Unfortunately Hyper-V Manager doesn’t provide an automatic, scheduled creation of snapshots aka checkpoints. However, it’s a great thing to add to your VMs and it can be done with just one command and the Windows Task Scheduler:   You could either use  a fixed name for the snapshot / checkpoint or generate one automatically. The PowerShell script […]

Backups may fail with one or more of the following error IDs: 19050, 32022, 32032, 32056, 32315, 32546 and 33680 and example messages are shown below: Hyper-V-VMMS 19050 ” failed to perform the operation. The virtual machine is not in a valid state to perform the operation. ‘<VM Name>’ failed to perform the operation. The […]

A peculiar kind of error occurs whenever a merge operation is taking place and at the same time a VM backup is started:   VM <GUID> cannot be backed up, error -2147212301 (VSS WRITER ERROR RETRYABLE), The virtual machine ‘<VM Name>’ cannot be backed up because either the file groups reported during OnIdentify has changed, […]