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Hyper-V - Backup Software

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Sorry, yet another post on my new Hyper-V setup.

It is a Win2k12 host with 2x Win2k12 VMs. One is for the LOB app the other is to host the SQL server/database for the LOB app.

What kind of backup software would you suggest? We are going to be backing up to our NAS.

I have used backupassist before and see that they have Hyper-V aware/optimized solutions. Anything different I should be looking at?
 
Veeam is great for backing up virtual machines.

I use the free version in addition to the other backup software we use.

The software we really use for backups is StorageCraft ShadowProtect because we have a mixture of physical and virtual machines.
 
You could schedule a task (either in Windows or using something like Cobian Backup [freeware]) to backup the Hyper-V folders (both the VM folder with the xml files, and the VHD's for each VM); don't really know that you need something specifically for 'Hyper-V' since the data itself is in those 2 folders and those are easy to copy and restore. JMHO
 
Only because it's dirt-cheap for us thanks to agreement with MS, I use Microsoft's Data Protection Manager. It plays very well with Hyper-V. It recognizes a Hyper-V server and will backup each VM individually and allow granular file recovery (not just whole VHDs) as you'd expect. Though only for Windows virtual machines. For linux, it's the whole VHD or nothing.
 
Hurin said:
Only because it's dirt-cheap for us thanks to agreement with MS, I use Microsoft's Data Protection Manager. It plays very well with Hyper-V. It recognizes a Hyper-V server and will backup each VM individually and allow granular file recovery (not just whole VHDs) as you'd expect. Though only for Windows virtual machines. For linux, it's the whole VHD or nothing.
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DPM works well with Hyper-V but if you want to have the ability to restore individual files from within the VMs, you need to install the Hyper-V role on the DPM server which means DPM should be a physical server.

You can make it work on a virtual box, but it's not supported.
 
What's wrong with Windows Server Backup, SQL Backup, and Snapshots?

You don't need to buy any more software that was is already given to you. Not for 1 host and 2 VMs...

And if you had two hosts you'd also have Hyper-V Replication, and Failover Clustering...
 
I guess I wanted to see what was out there to manage backing up the whole virtual machine as well as being able to backup/restore individual files from within the virtual machines.

Backup up the whole virtual machine disk daily would end up being a ton of data. So, I was thinking of monthly snapshots of the whole virtual disk with daily backups of the individual data.

It looks like the free edition of Veeam Backup might be a good fit:
http://www.veeam.com/virtual-machine-backup-solution-free.html
 
With Windows Server Backup you can attach iSCSI disks and do daily differential backups. It's actually very intelligent when you're not using UNC paths.

If you use Windows Server Backup with attached storage (iSCSI counts too) it will do a full backup, differential backups, weekly full backups and will automatically delete old backups when it starts running out of space.
 
rosco said:
I guess I wanted to see what was out there to manage backing up the whole virtual machine as well as being able to backup/restore individual files from within the virtual machines.

Backup up the whole virtual machine disk daily would end up being a ton of data. So, I was thinking of monthly snapshots of the whole virtual disk with daily backups of the individual data.

It looks like the free edition of Veeam Backup might be a good fit:
http://www.veeam.com/virtual-machine-backup-solution-free.html
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Free version of Veeam does not support scheduling or incremental. Buy Veeam and do incremental backups and full backups once a month.

Or buy ShadowProtect from StorageCraft and do incremental backups and it with its other programs can flatten those incremental backups based on space available.
 
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