The table below lists the backup types supported for Hyper-V environments. For more details about backup types, see Backup types.
Backup method |
Description |
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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:
• Automatic exclusion of Hyper-V data during file-level backups