What's new in BackupAssist Classic v14¶
NEW Disk to Cloud (D2C)¶
A new backup paradigm that introduces new use cases for the modern business environment - including the proliferation of laptops generating critical data, and cloud servers both which local storage is impractical.
- Ability to backup entire system and volumes directly to the cloud using the Cloud Backup Add-on.
- Detects and backs up system and disk structure information as well as volume data.
- Option to backup volumes or individual files.
- Recover individual files and folders from a volume backup in the cloud.
- “Download from cloud” feature to support disaster recovery (DR) from D2C backups.
- Such “downloaded backups” work with Lifeline Recovery and VM instant boot.
NEW BackupAssist Desktop Product in Our MSP Program (through the MBC)¶
- BackupAssist WFH (Work From Home) product has now been rebranded to BackupAssist Desktop.
- BackupAssist desktop introduced into our MSP program and managed by the Managed Backup Console (MBC).
- Simple to use, cost effective monthly subscription, no keys or tokens required.
- When registering to the MBC on workstations, select the Desktop edition.
NEW additions to Cloud Backup¶
- Added new “Daily” backup scheme, with simple “number of backups to keep” retention settings.
- Added ability to dynamic adjust to transfer rates upon request by cloud provider. This allows automatic handling of various provider limits, response types, and errors (for initial release this is off by default).
- Added Advanced threading options to improve performance on slower computers/destinations, available in the Cloud options UI.
NEW additions to Advanced imaging engine¶
- Added Dedicated Rdx destination.
- Added ability to list critical volumes process without dependency on wbadmin, so backups can run without Windows Server Backup being installed.
- Added ability to recover from more interrupted backup scenarios, for example where backups were killed during complex parts of merge processing.
- Added support for Aomei Partition Assistant created FAT partitions.
- Added ability to retain more than 100 backup.
- Added missing “Customize schedule” button.
- Add option to disable the advanced NTFS performance optimization for cases where there are NTFS errors on source volumes and chkdsk cannot be run, available in the Imaging options UI.