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[quote=admin]On --config-backup:

The argument is working well.[/quote]

My experience is the argument works well until you edit the backup job with the gui and add another argument. The next time the job runs the new argument is invoked and runs in the job but config-backup does not even though it is still in the job definition. If you delete the job and rebuild it with both arguments then both run.

[quote=mikeg]2) The backup jobs to the nfs share are not storing the host config to the cfgbak folder even though that option has been added.[/quote]

I looked in the xsibackup.log and there was no mention of trying to run that option even though it was selected for the job. I decided to delete the job and recreate it and then it worked. Not sure what the problem was but that fixed it.

If I could get some ideas for #2 I could put this project to rest. Thanks for all the help.

[quote=mikeg]Also I just discovered the ESXi NFS datastore share is lost after rebooting Rocky Linux.[/quote]

I noticed that the second hard drive this share was located on was not auto-mounting at startup. It was a bit confusing. When I used the Disks app to check the mount options for that drive/partition the auto-mount option was clicked but everything was grayed out. I had to turn off the "user session defaults" toggle then apply the now un-grayed out options and then the share would consistently be available from ESXi after many Rocky reboots. I guess the user session defaults do not include auto-mount. It is just weird that it shows selected but grayed out.

[quote=admin]
ON ADDITION:

We have just tested (c)XSIBackup-NAS and xsigr is installed with all components and working properly.
What is the exact version that you are using?
Did you download it from the sourceforge.net download page?:
[url]https://sourceforge.net/projects/xsibackup-nas/[/url][/quote]

Yes I downloaded XSIBackup-NAS_2.1.1_C7.tar.gz from there and followed the steps in the readme to set it up.

Today I deleted the VM but if you would like me to test it again for you I will be happy to. Just let me know.

[quote=admin]Do use Rocky Linux 8 as your NAS OS?. (c)XSIBackup-NAS is an apliance to help quickly deploy NFS and iSCSI shares for (c)ESXi. You can run XSIGR from (c)XSIBackup-NAS, you may need to install some components manually though.

To have a more straight granular restore backup server just use a minimal install of Rocky Linux 8, then run [b]./bin/XSIGR/install[/b] from the (c)XSIBackup installation dir in the (c)ESXi host.[/quote]

I was using (c)XSIBackup-NAS. It was my assumption since it was your pre-configured appliance for ESXi it would have everything needed. Since that didn't work as expected I moved on and tried the Rocky Linux 8.6 route as suggested. I installed it with the gui on a VM. Then I linked it with xsibackup on my Esxi host. Then I installed xsigr to it from my host and then ran xsigr and installed all the dependencies logged in as root when prompted. I successfully created some backups to it with no problem. However when trying to mount one for a granular restore I now get this fuse error.

# xsifs --backuppath=/run/media/root/backup/xsibackup/photonos /root/xsifs
fuse: warning: library too old, some operations may not not work

I ran software updater and it reports up to date.

fuse-2.9.7-15.el8.x86_64 is installed 
fuse-libs-2.9.7-15.el8.x86_64 is installed.
fuse3-3.3.0-15.el8.x86_64 is also installed
fuse3-libs-3.3.0-15.el8.x86_64 is installed

Perhaps that is the problem?

I thought Rocky Linux would be good right out of the box as advertised. No such luck.

Edit: Well I just noticed it did in fact mount the repository even though it reported that error. So should I do anything or just ignore the error?