About Arcserve UDP Workstation Free Edition

Arcserve lets you use UDP Workstation Edition during the trial period. Starting with Arcserve UDP Version 5.0 Update 2, at the end of the trial period a free and fully functional Workstation Free Edition is provided to any user who has not yet obtained a proper license. This free edition is for use on workstation-class hardware (Laptops or Desktops running Microsoft Client Operating Systems) and continues to provide full and complete access to all functions and features that were available during the trial period, with some limited capabilities.

Note: For Workstation Free Edition, the backups to UDP datastore are not supported.

Highlights:

• After the trial period expires, the Workstation Edition (trial period edition) is changed to Workstation Free Edition.
• Your Workstation Free Edition nodes can still be managed from the Arcserve UDP Console.
• Provides a very simple key-based upgrade path to the full Arcserve UDP "Workstation Edition".
• You can perform backup to a local disk, or to a shared folder, or to any other supported destination that is not an RPS without requiring a license key.
• Using Workstation Free Edition, you cannot select an RPS as the backup destination. As a result, you will lose the ability to leverage the Global Deduplication feature, which dramatically reduces the amount of data actually transferred during backup cycles. This feature is available after upgrading to the full Workstation Edition.
• Live Chat capabilities are unavailable, but you can use Online community based support for questions or to resolve issues.

For FAQs, refer Frequently Asked Questions for Work Station Free Edition.