I’ve setup a scheduled job using vertical cron command.
It looks like this in /etc/rc.local.d/local.sh
#VERTICALBACKUP
/bin/kill $(cat /var/run/crond.pid)
/bin/echo '#VERTICALBACKUP' >> /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root
/bin/echo '0 */12 * * * /vmfs/volumes/534fcc7f-1ca88523-5866-a0b3cce17ffe/verticalbackup/vertical backup --email --exclude-disk *Toshiba_E300* &> /vmfs/volumes/Crucial\ M500/verticalbackup/vertical.log' >> /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root
/usr/lib/vmware/busybox/bin/busybox crond
Here’s what it looks like in /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root
#min hour day mon dow command
1 1 * * * /sbin/tmpwatch.py
1 * * * * /sbin/auto-backup.sh
0 * * * * /usr/lib/vmware/vmksummary/log-heartbeat.py
*/5 * * * * /sbin/hostd-probe ++group=host/vim/vmvisor/hostd-probe
*/2 * * * * /usr/lib/vmware/vsan/bin/vsanObserver.sh
#VERTICALBACKUP
0 */12 * * * /vmfs/volumes/534fcc7f-1ca88523-5866-a0b3cce17ffe/verticalbackup/vertical backup --email --exclude-disk *Toshiba_E300* &> /vmfs/volumes/Crucial\ M500/verticalbackup/vertical.log
When ever the job kicks off at the scheduled time I always get a failed email:
Received at 12:00pm:
2018-02-08 12:00:05.509582 INFO PROGRAM_VERSION Vertical Backup 1.1.5
2018-02-08 12:00:08.515325 INFO LICENSE_INFO Trial license expires on 2018-02-18
2018-02-08 12:00:08.515656 ERROR BACKUP_BUSY Another backup job is in progress
Then I get another email an hour or so later confirming the status of the job.
Received at 12:41pm:
2018-02-08 12:00:05.738726 INFO PROGRAM_VERSION Vertical Backup 1.1.5
2018-02-08 12:00:08.467337 INFO LICENSE_INFO Trial license expires on 2018-02-18
2018-02-08 12:00:08.550497 INFO STORAGE_CREATE Storage set to /vmfs/volumes/boxroomnas01/Vertical_Backup/
2018-02-08 12:00:08.702639 INFO SNAPSHOT_GETALLVM Listing all virtual machines
...
018-02-08 12:40:56.622548 INFO BACKUP_DONE Backup OpenVPN Access Server 2.0.12@BoxroomESXi01 at revision 29 has been successfully completed
2018-02-08 12:40:56.622807 INFO BACKUP_STATS Total 8198 chunks, 8192.61M bytes; 21 new, 18.53M bytes, 2.14M uploaded
2018-02-08 12:40:56.622893 INFO BACKUP_TIME Total backup time: 00:01:46
2018-02-08 12:40:56.623934 INFO SNAPSHOT_REMOVE Removing all snapshots of OpenVPN Access Server 2.0.12
This happens twice a day.
So I’m guessing somewhere I’ve managed to schedule the job to execute twice. But I can’t see where? The jobs are 12 hours apart and the backups are taking about an hour now that the first ones are done.
If I run ps -i | grep "vertical" between jobs nothing comes back.
Any other places I should be checking?