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#1 Re: General matters » XSI Backup to NFS datastore on Windows 2012 R2 » 2019-06-05 20:39:28

Arindrew

We are using the free version of ESXi, which I know restricts the usage of the vStorage API. Could that be the issue?

I have tried everything. The backup location in question has been tested and vetted every way I know how.

#2 General matters » XSI Backup to NFS datastore on Windows 2012 R2 » 2019-05-16 18:12:17

Arindrew
Replies: 3

On each of the VMs I am trying to backup to an NFS datastore hosted on a Windows 2012 R2 server, I receive the following error:

ERROR CLVMKFS1, details: [VM] error: vmkfstools error, details: Failed to clone disk: Input/output error (327689).

I have read another thread with the same issue and followed the advice in the last post. I have confirmed that I am using NFS3, and I am able to browse the datastore while in an ssh session, and can read, write, modify, and delete files in the path xsibackup is trying to write to.

[root@esxi5:/vmfs/volumes/4943ae8a-9311cf65/xsi-backup/esxi5] touch newfile
[root@esxi5:/vmfs/volumes/4943ae8a-9311cf65/xsi-backup/esxi5] ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r--    1 42949672 42949672         0 May 16 18:04 newfile
[root@esxi5:/vmfs/volumes/4943ae8a-9311cf65/xsi-backup/esxi5] vi newfile
[root@esxi5:/vmfs/volumes/4943ae8a-9311cf65/xsi-backup/esxi5] cat newfile
this is a new file
[root@esxi5:/vmfs/volumes/4943ae8a-9311cf65/xsi-backup/esxi5] rm newfile
[root@esxi5:/vmfs/volumes/4943ae8a-9311cf65/xsi-backup/esxi5] ls -l
total 0
[root@esxi5:/vmfs/volumes/4943ae8a-9311cf65/xsi-backup/esxi5]

# esxcli storage nfs list
Volume Name  Host                             Share  Accessible  Mounted  Read-Only   isPE  Hardware Acceleration
-----------  -------------------------  -----  ----------  -------  ---------  -----  ---------------------
UTDCFS       utdcfs                             nfs          true        true         false        false        Not Supported
MDDCFS       mddcfs                           NFS          true        true         false        false        Not Supported

# esxcli storage nfs param get --volume-name=MDDCFS/UTDCFS
Volume Name  MaxQueueDepth  MaxReadTransferSize  MaxWriteTransferSize
-----------  -------------  -------------------  --------------------
MDDCFS          4294967295                32768                 32768
UTDCFS          4294967295                32768                 32768

What else can I provide or do to troubleshoot this?

#3 General matters » Cron failing to install even thought reports it installed successfully » 2018-07-13 19:10:58

Arindrew
Replies: 2

Fresh install of XSIBackup 11.0.1 on a new host. Ran test backup job successfully, then tried to install cron and I get the following. It reports that it installed correctly, but there is no "xsibackup-cron" file created in the xsi-dir directory. ESXi version is 6.5.

###############################################################################
#
#  (c) XSIBACKUP-PRO 11.0.1 | Backup for (c) VMWARE ESXi Hypervisor by 33hops.com
#
###################################################################################

NOTICE: (c) XSIBackup kills any user launched jobs, make sure you don't overlap manual jobs
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
XSIBackup PID:            68831                             ESXi.com
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The root user crontab has been successfully installed
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Killed
[root@ESXi:/vmfs/volumes/5ab92c93-63fe1f90-e517-d094664b32fe/xsi-dir] ls -lah
total 2816
drwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       72.0K Jul 13 19:06 .
drwxr-xr-t    1 root     root       76.0K Jul 12 21:22 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           0 Jul 13 19:04 .ERR-dfb30482adad65e9454ad995280a27f238a60649
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        4.5K Jul 12 21:23 EULA
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        4.2K Jul 12 21:22 README.txt
drwx------    1 root     root       72.0K Jul 12 21:22 bin
drwxrwxrwx    1 root     root       72.0K Jul 13 17:41 conf
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          48 Jul 13 18:19 license.key
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          48 Jul 13 15:20 request.key
drwx------    1 root     root       72.0K Jul 12 21:22 src
drwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       72.0K Jul 12 21:22 var
-rwx------    1 root     root      144.8K Jul 12 21:22 xsibackup
-rw-------    1 root     root        1.6K Jul 12 21:22 xsibackup_id_rsa
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         422 Jul 12 21:22 xsibackup_id_rsa.pub
[root@ESXi:/vmfs/volumes/5ab92c93-63fe1f90-e517-d094664b32fe/xsi-dir]

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