RE: Proven Practice: Integrating CommVault Galaxy 6.1 SP4 with VCB 1.1

schambers — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:39:17 GMT

Over on VMTN there was a link to http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/01/30/vcb-backup-all-running-vms/ which had this great script snippet from depping...

Today I was busy trying to find out a way to schedule VCB backups with Commvault with just 1 schedule without having to rewrite your script every time someone creates a VM. The standard procedure is to create a subclient for every VM which is very human error prone. I stumbled upon a blog on RTFM about backing up all running VM’s, the actual script was done by Andrew Neilson, thanks! Of which the following was the most important part:

for /f “tokens=2 delims=:” %%i in (’vcbvmname -h virtualcenter.rtfm-ed.co.uk -u administrator -p password -s Powerstate:on ^| find “name:”‘) do @rd /s /q “D:\Backups\All\%%i” &vcbmounter -h virtualcenter.rtfm-ed.co.uk -u administrator -p password -a name:”%%i” -r “D:\Backups\All\%%i” -t fullvm > “D:\Backups\All\%%i.log

In other words: the second word of the outcome of the vcbvmname command will be parsed into the vcbmounter command. You could use this line and mix it with the standard script that Commvault uses:

for /f “tokens=2 delims=:” %%i in (’vcbvmname -h

 -u  -p ]]>

-s Powerstate:on ^| find “name:”‘) do cscript pre-command.wsf “c:\program files\vmware\vmware consolidated backup framework\” %%i fullvm

RE: Proven Practice: Integrating CommVault Galaxy 6.1 SP4 with VCB 1.1

Rodos — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:34:19 GMT

The metadata did not match the attached document, fixed this up.

However the attached document does not even match itself. The introduction in the document states "Additionally, instructions on how to use Microsoft’s Services for Unix to run vcbRestore from the Service Console without first having to copy the backup files to the Service Console by creating an NFS share on the Windows machine. " but there is not a single reference to it in the document.

This is why I don't like the practices being based on attached files, they should be in the wiki format so that people can come and maintain, edit, improve them.

Still early days. Lets see if my updates are approved.

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