Free ESXi VM backup/ Automated scheduled VM Backups using GhettoVCB

GhettoVCB is the free tools allows to backup VMware ESXi VMs without vcenter or any commercial backup software.

Previous video covers how to configure and run manual backups using Ghetto VCB.

Free ESX virtual machine backup ( Sna...

This is video covers how to schedule GhettoVCB backup using ESXi Crontab and Windows Task Scheduler.

Free ESXi VM backup/ Automated schedu...

1. Crontab

Edit Crontab ###
vi /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root

Find Current cron process id ###
cat /var/run/crond.pid

Stop/Kill Current cron process ###
Kill pid

Start cron process ###
/usr/lib/vmware/busybox/bin/busybox crond

Verify cron process ###
cat /var/run/crond.pid


2. Windows

Submit job using privatekey ###

C:\Program Files\PuTTY\plink.exe -batch [email protected] -i C:\Users\Lab\Desktop\esxi_pri.ppk  /opt/ghettovcb/bin/ghettoVCB.sh -m boss

Submit job using Username and password ###

C:\Program Files\PuTTY\plink.exe -batch root:[email protected] /opt/ghettovcb/bin/ghettoVCB.sh -l /tmp/ghettoVCB.log -m boss

Submit job using Username and password for all VMs###
C:\Program Files\PuTTY\plink.exe -batch root:[email protected] /opt/ghettovcb/bin/ghettoVCB.sh -l /tmp/ghettoVCB.log -a

Check backup files ###
ls -l /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/backups/boss/

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