Local Disk Consolidation of Synthetic Full Backups

A large number of issues with synthetic full backup are caused by network locations dropping packets. BUDR 3.1 checks for sufficient space on the local disk, copies the files locally and performs the consolidation, then copies the backup back to the NAS. Consolidation using the local disk dramatically improves the reliability of synthetic full backups. Sufficient local disk space is required to implement this solution. If not enough disk space is available, then remote consolidation is performed.

Standard Installer Updates

BUDR 3.1 installer supports installing on Server 2008 when installing on Kaseya 2 and downloads the latest hotfixes during the install process.

Queued Installs

Previously, installing the BUDR client on multiple machines simultaneously slowed down the network, and in some cases, resulted in failed installs. This enhancement limits the number of simultaneous downloads to prevent this problem. If you schedule too many backup client installs at once, then some of the installs are queued up until the downloads for the prior installs finish.

Updated Build of Acronis

BUDR 3.1 now includes Acronis 9.7-8218.

Error Status of Offsite/Local Server on Status Page

The Backup Status page now includes the error status of Offsite Servers and Local Servers. This means you can immediately tell if an Offsite Server or Local Server is offline by looking at the standard BUDR landing page.

Last Backup on Backup Status Table

The Backup Status table on the Backup Status page now shows when the backup last run, instead of just informing you that it ran "sometime" in the last 24 hours.

Local Server > Status Last Checked

The Local Server page now includes the date and time the status of local server was last updated.

Other Backup Products Installed Warning

Other backup products often conflict with Acronis, causing corrupted backups or hung systems. The Backup Status page now includes a warning when machines have both Acronis and other backup products installed.

Allow Synthetic Full Backups when Replication Directory is Subfolder of Image Location

If your backup image location was \\nas\share\backups and you wanted to use Offsite Replication to replicate just one machine, you might consider replicating \\nas\share\backups\<agentGuid>, where <agentGuid> is the Agent Guid of the machine you wish to replicate. However, BUDR 3.0 would not recognize backups located in subfolders when performing synthetic full backups and full backups would be replicated completely. BUDR 3.1 now enables full synthetic full backups to be replicated correctly when specifying a subfolder of the image location.

Verify Does Not Mark Backup as Invalid

Automatic verification can fail for numerous reasons, such as a machine rebooting during the backup or the network image location going offline. In BUDR 3.0 if this happened, the verify would fail, and then the backup would be marked as invalid, no longer allowing you to mount, restore, re-verify, or convert the image to a VM. With BUDR 3.1, the failed verify is still logged, but the backup still shows up on those pages as a possible backup choice.