About Hyper-V backups

The table below lists the backup types supported for Hyper-V environments. For more details about backup types, see Backup types.

Backup method

Description

Full

Protects the metadata (configuration files) and data for all the disks attached to the virtual machine. All disk blocks are captured in a full backup.

Incremental

Captures the changes to the metadata and the virtual machine hard disk blocks since the last successful full or incremental backup.

 

For more details about Hyper-V backups, see the following topics:

     Hyper-V backup strategies

     Online backups

     Automatic exclusion of Hyper-V data during file-level backups