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Well I finally purchased PRO after using the old unlimited FREE version for years. Thought I would try the GUI to create a backup job and am hung up selecting a backup location, TARGET. The server is a Supermicro with local storage - the VMs are on local drives, and I have a 6tb drive in there that I have been doing backups to previously using the argument "--backup-point="/vmfs/volumes/Weekday_Backup/"$( date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S ) \", 'Weekday_Backup' being a datastore. Now if I attempt to type in /vmfs/{full path}... to select that datastore, I get the error "Select some datastore, you are trying to copy data out of a datastore". I am sure I am missing something obvious...
This was one of my old JOBs, in case it helps, that I am trying to duplicate the functionality of:
"/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/xsi-dir/xsibackup" \
--backup-prog=vmkfstools \
--backup-point=/vmfs/volumes/Weekend_Backup/BACKUPS/$( date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S ) \
--backup-room=100 \
--backup-type=Custom \
--backup-how=Hot \
--Backup-vms=Test\
--snapshot=doquiesce \
--remote-xsipath=/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/xsi-dir \
--backup-id=010 \
--description="vmkfstools backup of VMs" \
--exec=yes >> "/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/xsi-dir/var/logs/xsibackup.log" 2>&1
Thanks for the suggestion on using --backup-room. I had used it before and it didn't seem to help so I jettisoned it to see if it made any difference.
I had changed datedirmask as another test so I am setting it back and trying --backup-room again. Thanks.
I am using the current free version of XSIBackup. Only thing it isn't doing that I think it should be, is deleting old backups when the backup drive is full. I'm using ESXI 6.7 Update 1. At first, I was using a date mask which produced folders named: 20190901090001, for example, with the standard datemask in xsiopts. As a test, I changed the datedirmask in xsiopts to "datedirmask="20[1-3][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]"". With the example job below, I get folders named like this: "20190922". I think it should be deleting the oldest backup when the drive doesn't have enough room, assuming the free version does this (as it used to before the versions that use jobs files, when it used the 'one liner' backup line that did delete the old backups with the 'date-dir=yes' default format). Or am I missing something... Thanks for the help.
"/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/xsi-dir/xsibackup" \
--backup-prog=vmkfstools \
--backup-point=/vmfs/volumes/Weekday_Backup/BACKUPS/$( date +%Y%m%d ) \
--backup-type=Custom \
--backup-how=Hot \
--backup-vms="Godzilla,Daikaiju,ghidrah,BARUGON" \
--remote-xsipath=/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/xsi-dir \
--backup-id=002 \
--description="vmkfstools weekday backup of VMs" \
--exec=yes >> "/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/xsi-dir/var/logs/xsibackup.log" 2>&1
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