{"id":86,"date":"2006-03-22T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-22T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/vmware-backing-up-your-esx-configurationvmx-files.html"},"modified":"2006-03-22T08:32:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-22T15:32:00","slug":"vmware-backing-up-your-esx-configurationvmx-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/vmware-backing-up-your-esx-configurationvmx-files\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware: Backing up your ESX Configuration\/VMX files"},"content":{"rendered":"
This is a quick\/easy\/down\/dirty way of backing up your ESX configuration information.<\/p>\n

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You’ll need to add a cron job, and create a script to run that cron job.<\/p>\n

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Here’s the script that I used to mount a Windows share, copy the files over, and then unmount the Windows share (I saved it in \/root as backup.sh<\/span><\/a>:<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
#*******************************************************************<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
#!\/bin\/bash<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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mount -t smbfs \/\/windowsserver\/sharename \/mountpoint -o username=user\/DOMAIN,password=password<\/p>\n

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cd \/mountpoint\/ESX_Backups\/<\/p>\n

rm -rf .\/old.$HOSTNAME\/<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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mv .\/$HOSTNAME\/ .\/old.$HOSTNAME\/<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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mkdir $HOSTNAME<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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cd \/<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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cp -duR \/etc\/ \/mountpoint\/ESX_Backups\/$HOSTNAME\/<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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cp -duR \/home\/ \/myappro\/ESX_Backups\/$HOSTNAME\/<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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umount \/mountpoint<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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For this to work properly, in your Windows share, you will already need to have a folder named ESX_Backups (it is case sensitive).<\/p>\n

You’ll need to figure out where you mount point is going to be, where you can mount the Windows share to.<\/p>\n

Also, make sure you do a chmod 700 backup.sh<\/strong> so this file will be executable.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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By copying all files in \/etc\/ and \/home\/ I get all ESX config files, and VM config files. You could modify this to be more specific, but I didn’t see the need to. I like the KISS method.<\/p>\n

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Now I made a cron entry like this:<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
#*******************************************************************<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
#!\/bin\/bash<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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10 23 * * * * root \/root\/backup.sh > \/dev\/null 2>&1<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
#*******************************************************************<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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And saved it as \/etc\/cron.d\/backupcron.sh<\/a><\/span>, with a chmod 500<\/strong> for it. <\/p>\n

S<\/span><\/span>imple, effective, & very little time to implement. And now I have the past 2 days worth of ESX and VM config<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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