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…
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.
Ok brace yourself for a long ol’ set of release notes! This minor MDaemon update really does highlight the many hours our friends at the Texas-based developer Alt-N Technologies are putting in to make MDaemon the best mail platform out there for small businesses.
This one is mainly ‘dotting the I’s’ as it were but there’s an awful lot of them! Also if you’ve picked up one of the newer Android devices recently, you’ll no doubt be pleased to hear that you can now connect it quite happily via ActiveSync thanks to the compatibility fix for KitKat.
Cryptolocker is making the headlines for all the wrong reasons at the moment.
In the run up to Christmas where there’s likely to be a plentiful supply of email purchase confirmations flowing, I wanted to share my recommendations for keeping your data safe and secure.
A minor update for MDaemon’s Outlook Connector plug-in is now available on our site.
The main points of interest are a long list of minor enhancements and fixes for Outlook 2013 users.
Download the new version from here or follow this link to read the full release notes.
A couple of minor updates for you this morning – there are new versions available of both BackupAssist and Outlook Connector on our site now.
BackupAssist consists of two small fixes only while the Outlook Connector release sees new official support for Outlook 2013 clients.
The ‘System Protection’ job in BackupAssist is the most widely used by the customers I come across. It’s fast, efficient and it creates a full image backup of your server ready for disaster recovery.
Despite its popularity, there were some limitations if you wanted to use anything other than a USB drive as your destination.
Enter the ‘data container’.
A little background
Prior to the release of data containers, if you wanted to have an image backup history, created by doing a full backup and then subsequent differential updates, you’d have needed to choose a USB drive.
If you were using either a network share or even an RDX drive, you could only keep one backup, overwriting it every time. OK, but it would be slower because you’re backing up the whole server each time and you’d only have one restore point to work with.
Introducing data containers
Data containers are storage files the backup job creates on the destination media, that hold backups. The beauty of this approach is that a container can be automatically mounted as a local disk for backups and restores. This means your Windows Server will not see a strange or unexpected media, but a media that it understands and can work with.
Now, when you create an image backup to a network destination or RDX drive, using a container you’ll be able to benefit from both differential updates and multiple restore points.
This means your backup jobs run faster, storage requirements will be lower and you’ll always have a historical view of your data.
How to create a data container job
To get up and running, simply head over to the destination media section within the BackupAssist interface, and look for the check box option as shown below.
Next, specify where you’d like the data container to go and how big you want it to be:-
By default, RDX and External disk destinations will have Use all available space selected.
BackupAssist will automatically mount the data container each time the backup job runs and put the backups inside it.
Need to perform a bare-metal restore?
No problem!
During the backup selection step, RecoverAssist has a button called Search for Backup in a Container. Click the button, browse to the location of the data container and RecoverAssist will mount it for you. Nothing else changes.
That’s it! I hope you found this article useful – please feel free to let us know how you’re getting on via the comments field and for support with configuration you’re always welcome to get in touch via phone or email.
One of the particularly nice features in MDaemon is the ability to customise the flow of email through the use of its built in content filters.
In the past we’ve mainly focused on using the content filter in different ways to automate tasks, change message content and redirect mail to other locations.
In this article I’ll give you an overview of how you can make use of the content filter and MDaemon’s custom queues to intercept some or all outbound email, have a user check and authorise it manually, and then let it continue along its intended delivery path.
This may be quite a unique error but never the less I thought it was worth sharing in case someone else sees it, so if you have found this article as a result of a Google search then please leave a comment below if it helped you out.
A couple of minor updates for you this morning – there are new versions available of both BackupAssist and SecurityGateway on our site now.
BackupAssist consists of fixes only while the SecurityGateway release sees a new licencing authentication system implemented and the withdrawal of support for Windows XP (versions prior to SP2 ) and Server 2003 (versions prior to SP1).