HV Backup A free Hyper-V backup Tool

is a very easy and powerful tool to backup and restore virtual machines, in standalone and clustered (CSV) environments, overcoming all the limitations that a generic tool like Diskshadow provides.
This tool targets 2008 (R2) and Windows (R2). All the corresponding core and free Hyper-V editions are also supported!
HVBackup supports consistent and consistent backups through the Hyper V VSS writer component integrated in the operating system.
There are quite a few expensive commercial solutions on the market supporting this scenario, but this is the first one, based on the research we did before publishing the project.
We integrated this tool in our datacenter's production environment management infrastructure, which means that it undergoes continuous testing in a real world environment 🙂
HVBackup can be invoked from the command line, scripted with or integrated in any .Net program through it's class library.
The backup process generates a separate zip file for each virtual machine in the specified output directory, containing all the files owned by the and identified for backup by the VSS Hyper-V provider.
Requirements:
.Net Framework 3.5, which can be easily enabled on the command line.

Samples:

HVBackup -a -o c:\backup
Performs a full VSS backup (using the HyperV VSS writer) of all VMs on the host.
HVBackup -l VM1,VM2 -o \\yourserver\backup
Performs a full VSS backup of the provided list of VMs (use quotes if the names contain spaces).
In this sample the output directory is on a remote server.
HVBackup -f list.txt -o c:\backup
Performs a full VSS backup of the VMs names provided in “list.txt”, one per line.

How to perform a scheduled backup

backup.cmd :

set BCKPATH=\\yourserver\yourpath

pushd %BCKPATH% && forfiles.exe -m *.zip -d -7 -c “cmd /c del @path”
popd
HVBackup.exe -a -o %BCKPATH% 1> lastlog_out.txt > lastlog_err.txt

Note: This will delete every zip file older than 7 days in the target directory before performing a backup of all the VMs on the host. it accordingly to your needs.

Now, as we don't have a scheduled task UI on hyper-v or server core, in order to schedule the previous script every night at 01 AM, just run:

Tool: http://hypervbackup.codeplex.com/

Download: HVBackup_1_0_beta1_20120330.zip  (R2) and Windows Server

Download: HVBackup_1_0_1_Beta.zip Windows Server

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