Comments on: Scheduling jobs in ESXi the Easy Way

By: NexusGuy59

NexusGuy59 — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:39:08 +0000

I have a question, no one has been able to answer.I run ghettoVCB via cron on my ESXi server and it started running this morning I noticed it is still running. Now I know that it failed because I had snapshots already present however my log file is filling up and it’s not letting me stop the process that is running. I thought it would be ghettoVCB, however it is not ghettoVCB after ps|grep ghettoVCB low and behold it doesn’t show up in the output. So I need to know and identify which process is still running the process and kill it, anyone have any ideas at all?

Thanks,

By: Raj Perumal

Raj Perumal — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:46:57 +0000

Hi guys, unfortunately I’m not sure what the answer is. Please direct your questions to William Lam’s posting in the VMware Communities. That’s where you should be able to find the answers you’re looking for. You can find it here at this [A href="http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-8760"]link[/A].

By: Mcargy08

Mcargy08 — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:17:11 +0000

Hi RP,

Can you advise us with the issues we are having when running the command using plink? It doesnt seem to work.

Thanks,

By: Flatpack

Flatpack — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:33:25 +0000

Hi Raj

Thanks for the very useful post

However, I am experiencing the same issues as other people on the posts.

I’ve copied the plink information for the scheduled task and the task runs, but nothing happens, and I get the 0 byte backup log file

The commands run fine on the server, just not remotely

Where should I start looking ?

Thanks
Simon

By: Mcargy08

Mcargy08 — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:14:15 +0000

Hi Raj,

I tried to run the batch file but it doesn’t do anything. Like yield said, it will work on the ESXi console but not on windows. Is there something wrong that were doing?

here’s my batch file

c:plink.exe root@192.168.1.113 -pw password “nohup ./vmfs/volumes/datastore2/ghetto.sh /vmfs/volumes/datastore2/vmwarebackups > /vmfs/volumes/datastore2/backuplog.txt &”

By: Rparamount

Rparamount — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:25:00 +0000

Hi Binderer, please post your questions [A href="http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-8760"]here for William Lam’s script.[/A] They should be able to help you there as I am not sure of the answer. Thanks!

-RP

By: Binderer

Binderer — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:09:44 +0000

Hallo again Raj,

any Results on our issue ?

Thanks

By: Rparamount

Rparamount — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:53:49 +0000

Hi Yeled1976, try removing the pipe to the backuplog.txt and see how that goes for you. I believe that text file will be empty unless there are any errors that appear.

As for cancelling it, you can kill the process like you mentioned and then you also have to connect to your ESXi server with the VMware client and delete the snapshot that was created by the script. That should do it.

-RP

By: Yeled1976

Yeled1976 — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:30:01 +0000

Hi
i am trying to schedule the task to run but with no success.
if i run the script from the console of the esxi i have no problem.
if i run it from the plink command it will just move a line down and create an empty backuplog.txt in the folder.
do you have any idea what i should do next?
in addition, when i run the script from the server itself and would like to stop the backup.
should i “ps” and see where ash process is running and just kill it?
thanks

By: Rparamount

Rparamount — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:39:36 +0000

Unfortunately Binderer, I’m not sure what the issue is as I never tried to configure it that way before. I would post on William Lam’s site where his script is posted which I linked to in my blog post. He should be able to help you out better than I can.

However if I do hear of the answer I will let you know.

-Cheers, RP