Export VM Metadata XenServer

export-metadata.sh

#!/bin/bash

DATE=$(date +%d%B%y)
XSNAME=`echo $HOSTNAME`

BACKUPPATH=/opt/$XSNAME
mkdir -p $BACKUPPATH

xe vm-list is-control-domain=false is-a-snapshot=false | grep uuid | cut -d":" -f2 >  /$BACKUPPATH/list-uuids.txt

while read line
do
    VMNAME=`xe vm-list uuid=$line | grep name-label | cut -d":" -f2 | sed 's/^ *//g'`
    xe vm-export filename="$BACKUPPATH/$VMNAME-$DATE.vmmeta" uuid=$line metadata=true
done < /$BACKUPPATH/list-uuids.txt