Comments on: Citrix XenServer 5.5 Automated Live VM Backup to Windows CIFS Share

By: Marlon Davids

Marlon Davids — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 23:41:29 +0000

Nice Work Andy thanks for the share…

By: Indresh

Indresh — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 23:15:01 +0000

Hi Andy,
Backup was completed successfully. But when I am trying to import I getting error>

Error: This file couldn’t be imported.

Is there anything I am missing?

Thanks,
Indresh

By: Ivan

Ivan — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 06:22:43 +0000

I’m having issue importing VMs created by this script – the error message I am getting is:
msg: INTERNAL_ERROR: [ Stream_vdi.Invalid_checksum("Block Ref:956/00021836 checksum failed: original = edb8da5342bea8e87b3d5c4aa1ccf6dd1fe42a22; recomputed = 1528d7e52102dc20302514c09be21f28c4593dc5") ]

Any ideas how to “ignore” it or why this happens?

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By: hecs1969

hecs1969 — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 07:55:39 +0000

Im getting the following with a syntax error but don’t know why. Any help appreciated.

[root@ensxen01 home]# sh vm_backup
expr: syntax error
Starting
VM
Backup:
2011-07-13_00-53-08
—————————–
Parsing
VM
list
Added
VM
#0:
,
Done
parsing
VM
list
Backup
VMs
Export
Complete

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Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:24:41 +0000

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By: Errol neal

Errol neal — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 02:46:04 +0000

man thanks a ton for posting this. i was trying to clone a vm and the clone kept coming up as a template. but looking over your script, i was able to determine what i needed to do. thanks a ton for sharing

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Anonymous — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:58:03 +0000

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By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 24 May 2011 15:16:47 +0000

Hi Andy,

Thank you for the great script! I have a small problem. The script runs every night and makes backups. The only thinig is that 1 VM doesn’t backup….how strange is that?

I can’t figure out why.

Any help is appreciated!

With kind regards,
Robert