Version 5.3

ChrisAVWood

It says early Q1. Is it nearly ready? I have a new install I want to do soon so I would like to know if I should wait for 5.3. Is it worth the wait?

Thanks

Chris

HJoyce

Yes, it's due out at the end of February.

JonathanWatts

Hi Chris,

I imagine that you and others are interested in what we are including in SQL Backup 5.3. Well here are the highlights:

• Usability updates to the Back up wizard
• Fixing an issue where multi-threaded backups could hang or crash using compression level 3
• Adding support for the "WITH PARTIAL" keyword
• SQL Backup now provides different purge options for local and network drives
• Adding an option so users can filter the backup history that is pulled from msdb
• Improving the performance of the ERASEFILES and ERASEFILES_ATSTART options
• Failover is now optional if the SQL Backup service fails to start in a clustered environment
• Allowing cluster users to choose the location for the data.sdf at install time
• Improving SQL Backup's handling of timeouts
• Shipping the maintenance plan conversion tool with SQL Backup 5
• Adding an additional option to send email notifications when a warning is generated, and the content and behavior of error and warning emails has been improved

Hope that helps, a more complete list will be posted with the release.

Regards,

Jonathan

ChrisAVWood

Thanks for all the information.

Chris