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#1 Re: General matters » Backup of suspended VMs? » 2018-03-19 10:19:19

pfamircea

Can anyone shed some light on this issue? If and when this will be supported?

#2 Re: General matters » Backup of suspended VMs? » 2018-03-08 11:13:17

pfamircea

Hello again, 10 months later. Was this suspended VM backup addressed? I searched the change log for 10.3.1 nothing in it about this.

Thanks

#3 Re: General matters » Backup of suspended VMs? » 2017-05-18 13:58:09

pfamircea

I see. What's the standard wait time?

#4 Re: General matters » Backup of suspended VMs? » 2017-05-18 10:50:26

pfamircea

Sorry, I wanted to keep things small as the vm search output is quite big.

Thanks for the info. Anything I can do with this suspended VM backup to get it "on track"?
What about the VM itself. Can I safely delete the snapshot without it affecting my suspended state?

Thank you.

Below is the header for reference (some irrelevant info stripped):

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XSIBackup PID: 1685891                                                         esxi
Thu, 18 May 2017 08:16:50 +0000                      IPv4: a.b.c.d/255.255.255.0
VMware ESXi 5.1.0 build-1483097                   (c) Rsync 3.1.0 as opt. dependency

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Found --backup-point at [ /vmfs/volumes/wd_red_6tb/backup ]
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E-mail Warnings
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The e-mail report will not be sent because of the followig reasons:
The --mail-from string has not been set
The --mail-to string has not been set
The --smtp-srv string has not been set
The --smtp-port string has not been set
The --smtp-usr string has not been set, you need --smtp-usr if --smtp-auth is other than -none-
The --smtp-pwd string has not been set, you need --smtp-pwd if --smtp-auth is other than -none-
Getting list of all VMs...

from here till the previous log it's all the same with a lot of "Skipping invalid VM '105'" and finding various other VMs

#5 General matters » Backup of suspended VMs? » 2017-05-18 08:39:06

pfamircea
Replies: 7

Hello,

I just tried backing up a suspended VM and it didn't go quite well. The disk got cloned but there were errors.
What I notice is that the suspended state was not backed up and the backup snapshot was not removed.

Log looks like below:

VMs to backup:
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100    test-vm             [corsair] test-vm/test-vm.vmx                 winXPProGuest      vmx-08
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Needed room: 11 Gb.
Available room: 5394 Gb.
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Skipping invalid VM '105'
Skipping invalid VM '57'
Skipping invalid VM '61'
Skipping invalid VM '105'
Skipping invalid VM '57'
Skipping invalid VM '61'
Excerpt
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Hot backup selected for VM: [test-vm], will not be switched off
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Skipping invalid VM '105'
Skipping invalid VM '57'
Skipping invalid VM '61'
Skipping invalid VM '105'
Skipping invalid VM '57'
Skipping invalid VM '61'
Error CLDELSN1: cannot delete snapshot VM Id: 100, details: Skipping invalid VM '105'
Skipping invalid VM '57'
Skipping invalid VM '61'
Skipping invalid VM '105'
Skipping invalid VM '57'
Skipping invalid VM '61'
Syncronizing config files
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Skipping invalid VM '105'
Skipping invalid VM '57'
Skipping invalid VM '61'
Skipping invalid VM '105'
Skipping invalid VM '57'
Skipping invalid VM '61'
No .nvram file found for test-vm (100)
[test-vm] info: VMWare tools were not detected, the system will not be quiesced
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Skipping invalid VM '105'
Skipping invalid VM '57'
Skipping invalid VM '61'
Skipping invalid VM '105'
Skipping invalid VM '57'
Skipping invalid VM '61'
Backing up virtual disks...
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ide0:0.fileName = "WinXP.vmdk"
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Destination disk format: VMFS thin-provisioned
Cloning disk '/vmfs/volumes/corsair/test-vm/WinXP.vmdk'...
Clone: 100% done.
The ESXi configuration was saved to "/vmfs/volumes/wd_red_6tb/backup"
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Errors detected in backup, check logs
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Some warnings were raised
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Backup finished
Tip: no chained backups scheduled, set --on-success and/or --on-error arguments to chain a backup
Killed

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