Developer
Unattended upgrade script – BETA
Hi all, How do you upgrade a BackupAssist installation? Well, up until now, the answer has been: manually. But one of our Aussie helpdesk team,
Linus Chang
August 6, 2009
Support
Rsync performance on different processors – Atom performs quite well
Hi all, A few weeks ago, we did some additional tests on the Intel Atom processor to see if it was suitable to use as
Linus Chang
August 3, 2009
Support
Recovering a Windows 2008 System State from an image backup created with the Server 2008 backup wizard, wbadmin or BackupAssist
Recovering the system state of your server from a created by the Server 2008 backup wizard, wbadmin or BackupAssist image backup is a very simple
BackupAssist
July 30, 2009
Support
Backing up Exchange 2003 with Rsync and File Replication
In BackupAssist 5.2.2 we introduced support for backing up Exchange 2007 via Rsync and File Replication. Instructions for how to do that are in this
David Overton
July 22, 2009
Developer
Using BackupAssist for Rsync with Amazon S3
A new feature in version 5.2.5 of BackupAssist is support for backing up to an Amazon S3 bucket via the service provided by s3rsync.com. To
David Overton
July 16, 2009
Support
Windows Server 2008 Backup – imaging to NAS
Recently we’ve had quite a few people ask about imaging their Server 2008 (or SBS 2008) machine to a NAS. It *is* possible to backup
Linus Chang
July 16, 2009
Product Releases
BackupAssist v5.2.5 released
We’ve just released version 5.2.5 of BackupAssist. This is a maintenance release and fixes some common issues, but also adds several new features that you
Jason Schultz
July 13, 2009
Support
Exchange Server Database corruption can prevent backups from completing
Hi All, We recently had a support case where an Exchange 2003 Server simply wouldn’t back up with NTBackup. The error in the NTBackup log
Linus Chang
June 29, 2009
Developer
Backup device speed testing – the most comprehensive survey ever done!
Hello everyone, Questions that we often get asked: How much faster is eSATA over USB? Are 3.5″ drives faster than 2.5″ drives for backup? How
Linus Chang
May 21, 2009
Support
Other backup software can cause problems with BackupAssist!
Hi all, Recently we’ve had a number of support issues where problems have been caused when people evaluate BackupAssist alongside other backup products. In general,
Linus Chang
May 12, 2009
Support
Disk to disk to tape backup (D2D2T) in BackupAssist
Please Note: This option is no longer supported by BackupAssist. For a more up-to-date article on Tape Backups, please refer to this recent article: Outshining
Linus Chang
May 11, 2009
Product Releases
BackupAssist v5.2.4 released
We’ve just released version 5.2.4 of BackupAssist. This is a maintenance release fixing issues discovered by several of our customers running RSync and File Replication
Jason Schultz
May 11, 2009
