Thanks a lot guys I will try and set up a run at backing these machines up this weekend instead of next week.
Jon On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> 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/> ~
