Should --certify-backup take this long?

Random Thoughts · 2019-01-10 15:27:24

Hi all,

New to the Pro version and am trying to certify backups, but as you'll see from the log, although the first backup took about 1h36m, the --certify-backup (using sha1) is still running after nearly 14h. Is this normal?

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2019-01-10T01:00:04|     XSIBACKUP-PRO 11.2.2: new execution request
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2019-01-10T01:00:05|  NOTICE: (c) XSIBackup kills any user launched jobs, make sure you don't overlap manual jobs
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XSIBackup PID:           638120                                                 edge.trisect.eu
Thu, 10 Jan 2019 01:00:04 +0000                                IPv4: 94.23.36.166/255.255.255.0
VMware ESXi 6.0.0 build-3620759                              (c) Rsync 3.1.0 as opt. dependency
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Backup Id:                  001                 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 4334
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2019-01-10T01:00:05|  Backup description: Nightly backup
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2019-01-10T01:00:05|  Alert: crontab is not installed for user root
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2019-01-10T01:00:06|  ADVICE: no SSD disks, please consider adding an SSD cache disk to improve performance
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2019-01-10T01:00:06|  Backup user is: root
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2019-01-10T01:00:06|  Backup program is: onediff
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2019-01-10T01:00:08|  --backup-point found at /vmfs/volumes/NAS (filesystem: NFS)
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2019-01-10T01:00:09|  Getting list of all VMs...
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2019-01-10T01:00:09|  10     Hawking          [datastore1] Hawking/Hawking.vmx   fedora64Guest   vmx-11
2019-01-10T01:00:10|  11     Kepler           [datastore1] Kepler/Kepler.vmx     fedora64Guest   vmx-11
2019-01-10T01:00:11|  12     Hubble           [datastore1] Hubble/Hubble.vmx     fedora64Guest   vmx-11
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2019-01-10T01:00:12|  VMs to backup:
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2019-01-10T01:00:12|  10     Hawking          [datastore1] Hawking/Hawking.vmx   fedora64Guest   vmx-11
2019-01-10T01:00:16|  11     Kepler           [datastore1] Kepler/Kepler.vmx     fedora64Guest   vmx-11
2019-01-10T01:00:21|  12     Hubble           [datastore1] Hubble/Hubble.vmx     fedora64Guest   vmx-11
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2019-01-10T01:00:25|  Calculating sizes...
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2019-01-10T01:00:27|  Needed room: 408 Gb.
2019-01-10T01:00:27|  Sparse size: 408 Gb.
2019-01-10T01:00:27|  Available room: 1828 Gb.
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2019-01-10T01:00:29|  [Hawking] Starting backup (size is 204994M on 204992M file)
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2019-01-10T01:00:29|  XSIBackup will backup your VMs while they are running, so that users can continue to use the VM
2019-01-10T01:00:29|  while the backup is taking place. You can also run cold and warm --backup-how
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2019-01-10T01:00:29|  Hot backup selected for VM: [Hawking], will not be switched off
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2019-01-10T01:00:30|  [Hawking] info: boot partition is MBR
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2019-01-10T01:00:32|  [Hawking] notice DIFRMMIS: no [Hawking-flat.vmdk] in remote OneDiff mirror, first run?.
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2019-01-10T01:00:32|  [Hawking] (c) OneDiff algorithm
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[Hawking] info: OneDiff backup first run, removing snapshots
[Hawking] info: all snapshots removed
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2019-01-10T01:00:53|  Snapshot & Quiescing
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2019-01-10T01:00:53|  [Hawking] info: VMWare Tools detected, taking snapshot QUIESCED(true)...
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2019-01-10T01:00:53|  [Hawking] info: round 1
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2019-01-10T01:01:05|  [Hawking] info: snapshot taken, quiescing status:
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2019-01-10T01:01:06|  INFO: found [Hawking_XSIBAK] with Id: 13
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2019-01-10T01:01:08|  Removing snapshots, please wait...
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2019-01-10T01:01:10|  Syncronizing config files
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2019-01-10T01:01:16|  Backing up virtual disks...
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2019-01-10T01:01:16|  scsi0:0.fileName = "Hawking.vmdk"
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Destination disk format: VMFS thin-provisioned
Cloning disk '/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/Hawking/Hawking.vmdk'...
Clone: 100% done.
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2019-01-10T01:35:51|  [Hawking] Disk copied to /vmfs/volumes/NAS/Hawking/Hawking.vmdk
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2019-01-10T01:35:53|  [Hawking] info: certifying backup by means of sha1 algorithm...
2019-01-10T01:35:54|  [Hawking] info: computing hashes for [Hawking-flat.vmdk]
2019-01-10T01:35:54|  [Hawking] info: comparing hashes of /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/Hawking/Hawking-flat.vmdk | /vmfs/volumes/NAS/Hawking/Hawking-flat.vmdk

Here's the backup job in question

"/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/xsi-dir/xsibackup" \
--backup-point=/vmfs/volumes/NAS \
--backup-prog=onediff:z \
--backup-type=all \
--certify-backup=sha1 \
--snapshot=doquiesce \
--backup-id=001 \
--description="Nightly backup" \
--mail-to=danny@trisect.uk \
--use-smtp=1 \
--exec=yes >> "/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/xsi-dir/var/logs/xsibackup.log"

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#1 2019-01-10 15:27:24

Should --certify-backup take this long?

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