About Backing Up And Restoring Microsoft Hyper-V Virtual Machines - Symantec GHOST - V 15.0 Manual

206 About backing up Microsoft virtual environments

About backing up and restoring Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines

About backing up and restoring Microsoft Hyper-V
virtual machines
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To create a backup of a Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine, you must back up the
volumes of the computer where the virtual machine is hosted. To do this, create
either a live backup or a system state backup of the host machine.You cannot back
up or restore a specific virtual machine. A live backup is created while the virtual
machine is running (hot backup). A system state backup is created when the guest
operating system on the virtual machine is not running (cold backup) or the
Hyper-V VSS integration component is not installed in the virtual machine.
Note: Norton Ghost is unable to back up clustered shared volumes. Because volumes
in such a configuration are accessible to each of the clustered Hyper-V host
computers, a given volume cannot be locked for backup . However, clustered disks
can be backed up by Norton Ghost because one host has exclusive access to the
disk.
To create a backup of a running virtual machine, the following conditions must
be met:
If you attempt to perform a backup when the conditions above are not met, Norton
Ghost creates a system state recovery point that is crash-consistent. A
crash-consistent recovery point captures the virtual machine as if it had
experienced a system failure or power outage.
To restore a virtual machine, you must restore the recovery point of the host
computer. The host computer recovery point must include the volume that holds
the virtual machine you want to restore. You cannot restore a specific virtual
machine.
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