{"id":114,"date":"2010-01-04T01:29:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T01:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secure.backupassist.com\/blog\/?p=114"},"modified":"2026-04-03T13:38:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:38:57","slug":"product-update-backupassist-v5-4-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sandbox.backupassist.com\/blog\/product-update-backupassist-v5-4-released","title":{"rendered":"Product update: BackupAssist v5.4 released!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re happy to announce that BackupAssist 5.4 is now out of beta and officially available for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/BackupAssist\/download.php\">download<\/a>! This latest release includes a number of improvements:<\/p>\n<h3>New BackupAssist Hyper-V Solution<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;Use our great new backup solution with any Windows Hyper-V product to create a simple one-pass image backup of the Host and then use our new BackupAssist VM Granular Restore Console Add-on to retrieve any file, folder or document from any Guest VM in under three minutes! Learn more about BackupAssist\u2019s new Hyper-V backup and restore capabilities on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/BackupAssist\/tour_HyperV.html\">Hyper-V product tour page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Note: after installing the update to v5.4 you will receive a free 30 day trial of the VM Granular Restore Console. To use the Restore Console beyond the trial period you will need to purchase a <strong>Hyper-V Add-on<\/strong> from our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/purchasing\/purchase.php\">purchasing page<\/a> or your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/reseller\">Reseller Portal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Support for new SATA &amp; Blu-ray facilities and more!<\/h3>\n<p>BackupAssist 5.4 also includes SATA support for non-hot-swap SATA controllers, support for Blu-ray drives on Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7, and a new intra-day schedule so that you can run image backups multiple times a day. We\u2019ve also fixed a few bugs and improved some existing features. For a full list of changes see our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/BackupAssist\/history.html\">release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Note: if you experience any difficulties with the update to BackupAssist v5.4 please contact our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/support\">support team<\/a>. 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