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Best way to back up a hyper-v VM
We have a hyper-v host in our office which runs our AD and a few other critical VM's. We are not in a position so pay for Veeam or such silly priced products.
Been doing some research but does any one have a good suggestion for a good backup solution for backups of VM's on Hyper-v? I have admin access to the Hyper-v host so I can snapshot at that level rather than file level replication.
These don't chance much so a nightly.snapshot solution is fine.
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Why not KVM or OpenVZ?
Those are supported in many ways better thaj Hyper-V; where OpenVZ you would use vzdump and KVM qemu-img.
For Hyper-V, I can't throw an answer off the bat. Perhaps you should try a scheduled task?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=hyper-v+backup+vm+script
Are the VM's not on a shared storage platform, or locally held on the hypervisor?
Where do you want to place the backup's as could change the method use, and do not use Hyper-V level snapshot's as a backup method!
Yeah, snapshots are only for convinience; if your hard drives fail, there goes your snapshots.
I'm a ShadowProtect / SPX fanboy. We use it where I work, and it works great.
You can try Veeam Hyper-V backup tool.
Find the free version here https://hyperv.veeam.com/free-hyper-v-backup/
These are critical servers... use products that work. Veeam is an excellent product. ShadowProtect s good. Unitrends Virtual Backup is good.