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This is expected with ESXi, there are fix set of files including any local VMFS volumes that are preserved upon reboot. There is an hourly cron job that runs to automatically backup important configuration files to a local bootbank which is then loaded upon the next reboot, any files created by the user and most likely utilizing the unsupported Busybox console will not survive a reboot by default.
If you're using the , recommendation would be to store the script and any relevant files on either the local VMFS volume or on shared storage (NFS,iSCSI/FC SAN) volume.
There is a script in "/sbin/auto-backup.sh" that you can actually execute to see what files are being backed up, you can easily modify that script to backup additional files which will ensure they're saved upon a reboot.
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William Lam
VMware vExpert 2009,2010
VMware scripts and resources at:
Getting Started with the vMA (tips/tricks)
Getting Started with the vSphere SDK for Perl
VMware Code Central - Scripts/Sample code for Developers and Administrators
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This is expected with ESXi, there are fix set of files including any local VMFS volumes that are preserved upon reboot. There is an hourly cron job that runs to automatically backup important configuration files to a local bootbank which is then loaded upon the next reboot, any files created by the user and most likely utilizing the unsupported Busybox console will not survive a reboot by default.
If you're using the , recommendation would be to store the script and any relevant files on either the local VMFS volume or on shared storage (NFS,iSCSI/FC SAN) volume.
There is a script in "/sbin/auto-backup.sh" that you can actually execute to see what files are being backed up, you can easily modify that script to backup additional files which will ensure they're saved upon a reboot.
=========================================================================
William Lam
VMware vExpert 2009,2010
VMware scripts and resources at:
Getting Started with the vMA (tips/tricks)
Getting Started with the vSphere SDK for Perl
VMware Code Central - Scripts/Sample code for Developers and Administrators
If you find this information useful, please award points for "correct" or "helpful".
If you take a look at the documentation, there is a section that explains this for setting up cron jobs which requires you to edit /etc/rc.local and then manually backing it up using /sbin/auto-backup.sh which can be done the same for other changes/files you may need.
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William Lam
VMware vExpert 2009,2010
VMware scripts and resources at:
Getting Started with the vMA (tips/tricks)
Getting Started with the vSphere SDK for Perl
VMware Code Central - Scripts/Sample code for Developers and Administrators
If you find this information useful, please award points for "correct" or "helpful".