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Leveraging BakBone's award-winning NetVault: Backup product line, and thousands of successful customer implementations worldwide, NetVault: Backup Free Use Edition developed for Enterprise Linux* offers enterprise data protection at the economies of open source. Designed to meet the needs of small to mid-sized businesses as well as large organizations, NetVault: Backup Free Use Edition offers ease of deployment and use, coupled with advanced backup and recovery features.

  • Start Managing Your Data in Minutes - An intuitive Graphical User Interface (GUI), point-and-click operations, and device auto discovery make protecting your mission critical data easy.
  • Plugs Into Your Environment Without Costly Changes - UNIX, Linux, Solaris, Windows and Mac platform support ensures that NetVault: Backup can protect your environment.
  • Comprehensive Disk-based Backup - NetVault: Backup's Virtual Tape Library (VTL) emulates a physical tape library on disk, enabling unattended backups, eliminating backup bottlenecks, and minimizing restore times.
  • Enhanced Reporting - Thirty predefined reports can be modified, viewed dynamically, run conditionally or scheduled.

The NetVault: Backup Free Use Edition developed for Enterprise Linux base configuration is licensed FREE of charge, with permissions to use the software, including permission to use it in business or commerce. It also includes access to BakBone's Knowledge Base self-help support portal.

[Note. NetVault: Backup Free Use Edition is not available in Japan. Download products in Japan.]


NetVault: Backup Free Use Edition developed for Enterprise Linux enables you to implement a solution designed to meet current as well as future needs, with no business interruption. For those needing additional functionality or support, the NetVault: Backup SMB Edition or Enterprise Edition options are available via a simple subscription upgrade.

Product Features Free Use Edition* SMB Edition
    Base Maximum
Heterogeneous Clients 2 2 Up to 5
Tape Drives 0 2 2
Tape Library Slots 0 0 Up to 40
Virtual Drives 4 Devices 4 Devices 4 Devices
Virtual Tape Library (VTL) Capacity 500GB 500GB Up to 1TB
Shared VTL N.A. N.A. N.A.
Enhanced Reporting Included Included Included
SmartClient N.A. N.A. N.A.
NetVault: Report Manager Pro for Backup N.A. N.A. N.A.
Application Plugin Modules N.A. Optional Optional
NDMP Support N.A. Optional Optional
Annual Subscription Pricing FREE See Subscription Options

* NetVault: Backup Free Use Edition is not available in Japan. Download products in Japan.