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Backing up Hyper-V Virtual Machines
Hi, I was wondering if all I really need to do to backup activated virtual machines but not associated virtual hard drives is just to copy the virtual hard drive folder to another drive (or even one drive) .
All I am really interested is in saving the machines which have the hardware ids stored on the MS activation servers, not the actual vhds. I can clean install Windows on a new virtual hard disks any time, as I do not usually install much on them anyway.
I cannot see any reason why not - I would just need to reimport the virtual machines retaining the GUID as far as I can tell. Is there anything else I need to backup - not interested in checkpoints etc.