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VM with Windows Server won't boot after restoring from ghettoVCB backup

I'm using popular the ghettoVCB.sh script to backup my virtual server, but I have a problem with restoring virtual machines running Windows Server 2012 (VM with all flavor of Linux OS do not suffer this problem). After restoring VM with Windows…
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NFS Performance Issue Using NAS

I am encountering some performances issue using NFS. Here my configuration: A physical NAS with some internal storage plus an external storage. A virtual linux machine called GhettoVCB where I have mounted internal NAS storage and external NAS…
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Ubuntu 18.04 VM freezes and kills single ESXi when cloning disk

Alright so I got the basically the same situation as described here. The differences are: ESXi 6.7.0 fully patched local SSDs and HDDs The VM is running a common Nextcloud stack (MySQL, Apache2, PHP). This issue came up just after I upgraded my…
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Is installing NRPE on an ESXi for monitoring purpose a good idea?

I am using Centreon to monitore our VMs. I've also VM backups done on the ESXi (5.5.0) with ghettoVCB and sent to a NAS mounted on NFS. Now I would like to monitore those backups with a home made script that would parse ghettoVCB logs and send the…
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External HDD ESXi VM Snapshot backups

I have a couple of ESXi hosts running a few servers on each and would like to backup to my external drive plugged into one of my hosts. I have setup ghettoVCB scripts on each host with a list of my vm's to be backed up and have this automated using…
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Quitting Putty when GhettoVCB is running

I am currently backing up 12 VMs from an ESXi 5.1 host using GhettoVCB. I just started the script with Putty. I don't want to have to leave my computer on overnight. My question is, if I exit out of Putty while the script is running, will GhettoVCB…
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GhettoVCB snapshot failures on ESXI 4.0 - 4.1

i got a problem today. A few hours ago, i updated my esxi to version 4.1 from 4.0. My aim was to get a backup from my vm's with ghettoVCB.sh even if there are snapshots of the vm. (at 4.0 that did not work at all) For this, i downloaded the latest…
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ESXi 5.1 ghettoVCB stuck at Clone: 10% done

Trying to run ghettoVCB for the first time here. I am using a NAS that is set up as a datastore on the host. I did a dry run and it completed without error. The VM is ~500GB and there is only one on the host that I'm trying to backup. I proceeded…
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