ghettovcb – .pQd's log

mounting partitions from within of the vmware’s .vmdk file

2015-12-012017-11-21 by .pQd

i’m taking backups of vmware esxi vms weekly using ghettovcb. it has been working greatly for many years. once in a while i need to recover a particular file from particular backup. there’s quicker way than just restoring the whole vm!

esxi 6.0: “create virtual machine snapshot” “a general system error occurred”

2015-10-312015-10-31 by .pQd

i’ve upgraded from esxi 5.5 to 6.0 a couple of servers. soon after i’ve discovered that ghettoVCB would fail on some of VMs while it worked fine on the others. i’ve started poking around and found out that for those VMs where backup failed i creation of snapshot would fail with the following error: while ... Read More

ghettovcb hangs while removing the snapshot

2011-11-202011-11-20 by .pQd

i’ve upgraded few vmware esxi 4.1 servers with the latest patches and… obviously something got broken. i use ghettoVCB script to take weekly snapshots of the vms. scripts hanged last night on all servers.