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I wanted to change from Veeam Free Windows Agent to Community Edition (CE), because I wanted to create different jobs for workloads.

Isn’t it possible to backup my local computer with Veeam CE like with Free Windows Agent?

I have created a job to backup my laptop on which CE is installed. Job was added for Workstations, individual computer selected and I used the hostname instead of IP

But it throws the error “agent can not be installed network path not found”.

Got the same error after manual install of VeeamGuestAgentx64.msi

I also did the following checks:

  • Checked Admin$ → is working
  • Checked C$ → is working
  • Checked Host File → no entries
  • File and Printer Sharing → enabled
  • VBR Catalog Share → is working
  • NetBIOS temporarily enabled
  • Credentials created by browsing local users and selected XYZ. This user is a member of the local Administrators group

I changed the Veeam services credentials from localsystem to user XYZ to see if this works. NO.
I tried with IP instead of the hostname and get the same above mentioned error.

 

Any ideas?

Best regards

Hi ​@MickeyRourke, sorry but I don't understand if you have installed VBR CE on the same laptop you want to backup. In this case and according to Veeam BP you cannot backup Veeam server itself. Consider CE installation as a VBR server.

Hi Andanet,

yes, in the past I saved my laptop with the Free Edition and now wanted to use the CE instead because of beeing able to create a weekly backup of my laptop and to backup an external Drive only on a monthly basis. 

I have uninstalled the free edition and installed CE instead. I added a job for workstations and added the entire laptop as the computer which i want to save, but got the network path error.

So, is it right that I can not use CE to achive this? CE installation and backup target have to be different?

Best regards 

Hi ​@MickeyRourke,

To get things straight: Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition is the “big installation” of Veeam which doesn’t bring the mechanics to backup physical servers (such as your laptop). It’s primarily for virtual workloads and managing agents which are for backing up physical workloads (only via agents).

 

As Antonio said, you cannot have the Veeam Agent alongside VBR (Veeam Backup & Replication - doesn’t matter if it’s a Community Edition or a paid license).

 

From the Agent itself (no VBR, just the fully installed agent) you are able to schedule jobs from the Control Panel. Without a paid license (Veeam Agent Free Edition) you can schedule your backup job, but you have some limitations. Please find this document: veeam_agents_feature_comparison_ds.pdf

 

In short: No need for VBR, the agent can handle this itself.

 

Hope that helps!

Lukas

Thank you all!

I have uninstalled CE and Postgre now. I will install Windows Agent again and search for a single agent license for workstation over a Veeam Reseller. Does anyone use such a license to backup own laptop and what will be the costs for a 1 or 2 year subscription?

Thanks in advance.

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