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Vembu BDR Server Changelog

What's new in Vembu BDR Server 7.0.1

Feb 9, 2024
  • Immutable Object Storage:
  • BDRSuite has integrated immutability feature with the Amazon S3 and S3 compatible Object Storage, making backups more safe from ransomware, malware and it also prevents modification or deletion of backups accidentally.
  • Linux Hardened Repositories:
  • Safeguard your backup data on Linux systems with Immutable Storage, preventing unauthorized changes and make backups more safe from malware and ransomware.
  • Full VM Recovery for KVM:
  • Effortlessly restore the backed-up KVM virtual machine to either the same host or an alternative KVM host, ensuring a seamless and efficient restoration process for your KVM environment.
  • File Level Recovery for KVM, Azure, AWS:
  • Introducing File Level Recovery for KVM, Azure and AWS offering granular control in restoring specific files and folders and enhancing flexibility in data recovery across virtualized and cloud environments.
  • Enhancements in BDRSuite v7.0.1:
  • Servers & Endpoints: Introduced search and Filters on the Data Source page to monitor Protection Status, Agent Status and Version Details
  • List of Protected Entities: Export host list as a CSV file and options to search & sort protected entities list
  • SharePoint Online Backup: Enable automatic backup for newly added sites with the ‘All Sites’ Filter
  • SharePoint Sites Restore: Option to locally download the backed up Files & Folders of SharePoint Site
  • User Mailbox & OneDrive Restore: Option to include/exclude deleted items for restore
  • Retention reports for AWS and Azure backup
  • Search based on file or folder names in file-level recovery

New in Vembu BDR Server 7.0.0 (Oct 26, 2023)

  • KVM Backup and Recovery:
  • BDRSuite now seamlessly integrates with the KVM Hypervisor, offering agentless backup for KVM virtual machines. With flexible recovery options, you have complete control over restoring your critical virtual machines either as entire machine, file level or more.
  • Azure Backup and Recovery:
  • Agentless backup support for Azure virtual machines using Azure Native APIs. You can leverage incremental backups, allowing you to store backups locally or on versatile cloud storages like Azure Blob, AWS S3, Google Cloud, and S3 Compatible storages.
  • AWS Backup and Recovery:
  • Enjoy agentless backups, incremental backups, and customizable backup policies for your AWS infrastructure, and experience the flexibility to not only create snapshots but also choose where to store your backup data for Amazon EC2 instances.
  • PostgreSQL Backup and Recovery:
  • BDRSuite now provides backup capabilities for PostgreSQL databases. Enjoy application-level backups, customizable backup policies, incremental backups, and efficient data protection for PostgreSQL database.
  • File Share Backup and Recovery:
  • Now backup file shares hosted on NAS devices, Windows, and Linux machines, using BDRSuite. Automate backups with flexible scheduling options, retain backup data, and restore files/folders as needed.
  • Two-Factor Authentication (2FA):
  • Strengthen the security of your BDRSuite Servers with Two-Factor Authentication, ensuring only authorized individuals can login to the BDRSuite Backup Server web-console and access your critical backup jobs.
  • Import Backup Data:
  • Easily import backups to a new backup server from backup repository at times of challenging scenarios like failure of backup server, importing backups from another backup server, if backup job has been deleted but the backup data is retained in the backup repository.
  • Pre/Post Backup Scripts:
  • BDRSuite now allows users to automate tasks before and after the backup operation with pre and post backup scripts for VM, Disk Image, and file-level backups.
  • File Level Recovery to Source Machine:
  • Enhance data recovery by restoring files/folders to the source machine directly, simplifying the process.
  • Enhancements in BDRSuite v7.0.0:
  • Centralized Backup for Microsoft SQL, MySQL, and PostgreSQL Database
  • Flexibly Add Folder Path as Backup Repository
  • Automatic Backup Agent Installation from BDRSuite Backup Server
  • Offsite Copy Support for Backup Jobs with Object Storage Repository
  • Automated Tape Library Support
  • Email Notifications to EndUser’s MailID associated with their Endpoints
  • Missed Backup Schedule Report

New in Vembu BDR Server 5.6.0.0 (Mar 28, 2023)

  • New Features:
  • Add Servers and Endpoints through AD/LDAP Server:
  • The BDRSuite Backup Server now lets users to add multiple servers (Windows, Linux ) and endpoints (Windows, Linux & Mac) as data sources. This is done by importing machine details from the AD/LDAP servers. With this feature, multiple machines can be managed for backup and recovery from a single console on the backup server.
  • Centralized Backup Management for Mac:
  • With the latest version of BDRSuite, backup configuration and restore of Mac endpoint is now more straightforward. Instead of using separate clients, administrators can configure and manage backups directly from a centralized backup server. This not only simplifies the management process but also eliminates the need for separate clients.
  • Backup Windows machines directly from Linux BDRSuite Backup Server:
  • With the Linux BDRSuite Backup Server, users can now directly manage the backup and restore functions of the Microsoft Windows (DiskImage Backup). This integration simplifies the process by eliminating the need for separate clients, and managing all backups and restores from a single interface.
  • Backup Job Template for Endpoints and File/Folder Backups:
  • The BDRSuite now offers backup job template feature that allows users to create backup job templates while configuring file server backup (Windows, Linux) and endpoints backup (Windows, Linux, and Mac) . This feature helps to eliminate the need for repeatedly configuring backup options such as scheduling, retention, and exclusion each time while creating a backup job for the respective entities. With this feature, users can create backup job templates based on their organization’s policy and use them when creating backup jobs for respective workloads.
  • Multi-tenancy support for Endpoints and File/Folder Backups:
  • Using this feature, MSPs and IT admins can now group the selected servers and endpoints to create a separate tenant with Read-Only or Restore-Only permission. This feature now supports Endpoints (Windows, Linux, and Mac), Servers (Windows, and Linux) along with other workloads.
  • Enhancements:
  • Users can now schedule an on-demand incremental backup for a specific host(s)/VM(s) and failed host(s)/VM(s) in a backup job
  • List of all Protected Host(s)/VMs in the BDRSuite Backup Server for Host/VM level backup and direct restore
  • Microsoft 365 backup support for permanently deleted mails and litigation hold items
  • Users can now choose the Azure Environment (Azure Default Cloud, Azure US Government clouds, Azure China) while adding Microsoft 365 Organization
  • Users can now add Microsoft 365 Organization with Certificate Based MS Graph API authorization instead of Application secret Key
  • End-user self recovery via BDRSuite’s MS Outlook addon and end-user login for SaaS application backup
  • Deleted items retention handling for OneDrive, Group OneDrive and Sharepoint Sites
  • Backup speed optimization for OneDrive, Group OneDrive and Sharepoint Sites
  • Where-it-left-off feature support for Microsoft 365 user mailbox
  • Backup parallel limit & queue/retry mechanism for endpoints
  • Users can now search for specific Backup/ VMs from the reports page (Recent Job Schedule, Recent Host/VM Schedule reports, etc…)
  • Enhanced filter option in List Jobs / Recovery pages to search in name of backups, and filter by the status of backup (active, idle, etc…)
  • End-user restore based on Online Authorization for SaaS applications

New in Vembu BDR Server 5.5.0.0 (Nov 16, 2022)

  • New Features:
  • Support for VMware vSphere v8.x:
  • BDRSuite now supports Backup and Replication for virtual machines running on the latest version VMware vSphere v8.x.
  • Google Cloud as Backup Repository:
  • Google Cloud Storage (Object Storage) is now supported in BDRSuite to store backup data, backup copy and offsite copy data. BDRSuite already supports other cloud storages such Amazon S3, Azure Blog, S3 Compatible storages such as Wasabi, MinIO, etc.
  • ConnectWise Integration:
  • BDRSuite now supports ConnectWise Integration. This feature allows you to create service tickets automatically in ConnectWise Manage for BDRSuite activities. The tickets can be created for various tasks (Backup/Restore/Replication) and different task status (Success/Failed/Warning) on relevant service boards.
  • Backup and Recovery of VMware VM Templates:
  • BDRSuite for VMware now supports backup for VMware VM Templates. Now, VM Templates will show up in the list of VMware ESXi/vCenter entities that can be selected for backup. You can configure backup for VM Templates and restore when required.
  • Backup and Recovery of Google Workspace Shared Drive:
  • BDRSuite now supports backup and recovery of Shared Drives in Google Workspace Organization.
  • Backup and Recovery of Microsoft 365 Archive Mailbox:
  • BDRSuite now supports backup and recovery of user mails in the Archive Mailbox (In-place Archive) of Microsoft 365.
  • Deduplication for Microsoft 365 User Mails:
  • BDRSuite now reduces bandwidth and storage utilization by using the mail-level deduplication feature at the source while backing up Microsoft 365 user mailboxes. With this, BDRSuite avoids transmitting duplicate email data and saves bandwidth and storage.
  • Enhancements:
  • VMware CBT Reset
  • Parallel Disk Image Backup
  • Parallel Synthetic Full Backup
  • Auxiliary Applications for Microsoft 365 Backup
  • Restore to a mailbox in different Organization (Microsoft 365 & Google Workspace)
  • Restore the backed up user mails directly from Microsoft 365 console through BDRSuite Add-in for Outlook
  • Download Restore Logs for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace
  • Breadcrumbs view for OneDrive and Group OneDrive Restore
  • Enhanced progress window for Offsite Replication

New in Vembu BDR Server 5.3.0.0 (Jul 19, 2022)

  • New Features:
  • File Server Backup from BDRSuite Backup Server UI:
  • You can now add Windows and Linux file servers to the Data Source and configure file & folder level backup from the BDRSuite Backup Server console. The backup agents can be automatically pushed from the backup server or manually installed on the required servers. This feature allows you to manage the backup & recovery of a large number of machines from the centralized BDRSuite Backup Server.
  • Endpoint Backup from BDRSuite Backup Server UI:
  • Now, you can configure File & Folder Backup of many Windows & Linux Endpoints directly from the BDRSuite Backup Server console. The agents can be manually installed on the target system or pushed automatically. Also, you can add multiple endpoints in bulk using the CSV file.
  • Azure Blob as Backup Repository
  • Primary backup data and backup copy data can now be stored in Azure Blob storage directly.
  • Active Directory Integration:
  • BDRSuite Server now integrates with Active Directory for user management. You can import and add AD/LDAP users to the BDRSuite Backup Server and grant them different levels of access to the BDRSuite Backup Server.
  • Integrity Check on VMware ESXi Server
  • You can now run the automated boot test on VMware ESXi hosts to confirm the recoverability of the backup machines.
  • Enhancements:
  • Backup data retention for deleted/excluded VMs
  • Performance improvements in the server rebuild process
  • Backup support for the Microsoft 365 accounts enabled with Multi-Factor Authentication(MFA)
  • Parallel backup processing of Microsoft 365 & Google Workspace users
  • Option to exclude Microsoft 365 mailbox folders from backup
  • Breadcrumbs view for SharePoint site & Teams data restore
  • Download Microsoft 365 mail data in EML format
  • Download Microsoft 365 mail data in MBOX format
  • Microsoft 365 & Google Workspace mail recovery based on time range
  • Search option for Microsoft 365 & Google Workspace emails during the restore
  • Parallelly initiate PST export for multiple Microsoft 365 & Google Workspace user’s mail data
  • Logs download for Microsoft 365 & Google Workspace backups
  • Enhanced backup progress window for Google Workspace backup
  • Tree view for Google Drive data restore
  • Enhanced report for Google Workspace backups

New in Vembu BDR Server 5.2.0.0 (Apr 18, 2022)

  • New Features:
  • Restore to Microsoft Azure:
  • BDRSuite now allows restoring the VMware VMs, Hyper-V VMs, Windows Servers & Windows Workstations backups to Microsoft Azure. You can initiate the restore directly from your BDRSuite Backup Server or Offsite DR Server.
  • BDRSuite 360 Server:
  • The BDRSuite 360 Server enables customers and service providers to monitor the backup activity of the BDRSuite Backup Servers deployed on their customer locations across multiple sites from a centralized web-based console.
  • Multitenancy:
  • The multitenancy architecture of BDRSuite is redesigned to support advanced use cases of MSPs. You can now create multiple tenants and allocate one or more entities to each tenant. Every tenant will get multiple user roles to monitor and manage all the entities added under them.
  • Enhancements:
  • Improved application creation steps to add Microsoft 365 accounts to BDRSuite
  • On-demand backup scheduling for Microsoft 365 backups
  • Enhanced backup progress window for Microsoft 365 backups
  • Enhanced backup report for Microsoft 365 backups
  • Subfolder tree view for Microsoft 365 Mailbox
  • Subfolder tree view for OneDrive
  • Subfolder tree view for Group OneDrive
  • User-level backup report for Microsoft-365
  • PST Download of Microsoft 365 now supports all Microsoft Outlook versions
  • On-demand backup scheduling for Google Workspace backups

New in Vembu BDR Server 4.2.0.1 (Feb 8, 2021)

  • Backup support for VMware vSphere 7.0. Using Vembu BDR Suite you can backup and replicate the business critical VMs running on your latest VMware vSphere 7.0 environment.

New in Vembu BDR Server 4.0.2 (Sep 17, 2019)

  • Vembu BDR Suite v4.0.2 is an intermediate patch update. From now you can backup up to 10 VMs for free in the full-featured free edition, previously it was limited only to 3 VMs. This release also addresses the customers reported issues and support issues of v4.0.1 along with improved stability & bug fixes.

New in Vembu BDR Server 4.0.1 (Apr 23, 2019)

  • New Enhancements:
  • Apache & PHP are upgraded to the latest version to improve the overall security of the application
  • Significant performance improvement in Quick VM Recovery on VMware environments
  • Rescan option is introduced in Hyper-V Manager Servers page, which allows you to install Vembu Integration Service on the newly added node of the Hyper-V cluster (or if it’s not available on the existing node)
  • Backups configured through BDR Server console will run in parallel (Default parallel backup count is set to 5 and it is configurable)
  • Ability to add new Hyper-V hosts or choose existing hosts while performing Live Recovery to Hyper-V host
  • Progress information is added for the Proxy installation
  • Major features in Vembu BDR Suite:
  • Agentless VMware Backup & Replication:
  • Vembu has designed VMware backup to protect vSphere and vCenter environments using VMware vStorage APIs (VADP). You can backup and replicate unlimited VMs from VMware vSphere ESXi hosts without installing an agent inside the VM. Direct Hot-Add and SAN transport mode provide faster data transfer speed with less resource utilization. VMBackup will auto analyze the VMware environment and assign the appropriate data transfer mode.
  • Agentless Microsoft Hyper-V Backup with CBT Incrementals:
  • Backup VMs running on a Hyper-V host without installing an agent on individual VMs. Vembu’s proprietary Changed Block Tracking driver tracks the changed blocks in an efficient manner and runs quick incremental backups.
  • Disk Image Backup for Windows Servers and Workstations:
  • Configure image backups of Physical Windows Servers and Workstations which includes the operating system, applications, and user data for entire machine recovery or disaster recovery or to instantly access the machine in any virtual environment via quick boot options.
  • Native Tape Storage Support:
  • In addition to Vembu OffsiteDR and Vembu CloudDR as Offsite copy management, Vembu BDR suite extends its support for native tape storage as well. Users can now archive a copy of their backup data to tape medias or libraries.
  • File & Application Backup:
  • Vembu supports file and application level backup for all Windows, Linux, and Mac operating system running machines. Backup support for system folders such as My Documents, My Photos, Desktop, Browsers and etc., is also available.
  • Advance Reverse Incremental with Any-Point-In-Time-Full:
  • Since every incremental is a self-sufficient snapshot with pointers to the blocks in VembuHive File System, any incremental is instantaneously available as a full backup. There is no extra processing to restore an incremental backup compared to a full backup (no need for a merge).
  • Bare Metal Recovery:
  • The entire crashed physical system can be restored to the same or new hardware by using Vembu Recovery CD.
  • Automatic Backup Verification:
  • Vembu BDR Suite image verification process ensures that disk image backup data (physical disk image, VMware and Hyper-V) is in a bootable state. The integrity of backup data can be easily verified by monitoring the screenshots of the boot screen every day.
  • Quick VM Recovery:
  • This provides the flexibility to boot any VM and physical machine disk image backup instantly. For Windows-based Vembu BDR backup servers, machines are recovered instantly with Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware ESXi. In the case of Linux based Vembu BDR backup servers, Quick VM recovery is done with the help of KVM and VMware ESXi.
  • Permanent VM Recovery:
  • The backed up VMware and Hyper-V VMs can be permanently recovered to the same or different hosts after any major disaster or VM crash.
  • Basic & Advanced Retentions Policies:
  • The Multilevel GFS retention reduces the time taken to restore backed up machines and most importantly reduces the size of image files in the storage location. It also avoids retaining long chains of incremental and helps meet the requirements of your retention policy.
  • Cross-Platform Migration for VMware, Hyper-V & Physical Windows Disk Image Backups:
  • Since VMware, Hyper-V and Physical Windows Disk Image backups are stored at block level in a neutral format, Vembu BDR Suite makes it possible to instantly restore any incremental backup in any virtual disk format including VHD, VHDX, VMDK, VMDK-FLAT or IMG
  • Failover and Failback:
  • You can instantly failover the replicated VMware VMs from the source hosts on the target host during a VM crash. You can also failback the control to source ESXi host at any time.
  • Vembu Universal Explorer:
  • Vembu developed an exclusive free tool called Vembu Universal Explorer to instantly recover the individual Microsoft application items from the backed up data. Be it physical or virtual machine data, Vembu Universal Explorer recovers application items from Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, SQL, and Active Directory without restoring the entire VM backup and disk image backup.
  • Free Edition Support:
  • Vembu introduced Free Edition in v3.7.0 release. From then, users can backup VMware, Hyper-V and Physical Windows Server with limited features at free of cost after trial period.

New in Vembu BDR Server 4.0 (Dec 3, 2018)

  • New Features:
  • Hyper-V Failover Cluster Support
  • Support for backup and recovery of VMs running on Hyper-V Cluster setups. The scheduled backups will not be interrupted even when the VMs move from one node to another for High Availability.
  • Checksum Based Incremental Tracking
  • The modifications made on the VMs running on Hyper-V servers are by default tracked using CBT technology. When CBT fails, the checksum-based incremental tracking is leveraged ensuring seamless backups.
  • Shared VHDX Support
  • Support for backing up shared VHDX of Hyper-V
  • New Credentials Manager
  • Credentials of the VM hosts, guest VMs and physical computers can now be managed using the Credentials Manager, avoiding the need to enter the credentials every time.
  • New Enhancements:
  • Handling new disk addition
  • Any newly added disk to a VM on VMware/Hyper-V was backed up only on the next full backup. From v4.0, the new disk additions are designed to be detected and considered for back up on the next incremental schedule.
  • Reconnection for VMware & Hyper-V backups
  • If a VMware or Hyper-V VM backup job gets interrupted due to network failure, reconnection attempts will be made to continue the data transfer.
  • Abort Replication in Vembu OffsiteDR Server
  • Abort active replication jobs from within the Vembu OffsiteDR server console to terminate an ongoing replication from Vembu onsite to offsite server.
  • Activate/Deactivate from Vembu OffsiteDR Server
  • You can activate or deactivate Vembu BDR Servers from Vembu OffsiteDR if you wish to stop the backup replication to the DR site.
  • Live Recovery to VMware and Hyper-V
  • Live Recovery to VMware and Hyper-V servers is now enhanced where you can configure the virtual hardware specification of the target host like socket and core counts, memory, hard disk provision type, and network adapter while performing the permanent recovery.
  • Enhanced Application-aware processing for Hyper-V & VMware VMs
  • By default, application-aware processing is enabled for highly transactional applications like Exchange, SQL, Active Directory and SharePoint running inside VMs on Hyper-V server. v4.0 provides log truncation and application-aware processing with inbuilt parity check, and you have the option to select VMs that need them.
  • Quick VM recovery Report
  • This report will give you an insight into Quick VM recovery job details like the RTO, start time & end time, the name of the VM that was triggered for recovery, the target server etc., covering the job’s status.
  • Storage Utilization Report
  • With the new set of APIs, generate report on storage utilization with details like the size of VM before the backup schedule, the actual size of the backup data in the storage repository, compression , storage reduction rate, etc.

New in Vembu BDR Server 3.9.1 (May 15, 2018)

  • Introducing Vembu BDR Editions:
  • From v3.9.1 release, Vembu introduce Vembu BDR editions for varied user functionalities as follows:
  • Standard Edition:
  • Standard edition is for small and medium business users comprising of all basic
  • functional options available.
  • Enterprise Edition:
  • This edition is for medium and enterprise business users providing basic functionalities along with extended options such as Tape Backup support, VM replication, Persistent boot, advanced GFS retention etc.
  • Free Edition:
  • Free edition provides users the option to utilize unlimited features up to 3 VMs and then users can backup unlimited hosts with limited features.
  • Major features in Vembu BDR Suite:
  • Native Tape Storage Support:
  • In addition to OffsiteDR and Vembu Cloud as Offsite copy management, Vembu BDR suite extends its support for native tape storage. Users can now make an archive copy of their backup data with tape storage.
  • Agentless VMware Backup and Replication:
  • Vembu designed VMware backup protects vSphere and vCenter environments using VMware vStorage APIs (VADP). Users can backup and replicate unlimited VMs from VMware vSphere ESXi hosts without installing any agents inside VMs. Direct Hot-Add and SAN transport mode provides faster data transfer speed with less resource utilization. VMBackup will auto analyze the VMware environment and assigns the appropriate data transfer mode.
  • Agentless Microsoft Hyper-V Backup with Changed Block Tracking Incremental:
  • Backup VMs running in a Hyper-V host without installing agent on individual VMs.
  • Vembu’s proprietary Hyper-V CBT driver tracks the changed blocks in an efficient manner and runs incremental backups 5X faster!
  • Disk Image Backup for Windows Servers and Workstations deployed in Physical Environments:
  • Backup entire image of physical Windows Servers and Workstations which includes operating system, application and user data in a periodic fashion which can be disaster recovered to same or new hardware as entire machines and can also instant accessed in any virtual environment via quick boot options.
  • File & Application Backup for Windows, Linux and Mac:
  • Vembu supports file and application level backup for all Windows, Linux and Mac operating system running machines. Backup support to system folders such as My Documents, My Photos, Desktop, Browsers and etc., is also provided.
  • Application-Aware Image Backups:
  • Vembu use application-specific VSS writers to take consistent snapshots of highly transactional applications like Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, Active Directory and SharePoint during VM and disk image backup. Transaction log files are truncated at the end of each successful backup schedule.
  • Basic and Advanced (GFS) Retention Policies:
  • The Multilevel GFS retention reduces the time taken to restore backed up machines and most importantly reduces the size of image files in storage location. It also helps to avoid long chains of incrementals, ensuring safety of backup data and allows you to meet the requirements of your retention policy.
  • Automatic Backups Verification:
  • Vembu BDR Suite image verification process ensures that disk image backup data (physical disk image, vmware and hyper-v backups) are in a bootable state. The integrity of backup data can be easily verified by monitoring the screenshots of the boot screen everyday.
  • Advanced Reverse Incremental with Any-Point-In-Time Full:
  • Since every incremental is a self-sufficient snapshot with pointers to the blocks in VHFS, any incremental is instantaneously available as a full backup. There is no extra processing to restore an incremental backup compared to a full backup (no need for a merge).
  • Quick VM Recovery:
  • This provides the flexibility to boot any incremental VM and physical machine disk image backup instantly. For Windows based BDR backup servers, machines are recovered instantly with Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware ESX(i). In the case of Linux based BDR backup servers, Quick VM recovery is done with the help of KVM and VMware ESX(i).
  • Permanent VM Recovery:
  • The backed up VMware and Hyper-V VMs can be permanently recovered to the same or different hosts after any major disaster or VM crash.
  • Failover and Failback:
  • The replicated VMware VMs from the target hosts can be instantly failover on target host during VM crash. Also, it can be failbacked to the source ESXi host at anytime.
  • Bare-metal Recovery:
  • The entire crashed physical system can be restored to same hardware or new RAW hardware by using Vembu Recovery CD.
  • Vembu Universal Explorer:
  • Vembu developed an exclusive free tool called Vembu Universal Explorer to instantly recover the individual Microsoft application items from the backed up data. Be it physical or virtual machine data, Vembu Universal Explorer recovers application items from Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, SQL and Active Directory without restoring the entire VM backup and disk image backup.
  • VMware Disk Level Recovery:
  • VMware disk level restore allows you to restore only required disks during recovery instead of the entire VM. You can essentially restore any specific disks to the same VM or a different one.
  • Restore VMware, Hyper-V and Physical Windows Disk Image Backups in VHD,VHDX, VMDK, Flat-VMDK and RAW formats:
  • Since VMware, Hyper-V and Physical Windows Disk Image backups are stored at block level in a neutral format, Vembu BDR Suite makes it possible to instantly restore any incremental backup in any virtual disk format including VHD, VHDX, VMDK, VMDK-FLAT or IMG.
  • Rebuild Vembu BDR Server After a Disaster:
  • There are endless reasons why an OS can get corrupted, resulting in a disaster if you have not backed up your server machine. Vembu BDR has the ability to reconstruct all the backup metadata information from storage repositories and restore the entire backup server setup to its previous state.

New in Vembu BDR Server 3.9.0 (Jan 24, 2018)

  • Native Tape Storage Support:
  • In addition to OffsiteDR and Vembu Cloud as Offsite copy management, Vembu BDR suite extends its support for native tape storage. Users can now make an archive copy of their backup data with tape storage.
  • Backup-level Encryption:
  • Vembu BDR suite offers extended encryption support where users can encrypt their data at backup level with user-generated passwords for Vembu ImageBackup, Vembu VMBackup, Vembu NetworkBackup and Vembu OnlineBackup. Vembu also provides an manage password section to segregate user-generated passwords
  • Quick VM Recovery on ESXi for Hyper-V and Disk Image Backups:
  • Instant booting all your image based backups is a click-away with Vembu BDR v3.9.0. Users can now instant boot both Hyper-V and disk image backups along with VMware backups using Quick VM recovery option on ESXi.
  • Auto Authorization at OffsiteDR Server:
  • Followed by authorization in Vembu BDR v3.8.0, Vembu OffsiteDR server supports authorization in v3.9.0. Backup servers can be registered to Offsite servers using unique registration key generated by respective OffsiteDR server.
  • Pre/Post Commands:
  • Users can now automate actions to be performed before and after a backup schedule with Pre/Post commands. Job based pre/post commands is now supported for Vembu NetworkBackup, Vembu ImageBackup and Vembu OnlineBackup on both Linux and Windows machines.

New in Vembu BDR Server 3.8.0 (Nov 2, 2017)

  • Disk Image Backup in BDR:
  • Disk Image Backups can now be configured and managed via Vembu BDR Server. Relying on proxy agents is no longer required, unless it’s a distributed deployment which require individual proxy agent installation.
  • FLR for Backup/Replication:
  • File Level Recovery(FLR) is now available for both backup and replication jobs where user can choose specific files and folders from VMware/Hyper-V/Disk Image backups and VMware replication, to be restored in a quick fashion.
  • Seed Load Backup data to OffsiteDR
  • Storing copy of backup data for DR requirements is now an easy task to be accomplished by seed loading backup server data to desired offsite data center. This save loads of time and bandwidth from being consumed.
  • Auto Authorization:
  • Enabling Auto authorization in Vembu BDR allows proxy agents to get registered to backup server using unique registration key generated by respective BDR server.
  • Encryption Settings
  • Users can now provide additional security to their disk based backup jobs by assigning custom-password to backup server, such that all their backup data will be encrypted and can be restored/accessed only by providing the custom-password.
  • Email Enhancements:
  • Monitoring backup tasks in Vembu proxy agents and Vembu OffsiteDR is now simplified with the addition of Email reports. Success/Failure reports can now be configured to be mailed to separate Email IDs for efficient management.
  • In addition, monitoring integrity of image backups is also simplified with the addition of verification reports where boot image of each incremental of a backup job will be Email-ed as per configuration.
  • Storage Pooling:
  • Storage management in Vembu BDR is now upgraded to storage pooling which is easy to manage and scalable as well. In addition, option to allocate storage pools for individual backups and groups is also available.

New in Vembu BDR Server 3.7.0 Update 1 (May 25, 2017)

  • With v3.7.0 U1 release, Vembu BDR provides production support for vSphere 6.5 environment. Users with upgraded VMware environment can now protect their VMs with Vembu backup and replication support.