Top 10 Hyper-V backup software options

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Altaro Software's Hyper-V Backup is fully Hyper-V aware and offers a number of advanced features including:

VSS support for zero downtime backups, including VSS application-aware backups for Exchange and SQL VMs;
Scheduling of backups for cluster shared volumes (CSV);
Reverse delta backups with reduplication;
Flexible backup scheduling;
InstantBoot for booting a VM directly from backup;
File-level restores; and
Live backup of Linux VMs running in Hyper-V.

Besides their commercial edition, which starts at $345 per host, they offer a free edition that allows you to backup two VMs.

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