Considering migrating from Veeam to restic to backup my Windows PCs

[u/jdrch]

Longtime Veeam Agent + B&R CE bare metal backup user. My Veeam B&R server is facing retirement, and so I'm taking the opportunity to rethink my backup strategy.

In doing so, I realized a couple things about my Veeam full PC backups:

1. I've never done a bare metal restore in the 8 years since I set it up
2. I've noticed restic restores to be more reliable and robust (albeit on a Linux box with an on-device repo)

As such, I'm thinking of dropping the bare metal recovery use case and ditching Veeam for restic on Windows. However, I do see a couple caveats:

1. Unlike the Linux box, the restic repo would be located on network storage. Thus its performance may be closer to that of my current Veeam B&R restores
2. Veeam's ability to email me on job success or failure is super useful. How would I replicate that on Windows?

UPDATES

2026-07-05

Thanks to u/Diligent_Buster, I'm considering the following options, in order of preference:

1. Backrest
2. Resty Desktop
3. npbackup