What backup solution for Windows 2008 R2 servers on XenServer 5.0?

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Published on 2009-12-18T10:54:07Z Indexed on 2012/06/25 3:18 UTC
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A friend of mine is hosting a lot of Linux VM's on his servers using XenServer 5.0. He uses rdiff-backup to make daily backups.

I'm trying to convince him to host some Windows VM's (Windows 2008 R2 Web Edition) too, so he could provide (me) .NET hosting. The main problem at the moment is a backup strategy for these Windows VM's.

I would like to see something like a weekly full backup (snapshot of the VM?) with daily incrementals.

I've looked at Windows Backup, but because the backups are made onto network shares it doesn't provide incrementals (for what I understand).

Does anyone has any experience with this situation? How did you solve this in a "not-too-hard-to-install/maintain" way?

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