BareOS 22 vmware back up

[Timas A]

Hi,

Since Version >= 22.0.0 it also backs up the VM configuration metadata so that it can recreate deleted VMs and then restore the VM disks.

What plugin parameters to pass to backup VM configuration metadata? Since I can only see the vmdk disk after the backup, I don't understand how restoring VM to another location happens. There is no mention of this in the documentation.

I'm getting this output:

JobId 22:Fatal error: python3-fd-mod: Error creating VM, name testvm1restored, exception (vim.fault.InvalidDeviceSpec) {
   dynamicType = <unset>,
   dynamicProperty = (vmodl.DynamicProperty) [],
   msg = "Invalid configuration for device '3'.",
   faultCause = <unset>,
   faultMessage = (vmodl.LocalizableMessage) [],
   property = 'VirtualDisk.capacityInKB',
   deviceIndex = 3 

[Stephan Duehr]

Hi,

there are examples in the documentation at https://docs.bareos.org/TasksAndConcepts/Plugins.html#vmware-plugin
to restore to different VM name by passing plugin options like the following on restore:

python:restore_datastore=datastore2:vmname=testvm1restored:restore_powerstate=off

May it be that you are still using a VMFS 5 datastore?
What was the virtual disk size?

I've seen such an error message when the Bareos VMware plugin tried to recreate a VM on an VMFS 5 datastore
with a 80GB disk. Unfortunately that error message returned be the API is not very helpful as it does
not really tell the cause.

Regards,
Stephan

On 3/11/23 16:41, Timas A wrote:
> Hi,
>
> /*Since Version >= 22.0.0 it also backs up the VM configuration metadata so that it can recreate deleted VMs and then restore the VM disks.*/
> /*
> */
> What plugin parameters to pass to backup VM configuration metadata? Since I can only see the vmdk disk after the backup, I don't understand how restoring VM to another location happens. There is no mention of this in the documentation./*
> */

>
> I'm getting this output:
>
> JobId 22:Fatal error: python3-fd-mod: Error creating VM, name testvm1restored, exception (vim.fault.InvalidDeviceSpec) {
>    dynamicType = <unset>,
>    dynamicProperty = (vmodl.DynamicProperty) [],
>    msg = "Invalid configuration for device '3'.",
>    faultCause = <unset>,
>    faultMessage = (vmodl.LocalizableMessage) [],
>    property = 'VirtualDisk.capacityInKB',
>    deviceIndex = 3
>

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