BackupAssist ER Automated Disk to Disk to Cloud Backup Software for Windows Servers

BackupAssist announced the availability of BackupAssist ER – automated, disk to disk to cloud backup for Windows Servers.

With the threats of hacking and ransomware, the ability to quickly recover from an attack is a capability that all SMEs must have. This software provides ‘Express Recovery’ options that enable its users to achieve fast, predictable recoveries of data and systems, and to perform recoveries both locally and in the cloud. With an SME-friendly price point, the company’s ER solution, provides an alternative to the more expensive DRaaS options.

“We’ve known for some time that legacy backup systems are becoming less effective each day, as cyber-attacks increase in sophistication and target backup data in addition to primary data,” said Linus Chang, founder and CEO. “To compound problems, the Covid-19 pandemic has meant that traditional backup procedures, such as swapping HDDs, are difficult or impossible during a lockdown.“

BackupAssist ER helps SMEs prepare for disaster scenarios by providing ‘unattended resilience.’ By always having a local onsite copy and a cloud offsite copy of backup data, businesses can recover from cyber events, with resilience vs. destruction to on-premise infrastructure.

“BackupAssist ER provides the balance of cyber-resilience and affordability that many SMEs need. It’s easy to be resilient if you have an unlimited budget but in the real world, you have to pick your priorities. BackupAssist ER, provides automatic geo-redundancy of backup data and CryptoSafeGuard features to shield the backups from ransomware. Engineering choices like enabling users to choose inexpensive cloud storage or even backup to their own private storage keep costs low. Overall, BackupAssist ER meets the needs of a lot of SMEs at a fraction of the cost of many DRaaS solutions – and without the vendor lock-in,” said Stuart Bryan, president, I-M Technology LLC. “Solutions like BackupAssist ER can provide the robust resilience required in 2020 and beyond.“

BackupAssist ER installs on Windows Servers, to perform disk to disk to cloud backups, and is bare metal capable across both. It provides 3 DR/BC methods, including VM Instant Boot, Bare Metal Recovery (BMR) and download cloud backup to anywhere. It also includes 3 data recovery methods: granular files – to any point in time, granular exchange – to any point in time, and granular applications – to any point in time, at a cost that is 75% cheaper than competing solutions.

“BackupAssist has a long and rich history in this space, and we’re proud to deliver our latest backup software in BackupAssist ER. We continue to engineer and deliver solutions that meet real-world IT, business and budgetary requirements. Our partners and end customers spoke, and we heard – they wanted automatic offsite backups with history and retention, fast local recoveries, and the option to recover in the cloud when needed – all at a price an SMB could afford,” said Chang. “With BackupAssist ER, all backups are recoverable from any machine and can be used for both full system recoveries and granular recoveries. The backups will always be there for you as its built-in CryptoSafeGuard feature shields your backups directly from potential malware attack, while also preventing them from being polluted with corrupted data.” He continued, “BackupAssist ER protects your organization and its data, and provides a clear path to a predictable, successful recovery.“

About BackupAssist ER:

Ransomware protection – CryptoSafeGuard prevents unauthorized modification of backups, scans and prevents ransomware-infected data from polluting backups, and delivers notifications/alerts via email and SMS.
Local backup – Supported destinations include locally mapped disk (USB, iSCSI) and network share (including NAS); backup file formats include VHDX file chain; can specify retention; encrypts using AES-256 CBC; and supports automatic recovery after interruption.
Cloud backup – Supported destinations include AWS, Microsoft Azure and other S3 compatible storage providers; with proprietary deduplication (50%-75% space savings), compressed and encrypted data chunks; supports automatic recovery after network interruptions; and data is encrypted using AES-256.
Recovery – Media created using any BackupAssist ER supported platform, bare-metal DR (BMDR), USB and ISO supported.
VM instant boot – Supports local and cloud backups of a full server (BMR-capable); Hyper-V supported backup; changes made while running recovery VM saved separately and original backup is not touched.
Supported platforms – Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 r2, Windows 10.

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September 28, 2018 | Press Release