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rahrahruby
Asked: 2013-05-15 09:45:31 +0800 CST

using vmkfstools to move a snapshot

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I am trying to move a snapshot from an esxi 5.0 vm to another datastore, but when I tried to use the datastore tools I got the following error, "error caused by file" with a path to the vdmk file. So I am to use vmkfstools to move the snapshot but can't find how to move the snapsot. I found how to migrate a virtualdisk:

vmkfstools --server 10.21.49.14 -i '[Datastore] examplevm/examplevm.vmdk' '[Datastore 2] newexamplevm/newexamplevm.vmdk' -d thin

I have searched other forums and but haven't found any examples. I am not sure that the above command would move the snapshot. Has anyone used vmkfstools to move a snapshot? If so please provide an example

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  1. So hopefully this will help someone else who has seen the same issue where using the datastore snapshot tool to copy. The issue was that we had the file system formatted as reiserfs, when we reformatted it as ext4 the we were able to use the datastore tools successfully.

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