HVBackup Anyone?

[SteveM555]

Does anyone use HVBackup or have experience of using this at all?

 

If so, you'll probably know it's Open Source. I've made a few modifications to it to suit our needs and was wondering if anyone would like to test it out? I am just looking for a few people to try it and see if it works on their setup. It's currently only tested on Server 2012 Hyper-V.

 

The notable added features are the following:

 

- Added GZIP Support (added by Pablo, on the HVBackup Forums)

- Added GZIP Password (added by Pablo, on the HVBackup Forums)

- HVBackup no longer responds to Command Line parameters, instead it reads all information from Settings.ini located in the same folder.

- A GUI has been created to configure the settings, add servers, change formats, zip type, compression etc.

- A Scheduler has been added to the GUI which allows you to Schedule HVBackup's via the Windows Task Scheduler.

 

A couple of screenshots below of the new GUI I've created:

 

 

If anyone would like to give this a try please feel free to PM me. I can also send over the source for HVBackup for you to compile too (as it is LGPL License) If you have never used HVBackup then please make sure the original version works first before trying this, I haven't changed any of the 'core' backup process, so if the original one doesn't work for you, this won't either.

 

Usage is the following:

 

1) Extract the ZIP to a folder on your Server.

2) Launch HVBackup Configurator GUI and configure the settings.

3) Set Scheduling in the GUI OR just launch HVBackup.exe manually.

4) Hopefully, watch the servers backup!

 

Please don't be testing this on any production servers, whilst I have been testing it and had no issues, that doesn't mean that it'll be the same for you. So if you do use it on production, it's your own fault if something goes wrong.

 

Looking for some feedback.

 

Thanks,

[plexer]

Looks like an interesting tool and could be very useful for people testing.

 

Although looking at the codplex page this but was worrying:

 

TODO

 

The backup features in the current project status are stable.

 

Here's a brief list of features that need to be implemented / fixed.

Restore

 

Ben

[SteveM555]

Looks like an interesting tool and could be very useful for people testing.

 

Although looking at the codplex page this but was worrying:

 

TODO

 

The backup features in the current project status are stable.

 

Here's a brief list of features that need to be implemented / fixed.

Restore

 

Ben

 

Yeah that's right, there is no restore currently in HVBackup.

 

The Backups are stored in a single ZIP file (one per virtual server), which when extracted can be imported back into Hyper-V manually (using Import Virtual Machine). Or if you prefer, you can mount the VHDX in Windows and browse the contents.