I have been searching for simple and easy script to backup selected virtual machines running on esxi server, which will:
- run on linux – do not require windows machine; can’t use PowerCLI
- do not require direct access to esxi host using ssh (as other backups scripts like ghettoVCB.sh do) and will use API
- support multiple esxi hosts managed by vcenter
- have clear code – that means no perl hell (including big vsphere perl sdk)
- have short code
- can be put into cron
I was unable to find any to comply my requirements. I’m learning python, so I searched for some python vsphere libs and found psphere. Then backup.py has born.