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Hartnett_Smith
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8 years ago

System Recovery with 2012 Hyper-V

I need to backup 1 virtual machine in 2012 Hyper-V.  Can I restore individual files on the virtual machine, or do I have to restore the complete virtual machine?

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    criley
    Moderator
    8 years ago

    You can do both. It depends how you do the backup ..

    • If you only install System Recovery on the Hyper-V host, you can only restore the virtual machine itself (i.e. restore entire VM) - backup is done at the host level
    • If you install System Recovery inside the virtual machine, you can perform granular level restores from inside the VM - backup is done at the OS level inside the VM

    Hope that helps.

     

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        criley
        Moderator
        8 years ago

        So, can I install on Hyper-V and a Virtual Machine with the one license?

        Not sure on this, I will probably need to check with someone.

        So you mean the VM is running on the same host, right? And what license do you have?