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HI

Since yesterday I have been doing some tests with the "check" command on a small VM of those in production
The purpose is to check removable disks after copying backups from NAS

The backup I'm testing on was generated via "replication" and ran tonight

What happens is that:

1) there is a fix to the .vmdk file (around 30% of the check)
2) all 3 options ( file, fast and full ) perform the reconstruction of the file

I mounted the backup copy of the VM and it boots fine

I do the check from the Linux NAS server using commands (fast, file, full)

/home/root/.xsi/bin/xsibackup --check=fast /Backup/backup_esxi_no_rdx/1/esxi20/W10-VM_05/
/home/root/.xsi/bin/xsibackup --check=file /Backup/backup_esxi_no_rdx/1/esxi20/W10-VM_05/
/home/root/.xsi/bin/xsibackup --check=full /Backup/backup_esxi_no_rdx/1/esxi20/W10-VM_05/

The version is

/home/root/.xsi/bin/xsibackup --version
1.7.1.2

To be sure of point 2, I saved and restored the blocklog file that is regenerated and restored it before rerunning the "check"

cp W10-VM_05-flat.vmdk.blocklog.orig W10-VM_05-flat.vmdk.blocklog

The report is as follows
13/30 W10-VM_05-flat.vmdk 100.00 GB | 100.00% 100.00% 20 RE

The questions are:

1) why is there a correction to the blocklog file on backups? Could it depend on the different version?
2) Shouldn't the 3 options of the check command work differently? That is, only FULL should regenerate the blocklog if I understand correctly

I found no examples for the "check" command. Did I do something wrong?

NOTE 1: I made a diff between the files and the only differences are on the 20 lines as per the report.
        So I think it doesn't depend on the version otherwise I would have found practically all the checksum lines different
NOTE 2: Checking yesterday's copy of the same backup gave +2000 corrections

I'm trying to check all the other backups.....

Thank you
Stefano

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xsibackup \
--replica \
"VMs(W10-VM_05)" \
"root@192.168.0.217:22:/Backup/backup_esxi_no_rdx/$(( $(( $(date +%s)/86400 )) % 2 ))/esxi20" \
--compression="no" \
--use-smtp="2" \
--mail-to="xxxxxxxx@lostudiocommerciale.it" \
--description="W10-WM_05" \
>> /scratch/XSI/XSIBackup-DC/var/log/xsibackup.log 2>&1

Hi

Both with xsibackup-dc 1.6.0.10 and 1.7.0.0 the backup fails
I use esxi 7 U3 and as a backup drive a debian server (latest version)

The backup script is as follows

/scratch/XSI/XSIBackup-DC/xsibackup \
--replica \
"VMs(W2022_DC)" \
"root@192.168.0.217:22:/Backup/backup_esxi/$(( $(( $(date +%s)/86400 )) % 3 ))/esxi20" \
--compression="no" \
--use-smtp="2" \
--mail-to="yyy@xxxx.it" \
>> /scratch/XSI/XSIBackup-DC/var/log/xsibackup.log 2>&1

The replica actually seems correct.
The error appears to be in a post-replication operation
In any case I can't do backups via ip (with nfs they are too slow).
Do you have any suggestions ?
Am I doing something wrong?

Thank you
Stefano

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ERROR with 1.7.0.0

2023-06-19T10:45:46 | Error code 1866 at file common.c, line 1866 | Error description: error running remote command: ssh -p22 -q -o ServerAliveInterval=60 -o ServerAliveCountMax=1440 -o PreferredAuthentications=publickey,keyboard-interactive,password -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -i "/vmfs/volumes/6475f4e2-0593146c-94cc-941882662168/XSI/XSIBackup-DC/xsibackup_id_rsa" root@192.168.0.217 "eval \$(echo 'c3luYztSPSIkKCAoIi9ob21lL3Jvb3QvLnhzaS9iaW4veHNpYmFja3VwIiAtLWNsZWFuLW9zbmFwc2hvdHMgIi9CYWNrdXAvYmFja3VwX2VzeGkvMC9lc3hpMjAvVzIwMjJfRENfbG9zdHVkaW9jb21tZXJjaWFsZV8xL1cyMDIyX0RDX2xvc3R1ZGlvY29tbWVyY2lhbGVfMS52bXNkIikgMj4mMSApIjtlY2hvIC1uICQ/IjsiJFIK' | '/home/root/.xsi/bin/xsib64' -di 2>/dev/null)" 2>&1, response:
2023-06-19T10:45:47 | Error code 5449 at file xsibackup.c, line 5449 | Error description: some error/s were raised while backing up: VMs(W2022_DC), error count is: 1

Hi

Backups fail on esxi 7U3 installed on SD card

io ho installato xsibackup-free 1.6.0.10

The errors are as follows:

cannot create dir '/vmfs/volumes/20230520130012', response: Operation not permitted
can't create backup folder
cannot create dir '/vmfs/volumes/cfgbak', response: Operation not permitted
cannot create dir '/vmfs/volumes/data', response: Operation not permitted

Is there a configuration file where I can change the path ?
Is there any solution to this problem?

Thank you!

Stefano Pesaresi