We are proud to announce that ApexSQL Backup beta was released today. You can download it from the following link.
We’ve been working hard on developing numerous features and finally have a solid version of the application we wish to share with the community.
We are eager to hear all of your feedback, as we are aware that is the only way to create a tool that fits real-life needs. We are committed to creating THE backup management tool, so please do not hesitate to send any feedback, criticism and ideas directly to support@apexsql.com.
Some of the core features implemented in this beta release:
- Cross server backup management
- Supports full, differential, transaction log, filegroups or files and copy-only backups
- Supports mirroring and split backups
- Supports scheduled database restore
- Supports Log Shipping
- Create and deploy custom backup policies
- Use variables when creating naming schemes
- Backup validation
- Advanced scheduling
- Alert by email
- Native Backup Compression & Encryption
- Backup history support
- Backup to network destination
- View historical and in progress operations
- Central repository
- Export report results to a CSV
- Impersonation support
Additionally, here is a list of features still in development. Some of them are coming with R1 release, and some will be implemented later releases
- Automatic backup plans for new databases
- Intelligent backup clean-up
- Preferred backup period
- Intelligent scheduling
- User console access rights
- Default policies
- Run a script after a successful restore
- Copy logins
- Disk space check
- DBCC CHECKDB
- SMS alerting
- Check against average statistics
- Schedule email report
- Custom reports
We have big plans for ApexSQL Backup in the future. For more details, please visit the Road map.
Please keep in mind that this is a beta release and that it should not be used against mission critical databases.
March 2, 2015
