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alexd

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Registered: 2019-06-18

Posts: 2

xsibackup-free failure during backup

Hi,

I'm new here in the world of esxi so please bare with me. We have 18 VMs being backed up by xsi-backup which used to work fine. Recently backups have been failing. After checking the cron logs for xsibackup, I get the following error:

rm: can't remove '/vmfs/volumes/esxi-backup/ESXIHOST//VMNAME/VMNAME-flat.vmdk': Input/output error
rm: can't stat '/vmfs/volumes/esxi-backup/ESXIHOST//VMNAME/VMNAME-virt.nvram': Input/output error

Does anyone know what Input/Output error might mean and is there anywhere else I can look in order to troubleshoot this?

Thanks in advance.

Alex

admin

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Registered: 2017-04-21

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Re: xsibackup-free failure during backup

Are you aware of the fact that you have double slashes in your paths?

alexd

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Registered: 2019-06-18

Posts: 2

Re: xsibackup-free failure during backup

Hi, sorry for the late reply. Yes I'm aware, that was a formatting mistake on my part. I still receive those errors whenever xsibackup tries to run. Thanks

admin

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Registered: 2017-04-21

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Re: xsibackup-free failure during backup

Input/output error is usually thrown by NFS when it can't access some file system.
That error is indicating some gross I/O error, your datastore is not accessible or usable, it has nothing to do with XSIBackup, it just can't work if it can't access data.