Virtual Infrastructure Scripted Backup Utility

Alex Mittell, prolific and well known contributer to the VMware forums has joined Xtravirt.  You can look forward to more of Alex's insights, solutions and utilities posted at Xtravirt. Alex released a new verion of the VISBU – The Virtual Infrastructure Scripted Backup Utility. VISBU is a free backup utility that is run from the Service Console that provides VMDK level backups of any VM on the host. The script is designed to be easy to use and offers all features from a simple menu driven interface, so a non-Linux administrator can use it with the minimum of fuss. It provides email reports, automated restoration scripts for every backed up VM, and supports backups to SMB, NFS, EXT3, iSCSI and SAN based volumes – in both 2GBsparse or non-2GBsparse format. It also handles scheduled backups, configuration file creation, automatic SMB volume mounting, and provides a good level of logging for easy troubleshooting.