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Bootbank cannot be found at path /bootbank

Hi, I use a single host with VMware ESXi 6.7 on a PowerEdge R540, with a few virtual machines (local storage).
I noticed in Events this kind of messages:

Alarm 'Host error' on host.local
triggered by event 46678 'Issue detected on host.local in CED: Bootbank cannot be found at path '/bootbank' (2020-01-14T12:01:00.964Z cpu28:2245051)'

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ESXi is installed on a USB stick.
Should I be worried?
Thank you

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

USB stick is failing, or corrupt, the USB stick has become lose.

Time to get the configuration off the stick, or document your configuration, ensure you have good backups of your VMs.

The next restart, it may not boot.

Armitage318

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Hi Andrew, can you suggest me a reliable way to backup vcsa and host configuration?
Thank you very much!

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

VCSA is not at risk, but there are backup options now in VCSA if you login via VAMI (into the appliance not vCenter Server login)

As for backup of host server see here

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2042141

Armitage318

ASKER

Hi Andrew,
thank you.
I tried with:

[root@host:~] vim-cmd hostsvc/firmware/sync_config
(vmodl.fault.SystemError) {
   faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,
   faultMessage = <unset>,
   reason = "Internal error"
   msg = "Received SOAP response fault from [<cs p:0000001ea3040a20, TCP:localhost:8307>]: syncConfiguration
A general system error occurred: Internal error"
}

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is too late, in your opinion?
I really appreciate your courtesy

Murali Sripada

scratch partition might not be configured.. please configure scratch and then try the same

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Armitage318

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Thank you, it worked, I was able to download backup from /scratch (through WinSCP)
basically I followed this

https://johnsoehtoonoo.wordpress.com/2018/08/15/handy-tips-for-vmware-esxi-6-7-host-configuration-backup-and-restore/

thankyou!