Any solution design is incomplete without a clear backup and recovery strategy in place. As we approach the final contents of this book, this chapter will help you understand and build backup readiness for your Hyper-V infrastructure. Business continuity has multiple facets, and in the earlier chapters, we have already traversed through two important subjects from the Hyper-V perspective—high availability and disaster recovery planning. Maintaining backup in BCP comes second to neither of the two aforementioned options. Often used alongside disaster recovery (DR), it is in fact the DR option for a small shop or an SME, but then again, it isn't. DR options are a costly affair, requiring SAN replication (quite expensive) or host replication (Hyper-V replica) to a designated offsite (well, primarily a skeleton site). This also adds a major overhead to the acquisition and maintenance costs. Backups can be maintained off-site or...