I have a 500GB virtual disk created for vDR 2.0 to use for its dedup backups. The disk is sitting on an NFS share mounted as a Datastore in vSphere.
In vSphere its:
[DATASTORE] VDR/VDR.vmdk
If I access it like mapped drive its:
\\DATASTORE\VDR\VDR.vmdk
The objective is to be able to capture that .vmdk in a 3rd party backup stream and store it offsite for Disaster Recovery on a weekly basis (and restore at a remote site if needed). The issue I'm running into is that permissions on the .vmdk make it such that I can't access it from anything else other than the vSphere Client. When I right click on the vmdk and look at the security on the file it shows the following:
Everyone - no rights
nobody (Unix User\nobody) - Read/Write
nogroup (Unix Group\nogroup) - no rights
From within the vSphere Client I can access that datastore, browse it, create files, delete stuff, do whatever. I need to strip these permissions off of it so I can do what I want to it.
The same thing happens if I create a clone on this datastore using PowerCLI, and attempt to backup the entire directory after it's been removed from vSphere inventory. (using this script) The NFS datastore I'm targeting is a Buffalo Terrastation III Pro (6TB - Raid 6). It seems like I should be able to control (strip) these permissions using PowerCLI somehow so that I can copy these files from the NAS to backup media.
Same deal though with security on all of the directories.
Everyone - no rights
nobody (Unix User\nobody) - Read/Write
nogroup (Unix Group\nogroup) - no rights
Anyone else running into this?
