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Virtual Standby Jobs End with No Sessions Warning Messages

Valid on Windows platforms.

Symptom:

The Virtual Standby jobs end and one of the following messages appear in the Activity Log:

Virtual Standby job ends with no session(s). 

Virtual Standby was unable to detect backup sessions on the CA ARCserve D2D server to create recovery point snapshots. There may be no backup sessions on the CA ARCserve D2D server that can be converted.

Solution:

You will encounter problems of this type under the following conditions:

• You used CA ARCserve Central Protection Manager to apply the CA ARCserve D2D backup policy to the node and one of the following.
  • The CA ARCserve D2D backup source settings were changed from the Select individual volumes to back up option to the Back up the entire machine option, and a full backup was not submitted or did not complete using the updated backup settings after Virtual Standby policy was deployed to the node.

    Solution: Submit a full backup of the CA ARCserve D2D node.

  • The CA ARCserve D2D backup source settings were changed from the Back up the entire machine option to the Select individual volumes to back up option after the Virtual Standby policy was deployed to the node.

    Solution: Change the CA ARCserve D2D backup source settings from the Select individual volumes to back up option to the Back up the entire machine option, and then submit a full backup of the CA ARCserve D2D node.