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#1 Re: General matters » sometimes KO, Failed to clone disk: The file specified is not a virtu » 2017-07-31 03:46:44

andrew_ho_ka

These few days, i have do another testing.
I have tried to use the following command to copy a big vmdk file from the same datastore to another datastore and it work without any problem. All of them work 100% done.

vmkfstools -i /vmfs/volumes/raid5-7TB/vm1/vm1_0-000002.vmdk /vmfs/volumes/esxibackup/aaa.vmdk -d thin
vmkfstools -i /vmfs/volumes/raid5-7TB/vm1/vm1_0-000002.vmdk /vmfs/volumes/esxibackup/aaa2.vmdk -d thin
vmkfstools -i /vmfs/volumes/raid5-7TB/vm1/vm1_0-000002.vmdk /vmfs/volumes/esxibackup/aaa3.vmdk -d thin
vmkfstools -i /vmfs/volumes/raid5-7TB/vm1/vm1_0-000002.vmdk /vmfs/volumes/esxibackup/aaa4.vmdk -d thin
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etc...


It don't seems like there is any issue on the raid.
And after that, I try using xsibackup again, the error message show again.

May I know what is the exact command xsibackup is using to clone the vmdk?
Maybe I can try that command manually?

Thanks.

#2 Re: General matters » sometimes KO, Failed to clone disk: The file specified is not a virtu » 2017-07-26 02:58:57

andrew_ho_ka

Thanks for your reply.
1) No, I am not using vCenter and no vMotion is supported in my esxi server.

2) It is not easy for me to try another hardware. Actually, all the virtual machine is running quite well without any problem.
The datastore is a 4 x 4tb raid 5 hdd. It is just started for 7months.
So, it don't like it's the hardware problem?

Actually, are there any other way, sth like scandisk? disk check? that I can try?
Because it's a production machine, it is not supposed to be turned off. I am not hoping to do that.
Any other possible way to do a troubleshooting?

#3 General matters » sometimes KO, Failed to clone disk: The file specified is not a virtu » 2017-07-25 04:10:31

andrew_ho_ka
Replies: 17

I am running the script below

/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/xsi-dir/xsibackup --backup-point=/vmfs/volumes/esxibackup --backup-type=custom --backup-vms="vm1,vm2,vm3" --mail-from=xsibackup-no-reply@aaa.com --mail-to=andrewcheung@aaa.com --smtp-srv=192.168.1.5 --smtp-port=25 --smtp-auth="none"


After that, sometimes I received no error.
But sometimes I receive KO in some machine or all machine.

The error message  below:



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Hot backup selected for VM: [vm1], will not be switched off
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Syncronizing config files
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No .vmxf file found for vm1 (10)
[andy-ubuntu] info: VMWare Tools detected, taking snapshot please wait...
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Backing up virtual disks...
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scsi0:0.fileName = "vm1_0-000002.vmdk"
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Destination disk format: VMFS thin-provisioned
Cloning disk '/vmfs/volumes/raid5-7TB/vm1/vm1_0-000002.vmdk'...
Clone: 8% done.[vm1] CLVMKFS1 error: Failed to clone disk: The file specified is not a virtual disk (15).
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I am using esxi 6.5 now and the newest version of XSIBACKUP free.

It is strange that, sometimes it work but sometimes it doesn't work.
What make it not working with the same script?

All the machine is running and it is production machine that I am not turning them off during backup.
This is supposed to be worked for a running machine in the manual.

Please advise? Thanks.

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