Using ACROCMD to automatically convert .tib to VMware ... having issues
My company supports many servers with Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 running on them. We have OS-Only Acronis images being created 4 times a week on each server. The .tibs go to either an external hard drive or to a network folder. This is working fine.
We have the need to automatically convert the .tibs to VMware (.vmx/.vmdk) 4 times a week as a scheduled task. This would help on-the-fly server recoveries go a ot smoother.
Since ABR 11 doesn't appear to have a built-in feature to automatically do the VM conversions on a schedule, I wrote a batch script using the ACROCMD utility. This batch script has been working fine for us for several months, but recently we are getting errors on newer servers.
Here is the batch script that I am using
acrocmd recover vm --vmname=SERVER01 --vmtype=vmware --vmstorage="F:\VMconversion_SERVER01_Tuesday_OS-Only" --credentials=administrator,password --loc="F:\Acronis_SERVER01_Tuesday_OS-Only" --credentials=administrator,password --arc="CustomerName_SERVER01_Tuesday_OS-Only" --host=SERVER01 --credentials=administrator,password --log="F:\VMconversion_SERVER01_Tuesday_OS-Only\log.txt" output=formatted --progress
This seems to work fine on our older servers that have a RAID volume size of 1TB or less.
But on our newer servers that have 2TB RAID volumes, we get the following error when the above script runs:
An error occurred while executing the command.
Error code: 0x1510008
$module = "acrocmd_vs"
Tag: 0x7A8E520180FDC06B
Failed to create a dummy virtual machine.
Error code: 0x728013
$module = "disk_bundle_vs"
Tag: 0x28314C961DE7D2A2
Failed to create a dummy virtual machine.
Error code: 0x728013
$module = "disk_bundle_vs"
Tag: 0x28314C961DE7D2E4
Error: The target size of the virtual disk is not supported by the selected virt
ual machine.
Error code: 0x3C000B
$module = "vmware_srv_vs"
Tag: 0x7A99D8A285A22ECC
Note: The Acronis .tib that I am trying to convert is the operating system partition only, approx. 50GB.
Any help resolving this would be greatly appreciated!

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Thank you, I'll give the 11.5 beta a try.
dev-anon wrote:One more thing -
Since ABR 11 doesn't appear to have a built-in feature to automatically do the VM conversions on a scheduleIt can do it as a part of backup plan, so it will convert the latest backup (of one or more physical or virtual machines) to the specified VM(s) . But the same bug will prevent it for machines with large disks.
Yes, I know this is possible as part of a backup plan, but only if you use the new naming convention (.tib file name with data/time stamp). We use the TrueImage Naming Convention which is a static file name that overwrites itself every week.
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Where can I download the 11.5 beta install? And where can I find the full release notes?
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start page for beta - http://www.acronis.com/backup-recovery/beta/
relnotes are available from link on beta page - http://www.acronis.com/backup-recovery/beta/rn.html
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