Share error - VAMI backup

[Penobscot]

I'm trying to back up a vCenter using NFS and failing. The backup job worked fine with a Windows Server share until VMware broke SMB (https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/86069). Below are what the share looks like and the errors in the TrueNAS log. I'm using the TrueNAS root for the time being.

I hope this is something simple I'm doing wrong because I'd really like to get this working. Thanks

Dec 4 17:26:52 truenas 1 2021-12-04T17:26:52.209729-05:00 truenas.local mountd 7425 - - mount request from 192.168.13.110 for non existent path /mnt/R720/VxRail/vCenter
Dec 4 17:26:52 truenas 1 2021-12-04T17:26:52.209772-05:00 truenas.local mountd 7425 - - mount request denied from 192.168.13.110 for /mnt/R720/VxRail/vCenter
Dec 4 17:26:52 truenas 1 2021-12-04T17:26:52.236759-05:00 truenas.local mountd 7425 - - mount request from 192.168.13.110 for non existent path /mnt/R720/VxRail/vCenter
Dec 4 17:26:52 truenas 1 2021-12-04T17:26:52.236796-05:00 truenas.local mountd 7425 - - mount request denied from 192.168.13.110 for /mnt/R720/VxRail/vCenter
Dec 4 17:26:52 truenas 1 2021-12-04T17:26:52.262547-05:00 truenas.local mountd 7425 - - mount request from 192.168.13.110 for non existent path /mnt/R720/VxRail/vCenter
Dec 4 17:26:52 truenas 1 2021-12-04T17:26:52.262582-05:00 truenas.local mountd 7425 - - mount request denied from 192.168.13.110 for /mnt/R720/VxRail/vCenter

 

[jgreco]

Tell vCenter to mount /mnt/R720/VxRail. The vCenter subdirectory doesn't exist.

 

[Penobscot]

Tell vCenter to mount /mnt/R720/VxRail. The vCenter subdirectory doesn't exist.

That's what I'm doing.

 

[jgreco]

That's what I'm doing.

No, it isn't. The error message is very clear:

mount request from 192.168.13.110 for non existent path /mnt/R720/VxRail/vCenter

You're asking for a path that doesn't exist, and it isn't letting you mount your imaginary thing, which I think makes complete sense.

 

[Penobscot]

 

[jgreco]

See, the Activity pane clearly shows the Backup Location using nfs://192.168.14.240/mnt/R720/VxRail/vCenter/

The fact that you might not have manually typed the last "vCenter/" is uninteresting to me and not meaningful. Both the client and the server say that there's an attempt to mount the NFS share at the blabla/VxRail/vCenter/ directory level. That doesn't exist.

FIX THIS. And it'll work.