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Back Up Hyper-V VMs Using the Hyper-V VSS Writer

The Hyper-V VSS Writer lets you back up VMs that are in an online and offline state. These operations are transparent to Arcserve Backup.

Note: The Hyper-V VSS Writer supports only full backups.

The following steps describe how to back up Hyper-V VMs using the Hyper-V VSS Writer. For information about backing up data using the VSS Writer, see the Arcserve Backup for Windows Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service Guide.

To back up Hyper-V VMs using the Hyper-V VSS writer

1. Open the Backup Manager, select the Source tab, and select the Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer object.

   All Hyper-V settings and virtual machines are specified for backup. If you do not want to back up all of the VMs, expand the Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer object (to display all servers) and clear the check mark next to the server that you do not want to back up.

2. (Optional) Right-click the Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer object and select Writer Options from the pop-up menu.
3. Click the destination tab to specify the destination for backup.
4. Click the Submit on the toolbar submit the job.

   The Submit Job dialog opens.

5. Complete the required fields on the Submit Job dialog and click OK.

   The job is submitted.