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#1 Re: General matters » The --backup-point string is a mandatory value » 2018-10-23 16:50:51

adrianoafonso

Hi there again
That's what I was trying to tell you, you where right, I was not doing the tests correctly. So, I have no problems right now regarding the xsi-dir/jobs/001. I tested and its ok.

Let me test the cronjobs and ill give you feedback!

#2 Re: General matters » The --backup-point string is a mandatory value » 2018-10-16 08:13:52

adrianoafonso

Hello there again....
I'm sorry to give you a new one.... And as I told you, it worked quite fine with the option --backup-prog=XSITools:z \ for over 2 months, but since I had changed to vmkfstools, because I need a full backup every day, he started to not work.

Just tested like this:
- deleted the 001 job file
- copy from here, paste on Putty
- made modifications carefully
- quit, save, run ./xsibackup

Same thing!

But tell me one thing, I think I'm not testing something right, because I'm running always ./xsibackup. I should use ./xsibackup –run-backup=001 , correct? But when I use it, he gives me the following error:

./xsibackup: eval: line 1: –runbackup=001: not found

EDIT>>>>>>>>

It seems that I was not testing right.... after some research, yes, I was using the old version of ./xsibackup –run-backup=001 and not  ./xsibackup --run-backup=001

Now I'm testing right... let me reconfigure the cron, and I'll give you feedback!

#3 Re: General matters » The --backup-point string is a mandatory value » 2018-10-15 16:54:32

adrianoafonso

Hello there
First of all, you welcome, it's part of our Free Software philosophy, right?
Thanks for your fast answer!

1 - Yep, it list, no problem at all!

2 - Just copy your example, made my modifications (on notepad++, thinking windows notepad might be the problem), pasted to the server via PuTTY, and again, same result:

[root@ML350G6:/vmfs/volumes/RAIDx/xsi-dir] ./xsibackup
###############################################################################
#
#  (c) XSIBACKUP-FREE 11.0.1 | Backup for (c) VMWARE ESXi Hypervisor by 33hops.com
#
###################################################################################

XSIBackup PID:          2361526                                        ML350G6.machine.netork
Mon, 15 Oct 2018 16:38:08 +0000                                  IPv4: x.x.x.x/255.255.255.0
VMware ESXi 6.7.0 build-8169922                              (c) Rsync 3.1.0 as opt. dependency
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Backup Id:              unknown                 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5606  @ 2.13GHz
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message: crontab is installed for user root
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ADVICE: no SSD disks, please consider adding an SSD cache disk to improve performance
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
sh: rsync: unknown operand
Backup user is: root
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The --backup-point string is a mandatory value
You have to set the variable --backup-type to some of the values described in the help
E-mail Warnings
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Other thing, if I use the the test script, like this, with the same configs:

./xsibackup --backup-point=/vmfs/volumes/RAID-lenovo/ --backup-type=running --mail-from=mymail@domain.com --mail-to=mymail@otherdomain.com --smtp-srv=smtp-mail.domain.com --smtp-port=587 --smtp-usr=mymail@domain.com --smtp-pwd=password --smtp-sec=TLS --exec=yes >> "/vmfs/volumes/RAIDx/xsi-dir/var/logs/xsibackup.log"

It works like charm!!!
Any other ideia?
The bizarre is, it worked in the past...

#4 General matters » The --backup-point string is a mandatory value » 2018-10-15 14:07:58

adrianoafonso
Replies: 7

Hello there
After using your awesome solution for a wile, and working like charm, I changed some settings on the jobs/001 file, and after that, it completely stopped working.
I think I'm already not a naive on this matters, but this "bug" is driving me nuts for over a month. I already reinstalled again it today, to have a completely new 001 file, reviewed all the configurations, copy-past just the essential, but every time I test with the ./xsibackup command, he gives me always the error:

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

XSIBackup PID:          2351685                                        ML350G6.machine.network
Mon, 15 Oct 2018 13:31:34 +0000                                  IPv4: x.x.x.x/255.255.255.0
VMware ESXi 6.7.0 build-8169922                              (c) Rsync 3.1.0 as opt. dependency
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Backup Id:              unknown                 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5606  @ 2.13GHz
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message: crontab is installed for user root
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ADVICE: no SSD disks, please consider adding an SSD cache disk to improve performance
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
sh: rsync: unknown operand
Backup user is: root
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The --backup-point string is a mandatory value
You have to set the variable --backup-type to some of the values described in the help
E-mail Warnings
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The e-mail report will not be sent because of the followig reasons:
The --mail-from string has not been set
The --smtp-srv string has not been set
The --smtp-port string has not been set
The --smtp-usr string has not been set, you need --smtp-usr if --smtp-auth is other than -none-
The --smtp-pwd string has not been set, you need --smtp-pwd if --smtp-auth is other than -none-
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Error JOBSKIP1: the backup job will be skipped because some mandatory values are missing
Getting list of all VMs...
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3      LAMP        [RAIDx] LAMP/LAMP.vmx             debian9_64Guest         vmx-14
4      UNMS        [RAIDx] UNMS/UNMS.vmx             debian9_64Guest         vmx-13

etcetera....


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And here is my configuration file (just ommited some volumes information)

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# This is a backup job file example. It starts with the path to your
# xsibackup file and ends with the redirection to the log file. Please
# do make sure that you keep first and last lines, changing paths to
# match your working environment.

"/vmfs/volumes/RAIDx/xsi-dir/xsibackup" \
--backup-prog=vmkfstools \
--certify-backup=yes \
--backup-point=/vmfs/volumes/RAID-lenovo/ \
--backup-type=Running \
--backup-how=Hot \
#--remote-xsipath=/vmfs/volumes/RAIDx/xsi-dir \
--use-smtp=1 \
--mail-to=myemail@mydomain.com \
--backup-id=001 \
--description="Backup Emterprise VMs" \
#--on-success="backupId->002" \
#--on-error="backupId->002" \
--exec=yes >> "/vmfs/volumes/RAIDx/xsi-dir/var/logs/xsibackup.log"


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Can you please give a light, because i'm totally lost. Since I just used the 001 example file that comes from installation, and I just copied the essential, I really don't understand why is not working at all, since, in my point of view, all the configs in the jobs/001 file are correct!

PS: I created a Portuguese How To available here: https://www.adrianoafonso.net/blog/2018 … ware-esxi/

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