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#1 Re: General matters » XSIbackup PRO 11 - missing some old options » 2018-06-14 13:52:36

bpreston

Yes.  Looks like it is remote jobs.  I tried running the same job locally and it starts the backups, but does spit this out during execution:

Syncronizing config files
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
sh: bad number
sh: bad number
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Backing up virtual disks...

I'll continue to investigate what the issue is and contact support if I cannot resolve.

Also, bizarre, but if I resize the console window (using Putty) while a backup is running (on the local host) this occurs.  This may have always been a harmless bug, but I'm baffled as to what could be happening:

Cannot process block 293, error getting hash, will retry. Warning:
Retrying...
471/1639 blocks | Processed 28%

#2 Re: General matters » XSIbackup PRO 11 - missing some old options » 2018-06-13 17:07:49

bpreston

Couple quick comments on version 11:

Watch: The Watch jobs screen has a spelling error ("Iddle").  And the menu option 'cancel' at the bottom of that screen gives the impression that you'll be killing the current job.  If that is its intention it does not work; I think the menu option should say "back" (that goes for many of the menu options--cancel (to me) implies aborting on the current operation, while 'back' means navigate backwards in the menu structure.)  I can see where a CancelJob option would be helpful here (it's always a bit of a pain to cancel a running remote host job.)

Watch: I'm unable to get the incremental (percentage) countup of the backup operation to display properly.  I assume it's a terminal issue; I have it set to ISO-8859-1 but tried most translations and it did not help.

Jobs: Editing a job with a custom list of vms or disks to exclude (entered manually at commandline) whacks off any hosts which are NOT found on the current host connected to.  I'd like it to preserve the list, even if it's not correct for that host.

Functionality:
Yes, I should start my own thread, but:
I'm unable to get backups to work with version 11.0.0.  All attempts at backup fail with 'XSIBACKUP_EXIT_STATUS=0' after it starts the 'synchronizing config files' stage.  Cannot find any logging which is indicating what is failing.  If I take the same commandline from 11 and use it on 10.3.4 (stripping out the --exec-yes option) it works.  What can I do to get better logging to help me figure out what the problem may be?  [the switch "debug-info=yes", I think, only lists debug information in email output.]

#3 Re: General matters » How to exclude VM's rather then include » 2018-05-17 14:06:00

bpreston

I agree with the sentiment--having an exclude VM option would be handy.  It would be nice to have the software backup all VMs that it finds except ones matching certain parameters.  The "disks to backup" syntax has negative(exclusion) parameters, so it does seem odd that --backup-vms only uses positive(include) parameters.


Apologies if you already know this, but if your VM hosts (that you want backed up) are relatively static*, you can send the entire list of VMs (which you do want backed up) in the commandline (or save it in your VMLIST value and import that).  xsibackup will only backup the ones that it finds on that particular host, ignoring those not found.


*=I know you said "newly created ones", so I guess your implication is that you have an environment where there are VMs being brought up routinely, and those new VMs do need to be backed up.  Could you perhaps control the naming of those new VMs being brought up?  So, say, it is known in your environment that any VMs brought up with a name starting with "Prod" will be backed up automatically? You would then feed that regex string to --backup-vms?

#4 Re: General matters » Xsibackup not firing on-success jobs when using --host parameter » 2018-05-16 18:28:30

bpreston

Thank you for the explanation.  That was precisely my misconception, and I suppose I may have had that impression since the logs (for each host) appear on the originating host.  And it certainly explains the error that I just received (after escaping the caret), which is:

2018-05-16T17:48:39|  Warning: no backups or programs can be fired as there isn't any xsibackup-cron file present

Thanks, will reconsider how I'm executing from the cron file.

#5 Re: General matters » Xsibackup not firing on-success jobs when using --host parameter » 2018-05-15 19:48:42

bpreston

I appear to be having the same problem (with version 10.3.3 and 10.3.4) with onerror and onsucccess stripping the data after the arrow.  Could you please validate the syntax for backupID?  My debug output shows this:


DEBUG INFORMATION:

• backupid: 158
• debuginfo: yes
• onerror: backupid-
• onsuccess: backupid-
• backupprog: xsitools:z


And my commandline looks like this:

./xsibackup --backupId=158 --debug-info=yes --on-error="backupid->153" --on-success="backupid->153" <snip>

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