[windows2000] Re: [THIN] Download Pick: New Version of Veem FastSCP
- From: "Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp." <bcoffman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 21:33:16 -0400
> however the VM must be powered off to back it up
Negative Ghost Rider, add a redo file and you can then backup a running VM
on ESX, something like so:
#!/bin/bash
#predefined NFS share we backup to
mount /root/vm_citrix
sleep 10
#vmfsdir is a text file with the full vmfs path to where the VMs are stored.
while read pathname
do
vmfspath=$pathname
done < vmfsdir
# vmlist is a text file with the name of the VM (and vmfs subdir, which must
match or this script must be modifed)
while read vmname
do
clear
cd /vmfs/volumes/$vmfspath/$vmname/
pwd
echo starting $vmname
echo Adding Redo File..
vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/$vmfspath/$vmname/$vmname.vmx
createsnapshot backup
sleep 30
# I use bzip2 to compress the backup file, seems to do a
better job than gzip
echo creating bzip2 archive.
rm /root/vm_citrix/vm_backup/$vmname.bz2.old
mv /root/vm_citrix/vm_backup/$vmname.bz2
/root/vm_citrix/vm_backup/$vmname.bz2.old
bzip2 -c -k -z -9 $vmname-flat.vmdk
>/root/vm_citrix/vm_backup/$vmname.bz2
echo Committing Redo
vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/$vmfspath/$vmname/$vmname.vmx
removesnapshots
sleep 30
echo Done.
done < vmlist
Hope this helps someone and I'm all ears for feedback/improvements (like
incorporating FastSCP).
- Bob Coffman
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