Top 10 Hyper-V backup software options

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.