Improvements in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Backup
Windows Server 2008 R2 backup was a hot topic of discussion. If implemented correctly, it made life much easier for administrators. If implemented incorrectly, it was a nightmare. Microsoft listened to the feedback and gave us what we wanted in Windows Server 2012.
Incremental Backup
We already mentioned that in previous versions of Hyper-V, a storage-level backup would perform a full backup of a highly available virtual machine every single time. It did not matter if little or no change occurred in the virtual machine’s virtual hard disks (see Figure 10-2). Every single storage-level backup would result in every single byte of the VHDs being transmitted over the network and stored. That meant ...
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