Walk Through of NAKIVO Hyper-V Backup – Installation

Walk Through of NAKIVO Hyper-V Backup – Installation. I have a Hyper-V server 2016 with SCCM, AD servers, and Windows 10 virtual machines. In this post, I will share my experience installing the NAKIVO Hyper-V backup solution.

NAKIVO Backup & Replication supports Microsoft Hyper-V 2016, 2012(R2), and 2012 hypervisors. The installation was straightforward, and it did take less than 5 minutes for me.

Download NAKIVO backup and replication solution from https://goo.gl/3Tb7D2

NAKIVO Backup & Replication provides integration with Microsoft Active Directory. You can easily map Active Directory groups to NAKIVO Backup & Replication user roles.

I plan to cover the BACKUP and RESTORE guide in future blog posts. IE is missing from the recommended browsers list of NAKIVO. I don’t know what the exact reason for the same is. In this post, I will cover the following.

Prerequisites for NAKIVO Microsoft Hyper-V backup How to Install NAKIVO Backup and Replication Solution What is a Transporter? NAKIVO troubleshooting Logs How to Perform NAKIVO Configurations How to Create a New Backup Repository for NAKIVO Hyper-V Video Tutorial of NAKIVO Backup & Replication Installation

Prerequisites for NAKIVO Microsoft Hyper-V backup

  • Full administrative permissions are required
  • Default administrative shares must be enabled on Hyper-V hosts
  • The “File server” role must be enabled on Hyper-V hosts
  • The SMB v1 protocol should be allowed on Hyper-V hosts

NAKIVO Backup & Replication can be installed on the following operating systems.

  • Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard (x64)
  • Windows Server 2012 Standard (x64)
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard (x64)
  • Windows 10 Professional (x64)
  • Windows 8 Professional (x64)
  • Windows 7 Professional (x64)

NAKIVO Backup & Replication can be accessed from the following Web browsers

  • Google Chrome v26 or later
  • Mozilla Firefox v21 or later

How to Install NAKIVO Backup and Replication Solution

NAKIVO can be installed on Windows, Linux, and NAS. To install NAKIVO Backup & Replication on the Windows platform, run the NAKIVO Backup & Replication installer and click Install. This is explained in the video tutorial here.

NAKIVO has three main components: Director, Transporter, and Backup Repository. When you select FULL Installation, all three parts will automatically get installed. Following are the configuration that I chose for installation.

  • Installation Type:        Full solution
  • Create Repository:        E:\Program Files
  • Installation Path:        C:\Program Files\NAKIVO Backup & Replication
  • Director Web UI port:    4443
  • Transporter Port:         9446
NAKIVO - NAKIVO Hyper-V Backup
NAKIVO – NAKIVO Hyper-V Backup

What is a NAKIVO Transporter?

A Transporter is a service that runs actual backup, replication, and recovery tasks. These components are also responsible for the management of backup repositories. 

Do I Need a Transporter? One transporter called the “Onboard transporter” is already included in your installation. If you run a large environment or have multiple sites, you may need additional transporters.

NAKIVO Logs Location for Troubleshooting

C:\Program Files\NAKIVO Backup & Replication\logs\0

How to Perform NAKIVO Configurations

The configuration steps are General, Inventory, Transporters, Repositories, Events, and Licensing. Inventory and backup repository configurations are the most important settings from my perspective.

Inventory is the place where you add the hypervisor connectivity details and inventory of that infrastructure.

Nakivo Hyper-V Backup
NAKIVO Backup – NAKIVO Hyper-V Backup

I tested the NAKIVO inventory option with Adding Hyper-V Servers to connect my SCCM Hyper-V lab infrastructure with NAKIVO. 

Display Name: Type: select whether you want to add a standalone Hyper-V server Hostname or IP: Specify the hostname or IP address of the Hyper-V server Username and Password: Specify credentials of the Hyper-V server that you want to add to the inventory. The credentials you specify should have full administrative privileges to the Hyper-V server WS MAN port: 5986 – Specify the port number for WS MAN.

How to Create a New Backup Repository for NAKIVO Hyper-V

To create a new Backup Repository, follow the steps below

  1. Click Configuration in the upper right corner of the product.
  2. Go to the Repositories tab and click Add Backup Repository
  3. Click Create a new backup repository
  4. Fill out the fields as described below:
    Name, The target (Assigned transporter), Type (Forever incremental, Incremental with full backups), Location (Local folder on assigned transporter), etc…
  5. To specify advanced options, click More options and perform the following options Storage Savings & Encryption

Video Tutorial of NAKIVO Backup & Replication Installation

Walk Through of NAKIVO Hyper-V Backup – Installation

Reference

https://helpcenter.nakivo.com/

Author

Anoop is Microsoft MVP! He is a Solution Architect in enterprise client management with more than 20 years of experience (calculation done in 2021) in IT. He is a blogger, Speaker, and Local User Group HTMD Community leader. His main focus is on Device Management technologies like SCCM 2012, Current Branch, and Intune. E writes about ConfigMgr, Windows 11, Windows 10, Azure AD, Microsoft Intune, Windows 365, AVD, etc…

Windows Server File Volume Restore Solution Backup Restore Solution from Veeam

Windows Server File Volume Restore Solution Backup Restore Solution from Veeam. Veeam has an endpoint backup and restores solution for Microsoft. Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows can take backups of servers, desktops, and laptops.

In this post, we will see Video Guide Windows Server 2016 Backup Solution from Veeam. In this post, we will see Windows Server 2016 File Volume Restore Solution from Veeam.

Following are the three posts that will cover the Windows endpoint backup solution from Veeam.

  1. Windows 10 backup and recovery Software from Veeam
  2. Video Guide Windows Server 2016 Backup Solution from Veeam
  3. Video Guide Windows Server 2016 File & Volume Recovery Solution from Veeam

Veeam Agent for Windows restores options are explained in the video tutorial.

Windows Server File Volume Restore Solution Backup Restore Solution from Veeam

Once Veeam FULL Backup of Server 2016 is completed? Then, open up VEEAM BACKUP BROWSER to restore. There are two restore options available from the backup browser, and the last one is the recovery option from Veeam recovery media.

  • File Restore
  • Volume Restore
  • Restore from Recovery Media

Veeam Agent – Restoring Files and Folders of Server 2016

Veeam Backup Browser or File Level Restore wizard should be used to recover or restore If some files and folders on your computer get lost or corrupted. For file-level restore, you can use backups of any type.

  • Volume-level backups (backups of the entire computer or specific volumes)
  • File-level backups
Windows Server 2016 File Volume Restore Solution from Veeam
Backup Browser – Windows Server

To launch the File Level Restore wizard, do either of the following: Start Menu, select All Programs > Veeam > File Level Restore. We can perform the following operations with restored files and folders from Veeam Backup Explorer.

  • Save files and folders to their initial location
  • Save files and folders to a new location
  • Open files in Microsoft Windows Explorer

Veeam BACKUP Browser is similar to file explorer. It gives two options to restore in my scenario for this video. I selected the KEEP option. This will create a copy of the restore and won’t overwrite. Restore is completed. The windows 10 ISO file got restored within 1:23 minutes, as you can see in the video tutorial here.

  • OVERWRITE
  • KEEP
Windows Server 2016 File Volume Restore Solution from Veeam
Restore – Windows Server

Veeam Agent – Volume Restore of Windows Server 2016

When we perform a volume-level restore, Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows restores the entire content of the volume. We can’t use the File restore wizard to recover the specific volumes.

It retrieves from the backup data blocks about a particular volume and copies them to the necessary location.

The volume-level restore should be done via the Volume Level restore wizard.” We need to go through and define the following the wizard

  • Backup Location
  • Restore Point
  • Disk Mapping
  • Summary
  • Progress of the Volume Restore
Windows Server
Volume Level Restore – Windows Server

We can boot from the recovery image and use the Veeam Volume Level Restore, wizard for volume-level restore of Server 2016. Following are the three limitations of volume-level restore, which Veeam documents.

  • Cannot restore the system volume to its original location.
  • Cannot restore a volume to the volume on which the swap file is currently hosted.
  • Cannot restore a volume to the volume where the backup file used for restore is located.

Resources

Author

Anoop is Microsoft MVP! He is a Solution Architect in enterprise client management with more than 20 years of experience (calculation done in 2021) in IT. He is a blogger, Speaker, and Local User Group HTMD Community leader. His main focus is on Device Management technologies like SCCM 2012, Current Branch, and Intune. E writes about ConfigMgr, Windows 11, Windows 10, Azure AD, Microsoft Intune, Windows 365, AVD, etc…

Video Guide Windows Server 2016 Backup Solution from Veeam

Video Guide Windows Server 2016 Backup Solution from Veeam, Windows Server 2016 Backup Solution from Veeam. Veeam has a backup and restores solution for Microsoft Windows devices.

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows can take backups of servers, desktops, and laptops. Previously, this solution was known as “Veeam Endpoint Backup”.

In this post, we will see Video Guide Windows Server 2016 Backup Solution from Veeam.

Following are the three posts that will cover the Windows endpoint backup solution from Veeam.

  1. Windows 10 backup and recovery Software from Veeam
  2. Video Guide Windows Server 2016 Backup Solution from Veeam
  3. Video Guide Windows Server 2016 File & Volume Recovery Solution from Veeam
Video Guide Windows Server 2016 Backup Solution from Veeam 1
  • Installation of Veeam Agent on Microsoft Windows server 2016
  • Create Recovery Media
  • Taking Backup of Server 2016 as per schedule
Windows Server 2016 Backup Solution from Veeam
Veeam Agent – Windows Server 2016 Backup Solution from Veeam 2

Install Veeam Agent for Windows on Server 2016

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows is a data protection and disaster recovery solution for physical and virtual machines. Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows can be used to protect different types of computers and devices: desktops, laptops, and tablets.

The solution can be installed on any computer that runs the following OSes

  • Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 or later
  • Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 SP1 or later
Windows Server 2016 Backup Solution from Veeam
Installation Status – Windows Server 2016 Backup Solution from Veeam 3

The installation of the Veeam Agent for Windows is straightforward. It will automatically take care of installing prerequisites like SQL express etc. After the installation, you will be able to see

  • Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows Service
  • Veeam Agent Tray
  • SQL Server 2012 Express LocalDB

How to Create Recovery Media for Server 2016

Once the Veeam Agent for Windows is installed, the first step is to create a Veeam Recovery media. Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows lets us create a Veeam Recovery Media. The recovery media is nothing but a recovery image of your computer.

You can boot your computer/server with recovery media and fix the OS system errors on your server 2016 or restore data from the backup. 

Microsoft Windows RE (Recovery Environment) automatically reboots after 72 hours of continuous use. All data that has not been saved before reboot will be lost.

Windows Server 2016 Backup Solution from Veeam
Windows Server 2016 Backup Solution from Veeam 4

You can launch the recovery media creation wizard from the Veeam Agent for the Windows home page. As you can see in the video tutorial here, media creation is a straightforward process.

It took nearly 9 minutes to create a recovery media on my server 2016. The wizard will prompt to format the USB during the media creation process. At the high-level following are the tasks.

  • Mounting Recovery Environment Image
  • Copy Veeam Recovery Environment files
  • Adding .NET framework
  • Adding system drivers
  • Copying boot files
  • Unmounting Recovery Image
  • Preparing USB disk
  • Copying data to USB disk
  • Recovery media has been created

Take Full Backup of Server 2016 using Veeam Agent for Windows.

Veeam Agent for Windows 3 types of backup modes are available. And those backup modes are “Entire computer,” “Volume-level backup,” and “File-Level backup.” Veeam Agent for Windows servers supports five backup options. And those options are listed down.

  • Removable storage device
  • Local computer drive
  • Network shared folder
  • A Veeam backup server manages the backup repository
  • Cloud repository managed by a Veeam Cloud Connect service provider
Windows Server 2016 Backup Solution from Veeam
Backup Mode – Windows Server 2016 Backup Solution from Veeam 5

“Configure backup” is the Veeam agent’s option to start configuring and scheduling the backup for the Windows server. Back up your entire server is the recommended option in the Veeam Agent for Windows. This helps with fast recovery on any level.

I selected the Entire Computer backup option for my server 2016. I used the external hard disk (local storage) to take the backup of server 2016. This is my Hyper-V server in my lab.

More details are available in the video tutorial here. Following are the tasks which I could see.

  • Initializing
  • Preparing for backup
  • Creating VSS snapshot
  • Calculating digests
  • Getting list of local users
  • System Reserved (disk 0) (500.0 MB) 42.0 MB read at 42 MB/s
  • (C:)(49.0 GB)42.4 GB read at 74 MB/s
  • Local Disk (E:) (188.5 GB) 37.4 GB read at 84 MB/s
  • Saving GuestMembers.xml
  • Finalizing
  • Truncating transaction logs
  • Truncating SQL server transaction logs
  • Processing finished
Windows Server 2016 Backup Solution from Veeam
Status – Windows Server 2016 Backup Solution from Veeam 6

Resources

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows – User Guide

Author

Anoop is Microsoft MVP! He is a Solution Architect in enterprise client management with more than 20 years of experience (calculation done in 2021) in IT. He is a blogger, Speaker, and Local User Group HTMD Community leader. His main focus is on Device Management technologies like SCCM 2012, Current Branch, and Intune. E writes about ConfigMgr, Windows 11, Windows 10, Azure AD, Microsoft Intune, Windows 365, AVD, etc…

How to Take Backup and Restore Office 365 Mailboxes | Veeam

Office 365 is a SaaS solution by Microsoft. Many organization uses office 365 all around the globe. There are 24.9 million total subscribers as of that last report. This confirms that many people are using Office 365 to help manage their businesses.

Do we need a backup for a SaaS solution like Office 365? I think, yes, we do. In this post, we will see How to Take Backup and Restore Office 365 Mailboxes.

Veeam Office 365 Backup & Restore Video tutorial here.

Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 is a solution that stores mailbox items from Office 365 Online organization to an offline backup repository. Office 365 admin can restore single or multiple emails using Veeam Explorer.

The restoration of these items (mailboxes, folders, messages, tasks, contacts, and so on) can be possible via Veeam Explorer. We have an option to get a FREE temporary license for Veeam Backup for Office 365.

This temporary license is available for the first six months. Recovered e-mail can be saved as a file, e-mailed as an attachment, or exported as a PST file.

Content of this post

  • Do We Require Office 365 Backup?
  • How to Install Veeam Backup Office 365
  • Connect to Office 365 with Veeam Backup?
  • Create Backup Job for Office 365 Backup
  • Advanced Search Option – Veeam Explorer
  • How to Restore Deleted Office 365 Mails?
  • Veeam Backup Office 365 Troubleshooting
  • Veeam Backup Office 365 PowerShell Commands
How to Take Backup and Restore Office 365 Mailboxes
O365 – How to Take Backup and Restore Office 365 Mailboxes

Do We Require Office 365 Backup?

What happens if the user accidentally deletes data from office 365 mailboxes? Office 365 service provides several options for Deleted item recovery. Manual recovery from Deleted Items is also possible.

Following are the retention policies offered by Microsoft. But, I don’t think Microsoft provides granularity in backing up and recovering the emails. Veeam Backup for Office 365 has loads more granularity in comparison.

Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 provides recovery options like recovered e-mail can be saved as a file, e-mailed as an attachment, or exported as a PST file. I don’t think Microsoft provides all these options.

How to Install Veeam Backup Office 365

Download Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 from here. It contains 2 MSI files VeeamBackupOffice365_1.5.0.1099.MSI & VeeamExplorerExchange_9.6.0.1099.MSI. We need to install VeeamBackupOffice365 and then VeeamExplorerExchange.

The installation is straightforward, and there is no prerequisite when we install these on Windows Server 2016. You can see more details in the video tutorial here.

Once Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365, You have three shortcuts on your Windows Server 2016.

  • Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365
  • Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange
  • Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 connect to…

Connect to Office 365 with Veeam Backup?

In the background, Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 uses the Power-Shell command to connect to Office 365. To join Office 365 from Veeam Backup, Click on the Add Organization” button. There are 3 Organization deployment types available for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365

  • Microsoft Office 365
  • Hybrid Deployment
  • On-Prem Microsoft Exchange

I selected Microsoft Office 365 to add my organization’s mailbox to the Veeam backup solution. The “Microsoft Office 365 connection settings” page has multiple region options like Default, China, US Govt, and US Govt-DOD.

To complete the ADD ORGANIZATION wizard, you need to enter the Office 365 admin username and password. You can see more details in the video tutorial here.

How to Take Backup and Restore Office 365 Mailboxes
How to Take Backup and Restore Office 365 Mailboxes

Following are the Veeam Backup for Office 365 Connection Parameters

  • Connect to EWS
  • Connect to Power-Shell
  • Check View-Only Configuration Role
  • Check View-Only Recipients Role
  • Check Application Impersonation Role
  • Check Role Management Role
  • Check Organization Customization
  • Check Organization Configuration Role
  • Enable Organization Customization

Create Backup Job for Office 365 Backup

Click on the Backup button to create and schedule a backup job for Office 365 mailboxes. We have an option to select individual mailboxes and all the mailboxes as part of the Backup job wizard. I have chosen one office 365 mailbox as part of the backup job.

We also need to select the Backup proxy and backup repository as part of the backup job wizard. Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 has granular schedule options. This backup job is a reoccurring incremental backup task.

The backup job GUI gives an excellent experience. It provides all the details LIVE in the Veeam Backup for Office 365 GUI. What was the transfer rate of the backup job etc.? There is three segregation on the backup job status page. 1. Status, 2. Data and  3. Summary.

How to Take Backup and Restore Office 365 Mailboxes
Backup – How to Take Backup and Restore Office 365 Mailboxes

Veeam Backup Job has the following actions

  • Created Backup Job
  • Connected to organization
  • Found One mailbox
  • Processing mailbox:[email protected]
  • Transferred:400 MB (4300 items) at 639.3 KB/s (7 items/s)
  • Job finished at 14-10-2017 10:52:00

Advanced Search Option – Veeam Explorer

Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange provides loads of granular options with Advanced Search mailboxes. Using Veeam Explorer, we can search mailboxes with advanced find options. Veeam Explorer offers many search criteria.

  • Category
  • Field
  • Condition
  • Value

How to Restore Deleted Office 365 Mails?

Recover the Office 365 mailboxes and individual emails. Veeam Explorer provides options to export office 365 mailbox to PST file. Also, there are other options to save personal mail to “.MSG” files.

You can also send recovered emails to another email id. You can see more details in the video tutorial here.

Following are the options recovery options available in Veeam Explorer

Veeam Backup Office 365 Troubleshooting

C:\ProgramData\Veeam\Backup365\Logs is the place where you can find the log files of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365. Veeam.Archiver.Proxy_2017_10_14_10_31_41.log file contains the details about the Database connectivity. It also includes connectivity errors.

  • 14-10-2017 10:31:41 5 (2904) Loading ESE library: C:\Windows\system32\esent.dll…
  • 14-10-2017 10:31:41 5 (2904) Module file version: 10.0.14393.0 (rs1_release.160715-1616)
  • 14-10-2017 10:31:41 5 (2904) Resolving DLL entry points…
  • 14-10-2017 10:31:41 5 (2904) Setting maximum number of instances to 1024…
  • 14-10-2017 10:31:41 5 (2904) Creating ESE instance VEEAM_ARCHIVER_PROXY_9333c395-7a2b-43da-b776-295b574b1099…
  • 14-10-2017 10:31:41 5 (2904) Setting instance parameter MaxVerPages to 1073741824…
  • 14-10-2017 10:31:41 5 (2904) Setting instance parameter MaxOpenTables to 15000…
  • 14-10-2017 10:31:41 5 (2904) Setting instance parameter MaxSessions to 1000…
  • 14-10-2017 10:31:41 5 (2904) Initializing ESE instance…
  • 14-10-2017 10:31:42 5 (2904) Setting ESE maximum cache size to 2147248128 bytes…
  • 14-10-2017 10:31:42 5 (2904) Creating database: C:\ProgramData\Veeam\Backup365\ProxyDb\config.edb…
  • 14-10-2017 10:31:42 5 (2904) Creating database schema…

How Veeam Backup Office 365 can use in a Programmatic way?

Using Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 PowerShell Toolkit, we can automate the Veeam Backup Microsoft Office 365 tool.

How to Take Backup and Restore Office 365 Mailboxes
PowerShell – How to Take Backup and Restore Office 365 Mailboxes

Following are the PowerShell command Lets available for Veeam Backup Office 365 mailboxes:-

Name
Add-VBOJob
Add-VBOOrganization
Add-VBOProxy
Add-VBORepository
Connect-VBOServer
Disable-VBOJob
Disconnect-VBOServer
Enable-VBOJob
Get-VBOEmailSettings
Get-VBOFolderExclusions
Get-VBOHistorySettings
Get-VBOJob
Get-VBOJobSession
Get-VBOLicense
Get-VBOOrganization
Get-VBOOrganizationMailbox
Get-VBOProxy
Get-VBORepository
Get-VBORestAPISettings
Get-VBORestorePoint
Install-VBOLicense
New-VBOBackupWindowSettings
New-VBOJobSchedulePolicy
Remove-VBOJob
Remove-VBOOrganization
Remove-VBOProxy
Remove-VBORepository
Set-VBOBackupWindowSettings
Set-VBOEmailSettings
Set-VBOFolderExclusions
Set-VBOHistorySettings
Set-VBOJob
Set-VBOJobSchedulePolicy
Set-VBOOrganization
Set-VBOProxy
Set-VBORepository
Set-VBORestAPISettings
Start-VBOJob
Stop-VBOJob
Sync-VBOEntity

More Details

  • NEW Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 1.5 – Here
  • Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365: Availability vs Recoverability – Here

Author

Anoop is Microsoft MVP! He is a Solution Architect in enterprise client management with more than 20 years of experience (calculation done in 2021) in IT. He is Blogger, Speaker, and Local User Group HTMD Community leader. His main focus is on Device Management technologies like SCCM 2012, Current Branch, and Intune. He writes about ConfigMgr, Windows 11, Windows 10, Azure AD, Microsoft Intune, Windows 365, AVD, etc……………

Hyper-V Backup Step by Step Installation Configuration Video Guide Altaro Backup Guide

Hyper-V Backup Step by Step Installation Configuration Video Guide Altaro Backup Guide? In this post, we will see the details of the Hyper-V backup step-by-step installation and configuration guide. I have to build a hyper-v server 2016 with three VMs.

This is my new SCCM CB lab, and Altaro VM backup has been installed and configured on that server to take backup of my hyper-v VMs.

The restoration process of Hyper-v VMs from Altaro VM Backup will be covered in the future blog post. This blog post will cover the installation, configuration, VM backup, backup retention, and VM backup health check.

I’ve covered the all topics mentioned above in the video tutorial

here

Recently, Altaro released Altaro VM Backup v7 with vSphere 6.5 and Windows Server 2016 support, concurrency update, and the new Cloud Management Console; more details here. They have included other features into the latest version of the Altaro VM backup v7 boot VM from Backup and Augmented Inline Deduplication. The new Unlimited Plus Edition also comes with a new online console.

In general, this version will give you considerably increased backup concurrency per Hypervisor, and added with Altaro’s inline deduplication technology; the user can benefit from huge storage space saving and much better backup speeds.

Altaro_Hyper-V_backup_Solution_3 Hyper-V Backup Step by Step Installation Configuration Video Guide Altaro Backup Guide
Hyper-V Backup Step by Step Installation Configuration Video Guide Altaro Backup Guide

Step1 – Connecting to Hyper-V and Discovering VMS

Hosts – This is the step where the Hyper-v machines have been discovered via Altaro VM backup. I have an SCCM infrastructure setup with this Hyper-V lab. So, Altaro was able to find the 3 VMs as part of the STEP 1 discovery.

STEP 2 – Setting up Backup locations for VM backups

Backup Locations – This is the place where we set up a backup location for each Hyper-V VM. You can provide network location and external hard disk. Setting up a backup site is just easy. Altaro backup automatically discovers the external hard disk or USBs connected to your Hyper-V server. You can drag and drop your VMs to a particular backup location, and that is it!

Altaro_Hyper-V_backup_Solution_Backup_locations Hyper-V Backup Step by Step Installation Configuration Video Guide Altaro Backup Guide
Hyper-V Backup Step by Step Installation Configuration Video Guide Altaro Backup Guide

The scheduling of backup tasks for Hyper-V VMs via Altaro Hyper-V backup is very easy. You can set up a retention policy of Hyper-V VMs backups as per your organizational requirement.

Advanced settings will provide you the options to customize and skip IOS files from Hyper-V VM backups. And if your organization has some encryption requirements while backing up VMs, then Altaro has an out-of-box setting to configure the encryption of VMs.

STEP 3 – Hyper-V VM Backup, Retention Schedules, and Reports

Step 3 is the last stage which I’m going to cover in this post. This is all about taking the backup of Hyper-V VMs using the Altaro backup solution. When you click on the “+” symbol on the right side of your VM and click on the “Take Backup” button, then Altaro will send the instructions to the hypervisor. You can also schedule the Hyper-V VM backups for automation of the backup process.

Hyper-V Backup Step by Step Installation Configuration Video Guide Altaro Backup Guide
Hyper-V Backup Step by Step Installation Configuration Video Guide Altaro Backup Guide

You can also check and verify the backup which has already been completed. Schedule Test Drills and Test – Verify backups options are for automating the validation of Hyper-V VMs backup. There are useful out-of-box reports that will provide you with the details about the Altaro Backup jobs completed.

Retention policies are useful to automate the deletion of old Hyper-V VM backups on a particular schedule. As per my testing, this is very useful to have better storage management.  Check out the video tutorial to know more about Altaro services and file systems. 8 Altaro Services are running on the hyper-v server.

Hyper-V Backup Step by Step Installation Configuration Video Guide Altaro Backup Guide
Hyper-V Backup Step by Step Installation Configuration Video Guide Altaro Backup Guide

Conclusion:-

This post covered installation, configuration, VM backup, backup retention, and VM backup health check. In the later post, I will cover the recovery options of the Altaro VM Backup solution in detail. Overall I had a great user experience with the installation, configuration, and VM backup of Altaro VM Backup. The drag and drop options for VMs are the most favorite option in Altaro VM backup. Stay tuned for the next post restore topic.

Author

Anoop is Microsoft MVP! He is a Solution Architect in enterprise client management with more than 20 years of experience (calculation done in 2021) in IT. He is a blogger, Speaker, and Local User Group HTMD Community leader. His main focus is on Device Management technologies like SCCM 2012, Current Branch, and Intune. E writes about ConfigMgr, Windows 11, Windows 10, Azure AD, Microsoft Intune, Windows 365, AVD, etc…