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creating an image of the server that runs 2 virtual machines

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Good afternoon.  forgive my probably very basic question but I'm trying to confirm some things before i try out this product.  we currently have a PC running windows server 2016. on that server we have 2 virtual machines.  we currently use and will continue to use carbonite for our data backups. this does not backup the OS and programs. it does backup each VM data though as well.  I want to make an image now that we have many programs installed on the server.  My plan is to have a monthly image of the server and allow our daily changes to be handled by carbonite.  My question is if i make an image of the host machine using the true image  would be also backing up our virtual machines as well at that time.  what I'm looking to be able to do in the case of a drive failure is to be able to load the image drive into the machine and start the carbonite to compare and restore any files that were not included in the image. My goal is to minimize the downtime when or should this happen.  Thank you in advance for any and all help.

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Jason, welcome to these public User Forums.

The first issue here is that ATI 2021 (as per this forum) is not supported for use on Windows Server 2016, so you will need to look at one of the available Acronis Business products to meet your backup requirements.

You may be best advised contacting Acronis direct via a PreSales question to ask them for recommendations on which business application would best suit your requirements?

Jason,

Have you considered using DISM tools for this purpose?

Thank you Steve Smith,  i have reached out to Acronis with these questions and i'm awaiting a reply.    trying to get a head start on research while waiting. i will have a look at the business products.

 

I also found out that the tower has at some point been upgraded to server 2019 and the DISM tools on microsoft show support up top 2016.  i may also try to follow up with that and see if it does in fact support 2019. 

DISM tools support depend on the ADK version installed on the machine.  Just upgrade the ADK to the latest version and you will have the latest in DISM capability.  If your server boots via UEFI and uses GPT formatted disk you can use DISM to image the OS disk and apply that image.  Have a look at Capture FFU image using DISM.  I think it will be just what you are looking for.