What to select for backup ABR 11.5 Hyper-V Edition

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On our previous physical machines, we have always selected the Disks backup option and selected all physical drives for backup, allowing us to restore a snapshot of the entire box if necessary.

On the new Hyper-V Edition for our virtualization servers, we select the virtual machines option and then check the box next to the entire virtual environment - includes the Host and all Hyper-V VMs.

What I am wondering (and can't find in the documentation) is if this is a complete disaster recovery snapshot of the entire virtualization box, or if I also need to select Disks and check the physical drives (since the VMs are just folders on the host, this seems redundant).

Looking for a best practice to be able to recover the entire physical box if necessary, a single VM or individual host or VM files without doubling the size of an already large backup. Thank you!

Fri, 03/01/2013 - 01:29
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I assume that you are connected to the managed machine (=agent), not Management Server. In this case for "virtual machines" data type selecting the root item will back up only virtual machines. If the entire host goes down, you need to recreate the host, install the Backup&Recovery and then recover VMs. To back up host itself and be able to recover it from backup and not reinstall from scratch, you need to back up its disks in 'Disks and volumes' data type. If VMs are located on the same volume as the system disk, exclude the folder where they are, or not include the volume, where they are, in the backup. Backing up entire host in 'Disks and volumes' will provide an ability to restore everything in a single operation, but VM files will be hidden inside vhd files of VMs and if you need them, you will need to restore vhds and mount them to extract files from them.

Fri, 03/01/2013 - 03:24