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.
Community build: improved performance for mailbox backups writing to slow and fragmented hard disks
Community build download (102MB)
End-User build – use this if you purchased BackupAssist 365 from our website.
MSP builds – use this if you are an MSP and are using our Managed Backup Console.
Release notes
One user has reported slow backups to a network share – due to slow write performance to the backup destination.
We believe this is more likely to happen when using a network share, as write caching is not available for network based files. This also happens when free space is fragmented on rotating hard disks.
This community build improves performance by implementing a number of optimizations, including read and write caching. In our tests, a 90 user tenant’s nightly backups reduced from around 16 hours down to 9.
Note: This community build also contains both the emergency workaround described above, and the performance improvement for mailboxes with many items.
Mainstream release
End-User build – use this if you purchased BackupAssist 365 from our website.
MSP builds – use this if you are an MSP and are using our Managed Backup Console.
