INTERNAL - How to implement pre and post scripts for VMware using the Filesystem plugin (4047600)

With NetVault and the VMware plugin installed on the ESX server:

The backup will require a pre and post script on the esx server that the virtual image resides on, in the ../netvault/scripts directory. The pre script will create a snapshot of the image and mount the virtual image in the designated working directory of the esx server. Then you need to create a file system backup for the image in this directory. Once the backup has completed, the post script will run and this will unmount the image and remove the snapshot.



Examples:

+) Do a full backup of vm image with hostname "foo.bar.com" across the network,

Talk to ESX host "wisdom.bar.com" or “localhost� as user "root" with

password "foobar". - Export will go to "/mnt/tmp":



vcbMounter -h wisdom.bar.com -u root -p foobar -a ipaddr:foo.bar.com

-r /mnt/tmp -t fullvm



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