Overview

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows is a data protection and disaster recovery solution for physical and virtual machines. Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows can be used to protect different types of computers and devices: desktops, laptops and tablets. The solution can be installed on Windows-based workstations, physical servers and virtual machines. To learn about supported OSes, see System Requirements.

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows offers a variety of features to protect your data. You can:

• Create a Veeam Recovery Media on an external hard drive, USB flash drive, CD/DVD/BD, or create an ISO file with the Veeam Recovery Media on disk.
• Create an entire system image backup, back up specific computer volumes or individual folders with files. Backups can be stored on an external hard drive, in a network shared folder, in object storage, in a Veeam backup repository or Veeam Cloud Connect repository.

In case of a disaster, you can perform the following restore operations:

• Start the OS from the Veeam Recovery Media and use Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows and standard Microsoft Windows tools to diagnose and fix problems.
• Perform bare metal restore.
• Restore necessary data from backups to its original location or a new location.

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows integrates with Veeam Backup & Replication. Backup administrators who work with Veeam Backup & Replication can perform advanced tasks with Veeam Agent backups: perform data restore tasks with Veeam Agent backups, manage Veeam Agent backup jobs or backups created with these jobs.

In This Section

• Solution Architecture
• Standalone and Managed Operation Modes
• Data Backup
• Data Restore
• Veeam Recovery Media
• BitLocker Encrypted Volumes Support
• Integration with Veeam Backup & Replication