I’d like to setup Veeam Windows Backup and Recovery for 1 physical PC.
What software and license are required to set this up?
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License and Software Needed for Windows Backup and Recovery
Best answer by AndrePulia
Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows offers image-level, volume-level, and file-level backups to external drives, NAS. It provides reliable recovery through bootable recovery media, including bare-metal restores, and supports file-level restores directly from volume backups. Key features include flexible restore options, source-side encryption, and built-in compression for efficient storage.
Backup Features
- Image-level Backups: Creates a complete, bootable image of your system.
- Volume-level Backups: Backs up entire volumes on your disk.
- File-level Backups: Allows for the backup of individual files and folders.
- Backup Destinations: Can back up to external hard drives, NAS devices, and
- Backup Types: Supports full, incremental, and forward-incremental backups, with the option to trigger backups when a removable storage device is connected.
- Source-side Encryption: Protects your data by encrypting it before it leaves your computer.
- Compression: Reduces the size of your backup files, saving storage space and network bandwidth.
Recovery Features
- Bootable Recovery Media: You can create a recovery image on various media, including USB drives, SD cards, and CD/DVDs, to perform bare-metal restores.
- Flexible Recovery Options: Offers bare-metal restores, file-level restores from volume backups, and can even perform direct restores to cloud services like Microsoft Azure and AWS.
- Quick Recovery: Designed to restore data in minutes, minimizing downtime.
Supported Workloads
- Windows Workstations: Designed to protect standalone PCs and endpoints.
- Windows Servers: Can also be used for backing up Windows servers.
+10If it’s a physical PC, you should be fine with the Veeam agent for workstation. Even the free version could do the job if you’re OK with writing backup to eg. a local USB drive or network share.
+21Further to Kristof above you can see the requirements for Windows Agent here -System Requirements - Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows Guide
If you are looking to set up Veeam Backup & Replication that is a different story.
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Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows offers image-level, volume-level, and file-level backups to external drives, NAS. It provides reliable recovery through bootable recovery media, including bare-metal restores, and supports file-level restores directly from volume backups. Key features include flexible restore options, source-side encryption, and built-in compression for efficient storage.
Backup Features
- Image-level Backups: Creates a complete, bootable image of your system.
- Volume-level Backups: Backs up entire volumes on your disk.
- File-level Backups: Allows for the backup of individual files and folders.
- Backup Destinations: Can back up to external hard drives, NAS devices, and
- Backup Types: Supports full, incremental, and forward-incremental backups, with the option to trigger backups when a removable storage device is connected.
- Source-side Encryption: Protects your data by encrypting it before it leaves your computer.
- Compression: Reduces the size of your backup files, saving storage space and network bandwidth.
Recovery Features
- Bootable Recovery Media: You can create a recovery image on various media, including USB drives, SD cards, and CD/DVDs, to perform bare-metal restores.
- Flexible Recovery Options: Offers bare-metal restores, file-level restores from volume backups, and can even perform direct restores to cloud services like Microsoft Azure and AWS.
- Quick Recovery: Designed to restore data in minutes, minimizing downtime.
Supported Workloads
- Windows Workstations: Designed to protect standalone PCs and endpoints.
- Windows Servers: Can also be used for backing up Windows servers.
+21Hi
Just to be a tad more concise and specific to your questions…
Veeam Agent for Windows should be good enough to back up just 1 physical Windows computer. You can download the free version here:
https://www.veeam.com/products/downloads.html?ad=menu-support (click the “Free/Community” tab near the top, then scroll down till you see the download button/link for Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows Free)
You don’t need to install a license since it’s free. If you need to create more than 1 backup job (for ex., you have more than 1 physical computer in the future to back up), then you would need to begin thinking about a license.
You can use Veeam Backup & Replication as well...but would be a bit more complex than what you really need.
Hope that helps.
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I followed the instructions in coolsport00’s post above to install Veeam Agent for Windows Free on a Windows 11 PC. The backup works, but when I used the Agent to schedule the backup to run at 2AM, nothing happened, probably because there were no entries in Task Scheduler. Does VAWF actually support scheduling backup jobs?
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