Hyper-V cloud backup doesn't have to cost a fortune. Check out our secure, high-speed terabyte cloud hosting plans for Hyper-V and other services. If you do have the infrastructure to host your own cloud, BackupChain contains all the tools you need to set up your own private and secure cloud storage to backup your Hyper-V […]

Live backup of Hyper-V virtual machines may be done with or without the use of the Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer, which is part of the Hyper-V Role in Windows Server 2008 and later. The key integration element powering live backups in Windows is VSS, also called Volume Shadow Copy Service, which allows services and applications […]

  If you are planning to use your NAS device for Hyper-V or for backups, please read this article first before diving into further details. At BackupChain we have put together this article to describe some of the shortcomings of specific Network Attached Storage devices, such as: Drobo, Buffalo, Synology, Netgear, QNap, IOmega, IOSafe, Diskstation, ReadyNAS, let’s collectively call […]

In this article we describe how to quickly and easily copy a VHD or VHDX Hyper-V VM to another host, disk, USB disk, NAS drive, network share, or FTP. The steps are all the same and require only a minute to set up. Copying a VHD / VHDX can be done with compression and deduplication […]

A Hyper-V Snapshot, nowadays called a Hyper-V Checkpoint beginning with Windows Server 2012, is a fundamentally different thing than a Hyper-V backup. Hyper-V backup software works similar to file server backup software but is specialized in how it handles virtual machine guests. Hyper-V backups are used for disaster recovery and are hence full and portable […]

When the Hyper-V host is a Windows Server 2008 R2 and the VM runs Windows Server 2012, the VM may be pulled into a saved state. This may be due to the following: The Hyper-V Integration Services version is not up-to-date in VM Backup (Volume Snapshot) Integration Service is disabled or not installed. The virtual […]

The Hyper-V backup error “…could not initiate a checkpoint operation: Element not found. (0x80070490)” is an old but still existing Hyper-V bug seen on Windows Server 2012 R2 when backing up Hyper-V virtual machines with Windows Server 2003 guest operating systems.   Update 2018: A new bug in Hyper-V 2016 (on Windows Server 2016) corrupts […]

Deduplication of backup storage is especially important in the case of virtual machine backups. Whether you're using Hyper-V Server VMs or VMware, optimized storage usage is of paramount importance, since VHD and VMDK files tend to be huge. It's therefore ineffective to store them in full after each backup. Using BackupChain (see screenshot below) you […]

This How-to guide shows the quick and easy steps required to convert a physical machine to a virtual machine (P2V) using Disk2VHD and use it on a Hyper-V Server 2012 (or Hyper-V Server 2008). This example uses the newest Disk2VHD to create a VHDX virtual disk file containing a disk image of the partitions stored […]