Released with Version 21.1
Hybrid Backup
The best way to keep your data as recoverable as possible is to keep a copy of it locally and another copy offsite. However, organizing all the different backup jobs that help achieve this can be cumbersome.
NovaBACKUP's new hybrid backup feature simplifies the creation and management of a 3-2-1 backup strategy by combining the backup to a local storage and to the cloud destination into a single backup job. This also ensures that during a restore, NovaBACKUP automatically pulls the data from the correct backup file, regardless of whether it is on the local storage or in the cloud backup.
Read more about this new feature in our blog post here.
Simplified Agent Deployment for NovaBACKUP Managed Backup
The latest release eliminates and consolidates several steps in the backup agent deployment process that have caused friction in the past.
It is now much easier for Managed Service Providers to deploy and activate the client installation because you no longer need to add a "Cloud Storage" device in the Central Management to activate the agent. Instead, when the agent is added to the appropriate group, it inherits everything it needs for the activation directly from your account.
Additional Enhancements and Fixes
- NovaBACKUP Managed Backup now fully leverages the new local backup engine for backups to local storage devices.
- Cleaned up backup log files to minimize noise and display more relevant information.
- Various improvements to backup and restore speed, including an updated UI framework, optimized backup retention algorithm and scanning method.
- See the changelog for more details.
Released with Version 21.0
- New, faster backup engine for local backups: Makes the new backup engine available for backups to local storage devices, such as disk, NAS, or RDX.
- Introduces Forever Incremental Backup, a single backup job that schedules the initial set of files and folders and ongoing changes. To improve backup reliability, NovaBACKUP no longer relies on the archive bit of a file or folder to determine what needs to be backed up. Instead, it looks at the attributes of the objects that have changed, such as the date of the last update or the size of the file, and compares them to what has already been backed up.
- Reliable backups to rotating media: NovaBACKUP writes a complete version of the backup to each medium. Subsequent backups contain only the data that has changed since the last backup to that device.
- Cloud storage is always included with NovaBACKUP PC Agent and NovaBACKUP Server Agent.
- Flexible restore view: NovaBACKUP's updated Restore View displays all past backups by device, sorted by job name. When drilling down to the desired restore point, the Restore View highlights everything that is available in a folder, for example, across all existing backup jobs, allowing users to restore everything from a single view instead of restoring each full and incremental backup individually.
- Local and cloud storage devices available across jobs, including their credentials and encryption level.
Removed Features
End of support for single tape drives (LTO).
The latest version will no longer support 32-bit operating systems.
