{"id":5195,"date":"2021-07-12T07:16:47","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T07:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=5195"},"modified":"2021-07-12T07:16:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T07:16:47","slug":"veeam-hyper-v-backup-failed-to-collect-vm-disks-failed-to-get-shared-disk-extents-failed-to-get-virtual-disk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/random\/veeam-hyper-v-backup-failed-to-collect-vm-disks-failed-to-get-shared-disk-extents-failed-to-get-virtual-disk","title":{"rendered":"Veeam Hyper V Backup &#8211; Failed to collect VM disks. Failed to get shared disk extents. Failed to get virtual disk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently tried to backup a single disk of a new VM , however was failing with\u00a0<\/p><p>&#8220;Failed to collect VM disks. Failed to get shared disk extents. Failed to get virtual disk &#8221; per below<\/p><p>7\/12\/2021 5:09:48 PM :: Error: Failed to collect VM (ID: CCCCCCCCCCCC) information. Failed to collect VM disks. Failed to get shared disk extents. Failed to get virtual disk (path: &#8216;\\\\CCCC.local\\CCCCCCCCCCC\\Virtual Machines\\CCCCC02\\Virtual Hard Disks\\CCCCCCCC02-Pagefile.vhdx&#8217;) setting data. Job failed (&#8216;Failed to get the disk information.<\/p><p>Failed to open attachment &#8216;\\\\CCCC.local\\CCCCCCCCCCC\\Virtual Machines\\CCCCC02\\Virtual Hard Disks\\CCCCCCCC02-Pagefile.vhdx&#8217;. Error: &#8216;The process cannot<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p>The drive I was backing up wasn&#8217;t even the drive it was erroring on. I saw someone has the error <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.veeam.com\/microsoft-hyper-v-f25\/existing-job-vs-new-job-t48158.html\">here<\/a> however confirmed the disk wasn&#8217;t being used elsewhere. I migrated the VM to a new host and that fixed the issue<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently tried to backup a single disk of a new VM , however was failing with\u00a0&#8220;Failed to collect VM disks. Failed to get shared disk extents. Failed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3533,2450,739],"class_list":["post-5195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","tag-failed-to-collect-vm-disks-failed-to-get-shared-disk-extents-failed-to-get-virtual-disk","tag-hyper-v","tag-veeam"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5197,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5195\/revisions\/5197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}