One option I really think stands out is ‘At Backup Storage Attach’. Now I really like the options here and have tested all of them. This stops it being a disjointed product and integrates nicely into our already existing backup infrastructures. Well, with the General Release by choosing the option of repository for your backup destination you can. When I first started looking at the product I made a wish list, one point being the ability to monitor and alert on EndPoints through Enterprise Manager. This is the icing on the cake for businesses using Veeam Backup and Replication. The Veeam Backup and Replication Repository is not available in the beta but will be in the general release. Veeam Backup and Replication Repository.You can either double-click the icon and see the console page as shown in Fig 2 and click the link ‘Configure Backup’ or you can right-click on it and choose from the pop-up menu. To access the application you will see a new system tray icon as shown in Fig1 I saw from the console a warning that I did not create recovery media but it offered no link to launch the ‘Create Recovery Media’.Īs with every product you have the prerequisites of minimum RAM, CPU etc… see belowĪt installation, you have the option to be guided through your backup configuration but if you choose to configure later you can set it up manually. To create the media later you need to run the ‘Create Recovery Media’ application – one thing I would like to see is a link from the main console to this. I chose not to do this whilst installing the product for the lab and instead carried on without it. The product likes you to create bootable recovery media from the outset. I won’t go through the whole installation process as it is a typical next, next, next affair and with a couple of questions thrown in. So to be able to back up the few physical servers I have and keep myself aligned to a single backup and recovery vendor is ideal. I certainly keep my backup servers physical with direct SAN access so as not to add additional I/O to some of my infrastructures. But realistically there are a number of businesses that have physical servers, even when they have virtualised their servers and business applications.Īn example of such is vCentre server (again V or P is an argument for another day), one domain controller, and the backup servers. I know the argument is that in today’s cloud infrastructures and data centres there is no room for physical servers. One element I always felt they missed was the protection of physical endpoints. I have had a long relationship with Veeam Backup and Replication, I have used it since its initial release, mainly in managed cloud environments and have seen the product grow into what it is today. It’s quite a long blog, so bear with it as it does cover all the aspects of the product.
#Free veeam backup full#
“It’s not a full blown move into the physical data protection space by Veeam, but it does provide a good option for those Veeam customers who have virtualised all but a few servers within their data centre.So with the release of Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE imminent (yes the word ‘FREE’ is part of the product name), I thought I would write a blog about my experience of using the beta version of the product. “Most vendors would charge quite a bit for a tool with this level of functionality, so the fact that it is free could significantly disrupt this segment of the data protection market,” said Dave Simpson, senior analyst at 451 Research. Granular or full application recovery capabilities for Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, SQL and Active Directory are also available. The tool will be freely available to all and will not require the use of any additional Veeam products, but will integrate with Veeam Backup & Replication if one is present in the environment. In the recovery process, IT professionals can perform a bare-metal restore to the same or different hardware, a volume-level restore, or a file-level restore. Plus, if the IT organisation still has a few physical servers left in their data centre, Veeam Endpoint Backup Free can help fill that gap.”
“Veeam believes that modern data centers should be fully virtualised, but we also recognise that unlike servers, endpoints will always remain physical, and they need to be backed up as well. “With Veeam Endpoint Backup Free, IT professionals now have a simple solution for backing up endpoints, which has long been a major data protection headache,” said Ratmir Timashev, CEO of Veeam. The solution joins the company’s wide portfolio free tools that are used by over 500,000 IT professionals.
#Free veeam backup software#
Veeam Software has launched Veeam Endpoint Backup Free, a standalone solution that enables users to back up Windows-based laptops and desktops to an internal or external hard drive, a network attached storage (NAS) share, or a Veeam backup repository.