vSphere 6.5 backup/replication jobs may hang forever if you’re using Windows Server 2008 R2 (or Windows 7) backup proxies.
Agent…Source.log files contain lines similar to the following:
[16.01.2017 16:16:08] < 1380> vdl| Loading VDDK library. Version: 6.5, directory: 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Veeam\Backup Transport\x64\vddk_6_5',
module: 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Veeam\Backup Transport\x64\vddk_6_5', config file: ''
...
[16.01.2017 16:16:08] < 1380> vdl| [vddk] VixDiskLib: Initialize transport modes.
...
[16.01.2017 16:16:08] < 1380> dsk| SSLLoadSharedLibraries: Failed to load OpenSSL libraries. libdir is C:\Program Files (x86)\Veeam\Backup Transport\x64\vddk_6_5
[16.01.2017 16:16:08] < 1380> vdl| [vddk] PANIC: SSLLoadSharedLibraries: Failed to load OpenSSL libraries. libdir is C:\Program Files (x86)\Veeam\Backup Transport\x64\vddk_6_5
[16.01.2017 16:16:08] < 1380> vdl| [vddk] Backtrace:
[16.01.2017 16:16:08] < 1380> vdl| WARN|[vddk] Win32 object usage: GDI 4, USER 3
[16.01.2017 16:16:08] < 1380> vdl| [vddk] CoreDump_CoreDump: faking exception to get context