UAC running on ESXi 6.5.0 produces a 0kb tar file after running

[noelcoleman]

When running the UAC on an ESXi 6.5.0 (18678235) we’re seeing only 54 collections run but when finished produces a 0kb tar.gz file. Running UAC 2.9.1 runs 313 collections and produces the correct size zip file.

[tclahr]

The tar version available in ESXi systems do not support an input-file as parameter, so UAC 2.9.1 used to add all files to be compressed in the command line. The problem about that approach is that the command line has a character size limit, so files could be missed depending on the number of files to compress.

UAC 3.0.0 in the other hand copies all collected files to a temporary location, them compress the entire directory. There are pros and cons. The cons is that all collected data needs to be copied before compressed, so it requires free space in the destination directory.

I have tested UAC 3.0.0 in a ESXi 6.5 and it worked fine. I think your problem was lack of free space in the destination directory to create the .tar.gz file.

Can you confirm that, please?