How to backup Hyper-V virtual machines without stopping in failover cluster via powershell?

Question

PowerShell

Actually a subject: there are virtual machines in a cluster (failover cluster) and it is necessary to back them up, but without stopping them. Those. remove vhd in the cluster without stopping the virtual machines themselves. How can this be done, for example, using a scheduler via poweshell? Do not offer solutions like DPM.

Answer 1

It turned out that Cobian Backup 11 can do this. Thank you all very much for your replies.

Answer 2

Use the backup capabilities provided by the storage itself.
For example, for MS Software iSCSI Target, it is possible to mount a snapshot of a volume (and make them on a schedule), and backup data from it even by simple copying.
For iron storages - similarly, only software of its own.

Answer 3

www.inadmin.ru/2010/02/23/hyper-v-backup-vhd-with-posh/

Answer 4

For Windows Server 2008 R2, the built-in Windows Server Backup does not support VM backup on a CSV volume, so there are the following solutions:
1) Use MS DPM, Symantec Backup Exec, Veeam Backup & Replication and others like them.
2) Bekapitsya inside the guest OS.
3) Turn off or suspend the VM for the backup period and copy the VM files with anything.
4) Transfer CSV to redirected access mode, make a snapshot using vssadmin, mount the snapshot, copy the VM folder to the desired location, unmount and delete the snapshot.