How to Take Backup of Desktop Laptop Machines Protect Data Using Veeam Endpoint | Free Tool

How to Take Backup of Desktop Laptop Machines Protect Data Using Veeam Endpoint. Veeam Endpoint Backup is the first FREE enterprise-class Endpoint backup solution. I had a chance to test the early beta version of the product.

My first experience with Veeam Endpoint backup was awesome!! I’ve tried FULL system backup, Volume level, and File-Level backup. It was very efficient and easy to take backup and restore.

This backup solution protects your personal data on laptops and desktops; hence Veeam has made it very user-friendly. The entire process was so easy and user-friendly.

How to Take Backup of Desktop Laptop Machines Protect Data Using Veeam Endpoint

The installation of the Veeam Endpoint backup is very straightforward, and it took only 10-15 minutes. Very easy to schedule a regular backup of laptops and desktops. Now, with Veeam Endpoint backup, there is no risk of losing data 🙂

Moreover, the restoration of data is also very easy. I’ve another post that discusses How to Create Recovery Media and Restore Laptop OS plus Data with Veeam Endpoint.

To more about how to DOWNLOAD Veeam Endpoint Backup solution read my previous blog post here.

How to Take Backup of Desktop Laptop Machines Protect Data Using Veeam Endpoint
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Veeam Endpoint Backup is the product that you want to use to protect your physical computer. Veeam Endpoint Backup solution can take the backup of your computer when you’re working on a system with loads of websites, applications already open. 

Veeam Endpoint Backup creates a Microsoft VSS snapshot of the volume whose data you want to back up. Microsoft VSS helps Veeam Endpoint take a snapshot of the volume and start taking backup of your laptop/desktop.

This makes the Veeam Endpoint backup application as best enterprise-class solution for computer backup. With Veeam Endpoint backup, you can create recovery media for your operating system; I’ll cover that in my next post. How to Take Backup of Desktop Laptop Machines Protect Data Using Veeam Endpoint.

In this post, I’m going to cover the following topics !!

What is the Architecture of Veeam Endpoint Backup ?
Where can we take the backup of laptop/desktop?
What are the backup options available with Veeam Endpoint backup solution?
What are the types of backup files ?
What are the Restore options ?

How to Take Backup of Desktop Laptop Machines Protect Data Using Veeam Endpoint
Veeam Endpoint Backup – How to Take Backup of Desktop Laptop

Veeam Endpoint Backup Architecture

There are 3 important components in Veeam Endpoint Backup.

  1. Veeam Endpoint Service is a Microsoft Windows service responsible for performing all kind of backup and restore tasks on the computer.
  2. Veeam Endpoint SystemTray Service is a Veeam Backup Endpoint tray agent that communicates with the Veeam Endpoint Service.
  3. To store its configuration data, Veeam Endpoint Backup uses the Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Express Local DB Edition.
How to Take Backup of Desktop Laptop Machines Protect Data Using Veeam Endpoint
Services – How to Take Backup of Desktop Laptop
How to Take Backup of Desktop Laptop Machines Protect Data Using Veeam Endpoint
Snap – How to Take Backup of Desktop Laptop

Where can we take the backup of laptop/desktop?

Removable storage devices (USB more than 32 GB or External HDD)
Local computer drive
Network shared folder
Backup repository connected to the Veeam backup server

I’ve taken a full backup of my laptop Dell Latitude with a 2 TB external HDD in the following example. How to Take Backup of Desktop Laptop Machines Protect Data Using Veeam Endpoint.

How to Take Backup of Desktop Laptop Machines Protect Data Using Veeam Endpoint
Local Drive – How to Take Backup of Desktop Laptop

I had 400 GB of used space (data) in my laptop, and the full Veeam Endpoint backup got completed within 2.3 hours. Supercool, isn’t it? Earlier, I used to have trouble getting my documents, pictures, and videos copied over to an external HDD. Now, with the Veeam Endpoint solution, it’s pretty easy.

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Endpoint Backup – How to Take Backup of Desktop Laptop

What are the backup options available with Veeam Endpoint backup solution?

  1. Entire Computer – The highlight in this entire computer backup is “Backup of entire computer while excluding unnecessary files like recycle bin, temporary and page files”.
  2. Volume-level backup – Volume level backup allows only the selected volumes like system volume and data volumes.
  3. File-level backup – File level backup helps to backup individual folders and files by mask. This backup mode creates an image based backup with only selected files included in the image.
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Volume Level Backup – How to Take Backup of Desktop Laptop

I’ve already completed all the 3 types of backups. Entire Computer, Volume Based, and File-Based Backup !! See the following screenshot.

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Snap – How to Take Backup of Desktop Laptop

What are the types of backup files ?

VBK – full backup file: Veeam Backup & Replication full backup file.
VIB – incremental backup file: Veeam Backup & Replication incremental backup file.
VBM – backup metadata file: Veeam Backup & Replication backup chain metadata file.

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Backup Path – How to Take Backup of Desktop Laptop

What are the Restore options ?

Volume-Level Restore: If data on a computer volume gets corrupted, you can restore this volume from the backup.
File-level restoreIf you have lost or erroneously modified files and folders on your computer.

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Restore Options – How to Take Backup of Desktop Laptop

Volume Level Restore from Local storage. Veeam Endpoint Recovery will search all local computer storage for endpoint backup files and display the last available restore point below.

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File Level Restore: Veeam Backup Browser to restore the file ConfigMgrTools.msi. There are two options for file-level restoration. 1) Overwrite and  2) Keep. When you select, Overwrite it will overwrite the file from the original location. When you select to keep, the file gets restored on “C:\VeeamFLR\SCCZ\Volume2”.

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More details about file-level backup !!

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Anoop is Microsoft MVP! He is a Solution Architect in enterprise client management with more than 20 years of experience (calculation done in 2021) in IT. He is a blogger, Speaker, and Local User Group HTMD Community leader. His main focus is on Device Management technologies like SCCM 2012, Current Branch, and Intune. E writes about ConfigMgr, Windows 11, Windows 10, Azure AD, Microsoft Intune, Windows 365, AVD, etc…

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