How to backup a Scale Out File Server

Can anyone explain to me how i am supposed to backup my Scale Out File Server? It is used to host our VDI environment but we have thrown a few other minimal shares on there for stuff relevant to the VDI setup. Profile Disk/Scripts etc
Per this topic http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/15561919-963b-4164-a307-e3696f5d21e1/adding-scaleout-file-servers-to-dpm2012-sp1?forum=dpmfilebackup
"DPM does not support protecting scale-out file servers (SOFS) for file shares.
I do not really know how to proceed. To make sure everything is backed up.

Hi,
Scale out file server support in DPM is for VM's (and SQL DB's I think), only and to be honest because of the metadata overhead using scale out file server and CSV as a general file server is not a good choice. To protect VM's running on a scale out
file server the VM's are backed up from the Hyper-V hosts but the Scale Out file servers do require a DPM agent on them. SMB 3.0 has a new feature which enables Remote VSS therefore the volumes (shares) are snapped from the Hyper-V hosts.
This document will give you the basic steps (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh757866.aspx)
hope this helps,
Regards,
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