On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 02:23:24PM +0200, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: > Hello, > > the scenario is a cluster of ESXi nodes on which OpenBSD should run as a VM. > > Currently the cluster is being backed up by Veeam, I tried to insert th > obsd VM inside the backup job but no success, with following "Error: An > error occurred while saving the snapshot: Failed to quiesce the virtual > machine.". This looks strange to me because the open-vm-tools implemented > inside the kernel are usually functional to ESXi hosts. > > Questions: > 1. has anybody found a way to use Veeam to backup OpenBSD VMs? > 2. are there any other suggested softwares to perform a similar task?
What version of OpenBSD are you using? In 6.3 (and later) we have the quiesce feature that veeam is trying to use there.
