Important BackupAssist Update Released

Late last month Microsoft released some security updates that caused an unforeseen issue with manually creating BackupAssist jobs for some users.

As soon as we heard of this issue, our developers jumped on the situation and released updates to all supported versions of BackupAssist to correct it.  

These updates are available for BackupAssist v8, v7.4.6 and v7.5.

To find out more about the issue, what caused it, and how you can download the Update to correct it, read this article.

Some Food for Thought on Ditching Tape

As time goes on, more and more businesses are considering moving away from tape.  There are a lot of advantages to be had from making this transition.  Nobody will argue that.

However, what you may not hear about so often are the potential downsides.  At the very least, these are definitely worth taking into account before making any binding decisions.

This month, we examined the pros and cons of ditching tape equally.

Here's some food for thought.

Weapons of Choice - File vs Image Backups

'What backup type should I be using?'

It's a question that our support teams hear a lot. Well, in general, the answer is almost always going to be System Protection - the imaging backup type in BackupAssist.

However, there are circumstances where File Protection and File Archiving will play their part too.

This month, we looked the difference between image-level and file-level backups, and when you should incorporate each type into your backup strategy.

Check it out.