Protecting Hyper-V VMs
To back up a Hyper-V VM using Mine with Veeam, perform the following steps:
- Add to the backup infrastructure a Hyper-V host that manages the VM. For more information, see the Quick Start Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V, section Adding Microsoft Hyper-V Servers.
- Create a backup job to create restore points for the VM. For more information, see the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V, section Creating Backup Jobs.
Once the backup job successfully creates a restore point for the VM, you can use the restore point to restore the entire VM, its disks, files and application items. For more information, see the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V, section Data Recovery.
After you add a Hyper-V host to the backup infrastructure, you can perform the following operations to protect its workloads:
- Create exact copies of Hyper-V VMs and maintain the copies in sync with the original VMs to be able to switch to the VM replicas in case a disaster strikes. For more information, see the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V, section Replication.
- Test VM backups and replicas to check whether you will be able to use them for recovery operations. For more information, see the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V, section Recovery Verification.
- Copy backup files to secondary repositories to be able to protect your data against disasters and virtual or physical machine failures. For more information, see the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V, section Backup Copy.
- Store copies of backup files on tapes to ensure the data is not accidentally deleted or changed. For more information, see the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V, section Tape Devices Support.
- Restore items of applications such as Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle Database. For more information, see the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V, section Application Item Restore.
For the complete list of features that Veeam Backup & Replication provides to protect Hyper-V VMs, see the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V.