Updated Citrix XenServer 5.5 Automatic VM Backup Scripts

Posted in IT, Servers & Hosting, Virtualisation on November 27th, 2009 by Andy Burton – 37 Comments

I have re-written the popular Citrix XenServer 5.5 Automated Live VM Backup scripts from scratch, with some big improvements:

Separate backup configuration script – So you don’t need to touch the key execution and function scripts to configure backups.
VDI removal – Run in addition to the standard vm-uninstall command to stop snapshotted VMs allocating all your [...]

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Citrix XenServer 5.5 Automated Live VM Backup to Windows CIFS Share

Posted in IT, Servers & Hosting, Virtualisation on August 24th, 2009 by Andy Burton – 76 Comments

Up until now reliably backing up virtual machines from any of the free virtualisation hypervisors has been either expensive or impossible.

With the launch of Citrix XenServer 5.5 you can now not only take VM snapshots of live servers without shutting them down and taking them offline, you can also export these snapshots including the hard drive disk data to a template file.

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