Cortex IT Labs today announced the latest release in their flagship product BackupAssist.

BackupAssist v6.4.0 makes a large step forward for the BackupAssist product in adding support for iSCSI backups as well as the all new RecoverAssist recovery environment.

Highlights:

iSCSI

BackupAssist now supports backing up to and recovering from iSCSI devices. iSCSI backups out performs all other network backups and USB 2.0 – which makes for faster backups. In fact iSCSI can perform up to twice as fast as other backup destinations.

RecoverAssist

RecoverAssist makes light work of Windows® backup recoveries. Bare metal disaster recovery. Recover to dissimilar hardware. Create your own recovery media. Repairs broken recoveries. You name it RecoverAssist helps you do it. With an integrated tool-kit that automatically repairs recoveries that otherwise would Blue Screen with standard Windows Recovery software. You can even load your own drivers onto the recovery environment. What more could you ask for in a recovery tool-kit?

Downloads and Release Notes

The latest version of BackupAssist can be downloaded online from BackupAssist.com. BackupAssist v6.4.0 is a free upgrade for all existing BackupAssist v6 licence holders. Current BackupAssist v4 or v5  customers will need to upgrade their licence online to use the added functionality in BackupAssist v6.4.0. Upgrades can be purchased online.

Full release notes can be found online.

BackupAssist v6.4.0 no longer includes support for Windows 2000.

Just released: BackupAssist v6.4 now includes support for iSCSI devices as well as the all new RecoverAssist. Get started with the BackupAssist beta.

By participating in the beta test program you are directly helping to improve the BackupAssist product range as well as getting an early look at new and exciting features. For more information on the beta test program click here.

BackupAssist v6.4 includes two great new features in support for iSCSI and also RecoverAssist. You can read the full release notes here.

iSCSI Support

Up to twice as fast as other backup media
BackupAssist now supports backing up to and recovering from iSCSI devices. iSCSI is up to twice as fast as Network and USB 2.0 backup media – which makes for faster backups. Learn More

RecoverAssist

Easy Windows™ Recovery
RecoverAssist makes light work of Windows® backup recoveries. Bare metal disaster recovery. Recover to dissimilar hardware. Create your own recovery media. Repairs broken recoveries. Learn More

Submitting your feedback.

We’re looking for any bugs that may appear on your particular system (it should be noted that the beta may have bugs and other limitations and should only be used on non-critical computers for testing purposes). We’d also like to hear any suggestions for other improvements or constructive criticism that you may have to offer.

Submitting your feedback is simple – just click the Contact Support link at the bottom left corner of the V6.4 Beta console. (This will go straight to our Dev Team for consideration and we may get back to you for further details if required.)

G’day folks,

We have recently made BackupAssist v6.3 available to the public!

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

New features include:

• 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.
• Backup 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.

If you haven’t already updated to the important maintenance release BackupAssist v6.2.8, skip it and go straight to this v6.3 update.

Please don’t forget to download and install your BackupAssist v6.3 update from here.

That’s all for now folks.

If you have any questions or comments, please e-mail us at support@backupassist.com.

A big thanks to the BackupAssist Community for reporting issues and suggesting improvements.

Thanks,

The BackupAssist Team

G’day folks,

We have recently made BackupAssist v6.2.8 available to the public!

BackupAssist v6.2.8 is a maintenance release fixing some minor issues as reported by our user and reseller communities, plus our testers and developers. The most significant changes with this update are:

• Zip-to-Tape: We’ve fixed an issue where a Zip-to-Tape restore job would not cancel properly. BackupAssist would say it had cancelled the restore, but in fact the tape job would still keep going! Then you might try to do another restore and the system would throw a hissy fit because the tape drive was actually still in use. Now Zip-to-Tape restore jobs are properly terminated.
• TrueCrypt: We’ve fixed doing a single instance store for destinations with TrueCrypt-compatible encryption. Previously, because of issues checking for previous backups, a full backup might happen instead of a faster incremental backup.
• Zip: We’ve updated the Zip compression library to fix some of errors that people had seen during restores. (Though we suspect most of these errors were related to the Zip-to-Tape issue above.) We’ve also limited the number of skipped files allowed in a Zip backup to 100. Now, if that limit is reached we terminate the backup and report the problem as an error. Previously the backup would run to the end and then the problem would be reported as a warning. Now you get to know about this issue sooner so that you can take appropriate action.

Of course, BackupAssist v6.2.8 also has a number of other fixes and improvements in the following areas: CMC/Web, Installer, User Interface, plus Zip and NTBackup. Full release notes are available here.

If you haven’t already updated to the important maintenance release BackupAssist v6.2.7, skip it and go straight to this update.

Please don’t forget to download and install your BackupAssist v6.2.8 update from here.

That’s all for now folks.

If you have any questions or comments, please e-mail us at support@backupassist.com.

A big thanks to the BackupAssist Community for reporting issues and suggesting improvements.

Thanks,
The BackupAssist Team

Hi all,

We have recently made BackupAssist v6.2.7 available to the public!

BackupAssist v6.2.7 is an important maintenance release with a significant fix to the Zip and File Replication engines. If you are using these engines then you need this update to restore the integrity of your backups. See why here.

BackupAssist v6.2.7 also has a number of other fixes and improvements in the following areas: CMC/Web, Imaging, Settings/Logging, SQL add-on, the UI and Zip. Full release notes are available here.

If you have any questions or comments, please e-mail us at support@backupassist.com.

Thanks,
The BackupAssist Team

Hi all,

We have recently made BackupAssist v6.2.6 available to the public!

This is a maintenance release which includes fixes to some known issues within the Zip engine and also the UI of the software.
For more details on what this release addresses, please check the release notes located here.

To download v6.2.6 of the software, please visit our download page at http://www.backupassist.com/BackupAssist/download.php.

If you have any questions, please contact us by e-mailing support_at_backupassist.com.

Hi everyone,

Just letting you know that BackupAssist v6.2.5 is now available for download from www.backupassist.com.

BackupAssist v6.2.5 is a maintenance release with a number of fixes and improvements, including improvements to System State backups, the Hyper-V Granular Restore Console and support for Exchange 2010 Client Access Server. If any of your version 6 clients haven’t already upgraded to version 6.2.5 we recommend that you upgrade their installation as soon as possible.

Full release notes are available here.

Thanks,
The BackupAssist Team

Hi all,

We’ve just released the final v5 version 5.4.8 of BackupAssist.

This is an important maintenance release with a number of fixes and improvements. This release is recommended for all BackupAssist v5 users but is especially important for anyone running Windows Imaging backups. More information regarding the release can be found here.
There are also some other minor fixes and improvements included in v5.4.8 which you can read about on our version history page: http://www.backupassist.com/BackupAssist/history.html.

To upgrade, just download v5.4.8 from here.
You just need to install over the top of your current version and all your backup jobs and settings will be preserved. A re-boot may be required to complete the installation.

If you have any questions about the release, or need any help, please contact us at support@backupassist.com.

Kind regards,
The BackupAssist Team