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Imaging, Backup, and Recovery

How to: Get started with Veeam Backup Free Edition

Notes:

  • ZeamZIP delivers technology that lets you create backups of running VMs. With VeeamZIP, you have to specify only two things – the VM you want to backup and where your resulting backup file will go.

  • VeeamZIP is helpful when:

  1. You need to update a VM. Users frequently take a VeeamZIP backup before making any changes to a VM, such as before applying updates or patches.
  2. You need to archive a VM. It’s simple to create a deduplicated and compressed copy of a VM before removing it from your virtual infrastructure.
  3. You need to copy a VM to a remote host or test lab. VeeamZIP encapsulates VM configuration settings so you can easily transfer and run a VM in a different location.
  • VeeamZIP is also very efficient. The processing engine is fast, and optimizations include parallel processing of virtual disks, filtering out empty blocks, and more.

Veeam Backup Free Edition supports several data recovery scenarios, beginning with recovery of a VM file and going all the way to restoring an entire VM. The list includes:

  • Restoring VM files (.vmdk, .vmx and others for VMware; .vhd, .vhdx, .xml and others for Hyper-V). Veeam Backup Free restores VM files directly from deduplicated, compressed backups without having to extract the VM from the backup.

  • Restoring an entire VM. You can restore an entire VM to the same location or to a new location.

  • Restoring VM disks (VMware). If a VM disk becomes corrupted by an OS failure or some other cause, you can simply restore the affected VM disk and connect it to the original or recovered VM.

-Restoring guest OS files. You can restore guest OS files for Windows FAT and NTFS file systems, and also ReFS with OS-level deduplication when running Windows Server 2012. Moreover, a special wizard and a virtual helper appliance provide support for 17 additional file systems. In all cases, Veeam Backup Free Edition is able to restore the guest files without having to extract the entire virtual disk image from the backup.