I can't answer #1 about the development but I use the heck out of it for Win 7 
and Server 2008 R2. I don't use it for bare metal....just data and it works 
great!

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On Jun 14, 2012, at 6:10 PM, "Philipp Raschdorff" <p.raschdorff AT googlemail 
DOT com> wrote:

> Hello Community,
> 
> beeing responsible for IT at three branches for my old company, I used
> BackupPC as backup solution and was happy with it.
> 
> Now I'm looking for a backup solution of a small lab with Windows and
> Linux Fileservers and some Windows 7 Desktops.
> For bare metal recovery I use an image based backup software but I'm
> looking for a backup option to save the data on a daily basis.
> 
> Unfortuanetly I saw that the last BackupPC version is still 3.2.0
> released on July 31st, 2010,
> To me it looks like there is no further development ? Is this correct?
> 
> No updates in nearly two years sounds strange to me.
> 
> Questions:
> 1) Is BackupPC development dead?
> 2) Windows 7 and BackupPC ... will it work?
> 
> regards
> 
> - Phil
> 
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