Hi all,

as I am using BackupPC now for years to back up my data I decided I want
to back up some of my VMs as image file backup.

Due to the design of BackupPC it is no good idea to transfer the large
vmdk file every time when just 1% of the disk has changed.

Having got some ideas from this mailing list I developed my own short
shell script to be able to backup my VMs in an (more or less) efficient way.
It creates a snapshot of the VM, copies, splits and compresses the vmdk
files to a temp folder which is then backed up together with the other
remaining files of the VM.

If you are interested you can download the small package from
http://www.knebb.de/files/backup_esxi_vms.tar.gz (approx. 900k)
Besides of the script it contains rsync and split as statically linked
binaries and a README which explains how it works and what it can not
handle! Please read!

As this script works currently well for my needs I will not add
additional functionalities. If your want to improve, please send me a
patch file and I will update the script.

Greetings

Christian


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