I’ve come up with the idea of saving ESXi backups on off-site locations. But before saving full VM backups in the cloud for example, I want the files to be encrypted so nobody else can use or see them. The easiest way of encrypting would be to use the well […]
I have just recently switched my home-server into a new setup, which is using VMware ESXi with the free license. My old one was a Arch Linux desktop with VMware Workstation installed on it. The backup process is somewhat different now. Maybe you’ve read my post about backing up VMware […]
This describes a quite simple way of backing up your VMware Workstation Virtual Machines on Linux. The script uses VMware’s own binaries vmrun to pause the machine, take a snapshot start the machine again. You define where to store the backup files in the variables on top. View the code […]