Veeam Endpoint Backup for physical machines announced!

Veeam Endpoint Backup was announced today by Veeam during their conference VeeamON.

A simple and free standalone tool that enables users to back up Windows  laptops/desktops to a hard drive, a NAS share or a Veeam backup repository.

This is huge! Now while it is not targeted at Physical Servers, personally I don’t think there will be any limitation that prevents that.

My favorite points on Veeam Endpoint Backup so far are:

#1 ITS FREE! Who has not previously had Veeam FastSCP in their toolkit? I will use Veeam Endpoint Backup everywhere now, my wifes laptop, my parents desktop etc.

#2 I can send data to a Veeam Backup & Replication Backup Repository!

#3 Its not just file restore – I can even perform bare-metal restores!

Make sure you go sign up for the Veeam Endpoint Backup public beta now: http://go.veeam.com/endpoint

The beta should be available in November 2014 and GA version early 2015.

In case you are hunting for additional information here are a few links:

Press release on Veeam Endpoint Backup

Veeam official blog post on Veeam Endpoint Backup

Please let me know in the comments what do you think?