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BackupChain Includes Free Hyper-V Backup and Granular Features Unmatched overall valueīackupChain has been the backup product of choice for IT professionals and BackupChain’s automatic Hyper-V backup feature has been growing rapidly since 2009, and has a world-wide user base (See customer list). After two years you could renew for another two years (renewal is optional, it’s not a subscription) for just $46/license/year. If you run a big shop or you are an IT service provider, consider the savings of a 25 license pack, which turns out to be just $184/license/year for the first two years, independent of number of CPU sockets. Then when you renew, they charge 20% of $950 -> $190 a year for a two socket server.Ī two year renewal of BackupChain Server Enterprise is just $156.25 and covers two years, even if you server has 8 sockets!īut savings do not stop there. BackupChain makes a great Veeam alternative (lots of Veeam users switch to BackupChain) and includes Hyper-V backup for free, see the range of features below.Ĭonsider this: Instead of buying Veeam and paying per CPU socket you could simply pay per installation and save over 50% with BackupChain. Now your backup jobs will complete without any issue as when the backup job starts the script will remove the pass-through disks from the virtual machine and Hyper-V can take the snapshot without any issue.As an affordable alternative to Veeam, BackupChain offers a variety of features for IT professionals and SMBs. Please see the below configuration settings on Veeam Backup and Replication.Įdit the Backup Job – Go to Storage > Advanced Settings

Once done edit your backup job and configure the pre/post script settings. In my backup job there are two virtual machines and my scripts are configured as below. Use a text editor such as Notepad and add the commands according to the backup job and save the files as. You can get the DiskNumber from Hyper-V Virtual Machine settings. Remove-VMHardDiskDrive -VMName -Passthru -ControllerType SCSI -ControllerNumber -ControllerLocation Įg: Remove-VMHardDiskDrive -VMName VM01 -Passthru -ControllerType SCSI -ControllerNumber 0 -ControllerLocation 0Īdd-VMHardDiskDrive -VMName -ControllerType SCSI -ControllerNumber -ControllerLocation -DiskNumber Įg: Add-VMHardDiskDrive -VMName VM01 -ControllerType SCSI -ControllerNumber 0 -ControllerLocation 0 -DiskNumber 3 What we do here is when the backup starts we remove the pass-through disks and once the backup job is completed we re-attach the disks to the virtual machine. To fix this issue (We are going to backup the Virtual Machine without pass-through disks) we can use pre/post scripts option in backup softwares. Backup software will stop processing the backup job with “Processing VMs with pass-through disks is not supported” or similar error. We cannot backup Hyper-V Virtual Machines with pass-through virtual disks due to Hyper-V checkpoints limitation.