> Hi Paolo
> if you dont have vmtools installed on the guest you cant do filesystem
> quiescing
>
> Create a separate veembackup job for your openbsd vms and disable
> filesystem quiescing on that backup job
>
> If you run workloads such as dbs run a db backup (dump using your db
> tools) so
> That it completes before the veem backup commences
>
> You can test the backup and restore with this method
>
>
> Ps in openBSD
> you may want do adjust ffs settings
> And add noatime (reduce writes) and softep mount options also to reduce
> risk of a bad backup) capturing the filesystem while writing a file
>
> Think of a restored vm and disk using this backup method
> as a vm and disk that was not properly shutdown last time round...
>
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Tom smyth
>
>
>
>
> On Sat 30 Jun 2018, 13:30 Paolo Aglialoro, <paolo74@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> the scenario is a cluster of ESXi nodes on which OpenBSD should run as a
>> VM.
>>
>> Currently the cluster is being backed up by Veeam, I tried to insert th
>> obsd VM inside the backup job but no success, with following "Error: An
>> error occurred while saving the snapshot: Failed to the virtual
>> machine.". This looks strange to me because the open-vm-tools implemented
>> inside the kernel are usually functional to ESXi hosts.
>>
>> Questions:
>> 1. has anybody found a way to use Veeam to backup OpenBSD VMs?
>> 2. are there any other suggested softwares to perform a similar task?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>
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