DiskShadow / Xcopy RESTORE of Hyper-V

re: DiskShadow / Xcopy RESTORE of Hyper-V

Cowbelly — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:22:45 GMT

Restoring VM files to a different path is tricky...and can require (at least) some editing of the XML config file to point to some of the new file locations. The tricker part is getting the "link" to the config (found in c:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Hyper-V\) to point to the config file. That all certainly would make a great blog post too...once I get through the other 400 I have to get to!

re: DiskShadow / Xcopy RESTORE of Hyper-V

adeoguna — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:37:47 GMT

Thanks a lot for this post John. This is the first documentation I've seen regarding the restoration of VMs backed up using the Diskhsadow tool and we've been backing up our production VMs now for close to a year.

Could you elaborate on restoring VMs from directories that are different from the original destinations, or could you point us to some documentation that could shed some light on this? Thanks again for your post!