I am using ghetto2VCBg2 for backups. I have several datastores that I am using for backup attached to the same ESXi Host that has the VMA server.
I have a datastore VMBACKUPS2 that seems to fail but only on some virtual machines. I have a machine DNN01 which can be found via vifp. When the script runs any interaction with the datastore (make directory etc.) gives me the following error in the vSphere client:
Delete file
Invalid datastore format
'VMBACKUPS2'.
vi-admin00
8/24/2012 5:29:03 AM
8/24/2012 5:29:03 AM
8/24/2012 5:29:03 AM
I have another virtual machine OVERLAY01 using essentially the same configuration which backs up without any error to the VMBACKUPS2 datastore. In the ghettovcb log I get errors like:
08-24-2012 01:13:15 -- error: getFinalList: ERROR - Unable to locate VM: DNN01
I have about 20 machines in total and about half of them fail with an invalid datastore error (on different datastores not just the VMBACKUPS2 datastore).
What I don't understand is why some of them fail and some of them work. There are very few differences between some of the guests that work and ones that fail. The only cosistent thing I see is that it's the same virtual machines that fail every single time.
I looked at one article online that suggested I need to set disk.EnableUUID to false, but that setting was not present on any of the failing machines. I added it to my DNN01 machine and set it to false, but it didn't seem to make a difference.
I've double checked my configuration and as far as I can tell everything is correct. I'm at a loss as what to try next. Any ideas anyone can offer would be much appreciated.
-Eric