Veeam NFS backups report nightly Nblade.nfsRCChecksumMismatch error
Applies to
- ONTAP 9
- NFS v3
- Application: Veeam Backup & Replication v12
- Client OS: Windows Server 2019 (version 1809, VMXNET3 virtual adapter)
Issue
- Nblade.nfsRCChecksumMismatch: Replay cache checksum mismatch detected in retransmitted NFS request from client.
- Error occurs during nightly Veeam NFS backup jobs, typically 2-6 minutes after job start (scheduled at 6PM EST).
- Backups complete successfully; no current business impact, but error correction is desired.
- Error first observed when backup jobs started nearly a year ago after solution implementation.
- Environment details: Veeam server uses a dedicated NIC for NFS traffic to storage VM.
- Relevant shares accessed:
- nfs3://<storage_IP>:/htdc_veeam_backups
- nfs3://<storage_IP>:/omtc_veeam_backups
- nfs3://<storage_IP>:/omtc_veeam_cfg_backups
