Veeam Backup & Replication Community License Question

[tasil22990]

Hello,
I would like to test the Veeam Backup & Replication Community version privately. I plan to install it on a Windows 10 Pro PC and then use it to back up the family laptops. I call the PC server. I want to make two backups of this server. One of the system and one of the data drive, each on a USB hard disk connected to the server.

My question is as follows. With the agent I can only set up one backup job without a license. If the agent is controlled by Veeam Backup & Replication Community, can I set up these two backups on the server PC with the 10 licenses?

Best regards

[david.domask]

Hi Tasil,

https://www.veeam.com/virtual-machine-b ... -free.html
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... -licensing

Check the links above, but should be fine. Community Edition allows you to protect up to 10 workloads, so should not be an issue for just a few laptops. Consider if you're evaluating for purchase using the Evaluation License in the My Account section of the site, as the evaluation license should be more than enough.

[tasil22990]

Yes thanks, thats a lot of information. I'm thinking of buying the Essential version. But I want to test the Community Version first. The question is whether I can run 2 different backups on one workstation. I hope that's not a problem.

[david.domask]

Hi Tasil,

Not a problem at all, should be fine.

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=120

Give our licensing page in the User Guide a read, but for your tests you should not hit any issues.