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Bert
Asked: 2018-10-12 01:31:21 +0800 CST

How to save scheduled XenServer VM backups to external drive

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Server: XenServer 7.1

Management: XenCenter

Goal: Have a Scheduled Snapshot saved to an external drive connected to the server via USB

Issue: The server recognizes the external drive as a removable storage repository but I'm unable to find where to set it as a default location for snapshots.

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1 Answers

  1. So here is the code I've created. This runs every day at 4am via the cron of the SUDO

    #!/bin/bash

datum=`date +%Y%b%d`
xsname=`hostname`
uuidfile=/root/xenuuids.txt
mountpoint=/var/removable
backuppath=$mountpoint/vms/$xsname/$datum

if [ ! -d $mountpoint/vms ]; then
 mount /dev/sdb1 $mountpoint
 mkdir $mountpoint/vms
fi

if [ ! -d $mountpoint/vms ]; then
 echo "No mountpoint found. Please check!"
 exit 0
fi

mkdir -p $backuppath
if [ ! -d $backuppath ]; then
 echo "No backup path found. Please check!"
 exit 0
fi

xe vm-list is-control-domain=false is-a-snapshot=false | grep uuid | cut -d":" -f2 > $uuidfile

if [ ! -f $uuidfile ]; then
 echo "No UUID file found. Please check!"
 exit 0
fi

while read VMUUID
 do
  VMNAME=`xe vm-list uuid=$VMUUID | grep name-label | cut -d":" -f2 | sed 's/^ *//g'`
  SNAPUUID=`xe vm-snapshot uuid=$VMUUID new-name-label="SNAPSHOT-$VMNAME-$datum"` 

  xe template-param-set is-a-template=false ha-always-run=false uuid=$SNAPUUID
  xe vm-export vm=$SNAPUUID filename=$backuppath/SNAPSHOT-$VMNAME-$datum.xva
  xe vm-uninstall uuid=$SNAPUUID force=true

done <$uuidfile

umount $mountpoint

exit

    Enjoy! :)

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