Hello everyone,

Did you know - you can set up your managed platform or server monitoring system to recognize BackupAssist’s events to accurately report on the backup status?

There are 3 events that BackupAssist may log to the Windows Event Log:

ID 5633 (Information) on success, or success with minor warnings
ID 5634 (Error) on failure
ID 5635 (Warning) on success but with major warnings (eg. wrong external HDD connected).

For all the events:
- Source: BackupAssist
- Category: None

All this functionality is in Version 4 of BackupAssist.

Enhancements for v5 of BackupAssist

We are currently working with the major Managed Platform vendors to integrate the BackupAssist events into their software. We hope that this will be all complete for the release of v5 of BackupAssist.

We’ll also be adding another event to signify the start of a backup job, so people using the event log will have more information about their backup.

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