{"id":5490,"date":"2015-03-26T18:02:23","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T08:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/?p=5490"},"modified":"2018-12-11T12:59:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T02:59:57","slug":"basics-virtual-machine-names-in-vba-backups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2015\/03\/26\/basics-virtual-machine-names-in-vba-backups\/","title":{"rendered":"Basics – virtual machine names in VBA backups"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"mminfo_vm_backups_01\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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:<\/p>\n

# mminfo -k<\/strong><\/pre>\n
Using mminfo -k you’ll get a very tailored output focused entirely on your VBA backups, and it’ll resemble the following:<\/p>\n
\"mminfo_vm_backups_02\"<\/a><\/p>\n
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<\/em>. For example:<\/p>\n
\"mminfo_vm_backups_03\"<\/a><\/p>\n
(In the above command I could have used name<\/em> and vmname<\/em> in order to reconcile vm:<id> entries to virtual machine names, but elected not to for brevity.)<\/p>\n
There you have it – a couple of quick and easy ways of quickly seeing details of your virtual machine backups via mminfo<\/em>.<\/p>\n
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