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Backup Hyper-V To Google Drive?
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I was thinking about backing up a Hyper-V host to the cloud and a potentially crazy idea came to mind.
With Google Drive, you can get 1TB of storage for 2 bucks a month. This would be more than sufficient to backup all of my VMs.
Is this a good idea for machines that don't contain critical / highly confidential information?
I am running Hyper-V Core 2012 R2. How would I go about doing this, if I were to ignore all warnings?
An Issue I see with this is that does GD even support incremental backups of a VHDX file or will it just sync over the whole drive again?
Thanks.
backup hyper-v virtual-machines cloud vhd
asked Jan 24 '15 at 20:20
jeremysjeremys
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I was thinking about backing up a Hyper-V host to the cloud and a potentially crazy idea came to mind.
With Google Drive, you can get 1TB of storage for 2 bucks a month. This would be more than sufficient to backup all of my VMs.
Is this a good idea for machines that don't contain critical / highly confidential information?
I am running Hyper-V Core 2012 R2. How would I go about doing this, if I were to ignore all warnings?
An Issue I see with this is that does GD even support incremental backups of a VHDX file or will it just sync over the whole drive again?
Thanks.
backup hyper-v virtual-machines cloud vhd
asked Jan 24 '15 at 20:20
jeremysjeremys
61
1
What would the restore process look like? How long would a restore take? Are these VM's mission critical to the business? What's your RTO and RPO for these VM's?
– joeqwerty
Jan 24 '15 at 20:29
Why not use Azure backup services?
– Jason
Jan 24 '15 at 20:33
does GD even support incremental backups of a VHDX file - why not ask them? Their support people are just as entitled to see good comedy writing as we are. I'm willing to bet that neither Google or Microsoft would consider that to be a tested or supported scenario...
– Rob Moir
Jan 24 '15 at 21:04
To correct the OP, Google Drive charges $9.99/mo for a TB, and $1.99 for 100 GB.
– Roger Sherman
Jan 25 '15 at 2:45
add a comment |
I was thinking about backing up a Hyper-V host to the cloud and a potentially crazy idea came to mind.
With Google Drive, you can get 1TB of storage for 2 bucks a month. This would be more than sufficient to backup all of my VMs.
Is this a good idea for machines that don't contain critical / highly confidential information?
I am running Hyper-V Core 2012 R2. How would I go about doing this, if I were to ignore all warnings?
An Issue I see with this is that does GD even support incremental backups of a VHDX file or will it just sync over the whole drive again?
Thanks.
backup hyper-v virtual-machines cloud vhd
asked Jan 24 '15 at 20:20
jeremysjeremys
61
I was thinking about backing up a Hyper-V host to the cloud and a potentially crazy idea came to mind.
With Google Drive, you can get 1TB of storage for 2 bucks a month. This would be more than sufficient to backup all of my VMs.
Is this a good idea for machines that don't contain critical / highly confidential information?
I am running Hyper-V Core 2012 R2. How would I go about doing this, if I were to ignore all warnings?
An Issue I see with this is that does GD even support incremental backups of a VHDX file or will it just sync over the whole drive again?
Thanks.
backup hyper-v virtual-machines cloud vhd
backup hyper-v virtual-machines cloud vhd
asked Jan 24 '15 at 20:20
jeremysjeremys
61
asked Jan 24 '15 at 20:20
jeremysjeremys
61
asked Jan 24 '15 at 20:20
jeremysjeremys
61
asked Jan 24 '15 at 20:20
jeremysjeremys
61
asked Jan 24 '15 at 20:20
jeremysjeremys
61
61
1
What would the restore process look like? How long would a restore take? Are these VM's mission critical to the business? What's your RTO and RPO for these VM's?
– joeqwerty
Jan 24 '15 at 20:29
Why not use Azure backup services?
– Jason
Jan 24 '15 at 20:33
does GD even support incremental backups of a VHDX file - why not ask them? Their support people are just as entitled to see good comedy writing as we are. I'm willing to bet that neither Google or Microsoft would consider that to be a tested or supported scenario...
– Rob Moir
Jan 24 '15 at 21:04
To correct the OP, Google Drive charges $9.99/mo for a TB, and $1.99 for 100 GB.
– Roger Sherman
Jan 25 '15 at 2:45
add a comment |
1
What would the restore process look like? How long would a restore take? Are these VM's mission critical to the business? What's your RTO and RPO for these VM's?
– joeqwerty
Jan 24 '15 at 20:29
Why not use Azure backup services?
– Jason
Jan 24 '15 at 20:33
does GD even support incremental backups of a VHDX file - why not ask them? Their support people are just as entitled to see good comedy writing as we are. I'm willing to bet that neither Google or Microsoft would consider that to be a tested or supported scenario...
– Rob Moir
Jan 24 '15 at 21:04
To correct the OP, Google Drive charges $9.99/mo for a TB, and $1.99 for 100 GB.
– Roger Sherman
Jan 25 '15 at 2:45
1
1
What would the restore process look like? How long would a restore take? Are these VM's mission critical to the business? What's your RTO and RPO for these VM's?
– joeqwerty
Jan 24 '15 at 20:29
What would the restore process look like? How long would a restore take? Are these VM's mission critical to the business? What's your RTO and RPO for these VM's?
– joeqwerty
Jan 24 '15 at 20:29
Why not use Azure backup services?
– Jason
Jan 24 '15 at 20:33
Why not use Azure backup services?
– Jason
Jan 24 '15 at 20:33
does GD even support incremental backups of a VHDX file - why not ask them? Their support people are just as entitled to see good comedy writing as we are. I'm willing to bet that neither Google or Microsoft would consider that to be a tested or supported scenario...
– Rob Moir
Jan 24 '15 at 21:04
does GD even support incremental backups of a VHDX file - why not ask them? Their support people are just as entitled to see good comedy writing as we are. I'm willing to bet that neither Google or Microsoft would consider that to be a tested or supported scenario...
– Rob Moir
Jan 24 '15 at 21:04
To correct the OP, Google Drive charges $9.99/mo for a TB, and $1.99 for 100 GB.
– Roger Sherman
Jan 25 '15 at 2:45
To correct the OP, Google Drive charges $9.99/mo for a TB, and $1.99 for 100 GB.
– Roger Sherman
Jan 25 '15 at 2:45
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TLDR - this would be a bad plan for a business.
Each sync would be a full sync. Backing up the VHDX file will backup the data, but it isn't a full VM backup. If you restored over the existing VHDX you wouldn't notice, but if you had to restore to a new server, you'd lose the VM configuration.
If you just need a point in time, you could do an export from within Hyper-V to get the data and configuration.
You might look at a product like Veeam to create the backups to another server and sync those to Google for an offsite.
answered Jan 24 '15 at 23:28
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TLDR - this would be a bad plan for a business.
Each sync would be a full sync. Backing up the VHDX file will backup the data, but it isn't a full VM backup. If you restored over the existing VHDX you wouldn't notice, but if you had to restore to a new server, you'd lose the VM configuration.
If you just need a point in time, you could do an export from within Hyper-V to get the data and configuration.
You might look at a product like Veeam to create the backups to another server and sync those to Google for an offsite.
answered Jan 24 '15 at 23:28
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TLDR - this would be a bad plan for a business.
Each sync would be a full sync. Backing up the VHDX file will backup the data, but it isn't a full VM backup. If you restored over the existing VHDX you wouldn't notice, but if you had to restore to a new server, you'd lose the VM configuration.
If you just need a point in time, you could do an export from within Hyper-V to get the data and configuration.
You might look at a product like Veeam to create the backups to another server and sync those to Google for an offsite.
answered Jan 24 '15 at 23:28
E-RockE-Rock
49936
add a comment |
TLDR - this would be a bad plan for a business.
Each sync would be a full sync. Backing up the VHDX file will backup the data, but it isn't a full VM backup. If you restored over the existing VHDX you wouldn't notice, but if you had to restore to a new server, you'd lose the VM configuration.
If you just need a point in time, you could do an export from within Hyper-V to get the data and configuration.
You might look at a product like Veeam to create the backups to another server and sync those to Google for an offsite.
answered Jan 24 '15 at 23:28
E-RockE-Rock
49936
TLDR - this would be a bad plan for a business.
Each sync would be a full sync. Backing up the VHDX file will backup the data, but it isn't a full VM backup. If you restored over the existing VHDX you wouldn't notice, but if you had to restore to a new server, you'd lose the VM configuration.
If you just need a point in time, you could do an export from within Hyper-V to get the data and configuration.
You might look at a product like Veeam to create the backups to another server and sync those to Google for an offsite.
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What would the restore process look like? How long would a restore take? Are these VM's mission critical to the business? What's your RTO and RPO for these VM's?
– joeqwerty
Jan 24 '15 at 20:29
Why not use Azure backup services?
– Jason
Jan 24 '15 at 20:33
does GD even support incremental backups of a VHDX file - why not ask them? Their support people are just as entitled to see good comedy writing as we are. I'm willing to bet that neither Google or Microsoft would consider that to be a tested or supported scenario...
– Rob Moir
Jan 24 '15 at 21:04
To correct the OP, Google Drive charges $9.99/mo for a TB, and $1.99 for 100 GB.
– Roger Sherman
Jan 25 '15 at 2:45