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I am not able to restore ESXi Configuration. Does anyone have a step-by-step?

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Wellington Moreira

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Hello Wellington,

Welcome to Acronis forums! The ESXi host configuration recovery can be performed only using Acronis Bootable Media. Step-by-step guidance is available in https://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/AcronisBackup_12.5/index.html#36448.html

Let us know the outcome of the recovery procedure. 

I have found manually backup ESXi hosts to be much simpler using vSphereCLI - this is from my own knowledge base.

 

"Manual Backup of ESXi Hosts.

Have the following installed on your PC or Server - VMware-vSphere-CLI-6.0.0-3561779.exe - as found in our software drive in VMware

This will install the Vsphere Command Prompt - which you will find In Programs(All Apps)>Vmware>Command Prompt

Change the default root path to: C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware vSphere CLI\bin or C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware vSphere CLI\bin

to perform the backup of the ESXi Host run the following:

vicfg-cfgbackup.pl --server=192.168.0.1 --username=root -s c:\downloads\ESXi_backup.txt

Change the ip address to that of your own server - ensure the downloads folder exists on your PC - if you have more than 1 host edit the txt file to be unique for each server

(Copy this folder to where you will be restoring the system to)

 

To Restore a backup of a ESXi Host

You will first need to have an installation of ESXI installed on your server first - to the same build generation of the original server.

run the Vsphere Command Prompt - which you will find In Programs(All Apps)>Vmware>Command Prompt

Change the default root path to: C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware vSphere CLI\bin or C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware vSphere CLI\bin

To perform the Restore of the ESXi Host run the following:

vicfg-cfgbackup.pl --server=192.168.0.1 --username=root --password={PASSWORD} -l -f c:\downloads\ESXi_backup.txt

Change the ip address to that of your own server - ensure the downloads folder exists on your PC with the relevant backup file inside it - edit the txt file to be the backups actual name - put in the real password where it says {PASSWORD}

This will run the restore process - follow the onscreen prompts.

Ensure that the -f is in the script -as this will force the backup over the pre-existing install as otherwise it will error."

 

I have had 100% success restoring ESXi configurations on failed production machines.