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Hyper-V backup

Important

Remember to read the Best Practices chapter common for all of our hypervisor plugins.

Note

Remember to read the Best Practices chapter common for all of our hypervisor plugins.

Bacula Enterprise offers three ways to backup your Hyper-V virtual machines:

Important

The HyperV WinAPI plugin is the newest and most advanced plugin available for backing up Hyper-V environments. It offers the most comprehensive set of features, ensuring seamless integration and efficient backups. Due to its robust functionality and extensive capabilities, this plugin is now the recommended solution for all Hyper-V backup needs.

• Hyper-V WinAPI

The HyperV WinAPI plugin allows for full, differential, and incremental backups of Hyper-V virtual machines, supporting migration of VMs in cluster environments without requiring local snapshots

Warning

The Hyper-V VSS and Hyper-V WMI solutions are older methods for backing up Hyper-V environments. These options are not recommended for use.

• Hyper-V VSS

VSS services enable Bacula Enterprise to do snapshot backup of your Hyper-V virtual machines.

Single Item Restore is supported, but differential and incremental level backup cannot be done using this method.

• Hyper-V WMI

The WMI provider allows you to perform differential and incremental backup for Microsoft Hyper-V. Single Item Restore is not possible using this method.