You will learn how to easily backup and restore Hyper-V VM with Vinchin Backup & Recovery here. Vinchin supports Microsoft Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2, 2016, 2019 as well as Microsoft Hyper-V 2012, 2012 R2, 2016, 2019 and Windows 10 (Desktop OS), providing various built-in user-friendly backup and restore functionalities to fully guarantee data security for your mission-critical business running in Hyper-V virtualization environment.
To backup Hyper-V VM agentlessly, you need to add the host first.
Just click Resources > Virtual Infrastructure > Virtual Platform. Click Add
Enter the credentials of the host, and then click License to finish configuration.
Now you can create backup and restore jobs for Hyper-V VM.
Go to VM Backup > Backup page.
Step 1. Select Backup Source
Here you can click a Hyper-V host and select the VM to backup. For multiple VMs on the host, you can select a group of VMs to backup to add them to the list on the right. After adding the VMs which you want to backup, click Next.
Step 2. Select Backup Destination
Select the Target Node and then select the Target Storage for the VM backup. Click Next.
Step 3. Select Backup Strategies
In Schedule, you can choose Backup as scheduled or Once-off backup. Backup as scheduled will automatically backup the selected VMs at a specific time, and Once-off backup will backup the VMs only once.
For scheduled backups, you can choose a daily, weekly or monthly schedule. You can also choose incremental or differential combinations of backups. And data storage policies provide deduplication and compression.
Data transfer security is ensured by enabling encryption in the transfer policy. Retention policies allow retention by recovery point or number of days.
After configuring all the backup strategies, click Next.
Step 4. Review and submit the job.
You will be redirected to the Jobs page of Monitor Center. The created backup job will be listed here and you can start job manually, then click job name to monitor the job in real time.
Here, you can see the Hyper-V VM has been successfully backed up.
When you need to restore the VM, go to VM Backup > Restore page.
Step 1. Select Restore Point
In the list, you can see all the available restore points. Just select the Hyper-V restore point you want to restore, input a name for the job, and click OK.
Step 2. Select Restore Destination
Select the Target Node and then select the Target Storage for the VM restore. Click Next.
Step 3. Select Restore Strategies
In Schedule, you can choose Restore as Scheduled or Once-off Restore. Restore as scheduled will automatically restore the VMs at a specific time, and Once-off Restore will restore the VMs only once.
After configuring all recovery policies, click Next.
Step 4. Review and submit the job
Once the job is created, you’ll be redirected to the job list page and the restore job will run now.
Here, you can see the Hyper-V VM has been successfully restored.
Vinchin offers a 60-day free trial for users to experience the functionality in a real-world environment. For more information, please contact Vinchin directly or contact our local partners. Get the journey started today!
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