Veeam Software, has introduced Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE, a free standalone solution that enables users to back up Windows-based laptops and desktops to an internal or external hard drive, a NAS (network attached storage) share, or a Veeam backup repository.
Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE joins the company’s portfolio of free tools used by over 500,000 IT professionals, which include: Veeam Backup Free Edition, Veeam ONE Free Edition, and Veeam Task Manager for Hyper-V.
“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,” says Ratmir Timashev, CEO of Veeam. “Veeam believes that modern data centers should be fully virtualized, but we also recognize that unlike servers, endpoints will always remain physical, and they need to be backed up as well.†Plus, if the IT organization still has a few physical servers left in their data center, Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE can help fill that gap.”
When recovering, IT professionals can perform a bare-metal restore to the same or different hardware, a volume-level restore, or a file-level restore. 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 this case, granular or full application recovery capabilities made possible by Veeam Explorers for Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, SQL, and Active Directory are also available.†
Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE will become available in early 2015. For more information, visit http://go.veeam.com/endpoint.
UPDATE:† April 14, 2015
Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE, a free tool for backing up Windows-based desktops and laptops that requires no additional software or purchases, is now available.
Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE enables users to back up endpoints to an external hard drive, network shared folder, or a Veeam Backup & Replication repository. The solution also allows the creation of bootable recovery media, which helps users to fix issues with their machine that may prevent the operating system from booting, or even reset the Local Administrator account’s password.
“Even in today’s highly virtualized environments, most endpoints remain physical and they need to be backed up,” says Doug Hazelman, vice president of product strategy at Veeam. “It’s no small problem. With more than 330 million Windows-based devices being shipped last year, that’s a lot of endpoints to protect. While availability solutions have evolved exponentially for the virtualized data center, endpoint protection has been somewhat ignored. With Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE, IT professionals now have a simple solution for backing up endpoints. Plus, if the IT organization still has a few physical servers left in their data center, Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE can help fill that gap.”
Key backup features of Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE include the ability to do image-based volume and file-level backups, with flexible configuration including multiple scheduling options. The solution also boasts a flexible and effortless recovery with several options all from the same image-based backup, including bare-metal recovery to the same or dissimilar hardware, volume, and file-level restores. Additionally, with the same backup format, users of the solution are able to perform application item recovery with Veeam Explorers for Microsoft Exchange, Active Directory, SQL Server, and SharePoint from backup of server machines created with Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE.
Users of paid editions of Veeam Backup & Replication in VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual environments will be able to use Veeam backup repositories as target locations for Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE backups, and perform basic centralized monitoring and management of endpoint backup jobs from within the Veeam Backup & Replication console. This integration extends some capabilities (e.g. enhanced application item recovery with Veeam Explorers, export of backed up physical disk content into various virtual disk formats, backup files encryption, etc.) to endpoint backups, while allowing backup administrators to control Veeam backup repository access to end users with flexible permissions system.
To learn more or to download Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE, visit www.veeam.com/endpoint-backup-free.html.
