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I've been using xsibackup and xsibackup-pro for 4-5 years already and no bigger problems with backing up VM's over WAN with rsync. Now I've moved over to xsibackup-dc and I'm pleased to see that it is significantly faster.

But now I have a lot of problems with replication over WAN. If I try to test the replicated VM at the target, I will get an error: Could not get snapshot information: Dictionary problem. This is related to the snapshots and the source VM doesnt have any snapshot before replication. After replication I can see from the xsibackup log that:

*** Snapshot was removed ***

but it exists at the target. The replicating takes time because the VM's size is 700Gb. At the target system I can find the SRV2-Snapshot523.vmsn and SRV2.vmsd which has the info about the Snapshot523.

So what can I do? I've started from the beginning. Unregistered the VM from the target. Deleted everything from target directory and done the 1st replicating with xsibackup-dc. After this I registered the VM again and the same error. Its strange that ESXi (6.5.0 U2) GUI doesn't show any info about this snapshot.

I am no expert with ESXi, but I deleted manually the snapshot from the target directory and made sure that the .vmsd file is identical at the source and at the target. Then I don't get this Dictionary problem error, but in this case the W2012 refuses to start. I've got similar problems many times with smaller 40Gb-80Gb replicated VM's to the same target, but sometimes the replicating is succesfull. No problem.

I don't understand what is causing this. Am I doing something totally wrong?