We all know backing up of your vCenter's using the built in file based backup is critical for recovery. I just wanted to share a couple of important pitfalls i came across recently in case it helps anyone else that comes across this. Do not backup Multiple vCenters at the same start time to the same directory Following the recent addition of some new vCenters, we started to see an unusual increase in backup failures for the associated file-based backup. In this particular env