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Post edited 11:34 pm – September 21, 2011 by admin

Features ของ ghettoVCB.sh script backup VMware ESX(i)

• Online back up of VM(s)
• Support for multiple VMDK disk(s) backup per VM
• Only valid VMDK(s) presented to the VM will be backed up
• Ability to shutdown guestOS and initiate backup process and power on VM afterwards with the option of hard power timeout
• Allow spaces in VM(s) backup list (not recommended and not a best practice)
• Ensure that snapshot removal process completes prior to to continuing onto the next VM backup
• VM(s) that intially contain snapshots will not be backed up and will be ignored
• Ability to specify the number of backup rotations for VM
• Output back up VMDK(s) in either ZEROEDTHICK (default behavior) or 2GB SPARSE or THIN or EAGERZEROEDTHICK format
• Support for both SCSI and IDE disks
• Non-persistent NFS backup
• Fully support VMDK(s) stored across multiple datastores
• Ability to compress backups (Experimental Support – Please refer to FAQ #25)
• Ability to configure individual VM backup policies
• Ability to include/exclude specific VMDK(s) per VM (requires individual VM backup policy setup)
• Ability to configure logging output to file
• Independent disk awareness (will ignore VMDK)
• New timeout variables for shutdown and snapshot creations
• Ability to configure snapshots with both memory and/or quiesce options
• Ability to configure disk adapter format
• Additional debugging information including dry run execution
• Support for VMs with both virtual/physical RDM (pRDM will be ignored and not backed up)
• Support for global ghettoVCB configuration file
• Support for VM exclusion list
• Ability to backup all VMs residing on a specific host w/o specifying VM list
• Implemented simple locking mechenism to ensure only 1 instance of ghettoVCB is running per host
• Updated backup directory structure – rsync friendly
• Additional logging and final status output
• Logging of ghettoVCB PID (proces id)
• Email backup logs
• Rsync “Link” Support
• Enhanced “dryrun” details including configuration and/or VMDK(s) issues
• New storage debugging details pre/post backup
• Quick email status summary
• Support for ESXi 5.0 NEW!

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