by Morgan Aldridge [email protected]
A utility for archiving VMware Fusion virtual machines. Will archive single VMs or directories of VMs, stopping & restarting any running VMs in the process.
Note: This only maintains a single archive of the original VM, overwriting any existing copies.
make install
vmware_archive
can run for a single VM or a path containing multiple VMs:
vmware_archive /path/to/virtual_machine.vmwarevm /path/to/destination
vmware_archive /path/to/virtual/machines/ /path/to/destination
- VMWare: Best Practices for virtual machine backup (programs and data) in VMware Fusion
- Brian's Blog: Automating backups of VMware Fusion VMs
Licensed under the MIT license.