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sfrooz

Member

Registered: 2019-08-19

Posts: 2

Problem backup performed 7 times in one scheduled job

Hi Support,

I bought the pro version of XSIBackup and I'm testing it in the test environment VMWare ESXi 6.7.0 build-13006603.
I created a backup job and successfully executed it manually and I received the backup notification e-mail correctly.
Now, I have a problem when I schedule the backup job to run.
The backup starts correctly at the set time but 7 backup destination folders are created and I receive 7 backup notification emails.
For example last night, these are the created folders:

20190819020003
    Virtual1
    Virtual2
    Virtual3
    1566181593-XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX-config.tgz
20190819020904
    Virtual1
    Virtual2
    Virtual3
    1566182294-XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX-config.tgz
20190819021903
    Virtual1
    Virtual2
    Virtual3
    1566183141-XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX-config.tgz
20190819022904
    Virtual1
    Virtual2
    Virtual3
    1566183779-XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX-config.tgz
20190819023904
    Virtual1
    Virtual2
    Virtual3
    1566184396-XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX-config.tgz
20190819024904
    Virtual1
    Virtual2
    Virtual3
    1566184905-XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX-config.tgz
20190819025904
    Virtual1
    Virtual2
    Virtual3
    1566185342-XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX-config.tgz

My job parameters are:

"/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/xsi-dir/xsibackup" \
--backup-prog=Vmkfstools \
--date-dir=yes \
--backup-point=/vmfs/volumes/syno.backups.datastore1/ESXI/VMs/N2/ \
--backup-type=All \
--backup-how=Hot \
--del-dirs=+4d \
--use-smtp=2 \
--mail-to=myhome.lan@fastwebnet.it \
--backup-id=00000 \
--description="Full VMs Backup" \
--exec=yes >> "/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/xsi-dir/var/logs/xsibackup.log"

I checked in the logs, there are no errors and actually the backup seems to be performed 7 times.
Can you help me understand how to fix this situation?

thanks in advanced

admin

Administrator

Registered: 2017-04-21

Posts: 2,055

Re: Problem backup performed 7 times in one scheduled job

The ESXi crond daemon is very primitive, it lacks any initialization control, thus you could have loaded it 7 times into memory without noticing.

You may use the Tools menu in the GUI to reinitialize the crond binary.

sfrooz

Member

Registered: 2019-08-19

Posts: 2

Re: Problem backup performed 7 times in one scheduled job

Hi Support,

I checked via ssh console with this command: "ps -c | grep cron" and this is the result:

3495628  3495628  grep                            grep cron
2484753  2484753  busybox                         /usr/lib/vmware/busybox/bin/busybox crond

so I have only one cron instance running.
I also performed the option you indicated to me via xsibackup interface and a messagebox is shown: "Current number of cron instance is 1, service seems to be running O.K."
But, it was a my mistake, I had set the scheduling parameters in this way:

* 2 * * *

therefore probably the job was executed several times, now I corrected the error this way:

0 2 * * *

and everything works properly! All backups are performed correctly and I receive only one email with the job execution report. ?
Fantastic tool, perfect for my needs, I recommend it to all vmware server administrators.?

Best regards

admin

Administrator

Registered: 2017-04-21

Posts: 2,055

Re: Problem backup performed 7 times in one scheduled job

Thank you for the feedback, yes, that was for sure the issue in your case.
Best