15 Feb

Before I start, I should warn you, this may be a rare issue that only effects a handful of customers - in particular those that use older NAS hardware. However, through diagnosing this issue I've learned much more about how the media usage report works with BackupAssist rsync jobs and thought it would be useful to share my findings.
09:49 / BackupAssist
06 Feb

Single Instance StoreWe had an interesting support call the other day that I thought might be useful to share. The customer who called was using BackupAssist on multiple sites and using rsync jobs to backup from a number of Windows machines, to a central one running CWRsync. Everything was working well but there was some confusion as to how much space each job was taking up on the rsync server.
13:32 / BackupAssist
18 Jan

If you've ever used BackupAssist to run an rsync job to a remote NAS device, you may be familiar with the built in 'seed' function. This bypasses the need to run a large backup for the first time over the network and instead uses a USB hard drive to move the data manually. After the seed job has completed, the drive is disconnected from the BackupAssist server and plugged directly into whatever is performing the role of the rsync server. Often it's a NAS device, but I also talk to customers who choose to run either a Linux server which has native rsync support or even a Windows box using the free open source CWRsync service.
13:42 / BackupAssist
12 Jan

ninite.png If you regularly find yourself installing and upgrading software, I highly recommend you take a peep at Ninite, a great little online service-come-software tool for managing this process completely hands free. To get up and running, first you'll need to visit ninite.com and select all the software packages you wish to include in your custom installer.
12:28 / Tech tips
11 Jan

Today I want to highlight two very different automatic features of WorldClient, autoresponders and autocomplete. Totally unrelated but both useful features that help Outlook users feel at home. Autorespondersauto-responder.jpg WorldClient makes it very easy to setup and schedule an 'Out of office' Autoresponder, often used over holiday periods but also useful when you know you're going to be out of the office.
10:00 / MDaemon