vm-online-backup - Another day, another PowerCLI script

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:38:47 +0000

Well, on Friday I had a short chat with someone from one of our application departments, stating he wanted a backup copy of a VM (ain’t to hard), but a) they don’t want any downtime and b) it has to be identical to the original.

So I sat down today, googled for a bit and actually found something that pretty much does what I want, though I had to fix it up a bit … So find attached a script, which creates a hot-clone from a snapshot and then only if the latest clone was successful deletes the old one.

Backup on BAFM

vm-online-backup - Another day, another PowerCLI script