Using VDR 1.2 to backup VMs to iSCSI

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• Backup SAN using VDR mode?

  Hello!

  I'm new to Vo the VDR. Can anyone tell me the steps / settings that I must follow in order to perform backups SAN mode using VDR? Need special licenses?

  Thanks in advance

  Rahul

  Need special licenses?

  It took your ESX is allowed for this characteristics (essential Plus, Advanced, Enterprise or Enterprise Plus).

  See also the documentation on the VMware website:

  http://www.VMware.com/support/VDR/doc/vdr_110_releasenotes.html

  André

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  Data centers are seprate and I intellectual property in two data centers...

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  I read a previous post and she suggested that I need to power of the vDR device, to ensure that the store of deduplication is not in use (no integrity checks / ongoing backups). Is this the case?

  Thank you very much

  If I save the Windows share on tape, outside the backup of vDR

  window still would be that I have to turn off power VDR or disassemble the

  Share?

  Yes, because other non-backup operations can still function.  This can cause issues of contention between VDR data and the application copies the data from the store of deduplication.

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  Interesting idea - I had never thought about this.  Theoretically, it should work, but we have never tried on in-house.

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• When you use MS 2003 storage server, backups ESXi virtual machine

  Hello

  I have a test lab that I need to put into production, but I need to get to a backup strategy before I can do that.

  I have a server ESXi (3.5 U3) frontal 5 virtual machines that all is in an ISCSI data store that is hosted using the Microsoft 2003 Storage Server platform.

  One of the virtual machines is a file and print box that has a 500GB partition in the virtual machine, but the virtual machine is located on the ISCSI LUN. What is the best way to save these data, that I can't back up just the LUN because I believe that some of the VM configuration files to sit on the front-end server ESXi?

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  Thank you

  If the data store for ESXi is located on the iSCSI LUN, backup of the iSCSI LUN is all you need to do.  The configuration of the Virtual Machine is stored there, and VMDK files that make up the disks.  If the 500 GB of space on the file and print box is on a LUN that is separated from the iSCSI data store, then you will need to back up both the data store LUNS and the LUNS of 500 GB.  If the 500 GB is just a VMDK file on the data store, the backup data store should get everything.

• Using Arcserve R16 for backup VMs. need help. Thank you.

  Dear friends,

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  I also bought a Dell r.620 with 2008 backup server installed as well as all R16.1 purchased licenses.

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• Can a vDR device cause multiple backup destinations?

  I tried adding the shares network, adding that a different network share seems to remove the network share previously implemented at which the current backup operation is set.

  I want two shares of different network for a device with two jobs vDR, each backup operation goes to a different network share.

  How can I do this? 1.2.1 using latest version vDR.

  Alternatively, if each camera vDR can talk only to a single network share data store, I can set up another camera vDR.

  Thank you, Tom

  CIFS is not a recommended destination and can be much slower. If you want an accessible destination I would add a couple of NFS shares as network data warehouses. Then add a normal VMDK unit vDR. You can do several (more than 2) virtual machine backups but as I've mentioned before that you will incur the trouble to write the cbt file for each additional backup done.

  I'd do more simple a test you can against 2 or 3 small VMs. run multiple backups. Check the speed of the restoration. Decide if you can live with the speed of the restoration. I'm not sure that this is the most appropriate use of the vDR unit.

• Cannot backup VMs to the NFS server

  Hi all

  really stuck GhettoVCB script configuration to back up virtual machines...

  I only have a single physical hard drive "datastore1" on my 6.0 ESXi host. I also have NFS server:

  
  

  /NFS

  IP address: 192.168.3.200

  First of all, I did a little test: I added this NFS server (file system is ext4) as a new 'teststorage' using vSphere Client storage. When I type in console

  # mkdir/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/somefolder

  # mkdir/vmfs/volumes/teststorage/newfolder

  everyghing is ok. Also:

  # esxcli storage nfs add h 192.168.3.200 v s/nfs/backup - backup

  # mkdir/vmfs/volumes/backup/tesfolder

  Well obviously, everything works. I so disassembled vSphere Client NFS.

  Next step, I tried to configure the script:

  VM_BACKUP_VOLUME = / vmfs/volumes/datastore1/autobackup

  DISK_BACKUP_FORMAT = thin

  VM_BACKUP_ROTATION_COUNT = 1

  POWER_VM_DOWN_BEFORE_BACKUP = 0

  ENABLE_HARD_POWER_OFF = 0

  ITER_TO_WAIT_SHUTDOWN = 3

  POWER_DOWN_TIMEOUT = 5

  ENABLE_COMPRESSION = 0

  VM_SNAPSHOT_MEMORY = 0

  VM_SNAPSHOT_QUIESCE = 0

  ALLOW_VMS_WITH_SNAPSHOTS_TO_BE_BACKEDUP = 1

  NFS_SERVER = 192.168.3.200

  NFS_MOUNT = / backup/nfs

  NFS_VM_BACKUP_DIR = auto save

  ENABLE_NON_PERSISTENT_NFS = 0

  UNMOUNT_NFS = 1

  SNAPSHOT_TIMEOUT = 15

  EMAIL_LOG = 1

  EMAIL_SERVER = mail. Core.local

  EMAIL_SERVER_PORT = 25

  EMAIL_DELAY_INTERVAL = 1

  [email protected]

  [email protected]

  VM_SHUTDOWN_ORDER =

  VM_STARTUP_ORDER =

  and they started with a command using SSH:

  # /ghettoVCB-master/ghettoVCB.sh g /ghettoVCB-master/my.conf f/ghettoVCB-master/my.list > /ghettoVCB-master/ghettoVCB14.log

  So, I got the following output:

  Recording output to ' / tmp/ghettoVCB-2016-03-31_04-34-07-3440436.log '...

  2016-03-31 04:34:07 - info: = ghettoVCB NEWSPAPER BEGIN =.

  2016-03-31 04:34:07 - info: CONFIG - CONFIGURATION GLOBAL GHETTOVCB = /ghettoVCB-master/kanon.conf FILE using

  2016-03-31 04:34:07 - info: CONFIG - VERSION = 2015_05_06_1

  2016-03-31 04:34:07 - info: CONFIG - GHETTOVCB_PID = 3440436

  2016-03-31 04:34:07 - info: CONFIG - VM_BACKUP_VOLUME = / vmfs/volumes/datastore1/autobackup

  2016-03-31 04:34:07 - info: CONFIG - VM_BACKUP_ROTATION_COUNT = 1

  2016-03-31 04:34:07 - info: CONFIG - VM_BACKUP_DIR_NAMING_CONVENTION = 2016-03-31_04-34-07

  2016-03-31 04:34:07 - info: CONFIG - DISK_BACKUP_FORMAT = thin

  2016-03-31 04:34:07 - info: CONFIG - POWER_VM_DOWN_BEFORE_BACKUP = 0

  2016-03-31 04:34:07 - info: CONFIG - ENABLE_HARD_POWER_OFF = 0

  2016-03-31 04:34:07 - info: CONFIG - ITER_TO_WAIT_SHUTDOWN = 3

  2016-03-31 04:34:07 - info: CONFIG - POWER_DOWN_TIMEOUT = 5

  2016-03-31 04:34:07 - info: CONFIG - SNAPSHOT_TIMEOUT = 15

  2016-03-31 04:34:07 - info: CONFIG - LOG_LEVEL = info

  2016-03-31 04:34:07 - info: CONFIG - BACKUP_LOG_OUTPUT = /tmp/ghettoVCB-2016-03-31_04-34-07-3440436.log

  2016-03-31 04:34:07 - info: CONFIG - ENABLE_COMPRESSION = 0

  2016-03-31 04:34:07 - info: CONFIG - VM_SNAPSHOT_MEMORY = 0

  2016-03-31 04:34:07 - info: CONFIG - VM_SNAPSHOT_QUIESCE = 0

  2016-03-31 04:34:07 - info: CONFIG - ALLOW_VMS_WITH_SNAPSHOTS_TO_BE_BACKEDUP = 1

  2016-03-31 04:34:07 - info: CONFIG - VMDK_FILES_TO_BACKUP = all

  2016-03-31 04:34:07 - info: CONFIG - VM_SHUTDOWN_ORDER =

  2016-03-31 04:34:07 - info: CONFIG - VM_STARTUP_ORDER =

  2016-03-31 04:34:07 - info: CONFIG - RSYNC_LINK = 0

  2016-03-31 04:34:07 - info: CONFIG - BACKUP_FILES_CHMOD =

  2016-03-31 04:34:07 - info: CONFIG - EMAIL_LOG = 1

  2016-03-31 04:34:07 - info: CONFIG - EMAIL_SERVER = mail.core.local

  2016-03-31 04:34:07 - info: CONFIG - EMAIL_SERVER_PORT = 25

  2016-03-31 04:34:07 - info: CONFIG - EMAIL_DELAY_INTERVAL = 1

  2016-03-31 04:34:07 - info: CONFIG - EMAIL_FROM = [email protected]

  2016-03-31 04:34:07 - info: CONFIG - EMAIL_TO = [email protected]

  2016-03-31 04:34:07 - info: CONFIG - WORKDIR_DEBUG = 0

  2016-03-31 04:34:07 - info:

  2016-03-31 04:34:08 - info: power out put in place to

  backup will not start until the virtual machine is turned off...

  2016-03-31 04:34:08 - info: VM is powerdOff

  2016-03-31 04:34:11 - info: start the backup for Debian_Experimental

  2016-03-31 04:34:11 - info: creation of snapshot "ghettoVCB-snapshot-2016-03-31" for Debian_Experimental

  2016-03-31 04:34:12 - info: ERROR: bad DISK_BACKUP_FORMAT "thin".

  ------specified for Debian_Experimental

  2016-03-31 04:34:13 - info: Instant withdrawal of Debian_Experimental...

  2016-03-31 04:34:13 - Info: backup time: 2 seconds

  2016-03-31 04:34:13 - info: ERROR: Debian_Experimental could not backup because of the error in VMDK backup!

  2016-03-31 04:34:13 - info: # final status: ERROR: No. VMs saved! ######

  2016-03-31 04:34:13 - info: = ghettoVCB JOURNAL END =.

  2016-03-31 03:21:30 - info: # final status: ERROR: all virtual machines failed! ######

  2016-03-31 03:21:30 - info: = ghettoVCB JOURNAL END =.

  I tried:

  DISK_BACKUP_FORMAT = zeroedthick, eagerzeroedthick, thin, 2gbsparse

  VM_SNAPSHOT_MEMORY = 0/1

  VM_SNAPSHOT_QUIESCE = 0/1

  Still the same error in VMDK format.

  WM works fine, no damage.

  There is no no snapshot. VM version: 11

  Any ideas?

  Thanks in advance for the help.

  The solution was simple: my notebook + in Windows curled some symbols 'hidden' at the end of the first line, before that I sent this file via WinSCP.

  1. use only vi on your ESXi because different EOL codes (CR + LF/LF). Also don't let useful space and the end of the lines.

  2 set the async on your NFS server instead of synchronization that increases the speed of copy.

  3. place your script of ghettoVCB on your data store. For example: / vmfs/volumes/datastore1

  Hope this helps others.

• When vDR to perform full backups?

  I'll set up an installation of vDR test as a proof of concept, and contrary to read the documentation, it appeared on me... when vDR do full backups?  I know that the first virtual computer backup is a complete and incremental after that.  But when the following is executed?  I did some Google'ing and looking through the documentation, but have not yet found an answer.

  Currently I ave the configuration of the backup task to keep 6 daily backups every 4 weeks and 1 month.  When the first full backup has expired, another take?  Also, is it possible to force a full backup on one computer virtual other than to create a new backup job?

  void269 wrote:

  .. .in makes vDR do full backups?  I know that the first virtual computer backup is a complete and incremental after that.  But when the following is executed?

  My understanding is that VDR still to complete and never traditional backups "extra." However, given that the backup data store uses a deduplication technology each "Full" backup will only grow with the blocks changed since the last backup.

• Using more of a VMWare backup recovery

  Hi all

  I'm sitting here und think next idea:

  We have 10 servers that must be saved. We use a VDR (VM Backup Recovery) for this. Thus, sometimes the catalog crashes and it takes neerly a day to fix it. While this time I can´t of backup or restore anything.

  These backups are on the same SAN as my ESX machines. So I have the big problem, if everything crashes (raid or more than 1 HDD) I have no chance to recover anything.

  Yes, I know that this is not 100% optimal. either way... we have no money to buy a second SAN!

  the idea was to develop an other VDR and connect it to a Terastation. Speed is absolutely secondary. This VDR would save computers same like the first VDR. (not at the same time, for example SQL Server is saved on VDR1 on VDR2 and 06:00 on 09:00)

  The biggest would be:

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  -If my STI SAN crashing, I can use my Terastation to fix everything (the speed is secondary)

  What do you think of this idea?

  Good bye

  Andy

  You can define 2 different backup locations in a single device. So you can save on Monday for the first location and Tuesday for the second and so on. When an integrity check runs more than 24 hours, you have the second location-data store to restore on the same device operations. If you have enough backup-time, you can also save each VM twice in one day in two places at different times. In the event of a disaster you will be lucky and maybe lose only a location of data store and have all your backups without waitiing for the completion of the audit of integrity or something as a recataloguer. Up to now this works very well in my environment with 5 appliances and 180 VM. I use no more than 30 virtual machines for a single device, because integrity, check runs throughout.

• Recovery of recovering data using third-party SW datastore backup

  Hi all

  Disaster (destroyed camera VDR and its CIFS data store), is it possible to recover the data store VDR previously saved by Tivoli Storage Manager (or some other backup SW), and then to redeploy camera VDR and restore virtual machines of recovered data store? The 'new' camera VDR will make something out of these data?

  Information vital in camera VDR or is the catalog on the CIFS data store enough to re-create the backup information?

  Thanx

  -jv-

  Yes, the VDR data store is football. If you are using a new camera VDR, you need only add as a target and start a health check. After that, you see the restore points.

• Using VDR for medium level restore file?

  Hi all

  I have been using camera VDR v 1.0.2 for some time and I was wondering if there is a possibility to recover/restore a file inside the virtual Solaris/Unix/Linux machine?

  Thank you

  Kind regards

  AWT

  With the help of old customer backup inside the virtual machine mode.