Doesn't VCB in LAN mode work with ESXi local storage?

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Jason White - VCP

I'm using VMExplorer to do the backup which has done a good job. However the problem, which seems to be in common with others here, is the time that it takes to backup a 20GB VM over my network. I need something that is much faster.

I'd like to put an external USB hard drive on my home server and backup directly to it. But I can't seem to see any device in Linux on my VMWare server box that corresponds to the external hard drive (ie /dev/sda etc.).

How have others connected an external USB drive directly to the VMWare server so that backups can be made to it and avoid the network altogether?

Myles

thank you for your script.

I use the script with nonpersitent nfs storage and i think there is a little bug in your script.

if ${ENABLE_NON_PERSISTENT_NFS} -eq 1 ; then
${VMWARE_CMD} hostsvc/summary/fsvolume | awk '{print $1'} | grep "\"${NFS_LOCAL_NAME}\"" > /dev/null 2>&1
if ! $? -eq 1 ; then
#1 = readonly
#0 = readwrite
${VMWARE_CMD} hostsvc/datastore/nas_create "${NFS_LOCAL_NAME}" "${NFS_SERVER}" "${NFS_MOUNT}" 0
fi
fi

the storage was never mounted until i disable the second if-statment.

Sorry for my worse english

ppcfox

I'm by no means a scripting guru and have no idea of how to do this... but

Firstly so long as the report is a text file, I suggest reading this into a variable in a script. From there perhaps in the config.pl script have the user specify the IP address of an internal mail server, then script a telnetting to the internal smtp server (ensuring relaing is allowed for the IP address that your running the script & backup from....) then in this script then send the variable that read the report in the body of the message... I have dabbled with smtp commands but don't know of any way to add an attachment...

Anyway I may be dribbling somthing out of the corner of my mouth as this may not be at all possible but hopefully it has given someone some ideas as to how to do this...

Assuming the script copies off to an NFS share, it is fairly easy to echo the output of the script or parts of the script to a file in a "drop" directory. Script a scan of the directory to forward the file as email. Even if the script copies off to some other storage device it is pretty easy to create and add an NFS share specifically to hold the echoed output.

How do we modify your script to just backup every VM on the host?