Hardware support

As part of making backups easy, BackupAssist has built-in support for a wide variety of backup hardware. Your setup is simply a matter of point-and-click from the Wizard, and you'll never have to work around device-specific issues.

Our approach of rich hardware support also enables us to eliminate many of the pain-points that can plague other backup systems. And despite the subtle differences between different backup technologies (for example, imaging versus file-based backup), BackupAssist presents a common interface between them all.

View a list of hardware destinations supported by BackupAssist

Tape drive backups on Server 2008 using the Zip Engine

Case Study: Tape drive support

NTBackup Engine
Windows 2000, XP, and 2003

BackupAssist includes in-built integration with the Microsoft Windows Backup Utility (NTBackup) for backups to tape drive devices. With NTBackup, your backups will be stored in non-proprietary formats, and your data can restored on any Windows-based machine (2000, XP, and 2003) without additional software.

Zip Engine
Windows XP, 2003, Vista, 2008, and 7
*Requires Zip-To-Tape Add-on

To maximize your investment in tape drive hardware you can use BackupAssist together with the BackupAssist Zip-To-Tape Add-on for a cost-effective replacement to NTBackup, which is no longer available in Windows Server 2008, Vista or 7. Zip-To-Tape Add-on benefits include:

Support for a wide variety of standalone tape drives.
Safe and secure backups with 256-bit AES encryption.
Multi-threading architectures for fast tape backups.
Real-time data compression to tape drives.
VSS support for consistent open file backups.

More information is available on the ZIP Engine Product Tour page.

USB eject and drive letter assignment made easy!

Case Study: Seamless USB hard drive support

BackupAssist solves the two biggest problems with USB HDD backups:

Safely removing (ejecting) the hard drive after the backup
Making sure that the correct drive letter is assigned before the backup. With the media tracking option, BackupAssist will reassign the drive letter if it gets changed by the OS, and when it is safe to do so.

Easily setup BackupAssist to FTP your backups offsite

Case Study: FTP support

Our in-built FTP support (including SFTP and FTPS) makes offsite replication easy.