backing up VM's in hyper-v

[Zargon]

anybody have good experience with this?

I have read that a product I use, Cobian Gravity, will do it, while the VM's are on thanks to VSS

are there other good options? that arent a few hundred a year?

 

[rsutoratosu]

http://www.unitrends.com/unitrends-enterprise-backup.html - free for 4 vm.. unless you are in an enterprise.. no free

 

[Gunbuster]

Microsoft Data Protection Manager

 

[rsutoratosu]

dpm cost more than a few hundred a year

 

[Chiefcrowe]

I use Veeam Backup. Really great program! I bought it for some servers but they do offer a free version with a limited feature set.

 

[smakme7757]

I use Veeam Backup. Really great program! I bought it for some servers but they do offer a free version with a limited feature set.

Veeam is fantastic. I can't afford a license seeing as it's just for personal use and i'm a student, but damn it's a fine program.

If i had the $800 i would pay for it!

 

[Zargon]

interesting

this will be for a work client, so free for personal use isn't going to cut it

 

[xSauronx]

we use symantec system recovery. not sure what the "virtual edition" costs, but i think its just licensing for all VMs on a host anyways. seems like the individual license per server is less than $100/install. maybe well closer to 60ish? i dont remember, i dont look at our quotes that often.

i dont care for their a/v software but SSR has been good for my company.

 

[Zargon]

I ended up configuring backups with cobian gravity for now

I will check into budgetary issues for this later, but I needed to get backups squared away as this was 'test' and in 2 weeks it goes pre-production


Veeam and Unitrends are going to get trial'd out in the home lab soon

 

[yinan]

Veeam is awesome of the VMware side. So I wouldn't expect anything less for Hyper-V.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Agreed. I first used it for vmware and then later for hyper-v and both versions are great! They seem to really listen to customer feedback and are quite responsive.

Veeam is awesome of the VMware side. So I wouldn't expect anything less for Hyper-V.