1
    Schedule indexing:   0
    Daily Windows:
          Wednesday  18:30:00  —>  Wednesday  21:30:00

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  1. Status snapshot error encountered 156
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Status snapshot error encountered 156

‎07-11-2012 01:46 PM

I was running a backup to an OST device (while a restore of earlier backup on the same device is already in progress ).

And the backup fails witht the below error:

Info bpbkar32(pid=4536) done. status: 156: snapshot error encountered

However the policy used for the backup is not configured for any snapshot backups.

Can anyone let me what could have went wrong here?

Using Netbackup 7.5

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‎07-11-2012 02:16 PM

To start this investigation, we need to see the bpfis log, at VERBOSE=5 (and GENERAL=2 if Windows), from the client.

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‎07-11-2012 02:43 PM

What type of backup is it and what is the client OS and NBU version?

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‎07-11-2012 03:13 PM

Backup Type: Full backup (Normal)

Client: Windows 2008 R2

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‎07-11-2012 05:58 PM

Here is the log output, could you please let me know what could have went wrong

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Status snapshot error encountered 156

‎09-25-2014 02:06 AM

I have a VMware policy configured using annotation query to select clients.

Yesterday one of the clients failed with a status code of 156.

Last night the same client completed successfully.

I noticed in the detailed status, I have error’s relating to resource.

23/09/2014 18:00:52 — Info nbrb(pid=2888) Limit has been reached for the logical resource pd-dc2-nbumst.VMware.snapshot.vCenter.pd-dc2-vcenter.pdports.co.uk

What do I need to check/change to stop this from re-occuring?

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‎09-25-2014 09:00 AM

23/09/2014 18:56:55 — Critical bpbrm(pid=106712) from client PD-DC2-CITRIX2: FTL — VMware error received: An error occurred while saving the snapshot: Failed to quiesce the virtual machine.

This error looks to be the cause. Look at bpfis log with vmcloglevel = 6 for further logs. (see VMware for NetBackup Administration Guide for more information on vmcloglevel)

This error can occur when The I/O in the virtual machine is very high and the quiesce operation is unable to flush all the data to disk as more and more I/O is being created. There can be different solutions to this including pausing active applications with high I/O or restart the vmware tools service in the guest. I have even seen reinstalling/upgrading to latest version of vmware tools to fix.

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‎09-25-2014 02:24 AM

The above is Info message. Not an error.

Please post all text in Details tab of the failed job.

Logs needed on the Backup Host:

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‎09-25-2014 07:44 AM

Please see details tab text below as requested.

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Status snapshot error encountered 156

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‎10-30-2012 02:22 PM

Need help in fixing the issue, Error — (156) snapshot error encountered.

Error occurred while performing backup of a VM machine.

This error occurred at 0:02:15 after the backup is triggered. Pasted the detailed status below, The NBU Media and master server are different, we have Windows 2003 R2 as the media server OS and its x86 bit OS and Master Server is IBM AIX 5.3.

This is reoccurring issue, the backup is failing often. There are no environmental changes carried out recently on both the NBU and client end.

The Data Store where this VM resides is on a XIV storage box and the ESX version is 4.

Let me know how to permanently fix this snapshot error issue or need a workaround if the final solution indicates to up gradation.

Let me know what more details required to fix this EC.

Detailed Job Status:

10/31/2012 00:49:38 — requesting resource xx-xxxx-xxx04-b-hcart3-robot-tld-0

10/31/2012 00:49:38 — requesting resource XX-XXXX-XXXX01.NBU_CLIENT.MAXJOBS.

10/31/2012 00:49:38 — requesting resource XX-XXXX-XXXX01.NBU_POLICY.MAXJOBS.VMWARE3-VCB

10/31/2012 00:49:38 — Info nbrb (pid=2162758) Limit has been reached for the logical resource XX-XXXX-XXXX01.NBU_POLICY.MAXJOBS.VMWARE3-VCB_VCB

10/31/2012 00:50:04 — begin Create Snapshot

10/31/2012 00:50:04 — snapshot backup of client using method VMware

10/31/2012 00:49:59 — Waiting for scan drive stop IBM.ULT3580-TD3.018, Media server: xx-xxxx-xxx04-b

10/31/2012 00:50:00 — granted resource XX-XXXX-XXXX01.NBU_CLIENT.MAXJOBS.

10/31/2012 00:50:00 — granted resource XX-XXXX-XXXX01.NBU_POLICY.MAXJOBS.VMWARE3-VCB

10/31/2012 00:50:00 — granted resource 800921

10/31/2012 00:50:00 — granted resource IBM.ULT3580-TD3.018

10/31/2012 00:50:00 — granted resource xx-xxxx-xxx04-b-hcart3-robot-tld-0

10/31/2012 00:50:01 — estimated 1132190 kbytes needed

10/31/2012 00:50:01 — begin Parent Job

10/31/2012 00:50:01 — begin Flash Backup Windows: Start Notify Script

10/31/2012 00:50:02 — started process RUNCMD (pid=1163408)

Operation Status: 0

10/31/2012 00:50:02 — end Flash Backup Windows: Start Notify Script; elapsed time 0:00:01

10/31/2012 00:50:02 — begin Flash Backup Windows: Step By Condition

Operation Status: 0

10/31/2012 00:50:02 — end Flash Backup Windows: Step By Condition; elapsed time 0:00:00

10/31/2012 00:50:02 — begin Flash Backup Windows: Read File List

Operation Status: 0

10/31/2012 00:50:02 — end Flash Backup Windows: Read File List; elapsed time 0:00:00

10/31/2012 00:50:02 — begin Flash Backup Windows: Create Snapshot

10/31/2012 00:50:03 — started process bpbrm (pid=14468)

10/31/2012 00:51:53 — Critical bpbrm (pid=14468) from client : FTL — snapshot creation failed, status 156

10/31/2012 00:51:54 — end Flash Backup Windows: Create Snapshot; elapsed time 0:01:52

10/31/2012 00:51:54 — end writing

Operation Status: 156

10/31/2012 00:51:54 — end Parent Job; elapsed time 0:01:53

10/31/2012 00:51:54 — begin Flash Backup Windows: Stop On Error

Operation Status: 0

10/31/2012 00:51:54 — end Flash Backup Windows: Stop On Error; elapsed time 0:00:00

10/31/2012 00:51:54 — begin Flash Backup Windows: Delete Snapshot On Exit

10/31/2012 00:51:54 — begin Flash Backup Windows: Delete Snapshot On Exit

10/31/2012 00:51:56 — started process bpbrm (pid=11744)

10/31/2012 00:51:57 — end writing

Operation Status: 0

10/31/2012 00:51:57 — end Flash Backup Windows: Delete Snapshot On Exit; elapsed time 0:00:03

10/31/2012 00:51:57 — begin Flash Backup Windows: End Notify Script

10/31/2012 00:51:58 — started process RUNCMD (pid=917528)

Operation Status: 0

10/31/2012 00:51:58 — end Flash Backup Windows: End Notify Script; elapsed time 0:00:01

Operation Status: 156

10/31/2012 00:51:58 — end Flash Backup Windows: Delete Snapshot On Exit; elapsed time 0:00:04

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Status snapshot error encountered 156

‎03-05-2014 09:49 AM

Guys, help me in resolving the issue.

NBU Master version 7.1.0.4 :: on VCS 5.0 :: 2 nodes :: RHEL5_x86_ 2.6

NBU Media servers verion :: 6.5.6 :: RHEL5 ::Serving as alternate client for snapshot backups.

Snapshot Method :: Legacy Shadowimage for Hitachi USPV — Hitachi AMS

Client OS: RHEL5

VXVM 5.0mp3 on master, media and clients

Policy vaildation fails with below error :

There was an error found with snapshot configuration on clients specified in this policy.

Policy: MBS2_store5 — client: xxxx-xxx-xxx —Snapshot could not be created with ShadowImage method — (Status 223).

Tried running the backup anyway resulting in 156.

Policy Type: FlashBackup (20)
Active: yes
Effective: 01/05/2010 14:44:01
Follow NFS Mounts: no
Cross Mount Points: no
Client Compress: no
Collect TIR info: no
Policy Priority: 0
Ext Security Info: no
File Restore Raw: yes
Client Encrypt: no
Max Jobs/Policy: Unlimited
Mult. Data Stream: yes
Block Level Incremental: no
Perform Snapshot Backup: yes
Snapshot Method: ShadowImage
Snapshot Method Arguments: sync_at_start=0,keep_fi=0,timeout=240,async_resync=0
Perform Offhost Backup: yes
Backup Copy: 0
Use Data Mover: no
Data Mover Type: -1
Use Alternate Client: yes
Alternate Client Name: xxxxxxxxxxxx
Use Virtual Machine: 0
Hyper-V Server: (none)
Enable Instant Recovery: no
Collect BMR Info: no
Max Frag Size: 0 MB
Checkpoint Restart: no
Residence: xxxxxxxxxxxx-hcart-robot-tld-2
Volume Pool: MbsPool
Server Group: *ANY*
Data Classification: —
Residence is storage lifecycle policy: no
Granular Restore: no
Generation: 4
Ignore Client Direct: no
Exchange Source attributes: no
Application Discovery: no
Discovery Lifetime: 0 seconds

Recent changes : A new set of Luns were presented to both client (parent volume) and media servers(clone volume).

Backup process: Involves suspending mirror (Primary to clone), snapshot creation of volume (rdsk), importing VXVMdiskgroup _clone .

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Status snapshot error encountered 156

‎07-11-2012 01:46 PM

I was running a backup to an OST device (while a restore of earlier backup on the same device is already in progress ).

And the backup fails witht the below error:

Info bpbkar32(pid=4536) done. status: 156: snapshot error encountered

However the policy used for the backup is not configured for any snapshot backups.

Can anyone let me what could have went wrong here?

Using Netbackup 7.5

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‎07-11-2012 02:16 PM

To start this investigation, we need to see the bpfis log, at VERBOSE=5 (and GENERAL=2 if Windows), from the client.

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‎07-11-2012 02:43 PM

What type of backup is it and what is the client OS and NBU version?

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‎07-11-2012 03:13 PM

Backup Type: Full backup (Normal)

Client: Windows 2008 R2

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‎07-11-2012 05:58 PM

Here is the log output, could you please let me know what could have went wrong

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Using NetBackup 7.0.1 and vSphere 4. Tried to backup a new v7 VM and got a 156 failure from NetBackup. Within vSphere client the following error was displayed when NetBackup tried to take a snapshot of the VM:

Cannot create a quiesced snapshot because the create snapshot operation exceeded the time limit for holding off I/O in the frozen virtual machine.

Within NetBackup the following was shown in the job Detailed Status tab:

29/11/2010 13:59:10 - Critical bpbrm(pid=3360) from client XXXXXXX: FTL - snapshot creation failed, status 156
29/11/2010 13:59:10 - Warning bpbrm(pid=3360) from client XXXXXXX: WRN - ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES is not frozen
...
29/11/2010 13:59:18 - end Flash Backup Windows, Delete Snapshot On Exit; elapsed time: 00:00:05 snapshot error encountered(156)

The VM itself is running Windows Server 2008 R2, has one CPU, a 40GB C drive and 2GB RAM. It has VMware tools installed. Plenty of space on the VMFS volume that the VM lives on.

This error was generated from a vSphere host running 4.0.0 164009. Used vMotion to move the VM to a different host running 4.0.0 208167 and now the VM backs up fine. Further to this, I moved the VM to another host running 4.0.0 164009 and the backup again failed with the same error. Seems as though NetBackup 7.0.1 doesn’t like vSphere 4.0.0 164009.

Update

I’ve now also seen a different cause of status 156 failures, related to the snapshot process taking too long to complete. A quick fix is to remove the VMWare VSS writer, though there’s more diagnostics you can do to work out what’s not working. The suggested method is to uninstall the VMware tools, then re-install choosing a custom install, and de-select the VSS writer. Note that the uninstall will remove all the VMware drivers too, so for example you’ll loose your network card if you’re using VMXNET3 etc. Unfortunately the tools that come with vSphere 4.1 don’t have the modify option, so removing and re-installing is the only option.

The VMware tools service provides the ability to disable VSS writers, for diagnostic purposes.

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