Installing Veeam on "one man band server"

[davide.depaoli]

Hello,
very very very small customer, who has a "one man band" server (domain ctrl, application server), even if it is certainly not a best practice, is it technically possible to install veeam server (Essentials), windows agent and make a backup of itself?
thank you
best regards
Davide

[Dima P.]

Hello Davide,

Sounds like you can just use Veeam Agent to protect such server - no need for a full Veeam B&R deployment. Thank you!

[davide.depaoli]

Hi Dima,
you are right, but I culpably forgot to mention that the agent would also be installed on some PCs and that they would like a copy in the cloud, and I was thinking of using Veeam Connect for this.
thank you

[robnicholsonmalt]

I run Veeam community edition at home, one man band here. Runs on my relatively old Windows Server 2022 with quad core i7-3770 CPU (8 threads) and 32GB RAM. This server runs Hyper-V and I've got a handful of Windows and Linux VMs running there (domain controller). Backing up to an external USB-3 disk enclosure with 4 x 4TB HDD in RAID-0 formatted as ReFS to take advantage of fast clone. It works very well as a belt-n-braces backup. I backup/store my most critical files in the cloud so I'm overly worried about loosing the entire backup if one of those RAID-0 drives fails. I'll just do another full-backup. It's certainly not a suitable set-up for production use but good enough for me. I do IT support and development and like the instant restore of the Hyper-V VMs when I mess around too much