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Thanks, Apologies for the late response.<br />
The restore process didn't take long after all.<br />
&nbsp;Thanks again.
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Thanks, Apologies for the late response.
The restore process didn't take long after all.
 Thanks again.

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Hi,<br />
I am doing a disaster recovery test.<br />
Amongst other VM's I have a 2008 SBS that is backing up using its built in backup to USB (over the network).<br />
I am trying to come up with the simplest and most economical way to restore a failed SBS to another Hyper V host.<br />
The Hyper host is 2008 R2 (the 'free version'). I am not going to export config files, I rather recreate the guest from scratch.<br />
I have documented the guest hardware settings and have full successful backups of the sbs.<br />
I can see that the sbs creates 2 VHD files as well as numerous xml files during its backup.<br />
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Could I just copy those vhd's attach them to my new Hyper V guest and am done? or do I need to go through the proper sbs recovery process? (i.e insert disc, etc)<br />
Although we have identical hardware available, if the places goes up in flames rather than simple hardware failure then I may have to restore to dissimilar hardware.
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Hi,
I am doing a disaster recovery test.
Amongst other VM's I have a 2008 SBS that is backing up using its built in backup to USB (over the network).
I am trying to come up with the simplest and most economical way to restore a failed SBS to another Hyper V host.
The Hyper host is 2008 R2 (the 'free version'). I am not going to export config files, I rather recreate the guest from scratch.
I have documented the guest hardware settings and have full successful backups of the sbs.
I can see that the sbs creates 2 VHD files as well as numerous xml files during its backup.

Could I just copy those vhd's attach them to my new Hyper V guest and am done? or do I need to go through the proper sbs recovery process? (i.e insert disc, etc)
Although we have identical hardware available, if the places goes up in flames rather than simple hardware failure then I may have to restore to dissimilar hardware.

SBS 2008 -2011 disaster recovery in Hyper V

Small Business Server (SBS) is a line of server operating systems targeted at small businesses by bundling the operating system with a number of other Microsoft products that would normally need to be purchased or licensed separately. The most notable inclusions are Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint and ISA/TMG (Microsoft's firewall and proxy server).

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.