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Product News
In these unprecedented times, with the world being tested like never before, it’s a good time to reflect on what’s truly important. And for us, it’s our relationship with you, our network of partners.
In this edition, we are pleased to share:
- New features in BackupAssist 365 1.7.0
- A maintenance release of our favorite solution, BackupAssist Classic 10.5.4
- Update to our new BackupAssist ER 1.1 with new storage compatibility features
Latest news about BackupAssist ER 1.1.0
BackupAssist ER 1.1.0 release is on Monday, August 24.
This is a feature release for BackupAssist ER. The following are draft release notes and may change in the final version.
- Introduced support for S3-compatible cloud backup destinations. This includes support for destinations like Wasabi, MinIO etc.
- New option to launch the Exchange Granular Restore tool manually so clients can extract emails from .edb/.pst files previously recovered from a cloud backup.
- On the “Your recover options” page, the help links and action buttons have been rearranged.
- Improved the handling of volume and bare-metal selections when validating jobs.
- Entered license keys are now validated for the correct format before submission.
- The Action buttons for the “Restore from available backup” page no longer scroll off the page if the grid is too long.
- Resized the column widths for the files table in the Recover properties to optimize the space usage.
- Updated the BackupAssist ER icon in the list of installed applications.
- CryptoSafeGuard will now be enabled by default.
- The S3-compatible Backup properties will default to require https as the default URL setting.
- Information about the public and private cloud providers that support S3-compatible will be shown when that option is selected.
- Other applications can now appear in front of the BackupAssist ER splash screen.
- Removed the NTFS and file ownership options when downloading backups. These are not relevant to backup downloading.
- Improved the backup report warnings for reverse-incremental problems.
Latest news about BackupAssist Classic
BackupAssist Classic 10.5.4 had a minor a maintenance release earlier this month which contained:
- Fixed a bug that allowed the “Switch Trial Experience“ option to be available after a license has been activated.
- Fixed an issue that prevented passwords being changed on WebDAV Cloud Backup jobs.
- Fixed an issue that caused Cloud Backup restores to fail due to the inability to write certain files to the user profile WindowsApps folder.
- Reduced the likelihood of getting a BA7002 error in a backup report, due to a timeout when uploading the catalogue to a cloud container.
- Fixed issue that could cause a Hyper-V Granular Restore to fail due to the presence of AutoRecovery files in the backup.
- Improved the performance and stability of Cloud Backup jobs.
- Fixed an issue that could cause intermittent corruption of an Amazon S3 cloud container if the Discover Backups feature was used with the wrong region.
- Changed the structure of backup data in new WebDAV containers to improve performance and scalability.
