THIS IS A WINDOWS
exportVMs.cmd
SCRIPT, BUT CAN BE EASILY ADAPTED TO WORK UNDER LINUX:
you will have to make an entry for every vm.
PRINCIPLE:
1. SAVE STATE (PAUSE VM)
2. CLONE TO BACKUP DIRECTORY (preferable on a NAS with a lot of storage… like 5x 2TB RAID5)
3. START VM
REM net use B: \\192.168.0.251\backup /persistent:yes /user:backup password
SET BACKUPDIR=\\192.168.0.251\backup
ECHO "writing current date to variable"
SET DATE=%date:~6,4%-%date:~3,2%-%date:~0,2%
ECHO "going into virtualbox directory so VBoxManage.exe can be reached"
REM cd "C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\"
ECHO "===================================="
SET VNAME=NAME_OF_VM1
VBoxManage.exe controlvm "%VNAME%" savestate
VBoxManage.exe clonevm --options keepallmacs "%VNAME%" --name "%DATE%_%VNAME%" --basefolder %BACKUPDIR%
VBoxManage.exe startvm --type headless "%VNAME%"
ECHO "backup of "%VNAME%" FINISHED"
ECHO "===================================="
SET VNAME=NAME_OF_VM2
VBoxManage.exe controlvm "%VNAME%" savestate
VBoxManage.exe clonevm --options keepallmacs "%VNAME%" --name "%DATE%_%VNAME%" --basefolder %BACKUPDIR%
VBoxManage.exe startvm --type headless "%VNAME%"
ECHO "backup of "%VNAME%" FINISHED"
ECHO "===================================="
ECHO "FINISHED"
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