Industry-leading backup and recovery solution for all your workloads - virtual, physical, and cloud. Get started with Veeam Community Edition - powerful, free, and unlimited for small environments.
Download Free EditionRecover virtual machines, files, and application items in minutes with industry-leading recovery time objectives (RTOs).
Protect virtual, physical, and cloud workloads with a single solution - from VMs to servers, workstations, and cloud instances.
Create and maintain exact copies of your production VMs with near-continuous data protection and streamlined disaster recovery.
Reduce backup storage requirements by up to 95% with built-in compression and deduplication technology.
Automatically test and verify every backup and replica for recoverability, ensuring your backups will work when needed.
Keep your backups secure with immutable storage integration and air-gapped protection against modern cyber threats.
When a critical production server experienced a hardware failure, this manufacturing company needed to restore operations quickly to avoid costly downtime. With their previous backup solution, recovery would have taken hours - but with Veeam Backup & Replication, they were back online in minutes.
After implementing Veeam, the company has experienced zero data loss incidents and maintains 99.9% availability of critical systems, even during major infrastructure upgrades.
Choose the right version for your environment - all featuring the same powerful backup, replication, and recovery capabilities.
Follow these simple steps to get Veeam Backup & Replication up and running in your environment.
Download the Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition installer from the download section above. You'll receive a single .ISO file containing all components.
Mount the ISO file and run the setup.exe file. The installation wizard will guide you through component selection and initial configuration.
The installer will automatically check for and install required components like Microsoft SQL Server Express (if no database is available) and other dependencies.
After installation, launch the Veeam Backup & Replication console and add your virtualization servers (VMware vCenter, ESXi hosts, or Hyper-V servers) to the backup infrastructure.
Use the intuitive job wizard to create your first backup job. Select VMs to protect, configure schedule and retention settings, and start protecting your data immediately.
Veeam Backup & Replication is an industry-leading backup, recovery, and data management solution designed to help organizations of all sizes ensure business continuity and reduce downtime. With over a decade of continuous innovation, Veeam has become the go-to solution for modern data protection.
Today's IT environments are increasingly complex, with workloads distributed across virtual servers, physical machines, and cloud platforms. Veeam Backup & Replication provides a single, unified solution to protect all these workloads with the same reliability and simplicity. Whether you're running VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, AWS, Azure, or physical servers, Veeam has you covered.
Veeam's approach to data protection follows the industry-recommended 3-2-1-1-0 backup rule: maintain at least 3 copies of your data, store 2 copies on different storage media, keep 1 copy offsite, ensure 1 copy is immutable or air-gapped, and verify that there are 0 recovery errors through automated testing. The Community Edition enables organizations of all sizes to implement this best practice without significant investment.
Unlike other vendors who limit functionality in their free editions, Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition includes the full feature set of the Enterprise edition. You get instant VM recovery, SureBackup verification, advanced replication, Veeam Explorer for granular recovery from Microsoft applications, comprehensive monitoring, and much more - all at no cost for environments with up to 10 workloads.
With the increasing threat of ransomware attacks, Veeam provides built-in protection mechanisms to secure your backups and ensure rapid recovery. The Community Edition supports immutable backups through integration with compatible storage systems, providing a critical last line of defense against ransomware and other cyber threats. When combined with Veeam's instant recovery capabilities, organizations can rapidly restore operations with minimal data loss even after a major security incident.