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VMware Consolidated Backup and Backup Exec

We've implemented a VMware ESX farm in our offices (and we do have a Hyper-V server as well) and I have been looking at using VMware Consolidated Backup along with our NFR copy of Backup Exec to take snapshots of the VMs. I'm cheap see :-)

I have got the VCB command line utilities working fine with the given documentation but whan I set BE up it failed with invalid username or password.

This has been doing my head in.

However looking around I discovered one post where someone had improved the JavaScript files that come with BE integration module and this gave me the idea to see if I could find out what username and password were being passed. I edited glue.js and wrote the username and password out to STDERR.

In the CONFIG.JS I had put the username and password in (I'll lock down when it's all working) and was using a domain user in the form of domain\username. When I looked at the output in the logfile I was seeing domainusername all together. Being a JavaScript file it needed two \\ between the domain and username - domain\\username.

Now it's working and my head is slightly less done in.


Posted Wed, Sep 3 2008 4:54 PM by Ian Watkins

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