The backup of the RHEL VM on VMware fails with: "FileCreateSafeTmpDir: Failed to create a safe temporary directory, path. The maximum number of attempts was exceeded."
Issue
The backup of the RHEL VM on the VMware fails with messages
Sep 6 10:18:58 dal-i-dbpg04 vmsvc[1246]: [ warning] [vmsvc] FileCreateSafeTmpDir: Failed to create a safe temporary directory, path "/tmp/vmware-root-1527113853". The maximum number of attempts was exceeded.
The open-vm-tools-9.10.2-5.el7_2 are installed on the system.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x
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