VMware ESX VCB Backup

VMware ESX VCB Backup is a script that makes it possible to back up VMs automatically using different schedules. The backup is set up using key words in the VMs annotations. A backup can be made just once or on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. The grace period of the backups can be set to whatever your storage capacity allows. The script is run through cron or manually. The backup script comes with a restore script that provides a small menu to make restoring a backed up VM quite easy.

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Release for ESXi delayed 11 Jan 2012

I have some trouble with the cleanup functions, so the release for ESXi will be delayed :(
For some reason the host touches the backup directorie...

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Recent releases

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• 2.31

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•  01 Dec 2010 08:01
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Release Notes: A bug with datastore detection was fixed. If the host was set to a German locale, it was possible that datastores were not correctly detected on certain dates.

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• 2.3

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•  29 Nov 2010 09:57
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Release Notes: Production datastore autodetection was added. Backup datastore autodetection was added. Some code was cleaned up. A script for restoring from a backup was added.

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• 2.2

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•  26 Nov 2010 11:51
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Release Notes: Minor fixes were made.

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Recent comments

28 Nov 2010 14:56 montiburns

version 2.3 is finished and will be tested these days.
it will be released with a script to restore VMs via a versy simple menu.

27 Nov 2010 15:07 montiburns

version 2.3 is on the way, with production/backup LUN auto-detection.
it takes some time and is quite tricky as the esx3.5 bash is only bash2 and vsphere bash is v3.2 without associative arrays and stuff...expect a messy workaround :D