# Beginners Instructions for Hyperv Backups

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**Created:** [January 29, 2019, 10:52pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/beginners-instructions-for-hyperv-backups/6166 "2019-01-29T22:52:11Z")
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#### Post date: [January 29, 2019, 11:22pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/beginners-instructions-for-hyperv-backups/6166/4 "2019-01-29T23:22:40Z")

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Just discovered that I need to run Duplicati as Administrator (Seems obvious now) to see Hyper-V as an option.

Was a daft question after all.

Thanks.

For anyone else reading this I did the following to get a hyper-v backup working.

1.) Install Duplicati on hyper V Host  
2.) Ctop Duplicati from the tray icon.  
3.) Copy the contents of AlphaVSS folder overwriting files (C:\Program Files\Duplicati 2)  
4.) Install the Visual C++ Runtime (Its under “Other Tools and Frameworks” at [Download Visual Studio Tools - Install Free for Windows, Mac, Linux](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/))

5.) Start Duplicati as an Administrator  
6.) When creating a backup you will now have Hyper-V options as well as the file system.

See also:

> [@Missing AlphaVSS.x64.dll error on clean install](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/missing-alphavss-x64-dll-error-on-clean-install/2519/3):
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> Unfortunately, after these actions I see same error. The alphavss folder should contain 3 files: AlphaVSS.Common.dll, AlphaVSS.x64.dll and AlphaVSS.x86.dll. - Yes and root folder of D2 contain: AlphaVSS.Common.dll

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