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#1 Re: General matters » Missing xsi-dir » 2021-03-11 01:58:22
cannot install cron. I typed ./xsibackup --install-cron and ./xsibackup: not found
#2 Re: General matters » Missing xsi-dir » 2021-03-10 01:52:10
I want to download cron but I don't have xsi-dir folder
I delete XSIbackup first time by delete xsi-dir when i install backup it doesn't have xir-dir
right now i only have XSIBackup-Free folder
#3 General matters » Missing xsi-dir » 2021-03-09 03:03:55
- kaijieleong
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Hi the first time I uninstall xsibackup I didn't follow the procedure so I just delete the xsi-dir but when i install again I don't have this folder and i will need to install cron but when I type ./xsibackup --install-cron it shown not found
#4 Re: General matters » Could not get available backup room in backup datastore (solved) » 2021-03-09 01:45:48
but in my other server when i start the job it end with clone100% and I can see backup files in the backup point
#5 Re: General matters » Could not get available backup room in backup datastore (solved) » 2021-03-08 01:37:29
do you mean by the drive where backup is store? what does backup point mean?
I am able to detect space on other server which used the same datastore. I only have one drive so do you mean I will need to get one more drive for the backup?
#6 General matters » Could not get available backup room in backup datastore (solved) » 2021-03-05 03:47:29
- kaijieleong
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I was testing the backup but get error, first time using it. download before and delete without following the procedure, when download error of no scratch file is found so I created a folder with the same name of scratch file and it is able to download. I have only one drive with 730GB spaces left but cannot get available backup room in backup datastore. unable to find logs
/vmfs/volumes/vmfs-vms2/logdir/XSI/XSIBackup-Free/xsibackup --backup-point=/vmfs/volume/vmfs-vm2/BackupXSI/ --backup
-type=custom --backup-vms=QRadarCE733GA02 --backup-room=500 --test-mode=true
NOTICE: (c) XSIBackup kills any user launched jobs, make sure you don't overlap manual jobs
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XSIBackup PID: 241952727 srv
Fri, 05 Mar 2021 03:33:17 +0000 IPv4: 192.168./255.255.255.0
VMware ESXi 5.5.0 build-3568722 (c) Rsync 3.1.0 as opt. dependency
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Backup Id: unknown Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2609 v3 @ 1.90GHz
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Alert: crontab is not installed for user support
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ADVICE: no SSD disks, please consider adding an SSD cache disk to improve performance
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Backup user is: root
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--backup-point found at /vmfs/volume/vmfs-vm2/BackupXSI (filesystem: )
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E-mail Warnings
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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-
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The backup room has been limited to 500 gb.
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Getting list of all VMs...
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110 QRadarCE733GA02 [vmfs-vms2] QRadarCE733GA02/QRadarCE733GA02.vmx rhel7_64Guest vmx-10
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VMs to backup:
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110 QRadarCE733GA02 [vmfs-vms2] QRadarCE733GA02/QRadarCE733GA02.vmx rhel7_64Guest vmx-10
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Calculating sizes...
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Could not get available backup room in backup datastore
Needed room: 250 Gb.
Sparse size: 250 Gb.
Available room: 0 Gb.
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Not enough room to make the backup, some older folders will be deleted
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[QRadarCE733GA02] Starting backup (size is 256000M on 256000M file)
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XSIBackup will backup your VMs while they are running, so that users can continue to use the VM
while the backup is taking place. You can also run --backup-how=cold|warm
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Hot backup selected for VM: [QRadarCE733GA02], will not be switched off
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[QRadarCE733GA02] info: boot partition is MBR
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Test mode activated VMs will not be cloned, please remove --test-mode=true to allow backups
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Errors detected in backup, check logs
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Backup finished
Tip: no chained backups scheduled, set --on-success and/or --on-error arguments to chain a backup
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