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  2. NetBackup™ for Hyper-V Administrator's Guide
  3. Back up and restore Hyper-V
  4. Back up Hyper-V virtual machines
NetBackup™ for Hyper-V Administrator's Guide

Back up Hyper-V virtual machines

Virtual machine backups can be initiated from a NetBackup policy. You can start the backup manually from a policy, or have it run automatically according to a schedule that is defined in the policy.

To create the policy, you can use the NetBackup web UI.

See Create a Hyper-V policy.

To back up a virtual machine manually from an existing policy

  1. Open the NetBackup web UI.
  2. On the left, click Protection > Policies.
  3. Select the policy.
  4. Click Manual backup.
  5. Select the type of schedule for the backup.
  6. Select the clients (virtual machines) to back up.
  7. Click Backup to start the backup.
  8. To watch the backup progress, click Activity monitor.

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