When backing up virtual machines using the Virtual Environment Integration (VE) to a Catalyst Gateway (StoreOnce), with Data Protector 7.01 (current patches) the VEPA backups might aborting randomly. The error message displayed:<\/p>\n
\r\n[Major] From: BSM@server.demo.local \"VE_Backup_VMware\" Time: 15\/07\/2013 10:03:03\r\n[61:3003] Lost connection to BMA named \"StoreOnce_01_GW1 [GW 2296:4:26641437476]\" \r\n on host server.demo.local.\r\n Ipc subsystem reports: \"IPC Read Error\r\n System error: [10054] Connection reset by peer\r\n<\/pre>\nTo fix the problem the omnirc parameter
OB2D2D_BANDWIDTH_BUFF_SIZE=20<\/code> can be used on the Media Agent. The value for parameter is set to 10 by default in Data Protector 7.01, when using the value 20, the problem is not seen. In Data Protector 8.00 the problem is not seen, as the default value is already set to 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When backing up virtual machines using the Virtual Environment Integration (VE) to a Catalyst Gateway (StoreOnce), with Data Protector 7.01 (current patches) the VEPA backups might aborting randomly. The error message displayed: [Major] From: BSM@server.demo.local “VE_Backup_VMware” Time: 15\/07\/2013 10:03:03 [61:3003] Lost connection to BMA named “StoreOnce_01_GW1 [GW 2296:4:26641437476]” on host server.demo.local. 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