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: Improved OneDrive for Business Restore.
Community build download (102MB)
Release notes
Restoring to OneDrive for Business can now be done as an administrator, enabling you to restore to any user account you choose.
To do this, follow this process:
- choose to restore to “Cloud Folder”, and OneDrive for Business.
- when you are prompted to log on to do the restore, use the backup user login (the same user that does the backups).
- select the user account you want to restore to
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Multi-site SharePoint backups in a single backup job | v1.9.5 | 1 October 2021 |
| 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 |
