CloudBerry Labs releases CloudBerry Backup Version 2.9

CloudBerry Labs has today releases CloudBerry Backup for WHS (v1, 2011 and SBS 2011) version 2.9.

The new release comes with few important enhancements.

1. Cost Estimates

You can set up cost estimates per the storage account on the account configuration dialog. You can also setup the limit in GB and in $ that when reached will stop the backup.  The software will automatically calculate the costs based on the current storage price offered by the storage provider. Currently Amazon S3 charge 0.125/GB per month.  The software will also send an alert to the users when the storage is about to reach the limit.

http://blog.cloudberrylab.com/2012/06/controlling-storage-costs-with.html

2. Pre/post actions

With the latest release you can configure Pre- and Post actions that will run before and after the actual backup is running. This feature will make it easier to back up applications such as SQL Server and Exchange. You can set up a Pre-action to back up SQL Server and then you can set up a POST action to clean up the SQL Server backup directory from the older backup files.

http://blog.cloudberrylab.com/2012/06/how-to-set-up-pre-post-actions-with.html

3. Windows Event Log support

The latest version of CloudBerrry Backup comes with an option to write Events on backup completion (success and failure ) to the Windows Event log.  This feature makes it easier to deploy CloudBerry Backup along with the popular monitoring and management systems such as Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), HP OpenView, BMC Patrol, Quest Foglight and a few others that come with a capability to process Windows Event Log and apply certain common rules.

http://blog.cloudberrylab.com/2012/06/how-to-report-on-backup-status-to.html

4. Run missed backups

In the latest release we are introducing the option to restart the backups having missed their schedule. Typically this happens when the computer was turned off.  The new option allows to start missed backups as soon as computer starts or backup service starts.

http://blog.cloudberrylab.com/2012/06/how-to-restart-missed-backups-with.html

5. Prevent sleep mode if backup is running?