Our friends at CloudBerry Labs have been in touch to say that they have just released a beta for their CloudBerry Backup Add-In for Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials (formally Aurora).
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Here is what CloudBerry say:
Just about one week ago we announced the beta availability of CloudBerry Backup add-in for Windows Home Server code name Vail. Today we are pleased to announce the beta availability of CloudBerry Backup add-in for Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials code name Aurora. It comes with all the functionality available in our backup product line.
Features:
- Easy installation and configuration
- Seemlesly integrates with WHS control panel
- Default backup plan is designed to quickly start WHS data backup
- Full support for Drive Extender (as it is still supported in the current beta release)
- Scheduling capabilities
- Data encryption
- Data retention schedule
- Secure online storage
- Data versioning
- Differential backup
- The ability to restore to a particular date
- Backup verification
- Backup Window
- Automatically delete files from online storage if the were deleted locally
- Backup to Multiple S3 accounts/buckets
- Smart Delete – an option to keep locally deleted files on backup storage for a certain time
- Simple Mode – maintain exactly the same data structure on S3 as you have on your local computer.
- Reduced Redundancy Storage support
- Web interface – beta access your backup storage everywhere
CloudBerry Backup for SBS 2011 Essentials code name Aurora will be priced along with our Server Edition product line and will cost $69.99 per installation. Existing customers can upgrade by paying the balance.
And if you have Windows Home Server Code Name Vail you can try the Vail beta version.

Ouch, $70 for an addin, does this include some storage space ? What's the difference between the Vail and Aurora versions ?
This is targeted to business users. You can use regular Vail version at $29.99 designed for home users. It doesn't include any storage space.