Great! Yes they are on Server 2008 but they are production machines that really need to stay live. The host is not in the domain and the machine that will hold the back ups will not be in the domain in the future, or maybe it will. I am fighting a losing war with the money people and at the moment I am looking at no machine being rated for my back up program in the very near future. backing up the VM's would solve that problem at least for a while.
Jon On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Terry Dickson <[email protected]>wrote: > OK so are the VM's Server 2008 or Vista? If so yes I have and do, some > daily and some weekly. I did have to do a little work to get it up and > running. The 2008/Vista Backup works pretty well, however I had to set it > up and schedule it through the command line and task scheduler. It was not > that difficult. I have tried the restore several times just to make sure it > works. And yes since you are running the built-in backup program you can > run it from a live VM without shutting it down. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jon Harris [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 12:04 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Windows 2008 backup of VM's > > Has anyone done a backup of live Hyper-V machines to a remote share? If so > did it shut down the VM's during the backup? I will not be able to test > this until next week so any insight will short cut the testing process a > little bit. > > Thanks much, > > Jon > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
