VMWare backup script on Linux host

Below is a backup script that I have created for backing up vmware instances on a Linux machine.  Note that it requires the quest OS to have vmware tools installed in order to suspend it.

==============Script Start =======================

#Expects the following variables to be set

#VMWARE_DIR

#VMWARE_VMX

#TAR_NAME

#REMOTE_CONNECTION

#Checks the result of our called program

function checkResult {

if \[ $? -ne 0 ]

then

     echo "$1";

     exit 1;

fi

}

if \[ $# -ne 3 ]

then

     echo "Usage is $0 vmware-dir vmware-vmx-file tarname ";

     exit 1;

fi

VMWARE_DIR="$1";

VMWARE_VMX="$VMWARE_DIR/$2";

TAR_NAME="$3";

REMOTE_CON="$4";

echo "VMWARE_DIR = $VMWARE_DIR";

echo "VMWARE_VMX = $VMWARE_VMX";

echo "TAR_NAME = $TAR_NAME";

echo "REMOTE_CON = $REMOTE_CON";

echo "Starting backup at `date`";

STATE=`vmware-cmd "$VMWARE_VMX" getstate|grep on|wc -l`

\# grep for state = on, if its there then suspend

if \[ $STATE -eq 1 ]

then

     echo "Suspending vmware image '$VMWARE_VMX'";

     vmware-cmd "$VMWARE_VMX" suspend;

     checkResult "Unable to suspend the vmware image $VMWARE_VMX";

fi

echo "Taring VMWare directory $VMWARE_DIR";

tar cvjf "$TAR_NAME" "$VMWARE_DIR";

checkResult "Unable to create the file $TAR_NAME";

echo "Tar completed"

STATE=`vmware-cmd "$VMWARE_VMX" getstate|grep suspended|wc -l`

if \[ $STATE -eq 1 ]

then

     echo "starting vmware image '$VMWARE_VMX'";

     vmware-cmd "$VMWARE_VMX" start;

     checkResult "Unable to resume the vmware image $VMWARE_VMX";

fi

echo "Finished backup at `date`";

echo "Output file is '$TAR_NAME'";

/code

================= End Script ==========================

Message was edited by:

        RDPetruska

    Added code tags to preserve whitespace.