Veeam Backup Free Edition for VMware and Hyper-V

Free Hyper-V Backup with Veeam Backup Free Edition

Veeam Backup Free Edition offers a broad range of useful utilities for managing a virtual infrastructure running in a Microsoft Hyper-V virtual environment. Among others, there are tools that allow you to copy and move data to another host or datastore, or even to send it directly to a client, clone or archive of a virtual machine—without the needing to shut down the operation. Veeam’s FREE Microsoft Hyper-V backup software package makes it possible!

VeeamZIP for Hyper-V

Veeam ZIP for Hyper-V is a built-in VeeamZIP utility of that lets you create ad-hoc virtual machine backups no time. Wondering what ad-hoc backups are, or how they are different from regular backups that your default backup instrument might create? An ad-hoc backup is an easy way to create a compact (without any duplicated data or swap files) fully functional backup, which is portable and operates as a whole. An ad-hoc backup also gives you the opportunity to restore separate files that you may need immediately.

Free Microsoft Hyper-V backup solution

Veeam’s free Microsoft hyper-v backup solution tales you from downtime while creating a backup for your virtual machine or migrating it to another spot. It’s no big secret that an MS Hyper- run virtual environment can encapsulate a VM for exporting purposes itself, without any additional needed software, even though the whole process may involve hours of downtime. With Veeam Backup Free Edition, you can make up a compact and compressed backup with all the data, as well as configurations while the virtual machine is still running. As said, Veeam’s free hyper-v backup tool contains all of the restore utilities as the paid version. This means that you are able to restore your VM in its entirety on another host\datastore, and also that you can you retrieve any of its stored files, thanks to the special feature of Instant File-Level Recovery (IFLR).

System requirements for an MS Hyper-V-run virtual environment

Veeam Backup Free Edition can be executed within any system based on modern x86 or x64 processor (a 2-core processor is strongly recommended for achieving the best results) with a 32-bit or 64-bit Windows operation system and with no less than 4 GB of operation memory. This free Microsoft Hyper-V backup tool is compatible with various types of hosts including the free version (Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 and 2008 R2) as well as Windows Server 2012 and 2008 R2 Hyper-V and may work together with MS System Center 2012 and 2008 R2 Virtual Machine Manager.

VeeamZIP for your VMs

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Use VeeamZIP whenever you need to backup a VM (for example, before making changes to it), archive a VM (for example, before decommissioning it) or copy a VM (to your test lab, training center, to give to a client, etc.).

Backup on-the-fly: VeeamZIP™

Create an ad hoc backup of a live VM for operational, portability or archival purposes.

With VeeamZIP, ad hoc backups are:

Easy: No complicated configuration, and no need to pause or power off the VM
Compact: Compression, deduplication and swap file exclusion make backups small
Portable: Captures all the virtual disks and configuration files needed to restore the VM on any host

VeeamZIP even maintains thin-provisioned disks.

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Export VMs without downtime

Hyper-V can encapsulate and export a VM, but it takes a long time and requires you to pause or power off the VM. VeeamZIP backs up a VM while it’s running.

VeeamZIP encapsulates all virtual hard disk and configuration files into a single, compressed backup that can be recovered to another host. There is no need to worry about managing .exp files or where to place folders for successful import.

You can extract guest files from the backup.

Restore guest OS files from Windows-based VMs

Restore individual guest files

Veeam Backup™ Free Edition comes with a full range of restore options, including Instant File-Level Recovery (IFLR). Not only can you restore the full VM or individual VM files—you can also look inside the VM and restore individual guest files.

New! Look inside Exchange VM backups

Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange™ provides instant visibility into Exchange backups, making it perfect for e-discovery and quick recovery of individual Exchange items (emails, contacts, notes, etc.).

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You can copy files and folders whenever you
need or schedule file copy jobs.

Manage VM and host files

Veeam Backup Free Edition includes powerful file management capabilities:

Browse: Browse VM and host files in a familiar Windows Explorer-like graphical interface
Copy between hosts: For example, copy VMs and templates between datastores
Copy between a host and Windows/Linux: For example, deliver ISO files to hosts

New! Support for Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V

Veeam Backup Free Edition fully supports Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, including deployments using CSV v2 and SMB v3 shared storage.

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