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#1 Re: General matters » Problem restoring VM from one ESXi to another (*solved*) » 2018-12-07 09:32:27
Thank you.
after linking the servers (./xsibackup --link_srv=192.168.54.254) and activating the xsi-diff license, the backup went smoothly.
an 150gb vm took about 30 minutes.
A point of importance: all existing snapshots were deleted during the test backup and replaced with xsidiff snapshot. possibly because of the basic command I used.
#2 Re: General matters » Problem restoring VM from one ESXi to another (*solved*) » 2018-11-27 15:09:29
it seems I've overlooked some steps.
1)the two servers need to be linked with --link-srv.
2)Furthermore it seems xsibackup has to be installed on the second server as well
looking into that now
#3 Re: General matters » Problem restoring VM from one ESXi to another (*solved*) » 2018-11-27 14:28:14
Hello,
I'm attempting the same thing.
I have two esxi hosts, the first one will be replaced with the target one in the near future
Server 1: ip 192.168.54.245 origin "old" esxi 6.5 xsibackup pro v11.0
Server 2: ip 192.168.54.254 target new esxi 6.7
ssh clients are allowed on the firewall and private key based logins are working
However the backup command keeps asking a password. (see below)
"/vmfs/volumes/SSDmini/xsi-dir/xsibackup" --backup-point="192.168.54.254:22:/vmfs/volumes/datastore1" --backup-type=custom --backup-vms="w10_sql" --backup-prog=OneDiff
I do not know which password is required here. Entering the root password or anything else here, has no visible effect.
any suggestions?
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# (c) XSIBACKUP-PRO 11.0.0 | Backup for (c) VMWARE ESXi Hypervisor by 33hops.com
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NOTICE: (c) XSIBackup kills any user launched jobs, make sure you don't overlap manual jobs
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NOTICE: (c) XSIBackup-Pro 11.1.6 is available to download
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XSIBackup PID: 30426608 esxi.home
Tue, 27 Nov 2018 14:32:44 +0000 IPv4: 192.168.54.245/255.255.255.0
VMware ESXi 6.5.0 build-5969303 (c) Rsync 3.1.0 as opt. dependency
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Backup Id: unknown Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3720QM CPU @ 2.60GHz
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Crontab isi not installed for user root
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Backup user is: root
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Backup program is: onediff
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Service OpenSSH ready at server 192.168.54.254:22
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Info: XSIBACKUP-PRO will now try to determine the remote's XSIBACKUP-PRO installation point...
Tip: should this process take too long, use the --remote-xsipath argument to set it
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Password:
Password:
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