I have a big VM (1.2T provisionned, ~800Gb used) to backup.
My problem is it runs a proprietary database system, one which is not designed for VSS (a combo of home-brewed MariaDb and proprietary app).
I was wondering if i could power off the VM using powershell script, then start the backup, and once snapshot is created, power on .
It would give me a nice proper backup with a small downtime (in my expectations
