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#1 2021-06-25 15:29:26

Int
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xsibackup fails to find existing VM (solved)

This call of xsibackup

xsibackup --backup "VMs(XBC_IGMS101 - Zabbix)"

fails although the VM exists with this name. This is the error produced:

2021-06-25T15:14:23 | Error code 2672 at file xsibackup.c, line 2672 | Error description: could not find any VM in list: xbc_igms101 - zabbix, please check that the VM files exist

"vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms" shows that this VM really exists with this name:

64     XBC_IGMS101 - Zabbix       [SSD-RAID5] IGMS101/IGMS101.vmx                        centos8_64Guest         vmx-15

A similar backup call

xsibackup --backup "VMs(XBS_DMZ01 - Redmine Test)"

works just fine.

Could the VM hardware version be the cause?
The non-working VM has hardware version "vmx-15", the working VM has hardware version "vmx-14".

The ESXi host is Version:
6.7.0 Update 3 (Build 15160138)

Last edited by Int (2021-06-25 15:33:54)

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#2 2021-06-25 17:56:17

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Re: xsibackup fails to find existing VM (solved)

No, that can't be the reason. The most likely reason is that the VM's name is not the one you believe it is.

Please, avoid such naming.

We have taken the time to make ©XSIBackup-DC work with spaces, dashes, hyphens, underscores, at signs, etc.., still we have detected a number of shell component bugs in the past related to space handling.

On top of that there exist a number of different characters that will produce an invisible space. Same applies to hyphens, dashes, etc...

Make your life easier and renounce to using fancy characters in production environments, you will for sure save yourself time and money enough for some days of vacation in the Caribbean after a decade.

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#3 2021-06-28 12:18:47

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Re: xsibackup fails to find existing VM (solved)

When I remove all spaces, special characters and even capital characters xsibackup still fails with the same error:

2021-06-28T12:12:15 | Error code 2672 at file xsibackup.c, line 2672 | Error description: could not find any VM in list: xbcigms101zabbix, please check that the VM files exist

The datastore path of the VM also does not contain spaces or special characters.

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#4 2021-06-28 14:49:36

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Re: xsibackup fails to find existing VM (solved)

You can contact support so that we debug this for you, nonetheless it looks like there's something in that VM which is not what you believe it to be.

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#5 2021-07-13 14:50:01

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Re: xsibackup fails to find existing VM (solved)

When starting the backup for all running VMs

xsibackup --backup "VMs(RUNNING)"

the VM was included in the list of VMs to backup but the backup itself did not work correctly.

The email report gave this garbled output for the VM

Num 	VM Name 	Size 	Diff. 	State 	Time 	Speed 	Compress 	Errors

16 	[9686dc-ab09e0c8-b200-a0369fd6b900/IGMS101/IGMS101.vmx] b200-a0369fd6b900/IGMS101/IGMS101.vmx 	2.00 MB 	0.00 B 	/vmfs/volumes/5c9686dc-ab09e0c8-b200-a0369fd6b900/IGMS101/IGMS101.vmx 	00:00:00 	inf MB/s 	1626120946 	0

I solved the issue by recreating the VM configuration (.vmx) from scratch and just kept the original virtual hard disks.
With this new VM configuration the xsibackup works fine now.

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#6 2021-07-13 17:10:39

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Re: xsibackup fails to find existing VM (solved)

Thank you for the feedback, it was clear to us that something in that VM layout was not right.

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