Shutdown & restart VM after Backup Job

[shrry8]

Hi,

is it possible to shutdown a vm before doing backup / start it again after backup is complete?

Infrastructure is purely on Hyper-V 2012. If i am not wrong there are must be some PowerShell scripts for that

Veeam is installed on a separate machine

Thanks
Srsiddiqui

[nielsengelen]

You can leverage scripts before and after a job, more info can be found via https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... l?ver=95u4

Out of interest; why do you want to shut down the VM first?

[shrry8]

Hi,

But if we don't shutdown the VM than it will first take the snapshot and then take the backup. Correct me if I am wrong
Currently we to automate the backup process.

From where i can get the working scripts for this purpose.

[veremin]

Correct, the snapshot will be taken from running VM in this case, but are there restrictions for this matter in your environment?

As to the scripts, take a look at general Hyper-V cmdlets - Stop-VM, for instance.

Thanks!