Upcoming Features - Nakivo Backup and Replication v7.2

We have already dedicated couple of articles related to Nakivo Backup and Replication v6.1 wherein we have seen the architectural components and also talked about new features available in Nakivo Backup and Replication v6.1 here is a link for your quick reference Demystifying Nakivo Backup and Replication v6.1

We also discussed about Backup/Recovery of Active Directory Objects with Nakivo Backup and Replication v6.1 in case you missed it here is the link for your quick reference Backup/Recover Active Directory Objects with Nakivo

Apart from testing the backup and recovery related functionalities using Nakivo Backup and Replication v6.1 we also had a detailed discussion on Replicating Virtual Machines here is the link for your reference Replicate VM's with Nakivo Backup & Replication

We also talked about working with Nakivo Backup and replication appliance and what's new withNakivo Backup and replication 6.2 which was announced by NAKIVO on october 13th 2016 which help us by providing backup, replication, and recovery of paid EC2 instances sold through AWS Marketplace we also discussed about What's New - Nakivo Backup and Replication v7 Part 1 wherein we have seen some highlights about Hyper-v support which has been added for Hyper-v 2016 and 2012 with Nakivo v7.

In Our last articles related to Nakivo Backup and Replication series we discussed about 

What’s New- Nakivo Backup and Replication v7 Part2 and we have seen some of features released with Nakivo Backup and Replication v7 also talked about Active Directory Integration - Nakivo Backup and Replication v7 and discussed about 

NAKIVO VM Backup Appliance with QNAP NAS

In our recent post dedicated about few weeks ago we have seen how Nakivo Backup and Replication helps us to protect our Backup by creating Backup Copy 

Protecting Backups With Backup Copy - Nakivo Backup And Replication and also talked about Nakivo Backup and Replication support for Hyper-V Clusters

Dedicated this article to talk about some upcoming features in Nakivo Backup and Replication v7.2 which has been recently announced by Nakivo on June 19 2017.

VM Backup Appliance Based on Asustor NAS 

Nakivo backup and replication appliance soon would be available on ASUSTOR NAS which will help to turn ASUSTOR NAS into a VM backup appliance, the solution will help us to offload VMware or Hyper- V Infrastructure to a low cost NAS and to  keep our backup software, hardware, storage, and data deduplication within the same device like we have  been doing with QNAP, SYNOLOGY and Western Digital NAS.

Microsoft SQL Log Truncation

Microsoft SQL Log Truncation is another feature which would be made available with Nakivo Backup and Replication v7.2 and has been announced which can automatically truncate transaction log files post successful Virtual Machine Backup or replica is created, preventing log files from growing.

Calendar Dashboard

Another cool feature which helps to schedule backup jobs from calendar and provides us a quick overview of all the Jobs with duration.

Instant Object Recovery for Microsoft SQL

Nakivo backup and replication helps us to instantly recover SQL objects (database and tables) directly from compressed deduplicated VM Backups, when working on recovery of the objects we can recover the objects back to SQL Server or to a different SQL Server.