BDRCloud v8.0.0.U2
Release Date: June 06, 2025
Build Number: 8002025060504
This release introduces comprehensive backup and recovery capabilities for Microsoft 365 environments. With support for all major Microsoft 365 services, this solution ensures data protection, simplifies compliance, and provides flexible recovery options tailored to your business needs. Enhanced scheduling, retention, and secure storage options help organizations confidently manage their SaaS workloads.
Sign up for BDRCloud and start protecting your Microsoft 365 data with enterprise-grade backup and recovery. Key Features
1. Full Microsoft 365 Workload Protection
Seamlessly protect data across core Microsoft 365 services:
- User Mailbox & Group Mailbox: Backup emails, calendars, contacts, and more.
- SharePoint Sites: Protect shared files, site content, and libraries.
- Microsoft Teams: Back up team chats, shared files, and team configurations.
- Public Folders: Preserve shared folder content and structure.
2. Flexible Backup Scheduling
Adapt to organizational needs with highly configurable backup frequency:
- Support for backups every few minutes, hourly, daily, weekly, and more.
- Create job-level schedules to target critical services individually.
3. Custom Retention Policies
Define how long data is kept based on compliance and business requirements:
- Retain backups for days, weeks, or years, based on workload and criticality.
- Automate cleanup of aged data to optimize storage usage.
4. Secure & Scalable Cloud Storage
Store all Microsoft 365 backups in our secure BDRCloud Storage platform:
- End-to-end encryption for data in transit and at rest.
- Designed for scalability, cost-efficiency, and high availability.
5. Advanced Recovery Options
Restore data exactly where and how you need it:
- Restore entire mailboxes or specific items (emails, contacts, files).
- Choose to restore to the same user, a different user, or export to file.
- Rapid and intuitive recovery workflows minimize downtime.
6. Comprehensive Reporting & Monitoring
Track and manage backups with full visibility:
- Job Reports: View detailed backup and restore job history.
- Audit Logs: Track who accessed.
- Email Alerts: Get notified of job statuses and exceptions in real time configurable at job level.
Endpoint Backup Enhancements
- Improved time synchronization and consistency for backups across multiple hosts.
- Boosted performance through concurrent (multi-threaded) file restore operations.
- Enhanced fault tolerance with automatic retry mechanisms for failed database and report synchronization tasks.
- Improved metadata integrity by resolving issues during system rebuild and database uploads.
- Safer disk image restore experience with enhanced abort-handling capabilities.
- Fixed inconsistencies in backup and restore reports to improve data accuracy.
- Increased process reliability by monitoring and cleaning up background tasks effectively.
- Significantly accelerated file-level recovery for large backup sets.
BDRCloud v8.0.0 Update1
Build Number: 8002025031312
Release Date: Mar 19, 2025
This update introduces NAS/File Share backup support and UI branding customization. Enhancements include backup repository management, performance optimizations, agent updates (v8.0.0 to v8.0.0 U1), and improved restore workflows. Newly added drives in File Backup will now appear in the recovery timestamp when “All Drive” is selected.
Key Features
1. Backup Support for NAS/File Share
Allows users to back up a specific share path from the system.
2. Branding
Allows users to apply his branding configurations in the UI.
Enhancements
- Improved data upload speed from cache location to object storage
- Improved BMR Recovery (Disk-Image) performance.
- Improved error handling for DB file upload from agent to BDR cloud server.
- Users can now edit an existing backup repository and change its location.
- Users can now purchase and allocate BDRCloud Storage from the Vembu Portal.
- Assign drive letter for System partition volumes is removed on configuring Disk-Image Backup.
- Users can now retrieve the download link for BDRCloud Server Restore of Disk-Image backups from the Data Recovery option under the report page.
- File Backup – When "All Drive" is selected for backup, any newly added drive after an incremental backup schedule will now be listed in the recovery timestamp, ensuring seamless restoration.
BDRCloud v8.0.0
Release Date: Feb 07, 2025
Build Number: 8002025020520
This release introduces comprehensive backup and recovery options for both Windows and Linux machines. The new capabilities provide flexible storage options, recovery methods, and detailed reporting and notification systems. Additionally, enhanced security features have been included for backup and recovery operations.
Key Features
1. Comprehensive Backup Support
Efficient and reliable backups tailored to your OS requirements:
Windows OS:
- File/Folder Level Backup: Protect specific files or folders.
- Image Level Backup: Capture a full system image for complete restoration of OS, applications, and data.
Linux OS:
- File/Folder Level Backup: Granular file and directory backups.
2. Flexible Storage Options
Options designed to meet diverse storage needs:
BDRCloudStorage:
- Managed cloud storage with a secure, scalable solution. Includes a 100GB free trial for 30 days for new customers.
Customer-Provided Storage:
- Local Storage: Store backups on DAS, NAS, SAN, or external devices.
- Object Storage: Compatible with platforms such as Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, and Google Cloud Storage.
- S3-Compatible Storage: In addition to major cloud providers, support is extended to S3-compatible storage services, enabling users to leverage custom or third-party object storage solutions with S3 compatibility for cost-effective and scalable backups.
3. Advanced Recovery Support
Ensure business continuity with multiple recovery options:
Restore Targets:
- BDRCloud Server: Restored files are available as downloadable links.
Source Machine
- Original Location: Restore backups to the original location on the source machine.
- Alternate Location: Restore to a different location on the same machine.
- Alternate Machine: Restore backups to a completely different machine at the source environment.
Recovery Types:
- File Level Recovery: Restore individual files or folders from both file/folder level backups and image backups.
- Disk Level Recovery: Restore entire disks (for image backups) to recover partition structures and data.
- Bare Metal Recovery (BMR): Restore a full machine including OS, applications, and data from image backups.
4. Enhanced Reporting & Monitoring
Gain detailed insights with real-time notifications:
Backup & Recovery Reports:
- Job-Level Reports: Detailed information about individual backup and recovery jobs.
- Machine-Level Reports: Overview of backup and recovery status per machine.
Audit Logs: Detailed logs of all activities like backup, recovery, and delete operations to ensure compliance.
Email Notifications: Instant alerts for backup, restore, and deletion statuses.