Hello, looking at the plugin code
https://github.com/bareos/bareos/blob/6c6568cd8b022c48429f8465b6d82a0bc5df50c0/core/src/plugins/filed/python/vmware/BareosFdPluginVMware.py#L3202-L3206 the cause is that vim.vm.device.VirtualSerialPort is currently not covered by the plugin. So this does not depend on the operating system or pyVmomi version. The only logic reason that it did not work for you on Debian but worked on Ubuntu can be simply that you did not backup a VM which had a VirtualSerialPort configured at that time, otherwise it would have thrown that error on any system and any pyVmomi version. Regards, Stephan On 6/9/23 11:35, Arnaud WILLEM wrote:
Hello all, I'm currently trying out and installing Bareos 22 on a Debian 11 distribution (getting ready for the Debian 12 release shortly.) All is working well, after a few updates and tweaks related to the python version (backported python 3.11 from testing.) We are, however, stuck with a problem using pyVmomi and the bareos-fd-vmware plugin. While connexion, backup and VM disk handling are fine, we keep receiving the following error message : 09-Jun 11:07 vmware JobId 38: Error: python3-fd-mod: Failed to transform VM >redacted VM name< metadata: Error: Unknown Device Type vim.vm.device.VirtualSerialPort, recreating this VM will not be possible! I've tried every possible combination of pyVmomi version / python release and Bareos package release and it seems to appear every time; using the same package version/releases on Ubuntu 22 *doesn't* show this error ... The easy answer is : use Ubuntu, however this is not supported at the moment as bareos is running on physical server using Debian. Is this error a know issue or limitation ? What could explain the different behaviour from one distro to the other ? Thanks in advance if you have some feedback on this particular issue, Arnaud -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bareos-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <mailto:bareos-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/fada6490-897a-4a2a-965b-c6e4a2f78360n%40googlegroups.com <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/fada6490-897a-4a2a-965b-c6e4a2f78360n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>.
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