Category: Avamar

The new Avamar 19.4 administrator console looks the same as some of the older versions, but you may notice that it has a tendency to timeout. The issue seems to…Continue readingHow to stop login timeout on Avamar Administrator Console

When adding VMs from vCenter to Avamar, a new client entry in the UI corresponding to the VM added is seen. When VM is deleted or re-created in source vCenter, after VM resync…Continue readingHow to retire unavailable (grayed out) Avamar VM after being deleted or recreated as unavailable in vCenter resync via CLI

To ensure data integrity, the Avamar server issues an alert any time a checkpoint validation fails. After clean up an issue between Avamar and Data Domain you may need to…Continue readingAvamar Clear Data Integrity Alert

Avamar was backing up a virtual machine disk consistently with status “Completed” and then changes to “Config Files Only” at next backup. This issue is caused by Avamar’s dataset being…Continue readingAvamar backup completes with: Config Files Only

When backing up database servers that are also virtual machine, it is best practice to backup the server with the Avamar client installed locally on the server. This will prevent…Continue readingAvamar: How to register and activate multiple clients with the same short name.

Local Downloader Service is either offline or not installed. I had this issue after an upgrade to my Avamar. It prevented me from accessing hotfixes and upgrades for Avamar. To…Continue readingAvamar Installation Manager error

Versions used are: Avamar 19.2 Every morning I have a report sent to my email from Avamar that allows me to see things such as last nights failed backups. To…Continue readingAvamar emailed failed backup