Re: Question Regards Free Standard Edition

The Vembu Backup for VMware and Hyper-V has 3 editions -Free, Standard, and Enterprise. In the Free Edition, you can backup up to 10 VMware/ Hyper-V VMs with Standard Edition features within a single backup job by selecting the full-functionality option.

To opt for the free edition; first, you have to register your BDR Backup Server with your Vembu Portal account; then navigate to Management Tab in the BDR Backup Server web-console > BDR Edition page > and select the Free Edition option.

You can check the limitations of features for each edition from the following link: https://www.vembu.com/vembu-bdr-suite-free-vs-paid-edition/"

Note: if you are using the free edition you can't configure backup jobs from the Vembu Client for VMware & Hype-V Backup.

Regarding the error that you get; kindly, post the screen-shot of the error message in the same community thread, for our better understanding.

Answer for the second question:

From your statement it seems that you are mentioning about the disk rotation feature; Right now, we don't support the Disk Rotation feature, and this feature will be generally available in our upcoming release of the Vembu BDR Suite v5.0 in the next 3 to 4 months. So, if you add a new volume with the same drive letter, it won't break the incremental chain.

Re: Question Regards Free Standard Edition

The backup job for VMware/ Hyper-V VMs can be configured from either the BDR Backup Server or from the client i.e. Vembu Client for VMware and Hyper-V Backup. But, if you opt for the free edition then you can only configure the backup job from the BDR Backup Server and not from the client.

If you choose the BDR Edition to be the free edition; then while you configure the backup for VMware/Hyper-V VMs you will see a pop-up window asking you to select the type of free-edition. i.e. either the Full or Limited - featured free edition as shown in the pic below.

If you select the Full-Featured free edition option then you get to choose up to 10 VMs in a single backup job with all basic backup features (Standard Edition features) applicable for it. After that, all the subsequent backup jobs created will run full-backups only.

And if you select the Limited-Featured free edition option you will be able to schedule only full-backups for the backup jobs with no retention feature.

Re: Question Regards Free Standard Edition

Yes, you are on the right track!

The product is designed in such a way if a user chooses the free edition of the Vembu BDR Suite and configures a new VMware/Hyper-V backup job he gets to select the type of free-edition. i.e. either the Full or Limited - featured free edition.

But if the user has already configured a VMware/Hyper-V backup during his evaluation and chooses the free edition, then the backups configured during his evaluation period will run only full backups at its scheduled time.

This is because most of the users evaluate the product during the 30 days of a free trial to understand all the features of the Vembu BDR Suite; after that, the user will decide and choose between Free, Standard, and Enterprise editions to deploy the Vembu BDR Suite in his production environment and configure new backup jobs.