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Best Practice for backing up Host Server

I have a Hyper V server with 3 guests.
The host only has one partition so hyper v is running on the local C: drive.

I'm going to do a one time backup just for disaster recovery purposes. In case the whole server goes.
Would it be beneficial to do a one time backup of the whole host using windows backup?
And then I could restore the virtual machines using image restore to the VM.

This customer uses Datto Backup for the guest servers.

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Adam Brown

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Should I power down guest Machines during the backup Philip?
if Veeam is not free then I will be using server backup

Sorry Adam the host OS and the Hyper V VHD's are on the same Partition.
I never made a separate partition for the guest.

But I still need a full backup for baremetal disaster recovery for the host.

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