http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/2007/09/12/vcb-backup-all-running-vms/ Beyond the Manual, with Mike Laverick (VCI, VCP, CCI, CCEA, MCT, MCSE) Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:25:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/2007/09/12/vcb-backup-all-running-vms/comment-page-1/#comment-24626 VCB - Backup all running VMs » Yellow Bricks Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:17:45 +0000 http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/?p=430#comment-24626 [...] Today I was busy trying to find out a way to schedule VCB backups with Commvault with just 1 schedule without having to rewrite your script every time someone creates a VM. The standard procedure is to create a subclient for every VM which is very human error prone. I stumbled upon a blog on RTFM about backing up all running VM’s, the actual script was done by Andrew Neilson, thanks! Of which the following was the most important part: for /f “tokens=2 delims=:” %%i in (’vcbvmname -h virtualcenter.rtfm-ed.co.uk -u administrator -p password -s Powerstate:on ^| find “name:”‘) do @rd /s /q “D:BackupsAll%%i” &vcbmounter -h virtualcenter.rtfm-ed.co.uk -u administrator -p password -a name:”%%i” -r “D:BackupsAll%%i” -t fullvm > “D:BackupsAll%%i.log [...] [...] Today I was busy trying to find out a way to schedule VCB backups with Commvault with just 1 schedule without having to rewrite your script every time someone creates a VM. The standard procedure is to create a subclient for every VM which is very human error prone. I stumbled upon a blog on RTFM about backing up all running VM’s, the actual script was done by Andrew Neilson, thanks! Of which the following was the most important part: for /f “tokens=2 delims=:” %%i in (’vcbvmname -h virtualcenter.rtfm-ed.co.uk -u administrator -p password -s Powerstate:on ^| find “name:”‘) do @rd /s /q “D:BackupsAll%%i” &vcbmounter -h virtualcenter.rtfm-ed.co.uk -u administrator -p password -a name:”%%i” -r “D:BackupsAll%%i” -t fullvm > “D:BackupsAll%%i.log [...]

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