Veeam is a backup software company that offers two community editions of backup software that you can use for free.
Veeam Agent for Windows
The Veeam Agent for Windows is a pretty good solution for backing up a single endpoint. This can be either a Windows Desktop computer or a Windows Server computer.
You will need to download the Veeam Agent for Windows from the Veeam website, you will also need to make an account to get the download but all of that is pretty straight forward.
Once downloaded you just need to configure your backup job. Some things to note is that you can setup backup notifications via email & you can also encrypt your backups so if they end up in someone elses hands they will not be able to get into your data.
Follow this video to find out how to install & configure the Veeam backup.
Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition
Backup & Replication is what you can use to backup multiple workloads. The community edition allows you to use it for free but it does have some limitations:
- Up to 10 Workloads
- No Native tape support
- No AWS native recovery
- Partial NAS Backup
- And other limitations listed here
You can download Veeam Backup & Replication from the Veeam Website for free, same as before you will need to create an account to get the download. But once downloaded you can install it and start backing up.
All in all I find Veeam to be a pretty solid product, it seems to work pretty consistently and the ability to encrypt the backups is a real advantage over Windows Server Backup.
