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#1 Re: General matters » Space in VM name (and directory) breaks XSIBackup » 2019-03-12 20:36:42

nle

Yes, I've done it once before following VMWare's [url=https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1029513]Knowledge Article[/url]

#2 Re: General matters » Space in VM name (and directory) breaks XSIBackup » 2019-03-12 13:35:55

nle

That is probably true. But I'm not sure if that helps you adopt users – since it's a little bit messy/risky to rename VMs, and they potentially would look on other solutions (on the other hand those users are probably free users like me).

Anyhow this is for a ESXi "homelab", so it's more a hobby than anything. And when I created the VMs a few years ago, I did not think about it that way. I would probably not use that sort of naming today.

To be honest, I expected that ESXi would sanitize the name in the backend of things, and let me use the name that I want in the frontend. At least in my use case it's felt pretty handy to be able to name it with "hostname (OS)" in the ESXi interface.

Anyways, I appreciate the work you guys do. smile

#3 Re: General matters » Space in VM name (and directory) breaks XSIBackup » 2019-03-12 11:21:17

nle

Thanks.

It did work on an earlier version (on ESXi 5.5) with the same VM names, and I saw a post about spacing earlier on this new version, so I was hoping it had a workaround.

You probably know this better than me, isn't it possible to "sanitize" inputs? So special chars can live within strings without breaking anything?

#4 General matters » Space in VM name (and directory) breaks XSIBackup » 2019-03-11 12:22:22

nle
Replies: 6
./xsibackup: line 1: arithmetic syntax error

When running:

./xsibackup --backup-prog=Vmkfstools --backup-point="/vmfs/volumes/XXX" --backup-type=auto --backup-how=Hot --backup-room=200 --mail-from="esxi@domain.com" --mail-to="user@domain.com" --smtp-srv=smtp.gmail.com --smtp-port=465 --smtp-sec=TLS --smtp-usr=esxi@domain.com --smtp-pwd=XXX --test-mode=true
###############################################################################
#
#  (c) XSIBACKUP-FREE 11.0.1 | Backup for (c) VMWARE ESXi Hypervisor by 33hops.com
#
###################################################################################

NOTICE: (c) XSIBackup kills any user launched jobs, make sure you don't overlap manual jobs
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NOTICE: (c) XSIBackup-Pro 11.2.3 is available to download
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XSIBackup PID:           220580                                                            esxi
Mon, 11 Mar 2019 12:15:32 +0000                               IPv4: 192.168.XXX.XXX/255.255.255.0
VMware ESXi 6.5.0 build-8294253                              (c) Rsync 3.1.0 as opt. dependency
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Backup Id:              unknown                 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU         960  @ 3.20GHz
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Alert: crontab is not installed for user root
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ADVICE: no SSD disks, please consider adding an SSD cache disk to improve performance
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Backup user is: root
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Backup program is: vmkfstools
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--backup-point found at /vmfs/volumes/01848b5c-d57c247a/ESXi/ESXi-Backup (filesystem: )
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The backup room has been limited to 200 gb.
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Getting list of all VMs...
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2      napp-it (OmniOS)                  [OS1] napp-it-14b/napp-it-14b.vmx                                     solaris11_64Guest   vmx-08
3      server (Ubuntu LTS)             [OS2] server (Ubuntu LTS)/server (Ubuntu LTS).vmx                       ubuntu64Guest       vmx-10  
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VMs to backup:
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2      napp-it (OmniOS)                  [OS1] napp-it-14b/napp-it-14b.vmx                                     solaris11_64Guest   vmx-08
3      server (Ubuntu LTS)             [OS2] server (Ubuntu LTS)/server (Ubuntu LTS).vmx                       ubuntu64Guest       vmx-10  
Error: skipping, not able to retrieve VM information
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Needed room: 43 Gb.
Sparse size: 43 Gb.
Available room: 200 Gb.
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[napp-it (OmniOS)] Starting backup (size is 40960M on 40960M file)
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XSIBackup will backup your VMs while they are running and will quiesce guest services too, so that users
can continue to use the VM while the backup is taking place. You can also run cold and warm --backup-how
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Hot backup selected for VM: [napp-it (OmniOS)], will not be switched off
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[napp-it (OmniOS)] info: boot partition is MBR
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Test mode activated VMs will not be cloned, please remove --test-mode=true to allow backups
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./xsibackup: line 1: arithmetic syntax error

It happens regardless if I use custom backup and enter in the names of the VMs manually.

I'm pretty sure this is due to the spacing in the VM names (and/or directory), and I've been able to correct this by renaming the VMs on another install.

I wonder if there is a way to bypass this behavior, and keep the spacing? It's a rather tedious process to rename VMs, so I would rather not if I don't have to.

#5 Re: General matters » Getting "backup failed error" but "OK" on all in the status. » 2017-09-18 18:46:24

nle

Thanks.

It's a custom dell ESXi image, but I think this is a bug – not a feature/thingie on the Dell image. Especially since it's mentioned in the VMWare community.

#6 Re: General matters » Getting "backup failed error" but "OK" on all in the status. » 2017-09-18 09:01:31

nle

Update. I had to restart the server, and it did not create "/scratch/downloads" folder (or leave the existing be) upon restart. So the backup task failed again (set up to execute every Sunday night).

At least I now know the reason, I'll try to see if I can make the folder persistent.

#7 Re: General matters » Getting "backup failed error" but "OK" on all in the status. » 2017-08-28 19:33:02

nle

Thank you.

Yes that is the error, but it says some warnings were raised – but I can't seem to locate any warnings. But I guess it's a general message if there is an error?

Command outputs:

[root@hostname:~] vim-cmd hostsvc/firmware/backup_config
(vmodl.fault.SystemError) {
   faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,
   faultMessage = <unset>,
   reason = "Internal error"
   msg = "Received SOAP response fault from [<cs p:047856a8, TCP:localhost:80>]: backupConfiguration
A general system error occurred: Internal error"
}
[root@hostname:~] find /scratch/downloads -type f -name "*.tgz" -exec ls -1rt "{}" + | head -n1
find: /scratch/downloads: No such file or directory

The commands are run from default directory "/", and "/scratch/downloads" does not exist (scratch does exist, but does not have downloads dir).

Edit found [url=https://communities.vmware.com/thread/567954]this post[/url] on the VMWare forums.

Edit 2: Seems like creating the "downloads" directory and uninstalling the iscsi driver things did the trick.

#8 Re: General matters » Getting "backup failed error" but "OK" on all in the status. » 2017-08-28 14:53:20

nle

Thank you!

Should have thought about that, but unfortunately, it does not give me much more to go on.

Destination disk format: VMFS thin-provisioned
Cloning disk '/vmfs/volumes/VMs/XXX/XXX_0.vmdk'...
Clone: 100% done.
Error backing the ESXi host config to /vmfs/volumes/XXX/ESXi/VM_Backup
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2017-08-28T06:48:03|  Errors detected in backup, check logs
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2017-08-28T06:48:03|  Some warnings were raised

Why the error copying the config file? What warnings? All I see is errors.

#9 General matters » Getting "backup failed error" but "OK" on all in the status. » 2017-08-28 09:07:21

nle
Replies: 9

Hi,

the backup is running on VMware ESXi 6.5.0 build-5969303, copying to a NFS datastore.

I'm getting this subject:

✖ XSIBACKUP errors detected in backup job!! | ESXi Backup Report

But in the e-mail it says "ok" on all VMs.

Done hot backup, using vmkfstools.
The backup room has been limited to 200 Gb.
Available room in device /vmfs/volumes/XXX/ESXi/VM_Backup before backup: 200 Gb.
Needed room in device /vmfs/volumes/XXX/ESXi/VM_Backup for backup: 81 Gb.
VM Name			State	Size	Stop		Copy	Start	Time (min)	Speed (mb/s)
XXX (vMA)		ON	1G	NO (hot backup)	OK	-	1		16
XXX (Ubuntu BE)		ON	32G	NO (hot backup)	OK	-	20		26
XXX (Ubuntu LTS)	ON	40G	NO (hot backup)	OK	-	16		41
XXX (Ubuntu BE)		ON	7G	NO (hot backup)	OK	-	8		15
Available space in device /vmfs/volumes/XXX/ESXi/VM_Backup after backup: 200 Gb.
Complete backup elapsed time: 47 min

Any advice on this?

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