{"id":415,"date":"2010-05-24T21:32:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T20:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/?p=415"},"modified":"2010-05-24T21:33:57","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T20:33:57","slug":"smart-and-simple-backup-script-with-powercli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/?p=415","title":{"rendered":"Smart and simple backup script with PowerCLI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend on the Danish VMUG pointed me towards this simple backup script, from <a href=\"http:\/\/GestaltIT.com\" target=\"_blank\">GestaltIT.com<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/gestaltit.com\/all\/tech\/virtualization\/simon\/vmware-backup-powercli-script\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/gestaltit.com\/all\/tech\/virtualization\/simon\/vmware-backup-powercli-script\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The script creates a snapshot of a VM (from a CSV file) and creates a Thin Provisioned clone based on the snapshot, on a specified datastore (from the CSV file).<\/p>\n<p>This a smart and simple way to create a backup of a list of VM&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a must read for PowerCLI users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend on the Danish VMUG pointed me towards this simple backup script, from GestaltIT.com. http:\/\/gestaltit.com\/all\/tech\/virtualization\/simon\/vmware-backup-powercli-script\/ The script creates a snapshot of a VM (from a CSV file) and creates a Thin Provisioned clone based on the snapshot, on a specified datastore (from the CSV file). This a smart and simple way to create a\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/?p=415\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,21],"tags":[226,227,229,228,138,225,48,51],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-powercli-scripts","category-powershell","tag-backip","tag-backupscriot","tag-clone","tag-csv","tag-powercli","tag-powershel","tag-script","tag-snapshot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}