BackupAssist eNews February 2012

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In this issue :

Why you should update to BackupAssist v6.3
Phasing out support for BackupAssist on Windows 2000 platforms
How BackupAssist can help you to establish a truly safe online backup regime
Recent BackupAssist articles and blogs
Take the survey about BackupAssist's installation features

Important Update
for BackupAssist

BackupAssist v6.3 — Update now!
Released on February 7th, 2012

BackupAssist v6.3 is an important release with many new features and significant improvements.

New features include the support for Hyper-V Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) backup in the BackupAssist imaging engine via a local staging disk. For help configuring CSV backup jobs, please read our CSV quick start guide.

We now also give you the ability to back up and restore Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 mailboxes via the Exchange Client Access Server. For help configuring CAS backup jobs, please read our CAS quick start guide.

Plus we now let you set the maximum number of hard links to use for a single instance store, which should speed things up if you have lots of backups.

BackupAssist v6.3 also has a number of other fixes and improvements in the following areas: Mailbox, Imaging, SBS Integration, SQL add-on, VSS, the UI and Zip-to-Tape. Full release notes are available here.

BackupAssist and Windows 2000 Platform End of Life

Microsoft Windows 2000 Server family BackupAssist solutions have supported Windows 2000 platforms since our very first release in 2002. However, all good things eventually come to an end. We can no longer justify leaving out new software features in order to maintain backwards compatibility with the old Windows 2000 platforms. Hence we are implementing a two phased End of Life approach to ceasing support of this old operating system platform.

Phase One: BackupAssist v6.4 will not support Windows 2000 platforms.

Phase Two: End of Life for BackupAssist on Windows 2000 platforms.
From June 30, 2012 we will cease providing technical support for any version of BackupAssist running on any Windows 2000 platforms.

Full details are available here. If you have any questions about the End of Life for BackupAssist on Windows 2000 platforms, please feel free to contact our technical support team via an e-mail to: support@backupassist.com.

Online Backups — Doing It Right

The shutdown of the Megaupload cloud storage service, plus other recent incidents with online backup service providers, prompted us to put down some thoughts about things to consider when using online backups. Learn more.

BackupAssist Articles and Blogs

Zen Software, the UK distributor of BackupAssist, has recently published some informative blog postings about various aspects of BackupAssist, including:

Hyper-V Support Host vs Guests
BackupAssist Single Instance Store confusion
Exchange mailbox backups with BackupAssist
Rsync vs. file replication — which is best for your local backups?
BackupAssist's rsync 'seed' function explained

Click here to learn more.

Help Us to Help You

BackupAssist — Installation Features Survey

We make some choices when BackupAssist is installed on a new system. Some people have asked that we change the way the installation process works. But before doing so, we thought we'd ask you, our customers, resellers and distributors, just what you want.

Have your say, by taking less than five minutes to answer
this quick and simple online survey.