Hi all,<\/p>\n
Just to keep you updated with progress – we’re making good headway on our Tape Drive backup engine for Server 2008. It’ll be a partial replacement for NTBackup, primarily targeted at Server 2008 users, but also useful for past operating systems.<\/p>\n
Features that we’re adding in include AES256 encryption and Zip-style compression. Both these features were not available in NTBackup.<\/p>\n
Currently we’re doing speed testing to make sure that the backup speed is only limited by the speed of the tape drive. We’re finding that encryption can be done in real-time, but compression is adding significant overhead, and we’re working on improving that.<\/p>\n
Our tape drive engine will be capable of backing up local files, folders and VSS aware applications, such as Exchange 2007, Hyper-V guests, and so on. It will also be able to backup network shares.<\/p>\n
We’re still targeting a July beta release date, and things are progressing quite well.<\/p>\n
Thanks for your patience on this… we’re effectively replacing NTBackup here, which has been developed over more than 10 years, and we’re attempting it in 6 months! I’ll keep everyone posted on progress.<\/p>\n
Regards,<\/p>\n
Linus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"