Linux bash script for VMware: automated backup vm’s

### day and hour
    DAY=$(date | cut -d" " -f1)
    HOUR=$(date|tr -s " "|cut -d" " -f4| cut -d":" -f1)
### logfile
    export LOGFILE="/var/log/backup_vmware_servers.log"
    if [ ! -e "${LOGFILE}" ]
       then touch "$LOGFILE" # create a new logfile if not present
    fi
### variables
    VM_HOST_SRC="vmware_host_server.yourdomain.com"
    VM_HOST_DEST="vmware_dest_server.yourdomain.com"
    VM_ROOT_SRC="/DATA/vmware/vmmachines/"   # use trailing backslash, it's used in the rsync command
    VM_ROOT_DEST="/DATA/vmware/vmmachines"
    EMAILADDRESS="your_email_account@yourdomain.com"

### check local machine name
if [ $HOSTNAME != "${VM_HOST_SRC}" ]; then
   echo Hostname=${HOSTNAME}:
   echo "Dit script will only run on ${VM_HOST_SRC}"
   exit
fi

echo $HOSTNAME > ${LOGFILE}          # flush logfile and add data
date >> ${LOGFILE}
echo >> ${LOGFILE}

# check if remote server is up using return value: 1 is failed (down), 0 is success (up)
ping ${DEST_HOST} -c2|grep -q " 0% packet loss"
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
   echo
   echo ${VM_HOST_DEST} is up, ping test succeeded.  >> ${LOGFILE}
   echo ${VM_HOST_DEST} is up, ping test succeeded.
else
   echo
   echo ${VM_HOST_DEST} unreachable, ping failed: exit script.  >> ${LOGFILE}
   echo ${VM_HOST_DEST} unreachable, ping failed: exit script.
   exit 1
fi

################################
##
## stop vm's if they are running
##

IFS=$'n' # needed to prevent problems with filenames containing spaces in arrays
for VMFILE in $(find ${VM_ROOT_SRC} -type f -name *.vmx)
do
  vmware-cmd ${VMFILE} getstate|grep -q "getstate() = on"
  if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
     echo "stop ${VMFILE}"
     array0=( "${array0[@]}" "${VMFILE}" ) # add to array, these vm's  will  be started later on
     echo "stop ${VMFILE}" >> ${LOGFILE}
     vmware-cmd ${VMFILE} stop soft >> ${LOGFILE}
  else
     echo "already stopped: ${VMFILE}" >> ${LOGFILE}
     echo "already stopped: ${VMFILE}"
  fi
done

#echo count to 30
sleep 30

##
## start backup
##

echo >> ${LOGFILE}; echo
echo Starting backup:  >> ${LOGFILE}; echo "Starting backup (this is going to take a while…)"; echo
rsync -avu -e ssh ${VM_ROOT_SRC} ${VM_HOST_DEST}:${VM_ROOT_DEST} >> ${LOGFILE}
echo Backup finished >> ${LOGFILE}; echo; echo Backup finished
echo >> ${LOGFILE}; echo

##
## start vm's if they were running
##

#echo "Elements in array0:  ${array0[@]}"
echo; echo >> ${LOGFILE}

for VM in ${array0[@]}
do
 echo "Starting $VM" >> ${LOGFILE}; echo "Starting $VM"
 vmware-cmd "${VM}" start >> ${LOGFILE}
done

##
## Mail
##

sleep 120 # my mailserver is booting now so wait a little bit
echo >> ${LOGFILE}
echo "Sending e-mail to ${EMAILADDRESS}" >> ${LOGFILE}
date >> ${LOGFILE}          # logfile aanvullen
mail -s "VMWare backupscipt finished" ${EMAILADDRESS} <${LOGFILE}

exit 0