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    Backup and Restore a Parallels VM Programmatically

    Parallels comes with a nifty command line tool called prlctl installed at /usr/local/bin/prlctl when the package is installed. Use the prlctl with the backup verb in order to run a backup of a virtual machine, followed by an option of a name or ID of a registered virtual machine. For example, if the name of the VM was Krypted Server then you could run the following: prlctl backup ‘Krypted Server' Or if the unique ID of the VM was 12345678-1234-1234-112233456789 prlctl backup {12345678-1234-1234-112233456789} To list existing backups of a given VM, the backup-list verb along with the name or unique ID would be used, as follows: code>prlctl backup-list {12345678-1234-1234-112233456789} And…