February 26th, 2008

New features

• Support for the WITH PARTIAL keyword.
• Inclusion of new maintenance plan conversion tool.
• Option to send email notifications when a warning is generated.
• Different purge options for local and network drives.
• Option to limit the data imported from the msdb database when registering a server.
• Choice of location for the data.sdf at install time.
• Optional failover if the SQL Backup service fails to start in a clustered environment.

Fixes

• Usability updates to the Back Up wizard.
• Performance improvement for the ERASEFILES and ERASEFILES_ATSTART options.
• Improved stability for compression level 3.
• Improved handling of timeouts.