| Version | Change log |
| BackupAssist 14.0.3 Feb 20, 2025 |
New: added basic Server 2025 support: All backup types, restores, and BMR recoveries are confirmed, including Exchange, SQL, and Hyper-V scenarios. CryptoSafeGuard and Cyber Black Box are also confirmed. Note that Exchange EGR on Server 2025 is not yet fully confirmed, though it seems most functionality is working. New System Protection: Improve error message when the destination volume is sparse. Include a new warning BA6127 if automount is disabled and the backup fails. Improve stability through file copy retries where possible. Use fallback file system traversal when NTFS errors occur (also when using Legacy System Protection). Avoid infinite retries when write errors reoccur in early stages of reopening a vhd file. Fixed regression since 14.0.1, where non-critical deduplication volumes are automatically added to every BMR backup with VSS applications selected, even if they are not necessary or selected. Other backup types: All backup types: Improve VSS warnings to indicate when the VSS writers are unstable. This could happen if the backup process is killed after VSS writers have become involved in a backup. Cloud Backup: Fix rare issue "Only one asynchronous reader is allowed time at one time" that could theoretically affect Cloud Backups on some multi-core machines. Cloud Backup: Fix “WebException” issues reported on rare installs of Cloud Backups caused by incorrect handling of some reparse points. Legacy System Protection: New jobs using Data Container will only use VHDX format in all cases. Network backups: Avoid retrying network writes and eventual timeouts if the destination becomes full. Restores and Test Restores: Show a warning message if Hyper-V Granular restores are attempted from an unsupported dynamic disk. Avoid having CryptoSafeGuard Shield lock the whole destination drive during Test Restore of New System Protection backups. Fixed the workflow for Cloud Backup restores when the access keys used for backup have subsequently changed. |
| BackupAssist 14.0.2 Oct 30, 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 14.0.1 Sep 26, 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 14.0.0 Jul 17, 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. New 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 |
| BackupAssist 12.0.7 Mar 6, 2024 | |
| BackupAssist 12.0.6 Oct 26, 2023 | |
| BackupAssist 12.0.5 Sep 27, 2023 | |
| BackupAssist 12.0.4 Aug 1, 2023 | |
| BackupAssist 12.0.3 Apr 12, 2023 | |
| BackupAssist 12.0.2 Jan 20, 2023 |
