Backing Up Virtual Machines
Table Of Contents
- 1 About this document
- 2 Supported virtualization platforms
- 3 Backup at a hypervisor level
- 3.1 Features and capabilities
- 3.2 Limitations
- 3.3 What does a virtual machine backup store?
- 3.4 Working in VMware vSphere
- 3.4.1 Getting started with Agent for VMware
- 3.4.2 Installation of Agent for VMware
- 3.4.3 Operations with agents
- 3.4.4 Flexible configuration of the agents
- 3.4.5 Using a locally attached storage
- 3.4.6 Configuring ESX(i)-related options
- 3.4.7 Support for VM migration
- 3.4.8 Support for datastore clusters and Storage DRS
- 3.4.9 Backing up fault tolerant machines
- 3.4.10 Backing up independent disks and RDMs
- 3.4.11 Backing up virtual machine templates
- 3.4.12 Privileges for VM backup and recovery
- 3.5 Working in Microsoft Hyper-V
- 3.6 Backing up Linux logical volumes and MD devices
- 3.7 File-level recovery
- 3.8 Virtual machines on a management server
- 3.9 VM-specific backup and recovery options
- 3.10 Limitations for backup and recovery options
- 4 Backup from inside a guest OS
- 4.1 Working with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
- 4.1.1 Overview of the RHEV platform
- 4.1.2 How Acronis Backup works with RHEV
- 4.1.3 Backup and recovery of RHEV virtual machines
- 4.1.4 Migrating a physical machine to a virtual machine
- 4.1 Working with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
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4. On the Actions menu, click Create centralized vault.
5. In Name, type the name of the vault.
6. In Type, select Unmanaged.
7. Click Path and then specify the path to the network share where the backups will be stored. Click
OK. When prompted, provide access credentials for the shared folder.
8. Click OK. You can see the vault name in the Navigation tree under Vaults > Centralized. Click the
vault name to check its free space and contents.
3.5.1.4 Backup and recovery
Backup
In this step, you will back up one or more virtual machines to the centralized vault you created.
1. In the welcome screen, click Back up now.
2. Click Items to back up. In Data to back up, select Virtual machines.
3. Select the virtual machines that you want to back up.
4. Click Location, expand Vaults, and then specify the vault you have created.
5. Click OK to start backing up the virtual machines.
Recovery
In this step, you will recover the disks of a backed-up virtual machine to an existing virtual machine on
the Hyper-V host.
1. In the Navigation tree, expand Vaults > Centralized and then select the vault where you saved
the archives. If prompted, provide access credentials for the vault.
2. In the Data view tab, in Show, select Disks.
3. Select the virtual machine that you want to recover. Under Versions, select a recovery point. By
default, the latest recovery point is selected.
Details. Instead of recovering the entire virtual machine, you can recover individual disks of it.
4. Click Recover.
5. Under Where to recover, in Recover to, select Existing virtual machine.
6. Click Browse, and then select the Hyper-V host to which you want to recover the virtual machine.
7. Click Select, and then select an existing virtual machine, either the same one you have backed up
(recommended for getting started), or a different one.
Details. By default, the agent will automatically stop this virtual machine before starting the
recovery to it. The machine must be powered off during the recovery for the recovery task to
succeed.
8. If required, do the following for every disk found in the backup:
a. Сlick Recover 'Disk N' to: and choose the destination disk from the disks of the existing
machine.
b. In NT signature, leave the default setting: Select automatically.
9. Click OK to immediately start the recovery.
3.5.2 Backing up clustered Hyper-V machines
In a Hyper-V cluster, virtual machines may migrate between cluster nodes. Follow these
recommendations to set up a correct backup of clustered Hyper-V machines: