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[quote=admin]Make sure the --exec=yes directive is at the end of the backup job string[/quote]

yes, figured out debugging the script... now it works!

Damn, i thought i was so near to heaven, no way to make it working, what's wrong here?

All working from command line, test date formati is weekday-hh-mm, doing ps -c|grep xsibackp i see the /bin/sh ... etc..., but joust for a moment, nothing on the log or .ERR

if [ "$(date '+%u-%H-%M')" == "3-14-03" ]
then
     # usb mount
     esxcli storage nfs add -H 192.168.1.1 -v usb -s /USBDisk2/

     /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/xsi-dir/xsibackup backupid=E1BAKtoUSB --exec=yes --backup-prog=xsitools:z --backup-how=hot --override=xsibakfilter --backup-type=custom --test-mode=false --use-smtp=1 --mail-to=xxxxxxxx --subject="test backup" --backup-point=/vmfs/volumes/usb/aaaaaaa --debug-info=yes --backup-vms=zzz

     #usb umount
     esxcli storage nfs remove  -v usb
fi

AH AH, the third option was the first I considered, but as it seemed the uglyest, I discarded it, but i will try, thanks.

That's clear, thank you!

Hi, regarding to the remote backup, the scheduled backups worked fine but today, trying to launch another backup using --run-backup i received an error:

It's a minor bug  for me but i dont'have spare time to investigate...

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Found (c) XSIBackup installation. Remote path is set dynamically
Remote xsi path set to: /vmfs/volumes/524d1b54-ddf4d08c-5600-90b11c388503/xsi-di                                  r
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------                                  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------                                  ---------------------------------
...
...
Preparing to execute backup in remote server: xxx
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------                                  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------                                  ---------------------------------

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------                                  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------                                  ---------------------------------
wc: standard input: Interrupted system call
Copying file EULA to remote server xxx
EULA                                                                       100% 4589     4.5KB/s   00:00

...
...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------     ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Executing remote backup on xxx
Saving log locally to => xsibackup-cron-xxx.log
ssh: illegal option --
usage: ssh [-1246AaCfgKkMNnqsTtVvXxYy] [-b bind_address] [-c cipher_spec]
           [-D [bind_address:]port] [-e escape_char] [-F configfile]
           [-I pkcs11] [-i identity_file]
           [-L [bind_address:]port:host:hostport]
           [-l login_name] [-m mac_spec] [-O ctl_cmd] [-o option] [-p port]
           [-R [bind_address:]port:host:hostport] [-S ctl_path]
           [-W host:port] [-w local_tun[:remote_tun]]
           [user@]hostname [command]
Killed

while you are thinking about it, I found that you changed the way to call the remote job, from
ssh $( echo "$SSHOPTS" ) -o ConnectTimeout=20 -p$srv2 ${defremusr}@$srv1 "${xsidefaultpath}/xsibackup \"${keyvalstr} --from=$HOSTIP --exec=yes\" &" >>"$PWD"/xsibackup-cron-${srv1}.log &

to

eval ssh "$SSHOPTS" -o ConnectTimeout=20 -p$srv2 ${defremusr}@$srv1 "\"${xsidefaultpath}/xsibackup ${keyvalstr} --from=$HOSTIP --exec=yes\" &" >>"$PWD"/xsibackup-cron-${srv1}.log &

using eval the backupid-> is lost (perhaps the ">" is interpreted as output redirection), unfortunately I'm not able to solve, please give a workaround!

Sorry, the lines could not be the same, since i have customizations, 1208 - 1220 are the correct numbers

I rebooted the remote (target) host, nothing, same error, but I can't reboot the source host as is H24 production system, could you explain better which memory is involved and why a reboot will solve?

I confirm that moving the line solves the issue, waiting feedback for the --run-backup issue