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Veeam Backup & ReplicationBackupChain
Freemium

A free Community Edition is available; the full product is sold as part of the paid Veeam…

 Paid

Paid software with a perpetual license and no subscription required.

Windows Windows
  • Covers virtual machines, physical machines, NAS shares and cloud workloads
  • Free Community Edition for small setups and home labs
  • Hyper-V and live virtual machine backup
  • Deduplication and delta compression
  • Backup server runs on Windows only
  • Aimed at business infrastructure, so setup is more involved than desktop backup tools
  • Windows only
  • Aimed at IT professionals rather than home users
Downloadable app Downloadable app
Closed source Closed source
License: Proprietary License not stated
Not stated if an account is needed Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline Works offline

Checked September 23, 2026

Checked September 24, 2026

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