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USAGE:
Example 1 (backup all running VMs with busybox bin is in default location):
xsibackup --backup-point=/vmfs/volumes/backup --backup-type=running --mail-from=email.sender@yourdomain.com --mail-to=email.recipient@anotherdomain.com
--smtp-srv=smtp.33hops.com:25 --smtp-auth=plain --smtp-usr=username --smtp-pwd=password --subject="Virtual Machine Backup"

Example 2 (backup 2 VMs even if they are swiched off):
xsibackup --backup-point=/vmfs/volumes/backup --backup-type=custom --backup-vms=WINDOWSVM1,LINUXVM2 --mail-from=email.sender@yourdomain.com --mail-to=email.recipient@anotherdomain.com
--smtp-srv=smtp.33hops.com:25 --smtp-auth=plain --smtp-usr=username --smtp-pwd=password --subject="Virtual Machine Backup"

OPTIONS:

--busybox-bin

Full path to the busybox binary. A VMware ESXi 5.1 compatible © busybox binary is provided in the distribution package. You will need this program to send e-mail reports, this is the only dependency on this package. There is a busybox version already installed with ESXi but it is feature limited and cannot be used for e-mail communications. Please do remember to put this binary somewhere in a persistent path as with newer versions of ESXi the local filesystem is not persistent across reboots. We recommend to use some folder under /vmfs/volumes. If you do not provide this parameter the program will asume busybox is in the same directory as the program itself.

--backup-point

Full path to the backup mount point in the local server where it will tipically be under /vmfs/volumes, i.e. /vmfs/volumes/backup.

--backup-type (custom | all | running)

Custom: if this methos is chosen then a list of the VMs to backup must be passed to the --backup-vms option.
All: backup -all- VMS.
Running: backup only running virtual machines. They will be cleanly shutdown and backed up then switched on again.

--backup-vms

List of virtual machines to backup as a colon separated list, i.e: --backup-vms=VM1,VM2,VM3, only needed if "custom" is selected as the --backup-type

--mail-from

E-mail address as from where the HTML e-mail report will be sent.

--mail-to

E-mail address to which the HTML e-mail report will be sent.

--subject

Subject in the HTML e-mail subject field.

--smtp-srv

SMTP server that we will use to send the HTML e-mail report through.

--smtp-auth (plain|none)

SMTP authentication type
plain: username & password in plain text
none: no authentication, needed per instance if you are using a SMTP server in your lan without authentication.

--smtp-usr

SMTP username we will use in the plain text SMTP authentication. Please note this is the only authentication method supported by esxbackup by now.

--smtp-pwd

SMTP password used for authentication against the SMTP server.