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#1 2019-09-03 18:21:57
- cuchillo
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Additional commands
It would be convenient to have a command to list all the bacups in a repository separated by subfolders. It would also be convenient for a command to delete a certain backup (so remove its exclusive blocks).
This is nothing that currently cannot be done by hand. They are only suggestions.
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#2 2019-09-07 11:31:02
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Re: Additional commands
Use the [b]--prune[/b] action.
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#3 2020-06-24 01:43:18
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Re: Additional commands
I would also echo the desire for a simple way to point xsibackup to a backup repo and output what vm's are available for restore.
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#4 2020-06-24 08:51:39
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Re: Additional commands
That's exactly how restore works...
./xsibackup --restore /some/repository/20200623033451/YOURVM /where/to/restoreYou can also use bin/xsifs to extract the files, that will be slower though.
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#5 2020-06-24 11:03:17
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Re: Additional commands
Yes i understand the --restore option which needs to be pointed to a vm within a timestamped folder, but was imagining a way to list the number of restore points given a certain VM for instance. example:
./xsibackup --list "VMs(YOURVM)" /some/repository
20200622030451
20200623033451
20200624032001or something like that. but then again maybe thats the job of a find command.
As i am starting to use backup repos i just find many time stamped folders and any number of VMs can be under each.
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#6 2020-06-24 14:29:43
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Re: Additional commands
Isn't that similar to?:
ls -la /some/repository1.4.0.0 will include a GUI that will be conceptually different to that in Pro. Pro's GUI was ment to work through some sort of wizard, but that concept is probably twisting the GUI too much. New DC's GUI will be cleaner and more straight.
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#7 2020-06-24 14:58:40
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Re: Additional commands
Not exactly - for example if i do that on my repo right now i get:
[root@localhost:~] ls -la /vmfs/volumes/Offsite/
total 1720
drwxrwxrwx 46 root root 4096 Jun 24 01:39 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 Jun 24 14:55 ..
drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Jun 19 16:57 .vSphere-HA
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51 Jun 17 11:45 .xsitools
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 17 11:45 20200617114516
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 17 11:46 20200617114624
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 17 12:51 20200617125109
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jun 17 14:28 20200617142748
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jun 17 16:20 20200617162023
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jun 17 16:56 20200617165554
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 17 17:22 20200617172243
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jun 17 17:23 20200617172309
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 17 17:39 20200617173949
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jun 17 17:41 20200617174111
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 17 18:21 20200617182141
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 17 21:02 20200617210206
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 17 21:02 20200617210237
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 17 21:55 20200617215509
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 18 02:24 20200618022308
drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Jun 18 11:44 20200618114358
drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Jun 18 13:24 20200618132435
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 18 13:25 20200618132527
drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Jun 18 18:57 20200618185725
drwx------ 7 root root 4096 Jun 19 04:40 20200618191033
drwx------ 5 root root 4096 Jun 19 14:14 20200619104231
drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Jun 19 10:43 20200619104313
drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Jun 19 14:19 20200619141951
drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Jun 19 14:20 20200619142021
drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Jun 19 14:46 20200619144550
drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Jun 19 15:09 20200619150900
drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Jun 19 15:54 20200619155451
drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Jun 19 16:17 20200619161732
drwx------ 4 root root 4096 Jun 19 16:28 20200619162800
drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Jun 19 16:44 20200619164401
drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Jun 19 16:46 20200619164623
drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Jun 19 17:15 20200619171512
drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Jun 20 11:45 20200620114512
drwx------ 4 root root 4096 Jun 24 01:29 20200624012917
drwx------ 4 root root 4096 Jun 24 01:31 20200624013145
drwx------ 4 root root 4096 Jun 24 01:33 20200624013310
drwx------ 8 root root 4096 Jun 24 14:24 20200624013504
drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Jun 24 01:36 20200624013649
drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Jun 24 01:37 20200624013738
drwx------ 5 root root 4096 Jun 24 02:37 20200624013857
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 17 11:36 @Recently-Snapshot
drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Jun 19 17:05 Test
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 Jun 24 14:55 data
-rwx--x--x 1 root root 1382514 Jun 17 11:44 xsibackup
-rw------- 1 root root 2590 Jun 17 11:45 xsibackup_id_rsa
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 565 Jun 17 11:45 xsibackup_id_rsa.pubwhich doesnt really identify VMs at all - i could do
ls -la /some/repository/*which shows to the vm level but is hard to read. Ideally a usecase would be:
- I need to restore a vm
- query the backup repo for all possible revisions of that VM within a repository
- issue restore command for certain vm revision
depending on the backup schedule I cant assume that all of those time stamped folders contain all vms. make sense?
thanks!
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#8 2020-06-24 18:40:55
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Re: Additional commands
Current Pro version does have that feature.
We thought of adding it to the DC binary, nonetheless we want to keep it as compact and fast as possible, so that kind of functionality will probably be added to the GUI, so that the main binary remains small and fast.
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