Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Cleaning Up Snapshots mounted on Avamar Proxy Servers.

If you have a VMware image backup failing with the 10056 code and you can't consolidate snapshots on the VM because of a file IO lock chances are good you have a snapshot that's been left mounted on the Avamar proxy server.

You can either manually edit the Avamar proxy servers and remove any disks past the first two, or you can use the proxycp.jar utility to automatically clean them all up.

java -jar /usr/local/avamar/bin/proxycp.jar --listproxydisk --cleanup

will go though all of the proxy servers you have and unmount any snaps it left attached. I have run this while there was a VMware image backup running and it did not cause that backup to fail.

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