NovaBACKUP 22.0 Build 1019.1 by Novastor

NovaStor NovaBACKUP is the #1 rated PC backup and recovery software for Windows laptops and workstations. It offers top-notch computer backup protection combined with the fastest performance. You can choose between file-level or image-level backups.

You can backup individual files, or your entire hard drive. In addition, file copy lets you make drag-and-drop backups of files and folders, with the option of ignoring duplicates. Also the streamlined Disaster Recovery restores all of your data in the event of a crash.

NovaBACKUP guards your data with military-grade, 256-bit AES encryption so your files stay protected until it’s time to recover them.

Backup your files, images, videos and more to local devices or to the cloud. Now you can also securely backup to popular file sharing services that you already use like Dropbox, OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, Google Drive, iDriveSync, SkyDrive and SafeSync.

NovaBACKUP tested 4x faster than the nearest competitor. And you can use automatic scheduling to backup bit-level or incremental changes, in between your full backups – ensuring your data is always protected, without needing to continuously run full backups.

NovaBACKUP PC utilizes new technology which uses multi-threaded I/O process to allow overlapping of file read and write operations for both backup and restore for faster processing, without compromising data integrity.

NovaBACKUP Professional is the choice for home and workstation computers and laptops. Integrated with easy to use wizards and schedulers, backup and data protection has never been this easy or complete.

NovaBACKUP Server is a reliable and cost-effective data protection and recovery software to protect critical information stored on your Windows server system. Create and manage easily your backup procedures and automated schedules. With detailed instruction wizards and fast installation, your business will be safe within minutes without the requirement for an IT specialist.

NovaBACKUP Features:

• Physical and virtual machine backup. Support for both physical and virtual environments (Hyper-V and VMware) from a single license, single installation, and single interface.
• Disaster Recovery. Always have an exact copy of your entire system, from operating system down to your email settings, so you can completely restore your entire system in just minutes.
• Dissimilar hardware restores. With true Universal Restore, you can restore your system to an entirely new system, even with dissimilar hardware quickly and easily using a bootable media device.
• Secure 256-bit AES encryption. Guard your data with military-grade, 256-bit encryption to ensure that your critical and confidential data is secure at all times.
• Advanced scheduler. allows you to setup a personalized backup schedule to enable and disable backup jobs on your days of choice.
• Single mailbox restore for Exchange. Easily search for and recover individual mailboxes, down to the item level within Microsoft Exchange.
• Direct streaming for backups. Backup Microsoft SQL, Exchange, VMware, and Hyper-V directly without temporary caching for up to 400% faster backups.
• Single file restore for virtual machines. Using file-level restore, you can restore individual files, subdirectories, or entire drives from your virtual machines.
• Simplified virtual backups. Manage Hyper-V and VMware virtual backups from a single platform, and advanced backup tasks in just a few clicks.

NovaBACKUP additional features:

• Virtual machine replication. Easily copy Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines for testing, upgrading hardware, and disaster recovery purposes.
• Improved boot disk creation. Boot disks can be saved to a USB drive, allowing users without a CD/DVD drive to backup their data quickly and easily.
• Fast and streamline installation. One small installation, with no additional plug-ins required. Up to 25x smaller installer than the competition.
• Up to 4x faster than the competition. NovaBACKUP Professional tested 458% faster than the nearest competitor, and NovaBACKUP Server and Business Essentials tested 133% faster.
• DR encryption directly from CMC. Get enhanced data security, improved data monitoring and backup management while you’re away from the office.
• Enhanced smart log functionality. View just an overview displayed in HTML format, or dig several layers deeper for detailed information to help you find and resolve any issues you encounter.
• Exclude files option. Reduce your backup window and storage space requirements by manually excluding non-essential files, folders or file formats from your backups.

Changes in NovaBACKUP 22.0:

New Features

New NovaBACKUP Desktop App. A new app replaces the Legacy UI for everyday backup and restore work. It runs in the language selected during installation and is available in 12 languages.

• Dashboard: See the last backup, jobs from the last 24 hours, a 7-day job history, recent jobs, and upcoming scheduled jobs at a glance. Each tile opens the matching entries in Job History. Run backup now starts any backup job.
• Devices: Add and edit local or network storage devices, including network shares that need credentials, Amazon S3-compatible devices, and NovaBACKUP Cloud. Sign up for NovaBACKUP Cloud from the Dashboard. Import existing backups from a device’s details page.
• Backup: Create and edit file backup jobs, with General, Filters, Notifications, Custom Commands, Run As, Retention, and Archive settings and a schedule. Pick a job from a list or browse for a job file. The page reopens the last job you used. Jobs pushed from Central Management open read-only.
• Network paths: Type a UNC path directly when selecting backup sources or an alternate restore location, and enter credentials when the share needs them. Every path field has a Browse button.
• Restore: Restore files with General, Filters, and Run As settings, choose whether to overwrite existing files, and restore to an alternate location, including a network share. When a backup set needs an encryption key the device does not have, the app asks for it.
• Concurrent restores: Large restores split across several restore engines that run in parallel. Tune the split in Settings > Restore Settings.
• Mount: Mount a backup set as a folder and open it in File Explorer to copy single files.
• Activity: Follow several jobs at the same time, including jobs started by a schedule, from Central Management, or from the command line, with detailed progress and a summary when each job ends.
• Job History: Search, sort, and filter every job run by name, date range, type, and result. Open a run to read its log, search within it, jump to warnings and errors, and copy the log. Run again repeats a backup run.
• Settings: Set general options (run missed scheduled jobs on startup, number of logs to keep, minimum free space, temporary files folder, default exclusions, automatic update before a backup), allow or pause scheduled jobs, and define a holiday schedule on which scheduled jobs do not run.
• License and updates: Activate a license online or offline, start a trial automatically when no license is entered, and get a warning before the license expires. The About page shows license and registration details, checks for updates, and runs the Log Collector.
• Windows integration: Recent backup jobs appear in the taskbar jump list, and the tray icon opens the new app.

Disaster Recovery. For full system recovery, select Disaster Recovery in a backup job to back up the drive Windows runs from. Select other drives in the same job to protect their data as well. Disaster Recovery replaces legacy image backup jobs.

• File-based full system backup: Disaster Recovery backups are stored on the same devices as file backups, including NovaBACKUP Cloud and Amazon S3-compatible storage, and use the same retention.
• Recovery media: Create an ISO file, a bootable USB drive, or a recovery partition. A recovery partition is built from the computer’s own Windows Recovery Environment, so no Windows installation media is needed. Add your own drivers to the recovery environment, and include this computer’s device configuration so the restore can find its backups.
• Restore to disk: Start the computer from recovery media, pick a restore point, and restore the system disk with its original partition layout. The recovery environment can restore from local disks, network shares, NovaBACKUP Cloud, and Amazon S3-compatible storage.
• Restore to a Hyper-V virtual machine: Restore a Disaster Recovery backup as a new Generation 2 virtual machine, with settings such as memory and processors chosen during the restore.
• Recovery tokens: Administrators can generate a recovery token for an agent in Central Management, and users can generate one in the app. Redeeming the token in the recovery environment sets up the computer’s cloud device without its original configuration.
• Faster cloud recovery: When connecting a cloud device on a new installation or in the recovery environment, import only the backups from the last few days, newest first.

System State and Hyper-V Restore.

• System State restore: You can now restore System State backups, including the recovery steps Windows needs after the restore.
• Hyper-V restore: Restored Hyper-V virtual machines are registered with Hyper-V again, so they appear in Hyper-V Manager.

NovaBACKUP Central Management.

• Network paths: Type a UNC path directly when selecting backup sources or an alternate restore location, and enter credentials for shares that need them.
• Recovery tokens: Generate a recovery token for an agent, with a warning when the agent cannot use one.
• Tenant switching: Switching tenants refreshes the current page and shows the active tenant.

Changes

• New installations include only the new desktop app. The Legacy UI and the legacy image backup components are installed only when you upgrade from NovaBACKUP 21.x. On an upgraded computer, open the Legacy UI with Open legacy interface.
• Existing legacy jobs, including image backup, Copy, and Virtual Dashboard jobs, keep running on upgraded computers and are managed in the Legacy UI. The new app opens file backup jobs that use local or network storage, Amazon S3-compatible storage, or NovaBACKUP Cloud devices.
• VMware backups are not supported in NovaBACKUP 22. Existing Virtual Dashboard jobs for VMware keep running on upgraded computers.
• Setup now installs the Microsoft .NET 8.0 Runtime and the ASP.NET Core 8.0 Runtime, in addition to .NET Framework 4.7.2 and the Edge WebView2 Runtime.

Fixed Issues in NovaBACKUP Central Management

• “View users in this role” now lists only the users in the selected role, not every user on the server.
• Users whose role does not give access to all groups now see only the groups assigned to them.
• View-only roles can no longer create groups or tenants.
• Updating a tenant that has roles assigned no longer fails.
• Legacy xSP cloud storage accounts are no longer hidden on the tenant-scoped Cloud Storage Accounts page.
• The Agents and Groups page now shows the last backup time in the browser’s time zone instead of UTC, and no longer crashes intermittently or stops responding.
• The Jobs tab no longer times out on servers with many groups.
• The Jobs list no longer fails entirely when one job script cannot be loaded.
• Groups whose agents had cached installers can now be deleted.
• Saving a backup job with email notifications no longer fails with an email server validation error.
• Updating a user’s email address no longer fails with “‘LastLoginDate’ is read-only once set and cannot be changed.”
• File restore jobs can now be created for backup sets whose media name is longer than 100 characters.
• The domain of a local storage device is no longer saved as part of the user name.

NovaBACKUP Client

• Backups to some S3-compatible providers no longer fail with “MissingContentLength” after upgrading to 21.3.410.
• Backups and restores no longer hang at 0% on Windows Server 2025 domain controllers with UAC enabled.
• Plug-in queries no longer fail on Windows Server 2025 domain controllers with UAC enabled and SQL Server Express installed.
• Hyper-V backups no longer leave checkpoints on the host after a cancellation, a failure, or a backup of several virtual machines.
• Hyper-V backups now fail instead of reporting success when a virtual disk cannot be backed up.
• Hyper-V virtual machines are now found on hosts whose Windows language is not English, German, or Korean.
• SQL Server backups with several instances selected no longer stop with an internal assertion.
• Exclusions under a network share path are now applied.
• Backups from a network share no longer skip files whose path is longer than 260 characters.
• Backups from a network share that needs credentials no longer leave the connection open, which caused error 1219 when testing credentials afterward.
• Files created while a backup runs no longer produce “Unable to store object” warnings.
• Backups no longer log Volume Shadow Copy event 8194 (access denied) in the Windows event log.
• When Windows aborts the Volume Shadow Copy snapshot during a backup, the job now fails instead of completing with warnings.
• Exclusions defined as multi-string registry values, such as the Microsoft Office cache exclusions, are now applied in full.
• Setup now shows a clear message when the .NET 8.0 Runtime is missing.

Improvements NovaBACKUP Client

• A backup that is canceled or reaches its maximum run time is now kept as a restorable backup, and the next run continues from it.
• When Volume Shadow Copy cannot be used and a backup reads the live volume, the job report now says so.
• Windows Search index files are excluded from backups by default.
• Retention runs faster on large backup sets.

Homepage – https://www.novabackup.com

Supported Operating Systems:

• Windows 11, Version 24H2
• Windows 10, Version 22H2
• Windows Server 2025 (NovaBACKUP Server Agent and higher)
• Windows Server 2022 (NovaBACKUP Server Agent and higher)
• Windows Server 2019 (NovaBACKUP Server Agent and higher)
• Windows Server 2016 (NovaBACKUP Server Agent and higher)
• Image backups do not support any tablet-based devices.

Size: 691 MB

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