While basic functionality was available, users still lacked the ability to schedule backup jobs, utilize replication, and were only able to perform ad-hoc full backups of their VMs. Veeam Backup Free Edition was quite limited and only included 13 features. Simply put, Community Edition is the next generation of Veeam Backup Free Edition (which has now been discontinued).

How cool is that?! What is NEW in Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition? What is Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition? Simply put, it provides users access to Veeam Backup & Replication Standard edition functionality for FREE for up to 10 VMs or a combination of VMs, physical servers or workstations. Welcome our latest free offering and gift to IT Pros - NEW Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition.

To challenge the status quo, Veeam has decided to enhance this free edition with a SERIOUS upgrade. One product, that has been downloaded more times than any other, is the free version of Veeam’s flagship product, Veeam Backup Free Edition. It all started with Veeam FastSCP back in 2006 and continues today with many of our products offered for free to tech community members, IT professionals, and home lab users. If you’re familiar with the history of Veeam, you know that we have always been committed to providing high-quality, functional technology to the tech community for free. Download your FREE copy and get started today, and while you’re at it, feel free to reference the Hitchhiker’s Guide to Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition to help you get started. This is our gift to you and there are no strings attached - you are free to utilize the Community Edition any way you want - be it for your home lab, or for your critical line of business applications in case of IT budget constraints. In fact, it is even more powerful than several paid backup solutions offered by other vendors.

It offers a tremendous set of capabilities and is significantly more powerful than its predecessor (Veeam Backup Free Edition) or any other free backup product on the market. The NEW Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition is the must-have, FREE solution that provides host-based backup and replication for VMware, Hyper-V and AHV as well as an agent-based backup solution for Windows and Linux workstations and servers – whether they are physical computers or running in the public cloud.

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