Neil's been running some 30 minute preview webinars of version 7 over the past few weeks and has made a recording of one of them available via our Youtube channel. In...
You may have picked up from our subtle marketing that something new is on the horizon with the next release of BackupAssist, Version 7.
Now the public Beta is here I'm excited to be able to finally tell you all about the new features, which include a completely reworked interface design.
First off, let me introduce the completely new simplified interface and layout...
We've had a few customers asking about whether our backup software BackupAssist can be used to restore old backups originally created using NTBackup, to a new 2008 server.
This isn't such a crazy idea when you consider that at the point that you upgrade to Server 2008 you may well have a large history of old backups from your old 2003 server and still need files from within them on your new server.
BackupAssist's Hyper-V product has been featured in a recent review on the virtualisation pages of the TechTarget group Web site.
Acknowledged as one of the smaller players in the Hyper-V backup market, BackupAssist with it's Hyper-V Granular Restore Console received praise as a product that -
"offers great value for small and medium-sized businesses"
...and is "a good place to start if you're an SMB".
In Part 2 of 'Build your own NAS' I showed you how to set up an SSH server and use BackupAssist to rsync backups to the OpenMediaVault server. In this latest post I'll show you how you can quickly get access to these backups using a windows SMB/CIFS share.
In Part 1 of 'Build your own NAS' I showed you how to create a folder share in OpenMediaVault we could use to store remote server backups. In this second part I'll run through how to set up the SSH server and configure a user account to store the backups.
Following on from my last post where I mentioned this fantastically simple software for creating your own NAS (ideal for BackupAssist's Rsync feature), in this post I'm going to take things a step further and outline how to go about setting it up.
For a long time now I've been experimenting with different hardware and software solutions, looking for an all purpose storage server I could use both at home and in the office. At home I've basically just been after a centralised store for my photos, movies and documents with a level of integration that would also allow me to stream content to various different devices. In the office we need a bit more, so support for technologies such as Rsync, SSH, iSCSI, RAID drives and NFS have all been on my wish list.
We're but a few weeks away from the annual industry pilgrimage to Earls Court for the biggest of the IT and security shows in this country, InfoSecurity Europe. Each year IT professionals (and the not-so) gather at InfoSec to take in keynote talks from industry experts, strengthen relationships with customers and suppliers, keep an eye on the competition and of course, pick up plenty of promotional tat for the kids.
This year will be slightly different however, as visitors will notice that the show's noticeably better than previous ones thanks to the addition of the Zen Software stand in the new exhibitor area. It's possible I'm overestimating the impact we'll have but in any case, we're genuinely pleased to be a part of the show and that we'll be down there unashamedly flogging our wares in our compact but charming booth (K94). We still see a range of backup devices used with BackupAssist, but which are the most popular? [polldaddy poll=5898168]...
