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Command-line backup for VMWare Fusion Virtual Machines
Submitted by John on Tue, 2010-06-08 14:28
If you have a bunch of VMWare Fusion virtual machines running, you can suspend them programmatically using vmrun
and rsync them to a mounted volume. Then, with the copy completed, you can resume the virtual machines.
#!/bin/bash BACKUPDIR=/Volumes/Backup/VMs /Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/vmrun list | tail -n +2 | while read VM do echo "Suspending $VM" time /Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/vmrun -T fusion suspend "$VM" echo "Suspended $VM" DIR=`dirname "$VM"` echo "Rsyncing $DIR" rsync -av "$DIR" "$BACKUPDIR" echo "Resuming $VM" time /Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/vmrun -T fusion start "$VM" echo "Resumed $VM" done
Note: this hung on Windows VMs until I updated VMWare Tools to the latest version on the guest. The above is currently working on Fusion 3.1 for RHEL5 and Windows 2008 R2 Server guests.
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