Hi all, I have successfully done the vcbMounter Commandline before. Today we tried a vcbMounter backup a vm on a ESX Server. ESX is vSphere4 with local datastore, no vCenter Server, no vcb prox...
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Hi all, I have successfully done the vcbMounter Commandline before. Today we tried a vcbMounter backup a vm on a ESX Server. ESX is vSphere4 with local datastore, no vCenter Server, no vcb proxy server, no share datastore. All steps are show below: login as root Last login: Tue Apr 27 16:18:34 2010 from 192.168.0.43 # vcbMounter -a ipaddr:192.168.0.187 -r /vmimages/vms Current working directory: /root Error: Missing command line option VMware Consolidated Backup -- Virtual Machine Mount Utility Version 4.0.0 (build-208167) Copyright (C) 1998-2009 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. Usage: vcbMounter -h := -M (0|1) -F (0|1) If no password is specified on the command line, you will be prompted for one. Export Flags: -M: If set, the disk is exported into a single (monolithic) file. When turned off (default), the disk is split into multiple 2GB files. -F: If set, the disk is exported as "flat" disk, with no optimizations. When turned off (default), the exported disk files will be more compact as unused space in the disk image is not included in the exported file. Examples: +) Do a full VM style backup of vm "foo.bar.com" across the SAN, talk to ESX/VC host "wisdom.bar.com" as user "vc" with password "foobar". - Export will go to "d:\backups": vcbMounter -h wisdom.bar.com -u vc -p foobar -a ipaddr:foo.bar.com \ -r d:\backups\foo-fullVM -t fullvm Full VM backups export an entire virtual machine into a set of files within a directory. Backing up this file set allows for the entire virtual machine to be restored later on. +) Do an automatic unmount of the export just created: vcbMounter -h wisdom.bar.com -u vc -p foobar \ -U d:\backups\foo-fullVM An automatic unmount will work for both file-level and full VM mounts. (A full VM unmount operation just has to delete the exported files.)