Backup Windows XP physical machines

[ThomasOS]

Hello,

we have industry milling machines they run 24/7 with physical Windows XP machines.
There is no way to upgrade to Windows 7.
I need to backup the full hard disk once a week, because the temperature in the milling machines is very high and so very often chrashes the hard disks.
I have Veeam Backup&Replication.
Is there a possibility to full backup the running Windows XP machines? It is not possible to stop the machines for a backup!

Thomas

[PTide]

Hi,

Unfortunately Veeam Backup & Replication can't backup a physical machine. Also, Veeam Endpoint cannot backup your XP either, as Endpoint does not support XP. The only option seems to use some tools such as disk2vhd to convert you physical drive to .vhd so you can spin up a VM inside Hyper-V and take a backup of it with Veeam. On the other hand, you'll have to make a conversion to .vhd every time you want to do a backup. Though you might want to try migration from physical XP to virtual XP.