Are you an IT support company? Currently managing more than two BackupAssist customer installations?
We'd love your help in making this much-requested new feature the best it can possibly can be...
The Aussie developers over at BackupAssist have been hard at work on the latest major release of their popular backup software for small businesses, and I'm pleased to be letting you know it's now available for download.
This release is packed with new features and in this post we'll pick out both the highlights and a couple of important notes you should be aware of.
You've probably picked up in the IT press that the developers of TrueCrypt, currently integrated within BackupAssist, are no longer actively developing the software.
A recent independent audit published by iSEC has not identified any security flaws in TrueCrypt, however at some point in the future, it's likely vulnerabilities may creep into it.
DISCLAIMER: We're not suggesting you need to switch away immediately and ultimately fully expect to see a new encryption application integrated into BackupAssist.
However....I like to tinker...
Miss last week's live BackupAssist webinar? Fear not as we're now uploading recordings of all public webinars to our YouTube channel where you're free to view them at your leisure. In this last session, technical...
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....
