=====[V7] ISSUE: Temporary directory must set to remote share or cluster shared volume (Hyper-V Cluster VM backup) ===== Article ID: 5299
Reviewed: 2018-02-02

Product Version:
AhsayOBM: 7.5.0.0 to 7.x
OS: Windows ATTENTION 1st January, 2022: v7 officially End-of-Life [details] ===== Problem Description ===== When creating a MS Hyper-V backup set for Hyper-V servers in Failover Cluster environment, the following error message is displayed in the AhsayOBM client user interface.

Temporary directory must set to remote share or cluster shared volume.
===== Cause ===== For backup of virtual machine(s) in a Hyper-V Failover Cluster environment, the temporary directory for the backup set must be set to a network shared path (accessible to all cluster nodes) or a Cluster Shared Volume. ===== Resolution ===== To resolve the issue, configure the Temporary Directory setting to a network shared path accessible to all cluster nodes, or a Cluster Shared Volume.
===== Keywords ===== hyper-v, hyperv, cluster, create, creating, backupset, bkset, hyper