Virtual Machine Backup in VMWare

Description : Here I have describe how to take Virtual Machine backup using shell script

Procedure :

• Download  script from below URL:

https://github.com/lamw/ghettoVCB

• Upload it in server  using winscp
•  Login ssh console using putty
• Go to  location where you have copy  extracted folder [ghettoVCB-master]
• Give execute permission to  ghettoVCB.sh file using below command

# chmod +x ghettoVCB.sh

• Create one file name vmbackup where write all vm name  like as follow:

VM1

VM2

VM3

• Open ghettoVCB.sh file and make changes as follow: 

VM_BACKUP_VOLUME=/vmfs/volumes/596d4786-c3022a80-2c0b-843dc6ec482a/Backup/vmbackup    ### Backup Location ####

VM_BACKUP_ROTATION_COUNT=2    ### Backup Retention File ###

• Run below command to start backup

# ./ghettoVCB.sh -f vmbackup

• To set cron job in VMWare open  /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root file

30   4    *   *   6   /bin/sh /vmfs/volumes/596d4786-c3022a80-2c0b-843dc6ec482a/Backup/ghettoVCB-master/ghettoVCB.sh -f  /vmfs/volumes/596d4786-c3022a80-2c0b-843dc6ec482a/Backup/ghettoVCB-master/vmbackup 

Note: In example I have set backup at every saturday 4:30 AM backup