The storage backend by uploading a configuration file containing the chunk size as specified and other parameters. If the storage backend has not been initialized before, it will initialize To connect to the storage backend specified by the storage url. The init command assigns the given host id that will be used by the backup command later. temp-dir DIR directory for storing temporary files e, -encrypt encrypt to the storage with a master password c SIZE, -chunk-size SIZE the size of chunks (default is 1M) Storage_url the url of the storage to back up to Host_id a unique id to identify the host machine
print-stack print the stack trace on error disable-script don't run scripts before and after the command h, -help show this help message and exit Restore restore virtual machine from previous backup The -email option can also be provided to the cron command to enable email notifications for a scheduled backup jobīelow are all the commands and global options supported by Vertical Backup: usage: vertical īackup back up virtual machines to the storage Vertical email 587 username password when we can run the backup command with the -email option. To set up email notifications, first run the email command: We can also provide the time in the hh:mm format to schedule a daily backup job. This command sets the virtual machine vm-ubuntu to be backed up 10 minutes after every hour: The restore command restores a virtual machine to a previous revision: We can list previous backups using the list command: Vertical Backup assigns increasing revision numbers to backups, starting at 1 for the first backup. This is to back up the virtual machine named vm-ubuntu: Now we are ready to run the backup command. Multiple ESXi hosts can back up to the same storage, and in fact this is the recommended way as this enables cross-host deduplication. Each ESXi host should have a unique host id.īackups will be uploaded to 192.168.1.100 via SFTP with the username being esxi and the storage directory will be storage (relative to the home directory). Vertical init esxi55 we use esxi55 as the host id. Once we have the executable ready, we first need to choose a host id, and the storage to back up to: Mkdir /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/verticalbackupĬd /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/verticalbackup It is recommended to download it to a datastore directory: Vertical Backup is provided as a single executable file.
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