Vinchin Backup & Recovery allows users to perform file-level backups on both Windows and Linux file servers with a lightweight agent installed on the target file server.

Supported Platforms:

Vinchin supports Windows, RHEL, CentOS, CentOS Stream, Ubuntu, Debian, SLES, openSUSE, Oracle Linux, Rocky Linux, erc.

Installation & Configuration

You can get the installation package on the download page and then install it on a virtual machine or physical machine.
After that, upload the license that we send to you in the email.
Add backup storage before creating a backup job.

Server adding

Before taking file backup for your file server, a lightweight agent needs to be installed on the server.
After the agents had been installed and licensed for file backup, please follow the below steps to create file backup job.

Create file backup jobs

There are 4 steps to create a file backup job.

Select files/folders you need to back up.
Specify target backup destination.
Configure backup strategy. You can setup the backup time schedule, throttling policy, data storage policy, retention policy and some other advanced options.
Submit the task.

File Restore:

There are 4 steps to restore files from the file backup restore points:

Select the restore point
Select the restore destination
Configure strategies or just skip it
Submit the job

Demonstration:

For the detailed steps, you can refer to this video which takes file server backup as an example:

If you still have questions after referring to our documentations and videos, please start a thread in this section or contact our technical support team at technical.support@vinchin.com for assistance.