Hyper-V How To: Backup Hyper-V with Windows

John Kelbley’s blog has a recent series of posts (including helpful screenies) explaining everything you need to do a Hyper-V backup is included in Windows Server.

Highly recommended.

• Best Part of Hyper-V Backup and Recovery Is Windows!
• The Wonder of Volume Shadow Copy and Hyper-V 
• DiskShadow / Xcopy BACKUP of Hyper-V
• DiskShadow / Xcopy RESTORE of Hyper-V
• Backup and Recovery of Non-Windows VMs on Hyper-V – IT JUST WORKS! 

Comments

• Anonymous
  December 03, 2009
  hmm not to labor the point but there is no csv/vss provider available currently so if vhd's on a csv volume you can't use vss to back them up. In other words SAN vss backups don't work, yet!

• Anonymous
  December 05, 2009
  Tony buddy, If you have piles of ca$h for shared storage that's awesome...go ahead and back up your VMs from INSIDE with agents (like you would with a physical system). If not, use VSS (which you know is part of Windows Server) and pocket the ca$h and use it for a great upgrade or other Holiday Cheer!!! -John