GhettoVCB Backup/Restore Vsphere VM

- Backup VMs stored in a list:

[root@databom ~]# ./ghettoVCB.sh -f vms_to_backup

File vms_to_backup:

Vm1
VM2
...

- Backup All VMs residing on specific ESX(i) host

[root@databom ~]# ./ghettoVCB.sh -a

- Backup All VMs residing on specific ESX(i) host and exclude the VMs in the exclusion list:

[root@databom ~]# ./ghettoVCB.sh -a -e vm_exclusion_list

- Restore VM stored in a list:

[root@himalaya ~]# ./ghettoVCB-restore.sh -c vms_to_restore -d 2

File: vms_to_restore

[root@himalaya ~]# cat vms_to_restore
#"<DIRECTORY or .TGZ>;<DATASTORE_TO_RESTORE_TO>;<DISK_FORMAT_TO_RESTORE>;<OPTIONAL_RESTORED_VM_DISPLAY_NAME>"
# DISK_FORMATS
# 1 = zeroedthick
# 2 = 2gbsparse
# 3 = thin
# 4 = eagerzeroedthick
# e.g.
# "/vmfs/volumes/dlgCore-NFS-bigboi.VM-Backups/WILLIAM_BACKUPS/VCAP/VCAP-2009-08-18--1;/vmfs/volumes/himalaya-local-SATA.RE4-GP:Storage;1""/vmfs/volumes/mini-local-datastore-2/backups/VCSA-5.1/VCSA-5.1-2012-12-25_01-30-36;/vmfs/volumes/mini-local-datastore-1;3"
"/vmfs/volumes/mini-local-datastore-2/backups/VCSA-5.1/VCSA-5.1-2012-12-25_01-30-36;/vmfs/volumes/mini-local-datastore-1;1;VCSA-RESTORE" 

VM to restore	Datastore to restore to	VMDK format	Restore VM Name
/vmfs/volumes/mini-local-datastore-2/backups/VCSA-5.1/VCSA-5.1-2012-12-25_01-30-36	/vmfs/volumes/mini-local-datastore-1	thin	VCSA-5.1
/vmfs/volumes/mini-local-datastore-2/backups/VCSA-5.1/VCSA-5.1-2012-12-25_01-30-36	/vmfs/volumes/mini-local-datastore-	zeroedthick	VCSA-RESTORE