Comments on: Top 10 Free backup solutions for VMWare and Hyper-V

By: Mike Miracle

Mike Miracle — Mon, 02 May 2022 20:33:07 +0000

Catalogic Software provides free Hyper-V and VMware backup for up to 25 VMs and 5TB, with full enterprise features:
https://www.catalogicsoftware.com/products/dpx/free-5-tbs-license-offer/

Don’t settle for a crippled free version. With Catalogic DPX, all enterprise backup features are available, including backup and archive to disk, tape, and cloud object storage

By: Kelvin

Kelvin — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 19:50:49 +0000

In reply to CPaul. They no longer offer this, it was withdrawn last year.

By: Luca

Luca — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 18:32:37 +0000

How about uranium backup pro?

By: Gian

Gian — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:44:31 +0000

VSquare Backup (http://www.vsquarebackup.com) has been a long time free backup solution for small businesses. It is also one of the few still fully supporting free VMware hosts backup.

By: CPaul

CPaul — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 17:39:18 +0000

VMcom Backup (https://vmcom.com) is now free for non-commercial use. Great for multitenant environments!

By: Harold Snippert

Harold Snippert — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 14:32:25 +0000

Been looking for a good, light, vsphere backup sollution for ages.
Tried all of the mentioned backup solutions. The bigger ones (veeam altaro nakivo trilead) hardly can be used in production environments. At least not for free. They are also quite heavy to use and manage.

Ghetto is a bit too bare level for me.

Finally came up with XSI backup pro.
It is free, allthough paying a small amount for the paid version won’t set you back much, around € 100.
It is exellent. It backups all my vm’s every day, sends reports and it always works. No licensing issues, no heavy load on servers.
https://33hops.com/xsibackup-vmware-esxi-backup.html

Do try it, you’ll love it. It helped me a lot.

By: Iperius

Iperius — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 10:09:42 +0000

Iperius Backup is a good software too. No free version for virtual machines, but the price is reasonable, also considering that a single license can be used to back up unlimited virtual machines. https://www.iperiusbackup.com/software-backup-esxi-hyper-v.aspx

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 16 Apr 2017 17:05:21 +0000

Consider solutions from open source software like bacula.org or https://www.baculasystems.com/products/bacula-enterprise-plugins/hyper-v-plugin-fast-easy-backup-and-data-restore. It’s free and offers complete Hyper V backup solution.

By: agonzalez

agonzalez — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 00:34:59 +0000

Unitrends Free is great and complete backup solution that includes full/incemental, deduplication, backup copies/replication, html5 unified console, etc up to 1TB … other vendors usually limit the free edition too much like not allowing incremental or scheduling.