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  • Monday, December 17, 2012 10:28 AM
     
     
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    Dear Folks,

    I just to want to know if there is any inbuilt machanism with Hyper-v for taking Virutal Machines backup as like VDP in VMware?

    Thank you,

    Hari.

     

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  • Monday, December 17, 2012 10:55 AM
     
     
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    Hello

    In windows 2012 server yes, in windows 2008 r2 no..

    Regards

     
  • Monday, December 17, 2012 1:47 PM
     
     
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    Dear Folks,

    I just to want to know if there is any inbuilt machanism with Hyper-v for taking Virutal Machines backup as like VDP in VMware?

    Thank you,

    Hari.

    Why do you need it built-in? There's a bunch of a free Hyper-V backup apps supporting 2012 and 2008 R2. VEEAM, StarWind and Altaro to name a few.

    StarWind iSCSI SAN & NAS

     
  • Monday, December 17, 2012 2:15 PM
     
     
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    Sorry to hijack your answer..

    why you should suggest  something that you have to pay for .. if he can do it for free ?

    and get same results to not say better results ?

    with win 2012 server you can backup wms, instead of like in the past  just vhds where vms relying on..

    I am currently using many backup solutions form various brands...


    VEEAM free ? yes it is.. manual zip.. and to much setup for little needs.. well i dont find it comfortable, Altaro ? yes it is good.. again various limitations must see if those limitations fits his needs, Starwind ? the back module cost money.. no ? and again a more complex setup ? why i should install an iscsi target for then havin a back module ? am i wrong ?


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  • Monday, December 17, 2012 9:37 PM
     
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    Sorry to hijack your answer..

    why you should suggest  something that you have to pay for .. if he can do it for free ?

    and get same results to not say better results ?

    with win 2012 server you can backup wms, instead of like in the past  just vhds where vms relying on..

    I am currently using many backup solutions form various brands...


    VEEAM free ? yes it is.. manual zip.. and to much setup for little needs.. well i dont find it comfortable, Altaro ? yes it is good.. again various limitations must see if those limitations fits his needs, Starwind ? the back module cost money.. no ? and again a more complex setup ? why i should install an iscsi target for then havin a back module ? am i wrong ?


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    Yes, you're wrong :)

    Microsoft is a PLATFORM provider and not a CONVERGED STACK provider (as was DEC, Honeywell, HP and other now mostly R.I.P. vendors in 70s-80s). So their idea to sell operating system and basic set of functionality and allow third-party vendors to fill the gaps in product lines. That's why it's simply insane to try sticking with MS-only products. If it works - great, but if it does not for some reason? Free VEEAM is fine as you can always script everything if you don't want to pay (you always PAY either with money of with your own life time BTW), StarWind has free target as part of of the product as target does effective deduplication and from what I know StarWind backup can use MS dedupe just fine so only free Management Console is shared and required. Altaro is free for 2 VMs per host (I personally don't run more VMs I need to backup, other VMs are Linux and FreeBSD with reverting to snapshot enabled - experiments, safe Internet surfing, debugger etc). So... As there's no documented CBT with Hyper-V yet all the backups do the same - initiate VSS snapshot on a CSV, mount it in read only mode and copy content (VM images) to backup location. If you have a spare week of your life you can script this thing, optionally add a GUI and tell everybody you have a Hyper-V backup (assuming you'll copy VM images to say Windows Server 2012 share with enabled deduplication of course).

    There are many ways to skin a cat (c) ...

    :) 

    StarWind iSCSI SAN & NAS

     
  • Monday, December 17, 2012 10:30 PM
     
     
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    AAhh :))

    well i can say that what you wrote is correct.. but.. damn too much more drammatic ....

    in practice i remain on my thoughts..

    again you are correct you just got deeper into the argument ..  

    i just wanted to say that WSB especially on 2012 could be the best option if there no particular needs.

    p.s.

    i prefer to pay with  my time :)

    no way you can make me install a starwind or a veeam just for few virtual machine.. :)) it doesn make sense

    on the contrary altaro its ok..

    Regards


     
  • Friday, December 28, 2012 6:33 PM
     
     
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    You can always just try Veeam Backup Free Edition. It has no limitation on the number of VMs and has no expiration date.
     
  • Monday, December 31, 2012 10:17 AM
     
     
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    veeam backup free edition not available. all is 30 days trail.
     
  • Monday, December 31, 2012 2:34 PM
     
     
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    veeam backup free edition not available. all is 30 days trail.

    Veeam Backup & Replication you can use free for 30 days but Veeam Backup Free Edition is free forever. Here is the link http://www.veeam.com/virtual-machine-backup-solution-free.html?ad=tech

    • Edited by MaximK10 Monday, December 31, 2012 2:35 PM
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