Data Protection Manager 2010 For Backing Up Hyper-V R2

Data Protection Manager 2010 will be able to protect and backup Hyper-V R2 VM’s on CSV storage, and should make backing up Hyper-V VM’s easier.

The beta is currently available for download at:

http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/dataprotectionmanager/en/us/2010beta-overview.aspx

There are some nice features for Windows guests, like file level recovery in addition to full VHD recovery.

No Linux VHD or Linux file level recovery it seems ( VMware doesn’t offer Linux guest file level recovery in their VMware Data Recovery either ) so 3rd parties like Veeam that are developing products for Hyper-V will hopefully fill this hole for shops that need Linux support.