Hyper-V Backup and Restore of Virtual Machines Step-by-Step

For detailed product information, please visit the BackupChain home page. Download BackupChain® BackupChain Home The steps outlined here are for backup and restore of virtual machines running on Hyper-V, either on Windows Server 2022 or Windows 11 and other supported platforms. For product information please check our Hyper-V backup solution. Backup of Hyper-V Virtual Machines […]

How to: Speed and Bandwidth Throttling for Backup Tasks

For detailed product information, please visit the BackupChain home page. Download BackupChain® BackupChain Home More Information Bandwidth throttling and speed limits may be configured using BackupChain Backup Software backup tasks, such as Hyper-V VM backup, VMware backup, VirtualBox backup, disk to disk cloning, disk imaging, and Windows Server backup.

How to Set Up Sector-Level Disk Backups

For detailed product information, please visit the BackupChain home page. Download BackupChain® BackupChain Home Entire disks (physical or virtual) can be copied to one another using BackupChain. A “classic” disk backup uses a proprietary container file format; however, in BackupChain you can back up a physical hard drive to an open-standard virtual disk for the […]

Disk Backup and Disk Converter

For detailed product information, please visit the BackupChain home page. Download BackupChain® BackupChain Home If you want to copy disks, convert VMs from one format to another, or take a backup of a physical disk, you can use the “Disk Backup & Disk Converter” tool. The “Disk Backup & Disk Converter” tool offers the exact […]

Sector-Level Disk Image Backup (P2V, V2P, P2P, V2V) and How to Use It

For detailed product information, please visit the BackupChain home page. Download BackupChain® BackupChain Home Sector-level disk image backup (P2V, V2P, P2P, V2V) in BackupChain offers several advantages. Physical disks can be copied to either physical disks or virtual disks and vice versa. The supported formats are VHD, VHDX, VDI, and VMDK. The resulting physical to […]

How to Run External Utilities Before, During, After Backups

For detailed product information, please visit the BackupChain home page. Download BackupChain® BackupChain Home You can run external utilities when a backup starts and finishes. You can use this feature to control external resources or run external notification tools. One application of external utilities is to bring a database offline before the backup and then […]

General Recommendations

For detailed product information, please visit the BackupChain home page. Download BackupChain® BackupChain Home This section discusses various recommended practices when working with BackupChain. Available RAM Please ensure you have at least 512 MB free or available at all times, as reported by the task manager: Hyper-V Microsoft does not recommend using snapshots/checkpoints in production […]

How to Set Up Sector-Level Disk Backups vs Cloning

For detailed product information, please visit the BackupChain home page. Download BackupChain® BackupChain Home Entire disks (physical or virtual) can be copied to one another using BackupChain. A “classic” disk backup uses a proprietary container file format; however, in BackupChain you can back up a physical hard drive to an open-standard virtual disk for the […]