On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Jon Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > Under 2008 it worked had it running at night full backups not typical but > for the setup I was doing this on it was the best option. VM's were up and > running on the host backed up the entire host.
FYI, Microsoft's official guidance on several things (notable Active Directory) is that the only way to properly backup a VM is by running the backup on the guest OS, inside the VM. Backing up the host, snapshotting the VMs, is Not Supported(TM). We've been tinkering with running backups via Windows Backup and WBADMIN. Rather like NTBACKUP, the documentation isn't the best, the diagnostic message stink, and it's somewhat touchy, but we eventually got it be stable, for some definition of stable. It doesn't seem like a very scalable solution, though. I'm trying to get approval for a more sophisticated solution. -- Ben
