Backup running HyperV machines

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Hi,

I have been given the task to find a working backup solution for some of our hyper-v clients.

Basically, which is quite easy at first, i need a software to install on 2012 R2 which can backup individual VM's to an offsite location..

The offsite location is hosted in our own rack, which means i have full control over the setup/software however the biggest issue here is that there's almost 0 budget for the software that can handle this.

So, basically a solution to backup hyper-v machines to a remote ftp/<something> location and it needs to be free or very close to free ($50 max), any ideas?
 
Veeam Free Edition might work for you. Either set up a VPN for the backup repository, or sftp the file after creation, biggest problem I might forsee is that if you FTP the file, may have to be copying full backups, which could be very large.
 
The idea with a VPN tunnel might actually be a working solution.

I will have to look into that, i know our customers have firewalls that support things like this.
 
How many VM's per host?

While not that cheap veam or altaro. I personally like altaro although I haven't tried its backup over wan feature.
 
You can register VSS with Windows Server Backup and get Hyper-V backups from that. If you ever need to do a recovery you just restore and mount the VHD in disk manager and pull out the file, or just restore the entire VM.

Cost - free.
 
sorry guys, i kindda forgot about this as i had a week off work.

There's no more than 2 VMs per host, in some rare cases there's 3 VMs..

I did manage to get a budget for each host which is around &#8364;50-75 for software..

All i needs to do is be able to backup to a remote location.
 
swatbat said:
How many VM's per host?

While not that cheap veam or altaro. I personally like altaro although I haven't tried its backup over wan feature.
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The Backup over WAN is pretty nifty. Works like a charm. I actually resell that as a service to some of my smaller clients.

To the OP, can you define "remote location"? Is that over a WAN or do you mean to removable media that's then moved offsite?
 
Nate7311 said:
The Backup over WAN is pretty nifty. Works like a charm. I actually resell that as a service to some of my smaller clients.

To the OP, can you define "remote location"? Is that over a WAN or do you mean to removable media that's then moved offsite?
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Thats good to know. We have signed up for their reseller service as I have like 3 or 4 servers going in this month and early next that we are going to use it on. Not sure if we will use the backup over wan at any of them but I do plan on trying it at some point.
 
Dell AppAssure is pretty good, will do backup over WAN to another AppAssure Core, or ship an archive of restore points to Amazon,Azure, and other cloud providers.
Not cheap though.
Built in backup tools might be your best bet.
While not strictly backup per se; Hyper-V replication could also be a free option.
Hosts in datacenter
Host 1 vms ======replicated to Host 5
Host 5 vms ======replicated to Host 4
Host 4 vms ======replicated to Host 3
Host 3 vms ======replicated to Host 2
Host 2 vms ======replicated to Host 1

Azure Hyper-V replication(it now works with Generation 2 Vms) would be pretty cheap as a monthly service; most of the cost is going to come from the gateway hours running VPN from azure to your site. Under $100 month.
 
I've played with this some. Its seems to work well and can do SFTP/RSYNC to offsite servers and support incremental backups so once the first big backup is done it will just backup what changed.
 
Sorry for not getting back to you guys about this.

In the meantime, we have decided to go for Iperiusbackup, which supports backup of files to lots of different storage options.

Over WAN is simply a storage server in our own server room, with clients sending backups weekly to this server.

We wanted to keep it as budget friendly as possible, and have gotten iperius for only &#8364;80 per host with unlimited VMs per host, this is a one time deal.

While i state that the price is &#8364;80, we haven't actually bought it yet, as i am yet to find time to actually test this before committing to the software.

However it seems quite promising from my initial look.

It can do remote backups to an FTP server, which makes the server side quite easy to setup for us, we will naturally mirror the server in full to another offsite location.
 
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