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Virtual machines should be backed up at least once every week

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Applies to: Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016

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Property Details
Operating System Windows Server 2016
Product/Feature Hyper-V
Severity Error
Category Configuration

In the following sections, italics indicates UI text that appears in the Best Practices Analyzer tool for this issue.

Issue

One or more virtual machines have not been backed up in the past week.

Impact

Significant data loss might occur if the virtual machine encounters a problem and a recent backup does not exist. This impacts the following virtual machines:

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Resolution

Schedule a backup of the virtual machines to run at least once a week. You can ignore this rule if this virtual machine is a replica and its primary virtual machine is being backed up, or if this is the primary virtual machine and its replica is being backed up.