VMware VCB works by creating snapshots of VMs in quiescing state.
If, while attempting to backup a VM, the following error shows up:
.. 'vcbMounter' 3076465472 error] Error: Backup snapshot already exists.
.. 'vcbMounter' 3076465472 error] An error occurred, cleaning up...
There are probably some hanging snapshots of the VM that need to go.
It happens often while using...
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Dev-Ops
Once we were Sys-Admins, now we are all agile things..
VCB error: Backup snapshot already exists
Moving ZFS disks on different machines
Sometimes you just want to prove yourself it might work. Just that.
While configuring two Solaris nodes to build a sort of a cluster I figured out how to avoid the unbearably slow Sol10 install: my imaginative solution is:
create a ZFS mirrored pool on two identical disks on the “golden” node.
Resilver the pool and install...
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Solaris dtpower and Maxtor IDE Hard disks
Just when you think you know everything..
For a project involving ASE I refurbished two SUN Ultra 100 by swapping the original anemic disk with a Maxtor DiamondMax 9 (Ultra ATA, 80Gb).
Solaris 10U7 installed, full ZFS, headless (serial terminal)
Everything played fairly good. I went off for a while and, when back, I found this on...
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