Cleaning up damaged restore points in VMware Data Recovery

Symptoms

• A restore indicates the status of (damaged) beside it in red.
  
  
• Backups are not running anymore.

Purpose

Resolution

The damaged restore points may disallow existing backups to run.

To resolve the issue:

1. Make sure that there are no backups or integrity checks running.
   
2. Log in to the Data Recovery appliance with the credentials:
   
   Username: root
   Password: vmw@re
    
3. Log in to the Data Recovery UI (vSphere Client) and use these steps to clean up the damaged restore points:
   
   
   
   1. Mark the restore points for deletion from the Data Recovery UI.
   2. Manually run Integrity check to clear the restore points.
   3. Check the integrity check log (double-click on the Reports \ Events view) to see if it clear. If not, run the Integrity check again.
       
4. 
   
   Restart the datarecovery daemon on the Data Recovery appliance:
   
   service datarecovery restart
     

Fuente: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1013387

J.D. & S.