What is new

November 2026

• Web interface. Job scheduler and backup server can be operated in the browser, without Windows and without additional software: jobs with wizard and schedule, runs, restores, storage and settings. Web users have the role administrator or read only; the password never leaves the browser.
• Fast follow-up backups for Proxmox VE. For running VMs, QEMU keeps track of which areas the guest has written; the next backup reads only those. This saves time and storage load above all for large disks with few changes.
• Restore a VM in place. A Proxmox or Xen VM gets back the disks of an earlier version and keeps its VMID or name. The previous disks are kept until the restore has succeeded; if wanted, only the changed blocks are written back.
• Host set up anew. After a Proxmox or Xen host has been reinstalled, the VMs come back from the backup server with their old VMID or name and their MAC addresses.
• Files from drive and VM backups on Windows. Single files and folders can also be taken from a disk or VM backup on Windows, without restoring the disk – with tick boxes in the management console or as a read-only folder.
• Back up files and folders. Select folders and files in a tree, with permissions (NTFS, POSIX ACLs), on Windows with VSS and the change journal, on Linux with an LVM snapshot or while running. Deduplicated together with the disk and VM backups.
• Restore single files. Search across all restore points, versions of a file, comparison of two restore points, restore to the original location, to another folder or as a ZIP. In the management console with check boxes.
• Open a restore point as a folder. A backup appears as a read-only folder, on Windows and Linux, and can be browsed with the usual file manager.
• Ransomware warning. If an unusually large number of files change in a file backup, the run is flagged, a notification is sent, and older restore points are not cleaned up for a set period.
• A deleted file in a few steps. A list of all backups of the computer, a view of which destinations can be reached right now, and clear reasons when the search finds nothing.
• Virus scan in the check restore. The backup server scans backups with ClamAV and states since which backup a finding exists and which one was last clean.
• Wizard for new jobs. In the management console, new jobs are created in three steps: source, destinations, schedule – for drives, files and folders, and virtual machines.
• Virtual machines as a source. The console reads the VMs from the hypervisor and points out VMs that no job backs up yet.
• Limits and usage per job. On the backup server, CPU time, memory and disk access can be limited per job; usage is measured per customer.
• E-mail settings. Recipients per type of notification, a daily summary e-mail, preview and test e-mail in the Target console.
• Pause, resume, throttle. Running backups can be paused, resumed later and limited in bandwidth – from the console, the command line and the interface.
• Continue where the backup stood. A held backup carries on at the same point instead of starting again: VMs under Hyper-V, Proxmox VE and Xen keep their checkpoint or snapshots, drive and file backups do not read what is finished again – on Windows even after a restart.
• Updates without broken-off backups. During an update of the job scheduler or the backup server, running backups are held and exactly those are continued afterwards. When the backup server holds a backup, it carries on by itself once released.
• Jobs by hand only. A switched-on job without a schedule runs only when someone starts it; a switched-off job does not start at all. Console and command line show both.
• Red Hat and SUSE. AegisGrid also runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and openSUSE Leap; setup and updates install missing system packages themselves if wanted.
• S3 object storage as a destination. Backups go straight from the computer or as a copy from the backup server to S3-compatible object storage – always encrypted, immutable through S3 Object Lock if wanted, with a connection check before the first backup.
• Restore wizard. The management console leads step by step through restoring a drive or a VM: to the original or another disk, as a VHDX file or as a new VM. The destination is checked first; an unsuitable one is refused with the reason.
• Retry and warn. The job scheduler starts failed jobs again after a pause. If a job has not succeeded for a set time, the console and an email warn about it.
• Xen with memory. Running Xen VMs can be backed up including their memory; after the restore, the VM carries on where it stood.
• Online manual. The manual is available in English and German at aegisgrid.de/handbuch/en, with search. F1 in the consoles and the setup opens it at the matching section.
• Guided first start. After installation, the setup leads straight to the first backup, and after the first successful run the console suggests a test restore.
• Windows event log. The job scheduler and updates write their results with fixed event IDs to the application log – for existing monitoring systems.
• More progress in the target console. Besides backups, it also shows running restores, Microsoft 365 backups and mirrorings with their progress.
• Security review. The program was systematically reviewed for weaknesses and hardened further, among other things with TLS 1.2 or later between computers and backup server and current libraries.

October 2026

• Five languages. Programs, consoles, messages, e-mails and reports in German, English, Spanish, French and Croatian.
• Check restore. Backups are restored as a test on the backup server, file systems are checked, every file is read and VMs are started in an isolated environment; with a check report including traffic lights and screenshots.
• Evidence for auditors. A chained log signed daily, a copy to a SIEM and a signed monthly report.
• Extended schedules. Public holidays per German state, time windows, catching up on missed runs and the schedule in plain words.
• Faster chunk IDs. New stores use BLAKE3; existing stores keep their method.

All features at a glance are listed under Features, the details under Specifications.