Backup of VM image Failure

Hello Everyone,

I'm a newbie and thanks in advance for your help/advice.

The process to backup a VMware image from system A to system B failed. The target image, on system A, was not running but there was a different image running on system B. I’ve been able to perform this backup in the past, but this time it failed.

Both systems A/B are running vSphere Client v5.0.0, VMware ESXi v5.0.0.

The steps to perform to backup are as follows:

1. Open VMware vCenter Converter Standalone v5.0.0.
2. Select “Convert machine” with source machine type “VMware Infrastructure virtual machine”. Specify server IP, login, and then select VM image.
3. Select destination machine type “VMware Infrastructure virtual machine”. Specify server IP, login, and VM image name.
4. Confirm that there’s sufficient HDD space on server B datastore1.
5. Start the conversion.

Error Description:

1. The conversion, Task ID 4, failed after 98% completion, with a status of “FAILED: Unable to create '\\.\vstor2-mntapi10-shared-2FB7F167000010000000000006000000\$Reconfig$'.”
2. Prior, successful backups would complete in 2.5 hours. This failure occurred at 4.5 hours, Started: 1/17/2013 9:17:18 AM and Failed: 1/17/2013 1:46:58 PM.
3. The log highlights show the following “Error: An error occurred during reconfiguration” on 1/17/2013 at 1:46:58 PM.
4. I’ve attached the log files.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated!

Regards,

George