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VMware Data Recovery backup job fails when backing up a virtual machine with RDMs

If you try to backup a virtual machine with one or more Raw Device Maps (RDM), you may experience these symptoms:

The backup job fails
The Data Recovery application stops functioning
The vcbapi.log file inside the VMware Data Recovery appliance contains the following event:

warning] Cannot look for changes past the end of the disk.

The issue of not being able to backup virtual machines with RDMs has been resolved in VMware Data Recovery version 1.1 and later.

VDR, RDM, datarecovery

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