Vembu Software free - Anyone using it?

[Shadow_Walker]

Saw this in another thread but is anyone using Vembu free backup https://www.vembu.com/vembu-vmbackup/. Currently using Veeam free edition but like the fact i can schedule backups using this but is anyone else using it?

[aidenbran2000]

I was also looking at this from the thread i started.

[theeggmaster]

I'm obviously using it, as I was the one to mention it in the thread!

[Shadow_Walker]

Yes your post was the one that made me make the thread. Little concerning that no one else really uses it though.

[LeMarchand]

I'm obviously using it, as I was the one to mention it in the thread!

 

Don't keep us in suspense! Good/bad/indifferent?

 

Have just had a quote for VEEAM that seemed quite high and was wondering whether to give this a go. Would probably be running full replications twice a week with maybe just the SIMS and File servers on the remaining weekdays. Is that doable?

[newpersn]

Is this better than using veeam free?

[aidenbran2000]

I am also interested in it but also concerned that the level of response on edugeek is usually higher for a known product!

[theeggmaster]

So I've been trialling Vembu as an alternative to my working Veeam Free Edition backup, to see how it compares. Vembu does allow you to schedule backups, but once you drop from the trial to the free edition, a lot of the other features drop away (as you would expect). In the free edition, you take one backup when you set the backup job up, and then it does incremental backups from that point on. It saves the last three incrementals, and you can't choose to have additional full backups or more retention options. You can choose your own schedule from Daily, Weekly or just run once. When you restore, you can do a Quick VM Recovery, Live Recovery to Hyper-V server, File Level Recovery if you just want files from that server, or download the virtual hard drive in various standard formats.

 

So, it works, it does a job, and that's exactly what you would expect from a free version of a commercial product!

[aidenbran2000]

Think I will keep badgering SLT for Veeam not 100% convinced

[altecsole]

We use the free edition of Veeam to do some backups and use a Powershell script run from a scheduled task to do the backups.

[AliG]

We use Microsoft DPM but just trialing Veeam but I'm a not that excited by it. I guess this comes from using DPM for 10 years and not knowing the Veeam product that we'll at the moment. RTFM I think!

[newpersn]

We use the free edition of Veeam to do some backups and use a Powershell script run from a scheduled task to do the backups.

 

Willing to share?

[andy_b]

Willing to share?

 

We use this to script our Veeam Free backups: https://www.veeam.com/blog/veeam-backup-free-edition-now-with-powershell.html

 

Found that the retention settings didn't really suit us, so just set to keep all and scripted deletion of old files purely using powershell.

[altecsole]

We use this to script our Veeam Free backups: https://www.veeam.com/blog/veeam-backup-free-edition-now-with-powershell.html

 

Found that the retention settings didn't really suit us, so just set to keep all and scripted deletion of old files purely using powershell.

 

Yes, that's the script we use. We run it a couple of times a week with a 2 week retention.