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Gald and proud to share the good news - Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE 1.5 is now available for download!
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Dima.
Hi folks,
Answering to the question why an end-user needs a backup with personal story and I think it makes total sense.
A real end user story: My father in law is far away from IT and the problem is he thinks he is not. He does some really crazy things on his own and then calls me…
When it is a software level (thanks to the Endpoint) it takes me a cup of coffee to roll back to the latest backup (I’ve already done it twice). I wish I could make a backup on a hardware level (since he likes to “clean” the motherboard from time to time…
The funny fact that he does not even now its running – its “some where in the tray” and backup is performed to the WD 3TB NAS box I gave him to store the photos.
I like to think that every IT guy is a one man shop for his family or close friends. What is easier: to restore from the backup or to deploy a new windows installation at your sister’s laptop looking for an activation keys stored somewhere and then installing some software she likes but can’t really say how its called (real end user story #2 btw)
P.S. This year I got all my family with WD NAS boxes and VEB installed 
Hey folks,
Wanted to share some good news with you: Veeam Availability Suite v9 is now generally available (GA) and ready for download!
Happy testing and upgrading - enjoy new features
Hey folks,
I want to start a discussion and got two questions:
Are you guys using the tape media as backup storage?
Are you looking into upcoming LTO7 release?
Thanks!
@Dashrender Quoting the licensing faq:
You can swap your licensed sockets from one hypervisor to another at any time by contacting your Veeam sales representative. To facilitate the conversion, you can get a free temporary license file with the total number of licensed sockets for both hypervisors. This will allow coexistence of environments on the same backup server. This license file is valid for three months and can be extended upon request (for large socket-count environments only). Technical support for both hypervisors is included at no charge for the temporary license duration. Only customers who are current on support are eligible for swaps.
Hi folks,
Its recommended to keep the recovery media per OS (32-bit and 64-bit) just because of the drivers, but:
@IT-ADMIN I’d say two images x32 and x64 without any drivers included - minimum. You have to manually upload the drivers (and install them) during bare metal recovery then. However, thats not a big issue if you are using the USB stick - you can just drag and drop the storage and network drivers to any folder inside the recovery media.
BTW we had some discussions on the forums check for creative workarounds: http://forums.veeam.com/veeam-endpoint-backup-f33/multiple-computer-recovery-media-on-single-usb-t29636.html?hilit=unified
@IT-ADMIN Good discussion and good questions anyway 
@JaredBusch No, the configuration distribution is not supported. The only supported scripting option is to start the backup process: it works both for incremental rotated backup and/or standalone full backup.
…and its VEB – Veeam Endpoint Backup where you got this "Protection" word from 
@JaredBusch Sorry, I've missed the point. You can install VEB in unattended mode thru any distribution solution you have on board. Check this article, however, the problem of configuration remains as it has to be performed manually after the installation
My new HP laptop shuts down the WiFi as soon as Bluetooth is enabled. It was resolved by installing the vendor’s drivers (at least before the last update). The point is sometimes you never know what will hit you unless it hits you
Also it reminds me the Veeam B&R tape component that can’t work properly with default Unknown Medium Changer driver for tape libraries. That’s a good example to keep in mind if you have some old hardware in your premises (though, we get this fixed in upcoming v9 major version)
I find annoying anything that was not installed by me (probably except free MS Office on windows machines).
Have a relevant question: how often you kill the vendor’s recovery partitions? I literary hate those because vendors used to create recovery partitions at the end of the existing disk layout making the native shrink/expand impossible. That’s a pain to repartition the 1 TB C volume you know.
@Carnival-Boy For the record, my wife’s laptop (and that’s my "main end user") has some game preinstalled and uninstalling it took me literary an hour – just because of the uninstallation progress. It just happens.
Not surprised you can get digital signatures for free nowdays. Probably the best protection is to trust only to MS documented digial ID services – then you are good to go.
@BRRABill Check Veeam Endpoint Backup, please. It’s a free backup tool that has scheduled incremental application aware backups (thru MS VSS) and bare metal recovery functionality (similar/dissimilar hardware).
I am not aware of any other solution out there that can do all of the described at no cost. The only fee I can imagine is to share the feedback regarding this tool with me or any other veeam folks, but its optional XD
My backup software is Appassure
are you kidding me 
Though apples to apples, if I get licensing taken care of, free is surely nice.
Well, there is a license inside the backup indeed. We added some “additional care”, so once you perform a bare metal restore VEB that resides in the machine will kick of the windows activation in the background with the key from the backup.
In case its original hardware OEM should be pushed like a charm. To tell the truth I’ve even tested it with non-original machines – it was successfully activated from time to time, but, I guess that depends on the OEM, hardware vendor and MS licensing. (As a regular end user – I’ve tested ASUS to HP bare metal recovery with OEM windows 8.1 on board)