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Hello,

Could you provide an upgrade procedure and an uninstall procedure for DC or help me find existing ressources?

Thanks for your help.

Hello,

• I have two ESXI on 2 public IP.

• I had XSIFree running backup between those two host over SSH. My assumption here is that communication and authorization is OK.

• Host 1 can ping Host 2, and vice versa.

• I'm able to SSH to both host.

When trying a command from Host 1 (or 2) to backup to the other:

./xsibackup --backup "VMs(VM1)" root@XX.XX.XX.XX:22:/vmfs/volumes/datastore2/backup-fromE1 --remote-path=/scratch/xsi/xsibackup --rotate=7

Here is the output:

|||   (c)XSIBackup-DC 1.1.0.8: Backup & Replication Software                    |||
|||   (c)33HOPS, Sistemas de Informacion y Redes, S.L. | All Rights Reserved    |||
||-------------------------------------------------------------------------------||
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
                   (c)Daniel J. Garcia Fidalgo | info@33hops.com
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
System Information: ESXi, Kernel 6 Major 7 Minor 0 Patch 0
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
License: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
OpenSSH server at XX.XX.XX.XX:22 can't be reached, timed out
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Removed <tmp> dir        OK
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Unlocked backup          OK
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Removed PID              OK

Is there anything I forgot?

Thanks for your help.

Hello,

Could you tell me a simple explanation of the difference between replica and backup (or link to a ressource that explain it)?

From what I understood, a replica is a ready-to-start new VM copied from an original VM.
A backup is some data stored but not ready-to-start from an original VM.

Am I right?

If we are talking about daily remote jobs, in term of possibility, efficency and speed, is there one to choose more than the other?

Thanks for your help.

edit: found more information in docs>XSIBackup-DC Manual.pdf part "1 - Actions".

Hello,

When running a back-up command (./xsibackup --backup "VMs(RUNNING)" /vmfs/volumes/datastore2/backup-local) that is suppose to take quite a long time (like 24h, because of VMs sizes, and first backup), when my SSH terminal disconnect, I'm loosing the progress of the actual task output.

When reconnecting to my ESXi host via SSH, I'm not able to find how to check is the task is still running or not, or any error exit code.

• On free version, I used to check if an instance of XSI was still running using command

  ps | grep 'xsi'

  or I was looking at logs files.

• Right now on my DC version, ps | grep 'xsi' is empty, and logs files /var/log/error.log and /var/log/xsibackup.log are empty as well.

  On my ESXI GUI, I can see one xsi snapshot that is present.

Thanks for your help.

Version used: (c)XSIBackup-DC 1.1.0.8:

Hello there,

We are using XSIBackup Free Version for almost a year now.
We are satisfied with the product and are thinking about upgrading to Pro or DC version.

Here is our setup:

Datacenter 1
[ESXI 1 with public IP]
XSIBackup 1

Datacenter 2 (different location than Datacenter 1)
[ESXI 2 with public IP]
XSIBackup 2

Every night or so:
1 -> XSIBackup 1 backup local backups of running VM.
2 -> XSIBackup 2 backup local backups of running VM.
3 -> XSIBackup 1 backup local backups of running VM to XSI Backup 2 using --backup-prog=rsync
4 -> XSIBackup 1 backup local backups of running VM to XSI Backup 2 using --backup-prog=rsync

Here is one remote backup conf example:
"/vmfs/volumes/datastore2/xsi-dir/xsibackup" \
--backup-point=XX.XX.XX.XX:XXXX:/vmfs/volumes/datastore2/backup \
--backup-type=custom \
--backup-vms=xxxx,xxxx,xxxx,xxxx,xxxx,xxxxx,xxxxx \
--backup-prog=rsync \
--use-smtp=1 \
--mail-to=xxxxx@xxxxxx.com \
--backup-id=003 \
--description="Remote backup of ESXi-1 VM's on ESXi-2 (datastore2)" \
--test-mode=false \
--exec=yes >> "/vmfs/volumes/datastore2/xsi-dir/var/logs/xsibackup.log"

Our mean goal is to reduce remote backup total time.

What would be our best upgrade option? Pro/DC? Why?

[edit: sorry if my post is not in the correct section]