xenbackup

Simple App to manage xenserver VM backups via Tagging

Usage

An example config is provided. Modify to your taste then run xenbackup with the path to your config

 $ ./bin/xenbackup.rb test_config.rb
 
 Config loaded
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 Fetching VM and SR data from pool.
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 Snapshotting all VM's with tag: 'testing_backups'
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 Starting Snap Backup for 'etcd07'  OpaqueRef:53154495-69f9-91d4-d232-afc1fac721f7
 Tagging backup
 
 Moving Snapshots to Backup volume tagged 'spof_sr'
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 Moving xenbackup-etcd07 to Backup SR: OpaqueRef:2a7fdd0d-a057-a4cd-cb79-92fc4473ebe8
 
 Cleaning Up snapshots.
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 Deleting xenbackup-etcd07
 Removing disks attached to 'xenbackup-etcd07' via OpaqueRef:89a73de1-d49c-f21e-4c7c-4b08a4966406
 removing vbd: OpaqueRef:f17fcd08-df53-5865-9e42-c142bca7574b
 waiting for disks to cleanup
 Destroying Guest
 Cleaning up Old backups
 Deleting xenbackup-etcd07
 Removing disks attached to 'xenbackup-etcd07' via OpaqueRef:fdba2233-de11-caad-6dea-5e4fc4148263
 removing vbd: OpaqueRef:b1780667-a534-df4e-0016-13b972906fab
 waiting for disks to cleanup
 Destroying Guest

Acknowledgements

This program embedds a modified version of xenapi gem by Geoff Garside https://github.com/geoffgarside/xenapi

LICENSE

see LICENSE see lib/xenapi/LICENSE