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WIndows Backup on Hyper-V

Hello,

I would like to user Windows 2012 R2 with Hyper-V and 2 VM on the same physical DELL server

Is it possible to use Windows Backup on a USB external drive to backup the 2 VMs ?

Are there any limitations ? Will Windows Backup works the same way it works on a physical Windows 2012 R2 server without Hyper-V ?

THank you for your help

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Cliff Galiher

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Scobber

To make it work you would need to mount the devices through named pipes it is difficult but not impossible.

You would be best to either backup the device via smb. Or use a third party backup utility.

Shadow protect comes to mind

Gad SAADIA

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I confirm that I do need to backup the 2 VMs separately with incremental backups (so I will be able to restore a single file from a backup done one week or 2 weeks ago for example)

I understand that Windows Backup on USB drives is not OK and that I will need some commercial solution like VEEAM

Is that right? can you confirm?
Thank you

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David Johnson, CD

correct you will need a 3rd party if backing up to USB.. or on each VM enable windows backup and backup from each vm to a network share