Basics – virtual machine names in VBA backups

If you’ve been backing up your virtual machines with VBA, you’ve probably hit that moment when you’ve run an mminfo query and seen output looking like the following:

mminfo_vm_backups_01

As you can see, that’s not the most effective way to see virtual machine names – vm:<id> doesn’t allow you to easily match it back to the virtual machine in question.

However, not all is lost. With VBA backups came a couple of new options. The first one is a “VBA backups” style report, using the command:

# mminfo -k

Using mminfo -k you’ll get a very tailored output focused entirely on your VBA backups, and it’ll resemble the following:

mminfo_vm_backups_02

That’s a really good way of seeing a quick listing of all your VBA-based virtual machine backups, but if you’re wanting a way of reconciling in normal mminfo output, you can also make use of a new mminfo report field, vmname. For example:

mminfo_vm_backups_03

(In the above command I could have used name and vmname in order to reconcile vm:<id> entries to virtual machine names, but elected not to for brevity.)

There you have it – a couple of quick and easy ways of quickly seeing details of your virtual machine backups via mminfo.

 

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