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unable to backup Esxi 5.0 host

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Hi, I have a Vsphere 5.0 essential plus cluster with 3 Esxi nodes.
I can't backup the configuration of the third node (node 3 has different hardware with respect of the other 2 nodes).
host3 status is up and running, but one hard disk says:" smart error" but seems to be not critical (you know, Smart is a "predictive" system)
I received this error message:
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Task 'Backup of ESX3' failed: 'The backup operation has failed on ESXi host 'esx3.fp.local'.
Additional info:
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Error code: 13
Module: 458
LineInfo: 60d54fe10d95ecf8
Fields:
Message: The backup operation has failed on ESXi host 'esx3.fp.local'.
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Error code: 21
Module: 458
LineInfo: 268dac6975739efc
Fields:
Message: Backup script execution has terminated with error code 1.
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Error code: 22
Module: 458
LineInfo: 268dac6975739eec
Fields:
Message: The following error has occurred while executing the backup script: 'Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 292, in
File "/build/mts/release/bora-702118/bora/build/esx/release/python-2.6-lib-zip-stage/702118/visor/pylib/python2.6/tarfile.py", line 1988, in add
File "/build/mts/release/bora-702118/bora/build/esx/release/python-2.6-lib-zip-stage/702118/visor/pylib/python2.6/tarfile.py", line 1988, in add
File "/build/mts/release/bora-702118/bora/build/esx/release/python-2.6-lib-zip-stage/702118/visor/pylib/python2.6/tarfile.py", line 1981, in add
File "/build/mts/release/bora-702118/bora/build/esx/release/python-2.6-lib-zip-stage/702118/visor/pylib/python2.6/tarfile.py", line 2010, in addfile
File "/build/mts/release/bora-702118/bora/build/esx/release/python-2.6-lib-zip-stage/702118/visor/pylib/python2.6/tarfile.py", line 279, in copyfileobj
IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error
'.

What do you think about the situation? hardware failure ?
Thanks for sharing your technical advice

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Hi,

This error indicates that the content of some service partition of the ESXi host could not be packed into .tar due to I/O error. It's not clear from the error which exact partition is causing the problem (could be bootbank or altbootbank or something else), so it makes sense to contact our support team for further investigation of the problem. Before contacting our support team please collect ESXi system logs (from vSphere client File->Export->Export System Logs) and/or if your ESXi is running from flash drive capture an image of this flash drive (via dd or similar tool), so that we can check it.

Thank you.
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Best regards,
Vasily
Acronis Virtualization Program Manager

Thanks for your quick and kind feedback. Please could you give me the exact email contact of the support team I must refer to ?
Many thanks in advance.

Best Regards.

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Hi,

To contact support you should log under your account on our website (remember to register your products at https://www.acronis.com/en-us/my/products/registration/ ) and refer to the following link for further instructions:

https://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/contact-us.html

Thank you.
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Best regards,
Vasily
Acronis Virtualization Program Manager