Hyper V backup software solutions

Backup Hyper V virtual machines in seconds.

Hyper-V is a Microsoft program for virtualization of servers and operating systems based on a hypervisor for 64-bit systems on computers with AMD-based processors or with Intel virtualization technologies. Bacula supports Hyper V Clusters.

Its use allows you to make the most of your hardware resources. Bacula’s module for Hyper-V supports Cluster Shared Volumes,  and also offers the following benefits:

Rational use of the computing resources of the physical servers

Single File Restore

Centralized administration of servers and virtual machines

Easy administration and efficient management of resources

Tools to prepare and configure new operation environments in production seamlessly

Facilities to allocate resources to virtual machines without affecting services, which allows adjusting the infrastructure to changes in the requirements of organizations

Savings of the operating costs

Use Bacula to avoid using multiple backup solutions, or having inadequate protection from ransomware.

Note that Bacula also offers HyperV protection with the following features:

• Hyper-V Backup new technique (WinAPI)
• Snapshot based Virtual Machines Image-level backup
• Full, Incremental & Differential
• No need for local storage backup
• Handling of vMotion events efficiently and elegantly
• Compatible with Single Item Restore
• Significant levels of resilience
• Support for any kind of deployment (standalone or clustered)
• Advanced boot handling (UEFI based systems, device order management)
• Data directly streamed from the source to the destination storage without the need of reserving any space on the backup agent running the process.

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Hyper V Backup Solutions from Bacula Systems

Because the services that are offered by the Hyper V virtualization platforms are critical for the operation processes, having a reliable Hyper V backup policy is essential to guarantee the availability of the service. Professional IT environments using Hyper V virtual machines need to have the Hyper V backup software being able to manage Hyper V-based data in complete convenience and reliability. Bacula’s Hyper V backup solution delivers Full level Hyper V VM backups using the VSS API. Our plugin is highly scalable, flexible and made for the most demanding enterprise environments. When used with Bacula Enterprises’ Global Endpoint Deduplication technology and the “bothsides” FileSet option, the amount of data transfer and storage use is minimized, often to a great extent. Bacula Enterprise also makes incremental backup of the host computer.

Bacula’s Hyper V Backup Software Key Benefits

Full image level Hyper V VM backup

Restores complete Hyper V virtual machine image

Restores disk images

Incremental and Differential level backup

VSS-based snapshots for quiescing VSS-based applications

Single Item Restore

Hyper V backup includes the server data

Rapid Hyper V virtual machine restores

Encryption of backup Hyper V at the storage level, in process of data transmission and during the execution of operations

Supported Versions of Hyper V / OS:

Bacula Enterprise works with the most frequent hypervisor/OS versions. Our Hyper V backup solution works with 2012 R2 and 2008 R2.

Hyper V Backup Software Functionality

Administration of Hyper V VM backups and restores from a centralized administration console, either through CLI or GUI interface or web interface

Backup of the Hyper V VM without affecting their service and operation

Ease of replication and remote Hyper V backup through the WAN or through the Internet to the cloud

Advanced levels of security and protection while Hyper V backup using EFS

Even greater speed, disk and time savings in our best Hyper V backup solution 

Great gains and savings are nearly always possible using Global Endpoint Deduplication and a variety of additional specialist features including data compression, network bandwidth management and others. Global Endpoint Deduplication is an especially advanced deduplication engine that assesses data at the block level, then writes only new blocks and references Bacula volumes to blocks recorded in Bacula’s Deduplication engine which makes your Hyper V backup software run faster. As well as saving storage extremely effectively, network bandwidth usage benefits greatly, achieved by only sending unknown blocks to the Storage Daemon from the File Daemon while backing up Hyper V VMs.

Restore Reliability of our Hyper V backup solution

Bacula Enterprise architecture brings maximum reliability to the entire process of restoring Hyper V machines and their data. For example, restoring the VMs is done entirely by the host operating system; the VSS writers in the child VMs are not involved.

A bit more about the restoration process specifics:

• Files are restored only after all of the VSS writers have gone through the PreRestore event.
• Each of the restored VHDs has its target location checked, and updated, if it doesn’t match with the one that was specified beforehand.
• Hyper-V VSS writer is linking every restored VM with the Hyper-V management service. If the restoration location isn’t the default one – a link is created, connecting the intended VM location with the actual one.

At restore, the network configuration is also updated. If the virtual switches that the VM was connected to when it was backed up still exist, new ports are created and connected to the VM. With Bacula Enterprise, it is also possible to restore VSS files directly on disk without using the VSS restore framework. This is done by configuring the Plugin Options in the restore menu.

• Need to see all our backup and recovery tools except Hyper V backup tools? See the full range here.
• Interested in cloud backup of Hyper V server? Take a look at our backup for cloud providers and MSPs.
• Interested in backing up domain controller? Look at our Active Directory backup software.