I have a freshly installed Hyper-V server on Windows Server 2012R2 standard edition, and a VM inside with same OS version that hosts a domain and some file-based services. The host is NOT the member of the VM's domain, because there are no other servers in the local network, therefore no DCs to use if this one goes down. The host has a removable media attached that's intended to be a backup media. I need to back up files from the VM to that device.
I wonder if there's an ability to retrieve a file from the VM using Hyper-V tools, provided full compatibility on the host.
UPDATE: There is a commandlet Copy-VMFile
that suddenly has -FileSource
parameter available, but to my dismay this parameter can only accept the value of Host
, that is, copying the file is only provided TO the VM, not from it.