V-79-57344-38278 – Unable to find the metadata for a disk of the virtual machine.
I recently received this error in Backup Exec 2010 when I selected to back up a Template. This template existed on a VMware ESXi 5.1 cluster. I was using the Agent for VMware and backing up through VCenter using the NBD method. Being a template, it was offline and did not have a Remote Agent installed.
The problem I discovered was that I had used a special character in the building of this machine. Being that this was a template, which I planned to deploy many virtual machines from, I wanted to easily attach a date in its name. Mostly, I did this so I knew how far out it was on Windows Updates. So I named by Template, “Base Win2K8 SP1 (6/20/13)”.
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