VMware Workstation

Here is the BATCH we use to backup our VMs

rem Stop VM

"C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation\vmrun.exe" stop "D:\VM\vm_name.vmx"

rem ROBOCOPY (or xcopy) the files somewhere, pref a different box or network drive

robocopy.exe "D:\VM" \\network_storage\VMWS\BACKUP_VM_NAME\ /e /eta /r:1 /w:1 /log:D:\YourVMInstance-BackupLog.txt

rem start the VM

"C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation\vmrun.exe" start "D:\VM\vm_name.vmx"