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That's is what I figured that you for the reassurance. &nbsp;Also, is there any way to speed Veeam up? &nbsp;It is backing up at about 5-15 Mbps which seems like an eternity. &nbsp;It has been running for 10 hours now it is only at 18%.
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speed of backup, depends on network, speed or source and target disks.
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That is where it seems too slow, usb 3.0 hdd is what it is backing up to. &nbsp;The host Hyper-V machine has 4 drives 1TB drives on raid 5, connected with sata 6gb adapters. &nbsp;I know they are not solid states, but with the raid array it should be a little quicker than 5-15 Mbps.
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This may be a silly questions.<br />
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I have 1 Host Physical Machine running Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V<br />
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1 VM of Server 2008 R2 which is the DC for the network. <br />
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I purchased Veeam 6.5 Enterprise for the VM backup, which seems to be working pretty good. &nbsp; My main question which is the silly one is about the host machine.<br />
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Should I just use windows backup to backup the OS partition to an external if one of the drives fail in the RAID 5 array? &nbsp;Of does Veeam offer a feature to backup the host machine as well and I am just missing something?
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This may be a silly questions.

I have 1 Host Physical Machine running Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V

1 VM of Server 2008 R2 which is the DC for the network. 

I purchased Veeam 6.5 Enterprise for the VM backup, which seems to be working pretty good.   My main question which is the silly one is about the host machine.

Should I just use windows backup to backup the OS partition to an external if one of the drives fail in the RAID 5 array?  Of does Veeam offer a feature to backup the host machine as well and I am just missing something?

That&#39;s is what I figured that you for the reassurance.  Also, is there any way to speed Veeam up?  It is backing up at about 5-15 Mbps which seems like an eternity.  It has been running for 10 hours now it is only at 18%.

speed of backup, depends on network, speed or source and target disks.

That is where it seems too slow, usb 3.0 hdd is what it is backing up to.  The host Hyper-V machine has 4 drives 1TB drives on raid 5, connected with sata 6gb adapters.  I know they are not solid states, but with the raid array it should be a little quicker than 5-15 Mbps.

Hyper-V Host Veeam Backup 6.5

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.

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Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.

Virtualization

The term "Backup" means the methods and processes involved to copy computer data (system data as well as application data) to media other than the ones where the data originally live (disk, tape, optical, cloud). "Restore" in turn means the methods and processes involved in data recovery, i. e., bringing back copied computer data to their original location. Backup/Restore primarily serves as a means of protection against data loss, be it due to disaster, corruption or sabotage. It can also be used for recovering data from an earlier point in time and even for cloning machines or applications. There is a wide variety of backup/restore software available, from expensive commercial products to free or open source tools.

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Hyper-V is a native hypervisor; it can create virtual machines on x86-64 systems and supersedes Windows Virtual PC as the hardware virtualization component of the client editions of Windows NT. A server computer running Hyper-V can be configured to expose individual virtual machines to one or more networks. Hyper-V Server supports remote access via Remote Desktop Connection. Administration and configuration of the host OS and the guest virtual machines is generally done over the network.