Backup Hyper-V advice

[ollyparkhouse]

Hi Guys, some advice please.

We have a 2 node Hyper-V cluster with a number of VM's running on them. We have the full set of agents (hyper-v, exchange sql etc) and would like to know the best way to back these up for

1 Granular item restores

2 Full DR recovery.

Do we backup the hosts as though they are physicals or do we connect to the cluster manager and back up the VHD, XML, BIN etc files?

We also have pass-through disks, and cannot see a way to back these up as there are effetively "off-line"

How can we do this?

many thanks

[CraigV · Accepted solution]

Hi Olly,

Symantec have a number of Best practice guides to their agents. Here is the Hyper-V BP. Give it a read, and post back here with any further queries...

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO21770

[ips-IT]

So following from what they are saying, and there was nothing on passthrough...

if you want to restore a server use the Hyper-V backup agent on say a file server, but if you want GRT backup the VM directly rather than use Hyper-V.

Or am i getting my wires crossed and they were talking restore methods??