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m_vk · © XSITools

Ok, we have confirmed that --certify-backup=yes is ok ...

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Please wait while the (c)XSITools repository hash tables are SHA1 checked...
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[VM0] info: SHA1 chunk hashes have been certified, 758 second taken
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The ESXi configuration was saved to "/vmfs/volumes/backup/xsitools-repos/20190200000000/20190228064820"
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No errors detected in backup
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... but as soon as we use "fast", we got errors ...

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Please wait while the (c)XSITools repository hash tables are fast checked...
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sh: Bad block detected: 52428800
1: bad number
[VM0] error: chunk hashes fast check failed, detail:
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The ESXi configuration was saved to "/vmfs/volumes/backup/xsitools-repos/20190200000000/20190228052910"
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Errors detected in backup, check logs
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Next backup using SHA1 check is once again without problems.

How exactly do we contact support? Maybe form at 33HOPS Contact Form ? We'd like to have fast check working as SHA1 verification takes more than 4 hours in our environment...

m_vk · © XSITools

Addendum: we are using "monthly" repository rollover, e.g.

--backup-point="/vmfs/volumes/backup/xsitools-repos/$(date +%Y%m'00000000')"

but this is probably apparent from previous output.

m_vk · © XSITools

This has been bothering us since we started using XSIBackup-PRO:

When using --backup-prog=xsitools:z, backup job (run from console) ends with:

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Please wait while the (c)XSITools repository hash tables are fast checked...
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sh: Bad block detected: 52428800
1: bad number
[VM0] error: chunk hashes fast check failed, detail:
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The ESXi configuration was saved to "/vmfs/volumes/backup/xsitools-repos/20190200000000/20190226075817"
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Errors detected in backup, check logs
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What exactly does it want to say? Does it mean disk block, or that 50 MB chunk xsitools uses? Anyway 52428800 doesn't seem to refer to block ID, as it is exatly the xsitools chunk size (50 x 1024 x 1024).

Also no detail is given.

Subsequent repository check

--check-xsitoolsrepo="/vmfs/volumes/backup/xsitools-repos/20190200000000" --del-badblocks=yes

will find and delete 2 bad blocks, but next backup reports the same error!

ESX hardware is brand new Dell PowerEdge server with enterprise class SSDs. Backup target is NFS storage - initially Synology NAS, now dedicated Linux server, but errors keep showing on both of them (actually we switched to custom Linux machine after we me those "bad block detected" errors in backup to Synology).

ESX is

VMware ESXi 6.7.0 build-10302608

Thanks for reply.

m_vk · © XSITools

I see, so 20 hosts _but_ via "--host" from 1 licensed master server only. It is clear now, thanks.

m_vk · © XSITools

Hello,

I've got 2 ESXi hosts, both connected to shared NFS storage as common backup destination (mounted as /vmfs/volumes/datastore_nas1 on both hosts)

Since I was testing XSIBACKUP on one ESXi host only, it was simple: install dir was

/vmfs/volumes/datastore_nas1/xsi-dir

and backup location

/vmfs/volumes/datastore_nas1/backup

I'd like to use XSIBACKUP-PRO on _both_ nodes - do I need _two_ install dirs (like datastore_nas1/xsi-dir1 and datastore_nas1/xsi-dir2), or is it possible to run jobs for both ESXi hosts from only one xsi-dir directory?

What about XSIDIFF licence? Can I have two license files in shared xsi-dir?

Vit

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#1 Re: © XSITools » XSITools error "sh: Bad block detected: 52428800" » 2019-02-28 14:59:22

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#4 Re: © XSITools » Single or dual XSIBACKUP install for two ESXi with shared NFS storage? » 2019-02-25 08:52:57

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