I do this at home. Hyper-V has a VSS writer that works in conjunction with the guest OS to get a VSS snapshot of the system. Vista and Win2k8 VMs can be backed up whilst the VM is running. Win2k3 (from memory) results in the machine being stopped for a few seconds whilst the snapshot is taken (can't remember if that's a Win2k3 machine with SP1 or affects SP2 machines as well).
Cheers Ken ________________________________ From: Jon Harris [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, 17 April 2009 3:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 2008 backup of VM's 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]<mailto:[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]<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/> ~
