How to enable Windows Server Backup support for the Hyper-V VSS Writer

re: How to enable Windows Server Backup support for the Hyper-V VSS Writer

UK — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 08:56:37 GMT

i have a host server with hyper-v role containing 5 VMs.

i ran a full host server backup using wbadmin..

is there any way to restore just one specific VM? or i have to restore the whole host server contaning all VMs using Installation DVD?

re: How to enable Windows Server Backup support for the Hyper-V VSS Writer

Dale M — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:58:41 GMT

Hello,

Above you had said,

"2: Virtual machines that do not have support for VSS Backups, such as Windows 2000, Windows XP, or virtual machines without Integration Services installed, will enter a saved state while the snapshot is taken and restore once the snapshot is complete."

When you say "...and restore once the snapshot is complete.", did you mean "restart" when the snapshot is complete or is there something more going after the snapshot finishes than one might guess?

Thank You

re: How to enable Windows Server Backup support for the Hyper-V VSS Writer

Anil — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:58:07 GMT

How to backup a running virtual machine.........?

re: How to enable Windows Server Backup support for the Hyper-V VSS Writer

RickyC — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:10:03 GMT

Can it be more disfunctional? Backup and restore all or none? I can't see how this is helpful. With a little forethought to data protection and recovery, indiviual machines should be able to restore. I have a problem with one VMD file corrupted. Now I have to overwrite ALL the VM's to the last backup to get it back? I wish the developers would give some thought to real world application of this utility.

re: How to enable Windows Server Backup support for the Hyper-V VSS Writer

sachind — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:55:06 GMT

Is it needed to provide a backuptype (FULL or COPY) required by VSS while taking backup of a HyperV Virtual machines using HyperV VSS Writer? as its needed in case of backing up Exchange/SQL databases.

Thanks

re: How to enable Windows Server Backup support for the Hyper-V VSS Writer

grajo — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:07:56 GMT

On Windows 2008 R2 you dont need to add the registry Key.

re: How to enable Windows Server Backup support for the Hyper-V VSS Writer

manzamanna — Sat, 30 May 2009 09:14:03 GMT

You told: "Individual VM restores are not supported with Windows Server Backup"

Can you please check this case?:

I have 3 free RAID1 logical drives on my Hyper-V host.

I format every logical drive as NTFS, D: E: F:

I create 3 new VMs: ServerD, ServerE, ServerF

I export ServerD on D:, ServerE on E:, ServerF on F:

I delete every VMs then I import exported VMs.

(in this way every VM's files still stored on individual drives, related NTFS links too).

Can I restore individual VM?

Thanks and best regards,

Andrea

Hyper-V How To: Backup

HyperVoria — Wed, 27 May 2009 10:50:15 GMT

Tony Soper: The matrix of considerations for backup and DR for Hyper-V is not simple, for example there are several methods to backup running VMs such as Windows Server Backup, DPM, diskshadow.exe, as well as non-Microsoft solutions such as Symantec Backup

Hyper-V How To: Backup

TONYSO — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:59:10 GMT

The matrix of considerations for backup and DR for Hyper-V is not simple, for example there are several

You say snapshot, and I say checkpoint, and he say undo. You say potato…

TONYSO — Fri, 15 May 2009 20:48:56 GMT

Snapshots in Hyper-V, checkpoints in SCVMM, diff-disks in VPC, undo in Office… can’t we all just get