Link Station as a VEEam target -- not working

[wallendorf]

Last fall, I purchased a my first Buffalo Tech TS-QVHL62A.  I hooked it up to my network and started using it with VEEam as a target repository for backups.  It has worked flawlesssly.

 

 I had a remote site that needed something similar, so I purchased a LS-QV8.0TL/R5  and put it at that other location.  I have had nothing but trouble.

 

I can use WIndows to copy anything.  I can use XCopy.  I have no trouble accessing or manipulating the drive.  However, if I try to use VEEam to back up to it, it gets about 4-5 GB into the process and the backup errors off with a message that indicates the VEEam server cannot see 

the  Buffalo Tech NAS .  I finally brought it back here to the mothership, set it up identically to the first Bufffalo Tech  NAS and tried a test backup.  I got the exact same error.

 

2/12/2013 9:53:32 AM :: Error: Client error: The specified network name is no longer available.

Failed to write data to the file [\\vgtarg02\data\FromWalton\Daily 2Gateway Backup\Daily 2Gateway Backup2013-02-12T094550.vbk].


What can I do to make this problem go away?

[davo]

The LS-QVL is not designed to work, nor supported with VMware.

[wallendorf]

Which product lines are meant to work with VEEam? 

 

What keeps my unit from working?

 

[davo]

Certain terastation unit as VMware certified and this is stated on the buffalo website.

[wallendorf]

Actually VMWare really has little to do with it. This is being used as a VEEam target-- that is a repository for backups. I can Xcopy the files out to the LinkStation no problem.  Why can't the backup software work?

 

[wallendorf]

More info:

 

I got the box out of the server room and set it up at my desk.  I took some multi-gigabyte files and set up a robocopy job to copy them to the NAS.  After a period of about 5 minutes, the NAS became unreachable.  I could no longer browse its folders, or access the web interface.  I stopped the robocopy job and waited.  After five minutes of inactivity, all of a sudden I could browse the folders again.

 

What's up with that?