Creation of snapshot on xenserver using python script.

xensnapshot.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
#-*- coding:utf-8 -*-
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# xensnapshot.py
# Desc: xenserver snapshots
# Author: Demetrius Albuquerque
# mail: demetrius.albuquerque@yahoo.com.br
# version: 0.1  data: 02/01/2013
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import commands, time

def get_name_vms():
   result = []
   cmd = "xe vm-list is-control-domain=false"
   output = commands.getoutput(cmd)
   print output
   for vm in output.split("\n\n\n"):
      lines = vm.split("\n")
      uuid = lines[0].split(":")[1][1:]
      name = lines[1].split(":")[1][1:]
      result += [(uuid, name)]

   return result

def backup_vm(uuid, filename, timestamp):
   cmd = "xe vm-snapshot uuid=" + uuid + " new-name-label=" + timestamp
   snapshot_uuid = commands.getoutput(cmd)

   cmd = "xe template-param-set is-a-template=false ha-always-run=false uuid=" + snapshot_uuid
   commands.getoutput(cmd)

   filename = filename.replace(" ", " ")
   filename = filename.replace("(", "(")
   filename = filename.replace(")", ")")
   cmd = "xe vm-export --compress vm=" + snapshot_uuid + " filename=" + filename
   commands.getoutput(cmd)

   cmd = "xe vm-uninstall uuid=" + snapshot_uuid + " force=true"
   commands.getoutput(cmd)

for (uuid, name) in get_name_vms():
   timestamp = time.strftime("%Y%m%d-%H%M", time.gmtime())
   print timestamp, uuid, name
   filename = name + "-" + timestamp + ".xva"
   backup_vm(uuid, filename, timestamp)