![]() ![]() If you have any feedback, please post a comment below. Make sure you’re running the command prompt as the Administrator user, with elevated rights if you have UAC turned on. To run the script – save the text below to a vbs file – say BAUpgrader.vbs – and then run it from the command prompt: Now it’s time to turn it over to the community and get some feedback on this. We’ve tested this on a variety of machines – SBS 2003, Vista, XP, Server 2008, and SBS 2008 – and it has worked for us. In the age of cyber crime and ransomware – let’s all stay cyber-resilient.How do you upgrade a BackupAssist installation? Well, up until now, the answer has been: manually.īut one of our Aussie helpdesk team, Aaron, has done a great job in writing a VB script that will download the latest BackupAssist installation to a temp directory, uninstall the old version and install the new version – thereby performing an automated upgrade. ![]() We’ve done the thinking and hard work, so you can follow a simple plan. administrators get reliable backups, and most importantly, get their data back when it matters the most. Fast forward to today, we’ve helped hundreds of thousands of I.T. Why was it so difficult to back up a Windows Server? We were using batch scripts, and silent failures were a huge risk.Īs a long time computer programmer (I started in 1985, aged 8, on the Apple //c), I decided to take action and write BackupAssist. ![]() We tried some recovery techniques which failed… and then she broke down uncontrollably, seeing 3 years of her research and her mostly-complete thesis simply vanish.įast forward a few years, I saw the same problems in a business context. A PhD student come in with a broken floppy disk, asking for help. I first became aware of the need for backups when I worked at my university’s helpdesk. Hello, my name is Linus Chang and I’m the creator of BackupAssist. ![]()
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