Free disaster recovery.
No catch. No expiry.
Recoverability you can prove in minutes.
- Block-level imaging — boot-tested backups
- Ransomware canary — catches attacks mid-encryption
- USB recovery + file browse — restore on any hardware
- Windows — x64 and ARM64 (Linux coming soon)
Users 5·Canary armed·$0 forever
Local-only mode — chunks on your disk.
Five ways to recover. All on the free tier.
Most products give one way to restore. We give five — from one file in seconds to bare metal on brand-new hardware. Every path included on Free.
Browse Files
InstantAll tiers including FreeDrill into any backup image like a folder from the dashboard. Find the file, click, download.
Single-file restore
MinutesAll tiers including FreePull individual files straight from locally stored chunks — no full restore needed.
Mount as VHDX
~30 min – 2 hrsBeta · Free on all Local DR tiersBuild any backup image into a Hyper-V virtual disk and explore it like a drive. Build time depends on the machine.
Full-image restore
Hardware speedAll tiers including FreeRoll the whole machine back to any recovery point — block-level, boot-tested.
USB Recovery
~2–3 hoursAll tiers including FreeCross-hardware WinPE with offline DISM driver injection — boots on hardware your old machine never met.
Need a dead machine running in the cloud? That's BigMind Resilience
We catch ransomware mid-attack. Even on Free.
Decoy files in your protected folders, hashed at install, verified every backup. Tamper triggers an alert and freezes the chain to protect the last clean image. Deterministic — no ML training, no false positives.
Email alerts on Plus and above.
Read moreBoots on different hardware. Even an old laptop.
Stolen laptop. Dead motherboard. Replacement isn't identical. We boot a USB on the new hardware, inject drivers via offline DISM, and restore your full image. Cross-chipset, cross-NIC, cross-storage-controller. Air-gap-compatible.
How recovery worksFree. Plus. Pro. No surprises. No renewal hikes.
Same price every renewal.
Free
5 users · 1 device each / 7 daily + 4 weekly recovery points
- Block-level imaging
- Ransomware canary
- USB recovery
- File browse
Plus
10 users · 2 devices each / 1 server / 90 days / 8-hour + SQL VSS
- Everything in Free
- 8-hour schedules
- App-consistent VSS (SQL)
- 90-day retention
- Email alerts
Pro
15 users · 3 devices each / 3 servers / 365 days / 1-hour min + all VSS
- Everything in Plus
- 1-hour minimum schedule
- All VSS writers
- 365-day retention
- Priority support
Free isn't unusual. Useful free is.
| BigMind DR Free | Macrium Free (discontinued 2024) | Veeam Agent Free | Windows Backup | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Multiple users | 5 users | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Ransomware canary | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Cross-hardware USB | ✓ DISM | basic | basic | ✗ |
| Cloud-managed dashboard | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
Plus is $59/year flat. No appliance, no extra licenses.
10-user SMB with 1 SQL server. Enterprise-grade DR at SMB pricing.
“Since day one, BigMind impressed us with everything they are capable of.”
“Locating my clients photos with their name made my life easier.”
Because we want you to find out it works.
We sell Cyber Resilience to growing businesses ($5–$24/user/mo). The hardest part is earning trust before disaster. DR Free puts our agent on your machines so when you grow you already know we work. Not a freemium trick — trust-building.
BigMind Resilience — cyber resilience for growing teams.
More than 15 users? Need cloud DR with Always-Ready VMs? Resilience adds AI Lens, Workspaces, Ops AI, MSSQL, WORM, multi-region.
From $5/user/mo · Direct or via partners · 14-day free trial
See BigMind Resilience
Modest hardware. No appliance.
Common questions about BigMind DR
Is BigMind DR Free really free?+
Truly free. 5 users with 1 device each (up to 5 machines), 7 daily + 4 weekly recovery points, block-level imaging + canary + USB recovery. No credit card, no trial expiry, no feature lockouts.
BigMind DR vs BigMind Resilience?+
DR is local — chunks on your disk or NAS. Free / Plus / Pro flat-priced. Resilience is cloud cyber resilience — DR + file backup + AI Lens + Workspaces + Ops AI, per-user-per-month. Both share the agent, the canary, and the recovery shield.
Can I upgrade Free to Plus / Pro later?+
Yes. Single click — backups carry over, retention extends. Stripe checkout, instant.
Do you sell BigMind DR through partners?+
No — DR is direct-only. Partners resell BigMind Resilience instead.
What's the canary, and is it really free?+
Decoy files in your protected folders, hashed and verified every backup. Tamper triggers an alert and freezes the chain to protect the last clean image. Truly free in every tier.
Will my data leave my network?+
No — on every DR tier the backup data (chunks) stays on your disk, USB, or NAS, encrypted with AES-256-GCM. Only the catalog metadata reaches our cloud so the dashboard, recovery-point list, and file browsing work. Off-site cloud copy is a BigMind Resilience feature.
5 users. 1 click. 0 dollars. Forever.
Sign up free, install the agent, set up in 5 minutes. Sleep better tonight.
Security or compliance reviewer? See the Trust Center — SOC 2 Type II / ISO 27001 / HIPAA-compliant infrastructure documentation, sub-processor list, BAA / DPA / pen-test request forms.