by Stan Czerno
July 21, 2011 09:56 CST
This Script Shuts down all the VMs first then takes a VSS Snapshot, Starts the VMs, exposes the Snapshot and uses robocopy to copy the VMs.
This is meant for a Stand Alone Hyper-V Host with Direct Attached Storage and will not work on a Cluster.
http://www.czerno.com/default.asp?inc=/html/windows/Backup_HyperV_Virtual_Machines_Shutdown.asp
All files can be found here: http://www.czerno.com/html/windows/hypervbackups-shutdown.zip
Let me know what you think about the script and if you have a better way of doing this.