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."

Solution Verified - Updated -

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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