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How to troubleshoot Azure Recovery Services

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Original product version:   Azure Backup
Original KB number:   3005185

Introduction

This article describes information on general troubleshooting techniques and the locations of logs for Microsoft Azure Recovery Services (ASR). Due to the distributed nature of this service, files must be collected from different locations. Generally, the most common issues can be identified by inspecting the Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) job data, VMM debug logs, and Azure SQL Reporting service (SRS) logs from the Azure Site Recovery portal.

Note

In some cases, you may have to contact Microsoft Support to collect additional logs from Azure Services.

More information

Collect logs from the following locations:

  • VMM server
  • Azure Site Recovery Portal in Microsoft Azure
  • Hyper-V host

For best results, collect a VMM debug trace when you reproduce this issue, and then collect event and trace logs together with the Microsoft Azure logs.

How to troubleshoot on VMM server

  • Collect the VMM debug logs (event trace log) and SRS logs that are additional information to this channel. See the detail of how to enable debug logging in Virtual Machine Manager. For Branch to Azure ASR installations, refer to KB 3033922 instead.

  • Run the following Windows PowerShell commands to filter and therefore narrow the scope of the investigation:

    Get-SCVirtualMachine
    Get-SCVMHost
    Get-VMReplication
    Get-SCJob

  • Collect Disaster Recovery Adapter (DRA) logs in the following location: %System Root%\ProgramData\VMMLogs\DRALogs.

How to troubleshoot on Microsoft Azure

Follow these steps to collect SRS logs from the Azure Site Recovery portal:

  1. Log on to the Azure portal.
  2. Select Recovery Services vaults.
  3. Select the vault that hosts your ASR data.
  4. Select Site Recovery jobs.
  5. Locate your job, and then select it.
  6. Select ExportJob to begin the export process.
  7. Select Export.
  8. Specify a file location, and then select Save to export the job details to an .xlsx file.

How to troubleshoot on Hyper-V hosts

For On-premises to On-premises protection

Run the following PowerShell command to collect Hyper-V logs:

wevtutil el | findstr /i hyper-v-vmms | % { wevtutil qe $_ /f:text}

For On-premises to Azure protection

  1. Run the following PowerShell command to collect Hyper-V logs:

    wevtutil el | findstr /i microsoftazurerecoveryservices-replication | % { wevtutil qe $_ /f:text}

  2. Collect all the log files in the following location: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Azure Recovery Services Agent\Temp

Note

These files may be opened in any plain Text Editor.

Contact us for help

If you have questions or need help, create a support request, or ask Azure community support. You can also submit product feedback to Azure community support.