Создание резервной копии базы vCenter

У многих база vCentr'а располагается на локальном SQL Express. Возникает вопрос с бекапом базы. Есть Отличная утилита Data Migration Tool, но она не работает с vCenter 4.1. Выход - использование SQL Server Management Studio Express. Процитирую источник:

Creating a Backup Script

If you don’t have SQL Server Management Studio Express installed already, download and install it now.

Fire it up and log on with a user that has sufficient permissions to access the vCenter database

Find your vCenter database by expanding Databases and select VIM_VCDB

Right click on VIM_VCDB and select Tasks and then Back Up…

This opens the Back Up Database window, where you set your backup options. Set your options in a manner that fits your environment. You can set options like the backup file location, retention policy etc.

So far, this is all fine and dandy. You can create a manual backup this way, without much hassle. How can we turn that into a scheduled job?
The first bit is to turn your backup options into a SQL script that can be scheduled. You do this by finding the Script drop-down menu on the top of the Backup Database window. Select Script Action to New Query Window.

This opens the script window, where you can see the script and test it to make sure it works as intended.

The next step is to save the generated script, you do so my going to File and select Save … As. I’ve created a folder called c:\scripts\ that I use to store my SQL scripts in, so I’ll save the backup script there as FullBackupVCDB.sql.

Scheduling the Backup Script

Now that we have a working backup script, we need to be able to schedule it to run. As we can’t do that within the SQL Server Management Studio Express application, we need to find another way of scheduling it. Windows Server 2008 R2 (and other versions) include a scheduling tool, and that’s what we’ll use to create our schedule.

On my standard vCenter installation, the SQL Server is installed in the default location of C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\. This means that the actual command we need to schedule will be (be sure to replace the server-/instance-name and script name if your values differ from mine):

“C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\Binn\SQLCMD.EXE” -S [servername]\SQLEXP_VIM -i c:\scripts\FullBackupVCDB.sql

Go to the Control Panel and select Schedule Tasks. Click Create Basic Task, give it a name and set an appropriate schedule.

Select Start a program as the action for the task, and when it asks for Program/Script enter “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\Binn\SQLCMD.EXE” -S [servername]\SQLEXP_VIM -i c:\scripts\FullBackupVCDB.sql.

Click next and check the box that says Open the Properties dialog for this task when I click Finish then click Finish. In the VCDB Backup properties, make sure the Run whether user is logged on or not option is selected, to make sure the schedule runs as planned.

Once you have verified that the schedule works as intended, make sure that you include the location for your vCenter database in your regular backup scheme, and you should we a lot safer than you were.

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