I'm running ghettoVCB against an NFS share on Openfiler. I can't seem to copy my backups from my share to my local drive.
Here's a sample of a test done on the datastore using Putty to the ESXi console.
/vmfs/volumes/7dc6b757-aa5eeab6/backups # ls -R -la PPBE/
PPBE/:
drwxrwxr-x 1 99 16777218 99 Jan 11 03:02 .
drwxrwxrwx 1 99 16777218 93 Jan 4 12:49 ..
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 94 Jan 11 02:21 PPBE-2013-01-11_14-00-06
drwxrwxr-x 1 root root 94 Jan 11 02:48 PPBE-2013-01-11_14-48-18
drwxrwxr-x 1 root root 94 Jan 11 03:02 PPBE-2013-01-11_15-02-11
PPBE/PPBE-2013-01-11_14-00-06:
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 94 Jan 11 02:21 .
drwxrwxr-x 1 99 16777218 99 Jan 11 03:02 ..
-rw------- 1 root root 1311232 Jan 11 02:21 PPBE-ctk.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 21474836480 Jan 11 02:21 PPBE-flat.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 596 Jan 11 02:21 PPBE.vmdk
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3710 Jan 11 02:21 PPBE.vmx
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30 Jan 11 02:21 STATUS.ok
PPBE/PPBE-2013-01-11_14-48-18:
drwxrwxr-x 1 root root 94 Jan 11 02:48 .
drwxrwxr-x 1 99 16777218 99 Jan 11 03:02 ..
-rw------- 1 root root 1311232 Jan 11 02:48 PPBE-ctk.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 21474836480 Jan 11 02:48 PPBE-flat.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 596 Jan 11 02:48 PPBE.vmdk
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3710 Jan 11 02:47 PPBE.vmx
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 30 Jan 11 02:48 STATUS.ok
PPBE/PPBE-2013-01-11_15-02-11:
drwxrwxr-x 1 root root 94 Jan 11 03:02 .
drwxrwxr-x 1 99 16777218 99 Jan 11 03:02 ..
-rw------- 1 root root 1311232 Jan 11 03:02 PPBE-ctk.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 21474836480 Jan 11 03:02 PPBE-flat.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 596 Jan 11 03:02 PPBE.vmdk
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3710 Jan 11 03:01 PPBE.vmx
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 30 Jan 11 03:02 STATUS.ok
I can use my windows machine to copy the OK and vmx files via Explorer, but can't copy or delete the rest. I can create things on the server via my Windows machines with total control. Delete, copy, edit, etc. I tried creating a directory on the store and a file via the console in ESXi and had the following:
/vmfs/volumes/7dc6b757-aa5eeab6/iso # ls -la test
drwxr-sr-x 1 root 16777218 22 Jan 11 03:06 .
drwxrwsrwx 1 99 16777218 98 Jan 11 03:06 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 16777218 0 Jan 11 03:06 afile.txt
So it looks as if ESXi is setting highly restrictive permissions on the datastore, which is making it hard to work with my backups. The only way I can copy them to my local machine is via Veeam or WinSCP. Veeam is OK, but WinSCP is horribly slow. I'd prefer just to be able to copy/paste these so I can work with batch files to ensure local copies.
Any ideas?