As somebody in a non-technical role who responds better to a more visual style of learning, I'm often asking our resident software gurus to spell things out for me in the necessary 'dumbed down' fashion on the office whiteboard.
It saves their sanity, a little of my ego and ultimately means that I'm able (eventually) to grasp those more technical of concepts.
There's a new minor BackupAssist release today and if you run system protection jobs on Hyper-V host machines, it's one you'll want to make sure you download.
Following a Microsoft update to Server 2012 R2, some new error messages had been appearing in the job reports.
I'm pleased to report that as always, BackupAssist have been quick to respond and within a couple of days we now have this fix.
Download BackupAssist 7.4.5 (including the Hyper-V fix)
More details and link to the release notes are available below...
I'm a little ashamed to admit that the public launch of Microsoft's SQL Server 2014, on any Product Manager's dream launch date of April 1st, managed to somehow completely pass me by.
This did however, make it all the more impressive when our friends over at BackupAssist announced they've already implemented support for it in their latest version of their fantastic backup software for small businesses.
This now officially expands BackupAssist SQL support to include:
SQL 2014, SQL 2012, SQL 2008/R2 and SQL 2005.
The latest BackupAssist release is now available on our site. It consists of a long list of minor fixes so it's definitely worth taking a moment to upgrade when you can.
Download BackupAssist 7.4.4
Details and release notes below....
If you're not already familiar with Rsync, it's the method (or 'protocol' to be posh about it) that BackupAssist uses to send data off-site to locations such as NAS boxes or to other servers.
QNAP make a NAS device that's popular with our customers and this week I came across an issue with backing up via Rsync to it that I've seen before...
...cue helpful (hopefully) blog post!
Just a quickie to let you know the latest version of BackupAssist is now available on our site consisting mainly of small fixes.
Download BackupAssist 7.4.3
Details and release notes below....
BackupAssist's new product BackupAssist MultiSite Manager is now available for download as a beta, and the Australian developers could really do with your help to test it! The MultiSite Manager introduces...
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The latest BackupAssist release is now available on our site consisting mainly of small fixes - this may be of particular interest if you've experienced any oddities with the Centralised Monitoring Console (CMC).
Download BackupAssist 7.4.1
Details and release notes below....
I recently ran a survey among our partner program members (all IT support companies) to find out which, if any, of the various social channels they use 'frequently', to help us understand how best to keep in touch.
Of the 324 respondents the results were as follows:-
