BackupAssist 365 Community
BackupAssist 365 Community Builds
Regularly updated, early access to the latest features.
What is a community build?
A community build is a pre-release build that has passed through internal testing, and is ready for our community to try. We encourage our community to try the software in a variety of environments, to identify potential issues in the field.
Mainstream release
Community build: Backing up In-Place Archives (Mailbox backup)
Community build download (102MB)
Release notes
Allows you to select “In-place Archives” for backup. Offers you 3 different options:
- Main mailbox only
- In-place archives only
- Main mailbox + in-place archives.
Community build: Backing up Recoverable Items folder (formerly called Dumpster)
Community build download (102MB)
Release notes
Allows you to select whether to back up the Recoverable Items folder.
By default, Office 365 will put all deleted items into the Recoverable Items folder (formerly known as Dumpster) for a retention period – which is 14 days by default, or configurable up to 30 days. After this time, the items are deleted.
Backing up this Recoverable Items folder can be useful to capture any items that are delivered and then deleted in between backups. For example, if an email arrives at 10am, is hard deleted at 11am, and the backups run at 9pm, that email would not normally get backed up.
However, it can be backed up from the Recoverable Items folder, if this feature is enabled.
Community build: Faster opening of PST files
Community build download (102MB)
Release notes
When backing up huge mailboxes (e.g. 30GB +) to fragmented hard drives, it can take a long time (hours) to open a PST file. This build includes caching mechanisms to reduce the opening time by a factor of 2 to 10.
Previous Community Builds
Past community builds have been incorporated into the mainstream release and are available on the BackupAssist 365 Downloads page.
| Functionality | Version release | Release date |
|---|---|---|
| Support for backing up SharePoint Subsites | v1.9.1.1 | 30 June 2021 |
| New Graphical User Interface (GUI) | v1.9.1 | 31 May 2021 |
| Mailbox restore via CLI | v1.9.0.5 | 17 May 2021 |
| Mailbox backups: prevent infinite retries if Exchange returns an invalid XML response. | v1.9.0.0 | 12 Feb 2021 |
| Mailbox backups: preserve folder structure for deleted items in the "Historical Items" folder | v1.8.2 | 24 Dec 2020 |
| Back up files from Dropbox and SFTP (provided as beta functionality) | v1.8.2 | 24 Dec 2020 |
| OneDrive for Business - automatic rights granting | v1.8.1 | 26 Oct 2020 |
| Faster reconnection after network problems | v1.8.0 | 10 Sep 2020 |
| Network share support - back up to a network share | v1.7.1 | 27 Sep 2020 |
| Exchange Server TLS 1.2 support - use TLS 1.2 to connect to Exchange Servers - necessary where TLS 1.0 and 1.1 have been disabled. This also enables connection to Exchange 2019. | v1.7.1 | 10 Aug 2020 |
| SharePoint / OneDrive for Business login reauthentication fix | v1.7.1 | 10 Aug 2020 |