I have setup a ghettoVCB script in order to backup three VM.

I put it in a crontab but I have an issue.

In my backup folder I have 3 different folders, one for each VM.

In each folder I have the following files:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1263 Mar 17 01:51 vm1-2010-03-16--2.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1263 Mar 17 00:41 vm1-2010-03-16--3.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1261 Mar 18 01:22 vm1-2010-03-17--1.gz
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 980 Mar 19 23:39 vm1-2010-03-19

The problem is the last folder. It seems that a backup didn't finish the process.

When I read the logs concerning this folder I get:

2010-03-19 23:00:01 -- info: CONFIG - VM_BACKUP_VOLUME = /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/backup/
2010-03-19 23:00:01 -- info: CONFIG - VM_BACKUP_ROTATION_COUNT = 3
2010-03-19 23:00:01 -- info: CONFIG - DISK_BACKUP_FORMAT = zeroedthick
2010-03-19 23:00:01 -- info: CONFIG - ADAPTER_FORMAT = buslogic
2010-03-19 23:00:01 -- info: CONFIG - POWER_VM_DOWN_BEFORE_BACKUP = 0
2010-03-19 23:00:01 -- info: CONFIG - ENABLE_HARD_POWER_OFF = 0
2010-03-19 23:00:01 -- info: CONFIG - ITER_TO_WAIT_SHUTDOWN = 3
2010-03-19 23:00:01 -- info: CONFIG - POWER_DOWN_TIMEOUT = 5
2010-03-19 23:00:01 -- info: CONFIG - SNAPSHOT_TIMEOUT = 15
2010-03-19 23:00:01 -- info: CONFIG - LOG_LEVEL = info
2010-03-19 23:00:01 -- info: CONFIG - BACKUP_LOG_OUTPUT = stdout
2010-03-19 23:00:01 -- info: CONFIG - VM_SNAPSHOT_MEMORY = 0
2010-03-19 23:00:01 -- info: CONFIG - VM_SNAPSHOT_QUIESCE = 0
2010-03-19 23:00:01 -- info: CONFIG - VMDK_FILES_TO_BACKUP = all

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2010-03-19 23:39:35 -- info: Initiate backup for vm1
2010-03-19 23:39:35 -- info: Creating Snapshot "ghettoVCB-snapshot-2010-03-19" for vm1

Destination disk format: VMFS zeroedthick
Cloning disk '/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/vm1/vm1_1.vmdk'...
^MClone: 0% done.^MClone: 1% done.^MClone: 2% done.^MClone: 3% done.^MClone: 4% done.^MClone: 5% done.^MClone: 6% done.^MClone: 7% done.^MClone: 8% done.^MClone: 9% done.^MClone
Failed to clone disk : The file already exists (39).
Destination disk format: VMFS zeroedthick
Cloning disk '/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/vm1/vm1.vmdk'...
2010-03-20 00:46:20 -- info: Removing snapshot from vm1 ...
one: 7% done.^MClone: 8% done.^MClone: 9% done.^MClone: 10% done.^MClone: 11% done.^MClone: 12% done.^MClone: 13% done.^MClone: 14% done.^MClone: 15% done.^MClone: 16% done.^MCl
2010-03-19 23:51:19 -- info: Removing snapshot from vm1 ...

I can't run ghettoVCB anymore because the VM has a snapshot which has not been deleted. I know how to delete the snapshot, but I don't know why the VCB script is not able to handle rotation of the VM backups?

Any ideas?

Thanks!