Back up Hyper-V virtual machines
Protect Hyper-V guests with a job that uses the Hyper-V VSS writer, stores the copy off the CSV, and can import the virtual machine on another host.
Production checkpoints that invoke the guest VSS writer are for short-term rollback. They are not a substitute for a backup stored outside the cluster shared volume. A host-level export or a backup that reads the VHDX through the backup API is the recovery copy.
Include the virtual machine configuration, every VHDX the guest boots from, and any shared VHDX the application needs. Leave page files and temporary data disks out only when you have tested a boot without them.
Name the recovery host, the virtual switch, and the folder that will receive the import. Practice that import before you need it.