Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 backup script

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John Savill published for WindowsITPro a Visual Basic Script useful for backup of Virtual Server 2005 virtual machines, suspending, copying and resuming (which will be no more needed from Virtual Server 2005 R2 Service Pack 1 featuring live backup):

‘ backupvm.vbs
‘ John Savill
‘ Usage : backupvm.vbs
‘ e.g. cscript backupvm.vbs savdalum01 c:\backup’ Make sure that you place the \ at the end of the backup path or you’ll get errors.
‘
Option Explicit
On Error Resume Next

Dim objFSO, objVirtualServer, objVM, objSaveTask, objVHD

‘Connect to file system object.
set objFSO=CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”)

‘Connect to Virtual Server.
set objVirtualServer = CreateObject(“VirtualServer.Application”)

‘Get virtual machine from command-line parameter.
set objVM = objVirtualServer.FindVirtualMachine(WScript.Arguments(0))

‘Save state of the virtual machine.
set objSaveTask = objVM.Save

‘Loop waiting for task completion
while not objSaveTask.isComplete
WScript.Sleep 1000
wend

‘Copy virtual hard disks and undo disks.
for each objVHD in objVM.HardDiskConnections
If objFSO.FileExists(objVHD.HardDisk.file) Then
‘Wscript.Echo objVHD.HardDisk.file & ” ” & WScript.Arguments(1)
objFSO.CopyFile objVHD.HardDisk.file, WScript.Arguments(1)
End If
If objFSO.FileExists(objVHD.undoHardDisk.file) Then
‘Wscript.Echo objVHD.undoHardDisk.file & ” ” & WScript.Arguments(1)
objFSO.CopyFile objVHD.undoHardDisk.file, WScript.Arguments(1)
End If
Next

‘Copy .vmc and .vsv files.
objFSO.CopyFile objVM.File, WScript.Arguments(1)
objFSO.CopyFile objVM.SavedStateFilePath, WScript.Arguments(1)

‘Start the virtual machine.
objVM.Startup

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