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Windows Backup and Hyper-V in Server 2012

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Here is something new in Windows Server 2012 that I have not seen much discussion of yet:  Windows Server backup now has native support for Hyper-V:

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What this means is that:

  • You no longer need to do anything special to backup Hyper-V (i.e. you no longer need to do this)
  • You can use Windows Server Backup to backup individual virtual machines (shown in the screenshot above)

Cheers,
Ben

Comments

  • Anonymous
    February 18, 2013
    Hi, Is possible to backup (in the same way) of Hyper-V Server 2012 (core) remotely from Windows Server 2012?

  • Anonymous
    February 18, 2013
    It's a great feature that's prooving very useful to us in the SMB sector as it provides simpler restoration of a host and its guests. Now if only they could solve the error you get when adding destination discs without all the others being plugged in :(

  • Anonymous
    February 19, 2013
    Cool! Do you know if/how this works with a Hyper-V cluster?

  • Anonymous
    February 19, 2013
    do you have the syntax for using wbadmin to perform virtual machine backup in Windows Server 2012

  • Anonymous
    February 19, 2013
    Hyper-v can mirror a VHDX . Can we backup the original? And the mirror, can we backup the mirror on the remote location?

  • Anonymous
    February 19, 2013
    During today's VSS snapshot creation I got a message: COM call "lvssObject4->GetRootAndLogicalPrefixPaths" failed.

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2013
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  • Anonymous
    April 25, 2013
    What if the Hyper-V host dies?  Can I install Hyper-V on another host and restore this VM with all of its settings?

  • Anonymous
    May 20, 2013
    On the Hyper-V host must I include the drive with the VHD files? Or needn't I because Windows Server Backup is making backup automaticly? Or is Server Backup just saving the meta Information of the Virtual Machines like the export function?

  • Anonymous
    July 03, 2013
    I think it doesn't support VMs hosted on CSVs

  • Anonymous
    November 16, 2013
    Upgraded to 2012 R2 and 90% of all the machines only do a offline backup after inplace upgrade :/

  • Anonymous
    December 13, 2013
    Same for me, after upgrade to R2 this great feature is gone for good :(

  • Anonymous
    January 14, 2014
    A quick question, When I get backup from all VMs, it creates a big file (not 5 small files for each VM). How does the system know which one to recover if i want to recover only one VM of of that big file?

  • Anonymous
    February 16, 2014
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  • Anonymous
    April 01, 2014
    On win svr 2012 I get the error "COM call "lvssObject4->GetRootAndLogicalPrefixPaths" failed" right after a create in Diskshadow. This ONLY happen on a 2012 server. Windows 2K8R2 - no error. There is little to no information on this error that pertains to windows 2012 (Mostly a bunch of questions "has anyone seen this error?" variety) Or it pertains to Win2003.  

  • Anonymous
    May 13, 2014
    Seems to fail at each backup we're trying... We're backing up a VM in 2 Clustered Hyper-V nodes.

  • Anonymous
    August 08, 2014
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  • Anonymous
    October 29, 2014
    I must be missing something on what I have read so far, but with this backup you are taking a snapshot.  From what I have read, snapshots are suppose to be used for only temporary things and deleted after a shsort period of time.   We are a small business with two virtual hosts running three child-VM's.  I have been looking for a way to back up each of the VM to a separate external drive so that if any of the hosts fail I can use the backup file, image, VHD, or what ever the latest name is for what they call this thing, and restore that VM to another host if needed. But like I said, when I rad about this creating a snapshot I just moved on to more reading and still not finding any answers.

  • Anonymous
    August 11, 2015
    e possível fazer este backup por interfaceie gráfica no server 2012 hyper-v core?

  • Anonymous
    May 28, 2016
    I have noticed that regardless what option I chose for optimize backup performance (normal, optimize or custom) my Hyper-V VM is always backed-up full, not incremental. Worth mentioning that its VHDX resides on a VSS-enabled volume.Can you help me understand if W2K12R2 does only full backups to Hyper-v VMs or am I doing something wrong?