BackupAssist Classic v14

BackupAssist Classic v14.0.2

Maintenance released October 30th, 2024

New feature: Modern authentication support for sending email notifications

  • New modern authentication options allowing users to authenticate and send email using “Office 365” or other email providers, including Google.
  • The dedicated “Office 365” authentication type allows users to authenticate using a business or personal Office 365 email account. Click “Launch web browser to login”, enter the login credentials, and accept the permission request so that BackupAssist can securely send email from your account.
    • Note that BackupAssist does not store your credentials and cannot read emails or other content
  • The alternative “Custom OAuth2” allows modern authentication using many other email providers, including Google and Office 365 if you prefer to use your own application. See your provider’s documentation on registering an OAuth application.
  • NB. We will be providing a dedicated Google authentication option in the very near future.

BackupAssist Classic v14.0.1

Released September 26th, 2024

Cloud Backup (includes important fixes)

  • Fixed BMR for Disk-to-Cloud backups on Server 2016 servers with Active Directory and MBR firmware (including Gen 1 Hyper-V guests).
  • Fixed BA6104 regression error after upgrade to v14 for Cloud Backups on systems with dynamic volumes (eg. software RAID).
  • Fixed crash that could occur when configuring Azure Cloud Backup jobs using a connection string.
  • Fixed BA950 warnings for Disk-to-Cloud (BMR) backups on some systems.
  • Fixed timeout error during Test Restore of massive files in Cloud Backups.

System Protection (includes important fixes)

  • Multiple fixes and improvements for New System Protection Backups and Test Restores of these backups (including BA8207 errors) even when the OS leaves inconsistent metadata in the snapshot.
  • Fixed eject capability for new RDX destination introduced in v14.

Other important fixes

  • CryptoSafeGuard - Fix issue causing temp files from CSG scanning to be left in the Windows temp directory. This issue can also cause very slow scanning and “IOException: The File exists” errors in the logs, and potentially could fill up the system disk in extreme cases.
  • General - Fixed BA6999 error preventing backups from occurring on recovered systems.

Other changes

  • Installer now supports Windows 10/11 and Server 2016 and later only.
  • Data Container usage is no longer recommended except for NAS.
  • Enhanced progress reporting per file in the Activity Monitor for System Protection, File Protection, and File Archiving (except tape).

BackupAssist Classic v14.0.0

Released July 17th, 2024

NEW Disk to Cloud (D2C)

  • Ability to choose “all critical volumes” (BMR) for cloud backups with the Cloud Backup Add-on.
  • Detects and backs up system structure information as well as volume data.
  • “Download from cloud” feature to support disaster recovery (DR) from D2C backups.
  • Such “downloaded backups” work with Lifeline Recovery (incl Classic v12.0.* and ER 1.4.*).

NEW Desktop in MBC

  • When registering to MBC on workstations, select Server edition or Desktop edition (with Cloud).
  • Simple to use, cost effective monthly subscription, no keys or tokens required.

Cloud Backup

  • Added new “Daily” backup scheme for Cloud Backups, with simple “number of backups to keep” retention settings (no longer limited to just 1 week of backups and GFS).
  • 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).
  • Reduction of skipped files issues, via improved retry abilities for various cloud request issues, and automatic recovery from some types of metadata corruptions.
  • Improved performance for backup of large files eg. Hyper-V guests.
  • Added two Advanced threading options that can be enabled to reduce the amount of threading, which may improve performance on slower computers/destinations, available in the Cloud options UI.
  • Preview release fix – backup of network paths has been corrected since 12.1.0p0 release.

Advanced imaging engine

  • Dedicated Rdx destination for New Imaging backups.
  • The list critical volumes process no longer depends on the presence of wbadmin, so backups can run without wbadmin 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.
  • Improved some obtuse error messages and related knowledgebase articles.
  • Removed the limit of only 100 backup retention for backup jobs.
  • 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.

Test Restore:

  • Added Test Restore ability for File Archiving jobs.
  • Performance optimization, disabled gathering of integrity information by default during File Protection backups, with new “Enable file integrity checking” option available in Replication options UI to turn this back on. With the option disabled, Test Restore can only perform read testing of backups. Enable the option to check file integrity.

Other enhancements:

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2022 support has now been confirmed.
  • BackupAssist WFH has been rebranded to BackupAssist Desktop to match branding in other markets. This is only a branding change and does not affect licensing or any functionality.
  • Added wildcard capability for whitelisting paths for CryptoSafeGuard scanning.
  • Obsoleted RSync and WebDAV backup destinations.
  • Added ability to cancel queued jobs from the job list.
  • Minor updates to EGR.
  • Changed to utilise .Net Framework v4.7.2.
  • During installation, notify users about potential upcoming “Callback Technologies” driver installation.
  • Driver version numbers are now included in backup reports.

Fixes:

  • Fixed RDP/Blackscreen issues after running some iSCSI backups.
  • Fixed issue affecting Test Restore of Cloud Backups for files marked with Offline that are not also Sparse.
  • Integrity databases from File Protection backups (~$bkint.db) are no longer restored as if they are backed up files.
  • Fixed issue affecting Cloud Backups if windows updates were in progress during the backup.
  • Fixed NAS test routine to support subdirectory-only access.
  • Fixed discover and recovery from encrypted backups made on other machines.
  • Fixed Exchange recovery capabilities for discovered backups.
  • Fixed broken save option for media checking options in the Prepare Media screen.
  • Avoid superfluous wbadmin errors in windows logs due to Cyber Black Box activity.
  • Avoid using Internet Explorer when opening help links.
  • Fixed issues seen by some users after change to daylight savings time.
  • Fixed incorrect reporting of Data Container jobs’ RVR and GRC capabilities.
  • Improved VSS errors raised for generic BA6124.
  • Fixed incorrect OS version display for RecoverAssist RE on Windows 11.
  • Fixed a service startup problem that could occur if a reboot happens while a backup job is running.
  • Don’t leave redundant “*.bac.destination” in the local catalogues folder after backups.