UrBackup 2.1.x has more complete Windows Backup API support. Previously the backup API was only used to create snapshots of the specified paths to backup (volume shadow copy snapshots). Now it does a so called component level backup, if configured to do so. You can select the components to backup via the client user interface and then the selected components automatically communicate to UrBackup which files need to be backed up, and on restore it communicates where the files should be restored and if e.g. services should be restarted during/after restore.

This works with applications which in turn support the Windows Backup API, such as for example Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Hyper-V, Oracle DB on Windows.

Testing backup and restore with those different applications is now the big item on the to-do list. Every help and pointers to applications where backup or restore is broken will be helpful.