all you need to do is to run the following command:

unset HISTFILE

or

HISTFILE=/dev/null

this will disable history for your current session.

When I need a Openfiler backup for the first time, I did this:

1. Log in OpenFiler Web UI
2. Click System
3. Click Backup/Restore
4. Click Download

This works well if you have time to do this steps every day… but if you don’t want to do this steps every day, you must find another way to do daily backups…

After my little research, I find out that when I click on Backup/Restore, Openfiler cal this file: https://openfiler:446/admin/system_backup.html

I examined the content of this file and finded out, that all you need to backup your OpenFiler configuration is this:

export LANG=C; /usr/bin/sudo grep /mnt/ /etc/fstab > /opt/openfiler/etc/fstab_mnt
export LANG=C; /usr/bin/sudo /bin/tar --ignore-failed-read -cPpzf / --exclude /opt/openfiler/etc/httpd/logs --exclude /opt/openfiler/etc/update.log /opt/openfiler/etc/

After that, I created a script to put in my crontab, which backup Openfiler configuration every day. I keep only backups newer then 7 dasy, older backups are deleted.

Here is my script

BCKNAME="OpenFiler_`hostname`_`date "+%Y-%d-%m"`.tgz"
BCKFOLDER="/root/backup"
BCKCNT=`ls -1 $BCKFOLDER/OpenFiler_* | grep -c OpenFiler_`

function bck {
	export LANG=C; /usr/bin/sudo grep /mnt/ /etc/fstab > /opt/openfiler/etc/fstab_mnt
	export LANG=C; /usr/bin/sudo /bin/tar --ignore-failed-read -cPpzf $1 --exclude /opt/openfiler/etc/httpd/logs --exclude /opt/openfiler/etc/update.log /opt/openfiler/etc/
}

cd $BCKFOLDER

if [ $BCKCNT -gt 7 ];
then
	ls -tr -1 OpenFiler_*.tgz | tail -n 8 | head -n1 | xargs -I{} find $BCKFOLDER -name "OpenFiler_*.tgz" -not -newer {} | xargs rm
	bck $BCKFOLDER/$BCKNAME
else
	bck $BCKFOLDER/$BCKNAME
fi

How it works

This is a backup name (like OpenFiler_UrosOF_2012-21-02.tgz)

BCKNAME="OpenFiler_`hostname`_`date "+%Y-%d-%m"`.tgz"

Backup destination

BCKFOLDER="/root/backup"

This count backups already in backup folder

BCKCNT=`ls -1 $BCKFOLDER/OpenFiler_* | grep -c OpenFiler_`

Function to export all OpenFiler configuration files.
$1 -> function parameter: backup location/name

function bck {
	export LANG=C; /usr/bin/sudo grep /mnt/ /etc/fstab > /opt/openfiler/etc/fstab_mnt
	export LANG=C; /usr/bin/sudo /bin/tar --ignore-failed-read -cPpzf $1 --exclude /opt/openfiler/etc/httpd/logs --exclude /opt/openfiler/etc/update.log /opt/openfiler/etc/
}

Change directory to backup directory and check if backup folder contains more than 7 backups, if yes remove older backups and create a new one, else just create a new backup

cd $BCKFOLDER
if [ $BCKCNT -gt 7 ];
then
	ls -tr -1 OpenFiler_*.tgz | tail -n 8 | head -n1 | xargs -I{} find $BCKFOLDER -name "OpenFiler_*.tgz" -not -newer {} | xargs rm
	bck $BCKFOLDER/$BCKNAME
else
	bck $BCKFOLDER/$BCKNAME
fi

Restore Openfiler

1. Log in OpenFiler Web UI
2. Click System
3. Click Backup/Restore
4. Browse to your backup file
5. Click Upload

I was looking for a script that can do the job, but after a while I didn’t find anything usefull… so I made my own script…

My idea was to create a list of all running VMs and power off this VMs. Later, when I need to power on this VMs (from the list) I just call the same script again and it turn on all my VMs that are on this list.

Here is my script (shutdown_xen_vm.sh):

#!/bin/bash

PROGRAMPATH="/root/scr/shutdown_vm"
if [ -f $PROGRAMPATH/vm-list.txt ]
then
   #$PROGRAMPATH/vm-list.txt exist
   echo "Power on:"
   cat $PROGRAMPATH/vm-list.txt | xargs -I{} echo " - {}"
   cat $PROGRAMPATH/vm-list.txt | xargs -I{} xe vm-start vm={}
   echo "Done"
   rm $PROGRAMPATH/vm-list.txt
else
   #$PROGRAMPATH/vm-list.txt do not exist
   xe vm-list power-state=running | grep name-label | awk '{print $4}' | tac | head -n -1 > $PROGRAMPATH/vm-list.txt
   echo "Power off:"
   cat $PROGRAMPATH/vm-list.txt | xargs -I{} echo " - {}"
   cat $PROGRAMPATH/vm-list.txt | xargs -I{} xe vm-shutdown vm={}
   echo "Done"
   echo "Shutdown xen server..."
   shutdown -P now
fi

How it works:

check if file vm-list.txt exist

   if [ -f $PROGRAMPATH/vm-list.txt ]

Just print a list of all VMs that were powered off

   echo "Power on:"
   cat $PROGRAMPATH/vm-list.txt | xargs -I{} echo " - {}"

Start all VMs from the list and delete this list

   cat $PROGRAMPATH/vm-list.txt | xargs -I{} xe vm-start vm={}
   echo "Done"
   rm $PROGRAMPATH/vm-list.txt

Get all running VMs and write it to vm-list.txt

xe vm-list power-state=running | grep name-label | awk '{print $4}' | tac | head -n -1 > /root/scr/shutdown_vm/vm-list.txt

Just print a list of all VMs that will be powered off

   echo "Power off:"
   cat $PROGRAMPATH/vm-list.txt | xargs -I{} echo " - {}"

Power off VMs from the list and shutdown XenServer

   
   cat $PROGRAMPATH/vm-list.txt | xargs -I{} xe vm-shutdown vm={}
   echo "Done"
   echo "Shutdown xen server..."
   shutdown -P now

Now, to run this script you just need to do this:

   
chmod +x shutdown_xen_vm.sh
./shutdown_xen_vm.sh

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I hope that this script will help you as it helped me :)