We’ve recently had a few questions about the auto-delete functionality in Windows Server 2008 Backup. As described in my article on Windows Server Backup, it deletes old versions of backups as required. However, we’ve had reports where the auto-delete function isn’t working. That is, the backups work for several days, fill up the disk, and

Hi everyone, Many of you who run our own I.T. consulting practice have been interested in hosting your clients’ data. In fact, over the last month, we’ve discovered that many of you have already tested out our Rsync engine for the purposes of synchronising files, SQL and Exchange databases offsite. The question of scalability has

Hi all, We’ve been working with some of our partners on using the QNAP NAS devices (detailed in our Rsync NAS Hardware Compatibility List) as an offsite data host. We’ve had reports that some firewalls can cause problems when port forwarding. Normally, all you’d need to do is to open up Port 22 (SSH) and

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve released an installer for Server Core and Hyper-V Server. These operating systems require several prerequisites to be installed, so the download package is a little larger than the standard download. Visit http://www.backupassist.com/BackupAssist/download.php to download the latest version of BackupAssist. We believe that BackupAssist is one of the first backup

UPDATE: Exchange 2007 backup on Server 2008 is now possible thanks to a plug-in released with BackupAssist v5.2. Find out more. Hi all, A follow-up to my previous blog about SBS 2008 imaging backups and Exchange 2007. In v5.1.1 and prior, the Exchange logs do not get truncated because BackupAssist was performing a VSS copy

Hi all, A common question about VM backup is: can I get my VMs automatically offsite for DR purposes? For example, if an I.T. service provider (or VAR) Rsyncs a client’s VMs offsite to their (the VAR’s premises), and the client’s server blows up (and it turns out that the local backups were destroyed), can

UPDATE: Exchange 2007 backup on Server 2008 is now possible thanks to a plug-in released with BackupAssist v5.2. Find out more. Hi all, This blog is in two sections addressing Exchange 2007 backup on Server 2008 – firstly, complete database backups, and secondly, mailbox backups. Firstly – complete database backups. Server 2008 + Exchange 2007

Need to improve backup performance? The following registry settings changes can drastically reduce the time it takes to perform a backup of your system. reg add “HKCU\Software\Microsoft\NTBackup\Backup Engine” /v “Logical Disk Buffer Size” /t REG_SZ /d 64 /f reg add “HKCU\Software\Microsoft\NTBackup\Backup Engine” /v “Max Buffer Size” /t REG_SZ /d 1024 /f reg add “HKCU\Software\Microsoft\NTBackup\Backup Engine”