How to Backup Hyper-V Virtual Machine on Windows Server 2025 or Windows 11

Are you looking for a simple way to backup Hyper-V virtual machine guests on Windows Server 2025-2008 or Windows 11-8 PCs? With BackupChain’s server backup software you can set up and backup Hyper-V virtual machines in just three minutes and just a few steps.

• Backup for the Windows host server disk as well as backup of all Hyper-V virtual machines with just one license. This includes virtual machines on Cluster Shared Volumes.
• Set up incremental as well as differential backup; Efficient in-line deduplication and virtual machine replication. Open standard backup formats, such as ZIP are also offered.
• Copy a Hyper-V virtual machine while running to another server, NAS, USB drive, or network drive
• BackupChain can do bare-metal recovery, sector-level disk backup, and hard disk cloning of physical Windows boot disks
• Set up Hyper-V P2V (physical disk to Hyper-V VM), Hyper-V V2P (Hyper-V VM to physical disk), and Hyper-V V2V (Hyper-V VM VHD / VHDX format conversion)
• Backup physical PCs and servers to Hyper-V, VirtualBox, or VMware for instant recovery with BackupChain’s automated P2V tasks

BackupChain is a all-in-one backup software that you can use to protect all workloads, large Windows Servers as well as Windows 10 PCs utilizing virtualization. Download your fully functional trial today.

Install And Start Your Hyper-V VM Backup in 3 Minutes

The Hyper-V virtual machine restore steps are shown in the video below:

Hint: maximize the video and switch to HD for crystal clear quality.

Did you know? BackupChain also includes backup of Hyper-V VMs on Windows 11 – 8 and restoring them on all Windows Server versions and vice versa. BackupChain also offers VMware backup and VirtualBox backup and can convert virtual machines from one hypervisor to another.