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clicream

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Registered: 2018-04-19

Posts: 27

backup skipped snapshots

snippets of cron & backup log

--backup-type=custom --backup-vms="MAIL1!MAIL1.vmdk;MAIL1_10.vmdk;MAIL1_11.vmdk"

2018-09-17T11:15:57|  Backing up virtual disks...
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2018-09-17T11:15:58|  DISK=/vmfs/volumes/Datastore-RAID10/MAIL1/MAIL1-000001.vmdk (excluded)
2018-09-17T11:15:58|  DISK=/vmfs/volumes/Datastore-RAID10/MAIL1/MAIL1-000001.vmdk (excluded)
2018-09-17T11:15:58|  DISK=/vmfs/volumes/Datastore-RAID10/MAIL1/MAIL1-Snapshot117.vmsn
2018-09-17T11:15:58|  DISK=/vmfs/volumes/Datastore-RAID10/MAIL1/MAIL1.vmdk (excluded)
2018-09-17T11:15:58|  DISK=/vmfs/volumes/Datastore-RAID10/MAIL1/MAIL1_9-000001.vmdk (excluded)
2018-09-17T11:15:58|  DISK=/vmfs/volumes/Datastore-RAID10/MAIL1/MAIL1_9.vmdk
2018-09-17T11:15:58|  DISK=/vmfs/volumes/Datastore-RAID5/MAIL1/MAIL1_10-000001.vmdk (excluded)
2018-09-17T11:15:58|  DISK=/vmfs/volumes/Datastore-RAID5/MAIL1/MAIL1_10-000001.vmdk (excluded)
2018-09-17T11:15:58|  DISK=/vmfs/volumes/Datastore-RAID5/MAIL1/MAIL1_10.vmdk (excluded)
2018-09-17T11:15:58|  DISK=/vmfs/volumes/Datastore-RAID5/MAIL1/MAIL1_11-000001.vmdk (excluded)
2018-09-17T11:15:58|  DISK=/vmfs/volumes/Datastore-RAID5/MAIL1/MAIL1_11-000001.vmdk (excluded)
2018-09-17T11:15:58|  DISK=/vmfs/volumes/Datastore-RAID5/MAIL1/MAIL1_11.vmdk (excluded)

Why it excluded "MAIL1_9-000001.vmdk"?

VMware ESXi 6.0.0 build-4192238
XSIBACKUP-PRO 10.3.4

admin

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Registered: 2017-04-21

Posts: 2,072

Re: backup skipped snapshots

The disk: "MAIL1_9-000001.vmdk" is excluded because it's the snapshot the VM is running on at the moment to take the backup.