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Backing up Hyper-V virtual machines from the command line<\/h3>\n
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25 Feb 2013 4:26 PM<\/div>\n
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Last week I posted about how you can now use Windows Server Backup in Windows Server 2012 to backup virtual machines.\u00a0 One of the first questions that people had was \u201chow do I do this from the command-line?\u201d\u00a0 So \u2013 let me show you!<\/p>\n

The tool you will want to use is \u201cwbadmin.exe\u201d<\/p>\n

Backing up a virtual machine is fairly straight forward.\u00a0 Your command will look like this:<\/p>\n

wbadmin start backup \u2013backupTarget:<location to backup to> \u2013hyperv:<list of virtual machines to backup><\/p>\n

Which will result in something like this:<\/p>\n

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Some things to be aware of:<\/p>\n