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Incremental backup promoted to a full after a live migration failure for a Hyper-V VM - Connect IT Community | Kaseya
<main> <article class="userContent"> <h2 data-id="summary"><strong>SUMMARY</strong></h2> <p>This article explains why incremental backups are promoted to full backups after a live migration failure.</p> <h2 data-id="issue"><strong>ISSUE</strong></h2> <p>If a live migration for a Hyper-V VM fails but the owner node changes, the Hyper-V CBT driver cannot compare changes on the VM with its snapshot entries. As a result, the next incremental backup is promoted to a full. Subsequent incremental backups run as scheduled. <br><br> </p> </article> </main>