BE2012 SP4 on W2K8 R2 backing up a bunch of ESXi5 VMs to deduplication storage on DAS with linked duplication to disk. Schedule is weekly full and daily incremental.
Because of BE's limitations, one of the VMs running W2K8 R2 cannot be backed up through AVVI and is backed up through RAWS instead. Normally the full backup of that machine takes between five and eight hours. This morning I found the full backup job for that server still running but without making any progress. Elapsed time is 02:11:52:00 (ie. two and a half days) and steadily increasing. Byte count is 401.093.217.634 and hasn't changed in the last three hours. Job rate is slowly decreasing as a result. There are no error or warning messages in the Backup Exec console nor anything that looks related in the event logs.
I guess my only course of action is to cancel the job and start it again. I would however like to find out what caused that malfunction and how to avoid it in the future. Any thoughts?