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Built-in Windows Server Backup of Server 2012 Hyper-V does NOT backup VMs on CSV

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This was not entirely clear to me, to say the least.
It seemed that the native Windows Server Backup feature in Windows Server 2012 had added support to backup Hyper-V VMs running on the local machine. But alas, this is not the case when these VMs are stored on a CSV volume.
See this table on the article about Windows Server Backup in Server 2012 on technet:

Support for backup of Cluster Shared Volumes (CSVs) :
Limited support for backing up CSVs as follows:

  1. - Virtual machines hosted on CSV’s cannot be added as part of backup configuration
  2. - Windows Server Backup has to be configured on all nodes to ensure that backup and recovery will be available in the event of a failure on one of
    the nodes in the cluster.
  3.  - Volumes recovery not supported
  4. - Security access control lists are not applicable on CSV file service root. Therefore, file recovery to the root of CSV volume is not supported

And indeed, when trying to backup a VM running on a CSV on my Windows Server 2012 machine, i got these errors:

Application backup
Writer Id: {66841CD4-6DED-4F4B-8F17-FD23F8DDC3DE}
Component: 67FF0C4A-E91B-442D-840A-65257B465E45
Caption     : Backup Using Child Partition Snapshot\vm-dc01
Logical Path:
Error           : 80780175
Error Message   : Component was skipped from volume shadow copy.

Detailed Error  : 80780189
Detailed Error Message : Windows Backup cannot backup an application with files on a CSV volume.

So, no dice

 

 

So, no dice…


Filed under: Hyper-V 3, Windows Server 2012

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