09 Nov BackUpAssist V12 – What’s New
3rd November 2022 saw the release of BackUpAssist Classic V12. This is a major release of BackUpAssist and includes 2 new exciting features:
Advanced System Protection
This is an alternative backup Engine to the Windows Imaging engine used in System protection Jobs. Designed from the ground up by BackupAssist but utilising standard VHDX disk containers supporting many different backup destinations making it easy to manage your backups.
Key features include:-
- Encryption support across all destinations
- Full control over backup history
- Hyper-V host level backup
- Instant virtual boot into backups (for unencrypted backups only for now)
- Bare metal recovery to smaller disks
Have a look at the How to Guide for more information on how to use this feature
For more details please take a look at the Advanced System Protection Data Sheet
Test Restore
Automate regular testing of your backups, to spot potential backup destination issues that happen after a backup is complete
Key features include:-
- Works across most backup engines
- Runs as a scheduled job
- Tests both backup accessibility and backup integrity testing
- Simple to consume test results report
- limit the test to a percentage of backup files
- limit the test to a set time
Have a look at the How to Guide for more information on how to use this feature
For more details please take a look at the Test Restore Data Sheet