Hyper-V selection grayed out

[InfraDep]

We want to make a selection from one of our HyperV nodes, but if we scroll down we cant make a selection?

Only want to back-up the F drive and not all the VHDX files, if we do our back-up failes because of not mounted SQL database.

OS: Windows 2012 R2

Anyone know how to?

See attachment

[Colin_Weaver]

This is by design:

Virtual Machine Backups (Hyper-V and VMware) have to backup the whole VM ( VHD, VHDX, VMDK files) - that is the whole point of a virtual machine backup - the restore gives the ability to restore individual items (as long as GRT is enabled) but the backup is a machine level snapshot within the storage the holds the VM.

If you want to backup specifics inside a VM ONLY you have to switch to traditional remote agent backups (agent running inside VM and backup job created against the VM itself and not the host) and not do virtual machine backups.

If you do switch to Agent backups then if running Capacity licensing no problem, but if using V-Ray licensing then you should own an Agent for Windows License.

[Colin_Weaver]

for the not mounted database issue you could disable application GRT (leave file GRT enabled)  in the job against the VM of the SQL server which shoud solve that problem whilst backing up the VM in full.

[InfraDep]

Hello Colin,

Unfortunately, disabling the GRT option for SQL doesnt work.

Backup
V-79-57344-34070 - Snapshot Technology: Initialization failure on: "VRTSRV::\\SERVER.domain\Hyper-V?Virtual?Machine\SERVER - SQL Server ". Snapshot technology used: Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS).

Snapshot technology error (0xE0008516): The database specified for the snapshot was not backed up because the database was not mounted.

We're going to try to back up the F drive with the Agent for Windows.

Thank You

[Colin_Weaver]

Hmm OK so probably something VSS is doing that is outside of our direct control, I suspect solution would then be disassociate any dismounted databases from SQL