{"id":4350,"date":"2014-11-12T14:05:37","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T14:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/?p=4350"},"modified":"2019-11-19T02:45:58","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T02:45:58","slug":"backupassist-v8-2-hyper-v-sneak-peek-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/backupassist-v8-2-hyper-v-sneak-peek-2","title":{"rendered":"BackupAssist v8.2 sneak peek – new features!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The BackupAssist development team is working on our latest v8 feature release v8.2. Although the big release day of November 19th 2014<\/strong> is still 7 sleeps away, we thought we\u2019d give you a sneak peek of what to expect. You’re in for a treat!<\/p>\n

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Throughout the life of each BackupAssist version, we release both maintenance and feature releases. Our upcoming feature release will have some exciting new features and enhancements that our customers have requested.<\/p>\n

Hyper-V Granular Restore – destination support<\/h2>\n

When you create a System Protection backup of a Hyper-V Server, you have a large range of backup destinations to choose from including External disks, RDX drives, Local hard drives, Network locations, iSCSI targets and BackupAssist Data containers.<\/p>\n

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In current versions, if you want to use BackupAssist’s Hyper-V Granular Restore console to restore data from an iSCSI target or a Data container, you have to manually mount the Data container<\/a> or iSCSI target first. This adds more work to an otherwise simple process.<\/p>\n

BackupAssist v8.2 improves the Hyper-V Granular Restore console by adding support for backup catalogues. These catalogues provide detailed information about the backup and allow the Hyper-V Granular Restore console to locate and access backups on iSCSI targets and Data containers. You no longer need to manually mount them.<\/p>\n

When you start the Hyper-V Granular Restore console it will use the backup catalogues to display all of your Hyper-V backups. Just select the backup and click next. The backup will be loaded and you can then select the guest that you want to restore from.<\/p>\n

Hyper-V Granular Restore – backup support<\/h2>\n

The addition of backup catalog support means the Hyper-V Granular Restore console can also restore data from File Protection and File Archiving backups of Hyper-V environments.<\/p>\n

Yes, you heard right. BackupAssist v8.2 will support granular restores of Hyper-V guest data using not only System Protection<\/a>, but also File Protection<\/a> and File Archiving<\/a> backups \u2013 as long as you have the Hyper-V Granular Restore Add-on.<\/p>\n

And let\u2019s not forget that all three backup types support CSV environments and granular restores of Exchange mailbox data within a guest by using the Exchange Granular Restore Add-on<\/a> with the Hyper-V Granular Restore Add-on.<\/p>\n

System Protection is still our recommended backup type for Hyper-V Servers because it supports:<\/p>\n