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Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows

Score8.9 out of 10

32 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows?

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 32 ratings of Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Incremental backup identification

    Incremental backup identification is the ability to identify incremental changes since last backup

    Category average: 9.1

  • Universal recovery

    Universal recovery is the ability to restore backups to any machine regardless of the platform

    Category average: 9

  • Backup to the cloud

    Ability to store and back up data to the cloud

    Category average: 8.5

Areas for Improvement

  • Retention options

    Provision of best-practice and customizable retention policies with reporting

    Category average: 9.1

  • Platform support

    Product supports multiple operating systems and applications

    Category average: 8.7

  • Snapshots

    Ability to take regular snapshots to ensure that Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is met

    Category average: 8.7

Reviews

What users are saying about Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows.
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Veeam Backup for Microsoft Windows a very good tool.

Incentivized
Verified User
Technician (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows helps us take backups for client computers. It integrates with the Veeam console and deploys automatically on the clients. It helps you easily create backups of your client computers by deploying this agent on them. Additionally, it requires one Veeam license for every three machines.

Pros

  • Backups
  • Ease of use.
  • Reliability

Cons

  • Stop the backup job from the console instead of having to stop from the client.
  • Don't consume too many resources while taking a backup.

Return on Investment

  • Good pricing.
  • Ability to restore quickly to keep working.
  • Security

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Clonezilla

Other Software Used

MobaXTerm, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365, Notepad++

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows a reliable and effective backup solution

Incentivized
Verified User
Employee in Information Technology (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are a managed service provider who supplies backup solutions for our clients. All of our client's require daily backups to maintain data security. Having a reliable backup solution is imperative. We install Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows for our clients who need backup replication and for some of our smaller clients with older systems as it is very reliable and cheaper than most solutions.

Pros

  • Backup whole systems
  • Replication from one machine to another
  • Data restores

Cons

  • An easier interface to navigate, sometimes it can take a while to find what your looking for in settings
  • It could be made easier to update from older versions to the current version, possibly in the client would help

Return on Investment

  • Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows is easy to bill for, we generally add a small markup to our clients from the bill we receive from Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows
  • Customers feel secure in the event of a disaster that their data is safe. For most clients this is apparent when they accidentally delete a file or folder and we can immediately do a file level restore

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Redstor and Arctera Backup Exec

Other Software Used

ConnectWise Automate, Bitwarden, Hudu, Brave, Redstor

Veeam Agent - A robust backup restore solution.

Incentivized
Nick VardisView profile
IT Director in Information Technology at KSMHR (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows in production servers to have an additional secondary backup solution. They are set up to retain historic copies and are also configured to alert the associated admins through email. Also, make full copies after one or two weeks of operation. Till now, they have never failed to launch.

Pros

  • I can perform a bare metal restore.
  • Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows integrates with Veeam Backup & Replication.
  • Start the OS from the Veeam Recovery Media.

Cons

  • More detailed UI.
  • UI Agent should be larger.
  • Multitasking of backup jobs.

Return on Investment

  • Secondary platform to do an extra incremental backup.
  • Reduced the cost of an extra backup solution.
  • Used a spare NAS to store backups.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

NAKIVO Backup & Replication

Other Software Used

VMware ESXi

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows

Incentivized
Francisco NetoView profile
IT in Information Technology at Viriato & Viriato, SA (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows is use for single computer backups to and external storage, for help remediate something. It's easy of use and reliable. Works with windows and linux machines. Also great for small companies to manage backup fleet of 5 to 10 machines.

Pros

  • backup
  • increment backups
  • easy of restoring

Cons

  • better ui layout
  • access to download link sould be more easy

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Synology Active Backup Suite

Other Software Used

Synology Active Backup Suite

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows Supreme

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows to connect our server infrastructure to our main organization backup solution. Each server has an agent deployed to it which enables a multitude of backup options depending on which type of backup we require. The agents handle all communication back to the Veeam backup and recovery console.

Pros

  • Server communication
  • Overview of server/system state
  • backup job telemetry

Cons

  • automated upgrades
  • update schedules
  • quicker Veeam job cancelations

Return on Investment

  • Increased confidence in security
  • Lower TCO organization wide
  • more efficient backup space management

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Veritas Backup Exec

Other Software Used

Microsoft Azure, SysAid, Fortinet Security Fabric