Backup Assist V. 5.4 is Released on 31 December 2009

• New: Hyper-V Granular Restore Console
  
• New: SATA support for non-hot-swap SATA controllers - correctly removes the drive after the backup; improved media preparation.
  
• New: Intra Day - imaging jobs now support scheduling to run multiple times per day.
  
• New: Blu Ray support
  
  • Blu-Ray drives are now supported on 2008 R2 and Windows 7
    
  • Fixed Blu-Ray "erase" (applies to all rewritables)
    
• Enhanced: "Run now" functionality now gives immediate feedback if the job was immediately queued or failed to start, eg. due to problems with the Backup User Identity like password expiry.
  
• Enhanced: Imaging
  
  • Added up-front detection of wbadmin, and an inbuilt installer for Windows Server Backup.
    
  • The UI now shows a loading message while it's searching for Hyper-V guests.
    
  • Added a button to automatically select all drives required to backup all Hyper-V guests (not available on Server 2008 R2).
    
  • If any Hyper-V guests require a drive that is currently not selected, they are shown at the top of the guest list.
    
  • Volume selection now warns the user when they select a volume greater than ~2TB (Windows has limited support for these).
    
• Fixes:
  
  • Trial Expiry: the content of the trial expiry warning email has been fixed to specify the correct number of days remaining rather than specifying "{0} days remaining".
    
  • Server Core and Hyper-V Core machines no longer attempt to call the Windows restore GUI - instead they are prompted to enter wbadmin /? at the console.
    
  • Fixed a common exception while adding Exchange servers. This most often occurred when the BackupAssist machine was not on a domain.
    
  • EBS Addin: fixed broken addin registration and icon exception during Refresh.
    
  • Ntbackup: several minor fixes for rare issues, including a problem preventing backup of directory paths containing "IP addresses".
    
  • File replication: fix potential arithmetic overflow on 64-bit Windows.
    
  • File replication: fix possible memory access violation in file replication code.
    
  • Zip: Fix a zip restore error on certain DAT tape drives.
    
  • Backup: Fix to improve handling of unicode characters in the file catalogue.
    
  • SQL Transactional: fixed bug causing invalid historical reports from showing in the reports list after a service restart.
    
  • Zip: improve error handling during compression and report missed files as skipped.
    
  • Zip: improve robustness of memory handling.
    
  • Improved error handling in restore console.
    
  • Remove invalid options from ntbackup jobs.
    
  • Fixed a couple of rare exceptions in the UI, including one that occurred when in Prepare Media.