Backing Up Hyper-V Server

Bruno_A · December 31, 2019

Hi all,

I have a Hyper-V 2016 Server running at home and since there is no GUI, I was wondering what would be the best way of backing up the VMs. I already have a second Hard Drive on the server that could be used for this, but that's actually being replaced with a newer, and bigger, one. I was looking for a solution that would allow me to restore individual VMs, if there is a mess-up on one of them. Being able to schedule backups would be great. I installed, through the managing workstation, the "Windows Server Backup" feature, but it appears I can only use it through the command "wbadmin". Is there no way of using the GUI version of Windows Backup?

Electronics Wizardy · December 31, 2019

wbadamin should do what you need, but since you have core, no gui. But cli should do all you need.

Also veeam.

Bruno_A · December 31, 2019

33 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

wbadamin should do what you need, but since you have core, no gui. But cli should do all you need.

Also veeam.

I decided to gain courage and use the wbadmin commands. I'll go ahead and "study" the commands.