Download from ESXi4 with SCP stops after ~500MB

[Baumannluk]

Hello folks,

I have a weird problem when backing up one of my virtual machines on ESXi 4.

I use ghettoVCB.sh to create a *.gz-file of my VM which actually works great. I start the procedure via a script on my SBS2003 over putty. After it has finished I want to download the file from the ESXi and store it on my server, but this somehow does not work.

I can see the file, I can access it but I get a timeout after about 500 Megs have been transferred.

I does not matter if I use WinSCP or PSCP - See here a screenshot from PSCP:

Edit - For clarification: The shot shows the status when the file transfer is stuck. WinSCP will show the "connection timout"-error at this point. It's always at 79% no matter which programm I use. If I want to transfer the uncompressed vmdk-files it happens at roughly the same #MB (of course the percentage differs as filesize is different).

I have no idea what the problem might be.

Any help is greatly appreciated as I'm really stuck here..

Best

Lukas

[AndreTheGiant]

Try with FastSCP or with datastore browser

[Baumannluk]

Hi Andre,

Well it worked from the beginning with the datastore browser, but I needed a solution which can be automated. It does not help if I have to remember to copy every day.

But, big suprise, it works flawlessly with Veeam FastSCP!

It's a bit more complicated as I can't put everything into one script (->respectively, that I have to schedule the two tasks, backup and copy of the backup so they won't overlap). But hey, as long as it works somehow I won't complain.

Many thanks for the help

Lukas