Acronis Backup for PC Changelog

What's new in Acronis Backup for PC 12.5.b16428

Jun 25, 2021
  • Issues fixed:
  • Adding a user to Unit/Organization Administrators list fails if the domain user is
  • not specified in "DomainUsername" format.
  • Recovery from a password-protected archive stored on tape does not work in some
  • cases.

New in Acronis Backup for PC 12.5.16363 (Dec 7, 2020)

  • Added support for macOS 10.15 Catalina; Ubuntu 19.04, 19.10, 20.04; CentOS 8.1; Oracle Linux 8.1; CloudLinux 7.7; ClearOS 7.6.
  • Fixed the issue with downloading logs from Overview: Activities produces empty .zip
  • archives for some types of activities.

New in Acronis Backup for PC 12.5.16343 (Sep 7, 2020)

  • Issues fixed in build 16343 (September 7, 2020):
  • [ABR-287680] In some cases, the installation of Agent build 16342 fails with the error "Failed to connect to machine. HTTP status code: 500" when you try to connect to the Acronis Management Server.

New in Acronis Backup for PC 12.5.16342 (Sep 7, 2020)

  • Issues fixed in build 16342 (August 28, 2020):
  • [ABR-202103] A security vulnerability that allows attackers to send HTTP requests in the local network via Acronis Management Server.

New in Acronis Backup for PC 12.5.16327 (Jul 29, 2020)

  • Supports 25 languages.
  • Installation package includes both 32-bit and 64-bit installation files.
  • The ability to generate .mst file on the machine where an agent is already installed.

New in Acronis Backup for PC 12.5.14330 (Mar 31, 2020)

  • Added support for new languages: Bulgarian, Norwegian, Swedish,
  • Finnish, Serbian, Malay, Indonesian.
  • New protection options.
  • New administration options.
  • Security, backup and recovery improvements.
  • The Acronis Storage product name changed to Acronis Cyber Infrastructure.
  • Various fixes and more!

New in Acronis Backup for PC 12.5.14240 (Aug 6, 2019)

  • What's new in Update 4:
  • Backup:
  • The enhanced backup option Performance and backup window (former Performance) enables you to set one of three levels of backup performance (high, low, prohibited) for every hour within a week. The high and low levels are configurable in terms of the process priority and output speed.
  • The Physical Data Shipping backup option for cloud backups
  • Recovery:
  • The capability to save system information on a local disk or a network share if a recovery with reboot fails.
  • Scalability:
  • The maximum number of physical machines that can be registered on a management server increased from 4000 to 8000.
  • Security:
  • The capability to disable anonymous registration so that a user name and password of a management server administrator are always required when registering a device.
  • All communication during a device registration is done via HTTPS. It works out of the box and cannot be disabled. It is possible to enforce certificate verification during unattended installation in Windows and in Linux.
  • Mass registration of devices by using a token instead of a user name and password
  • The capability to install Agent for Linux in UEFI systems with enabled Secure Boot.
  • During the installation, the Acronis key is generated, used to sign the snapapi module, and registered as a Machine Owner Key (MOK). Once the installation is completed, the user should restart the system and enroll the key by using the password provided by the setup program.
  • Applications:
  • Support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2019
  • CBT (tracking file changes at a block level) can be disabled for backups of SQL and Exchange databases.
  • Active Protection:
  • New protection options:
  • Detection of cryptomining malware
  • The capability to allow certain processes to modify backup files while self-protection is on
  • Protection of network folders mapped as local drives
  • Virtualization:
  • Conversion to the following virtual machine types:
  • VMware Workstation
  • VHDX virtual disks (for connection to a Hyper-V virtual machine)
  • This conversion is supported in a backup plan or in a separate conversion plan created on the Plans tab.
  • Support for Windows Server 2019 with Hyper-V and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2019
  • Support for Citrix XenServer 7.6
  • The boot menu (in the text form) can be used when booting a Citrix XenServer virtual machine.
  • Backup locations:
  • The Acronis Storage product name changed to Acronis Cyber Infrastructure.
  • Administering:
  • It is possible to add a comment to a device on the device Details pane. Devices can be searched and organized in dynamic groups by comments.
  • In a domain environment, local accounts on the management server are not added by default to the Acronis Centralized Admins group and to the organization administrators list.
  • The name of the Acronis Management Server service (ams) is changed to acrmngsrv, to avoid name conflicts with other software services.

New in Acronis Backup for PC 12.5.13160 (Apr 23, 2019)

  • What's new in Update 4:
  • Backup:
  • The enhanced backup option Performance and backup window (former Performance) enables you to set one of three levels of backup performance (high, low, prohibited) for every hour within a week. The high and low levels are configurable in terms of the process priority and output speed.
  • The Physical Data Shipping backup option for cloud backups
  • Recovery:
  • The capability to save system information on a local disk or a network share if a recovery with reboot fails.
  • Scalability:
  • The maximum number of physical machines that can be registered on a management server increased from 4000 to 8000.
  • Security:
  • The capability to disable anonymous registration so that a user name and password of a management server administrator are always required when registering a device.
  • All communication during a device registration is done via HTTPS. It works out of the box and cannot be disabled. It is possible to enforce certificate verification during unattended installation in Windows and in Linux.
  • Mass registration of devices by using a token instead of a user name and password
  • The capability to install Agent for Linux in UEFI systems with enabled Secure Boot.
  • During the installation, the Acronis key is generated, used to sign the snapapi module, and registered as a Machine Owner Key (MOK). Once the installation is completed, the user should restart the system and enroll the key by using the password provided by the setup program.
  • Applications:
  • Support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2019
  • CBT (tracking file changes at a block level) can be disabled for backups of SQL and Exchange databases.
  • Active Protection:
  • New protection options:
  • Detection of cryptomining malware
  • The capability to allow certain processes to modify backup files while self-protection is on
  • Protection of network folders mapped as local drives
  • Virtualization:
  • Conversion to the following virtual machine types:
  • VMware Workstation
  • VHDX virtual disks (for connection to a Hyper-V virtual machine)
  • This conversion is supported in a backup plan or in a separate conversion plan created on the Plans tab.
  • Support for Windows Server 2019 with Hyper-V and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2019
  • Support for Citrix XenServer 7.6
  • The boot menu (in the text form) can be used when booting a Citrix XenServer virtual machine.
  • Backup locations:
  • The Acronis Storage product name changed to Acronis Cyber Infrastructure.
  • Administering:
  • It is possible to add a comment to a device on the device Details pane. Devices can be searched and organized in dynamic groups by comments.
  • In a domain environment, local accounts on the management server are not added by default to the Acronis Centralized Admins group and to the organization administrators list.
  • The name of the Acronis Management Server service (ams) is changed to acrmngsrv, to avoid name conflicts with other software services.
  • Support for new operating systems:
  • Support for RHEL 7.6
  • Support for Ubuntu 18.10
  • Support for Fedora 25, 26, 27, 28, 29
  • Support for Debian 9.5, 9.6
  • Support for Windows XP SP1 (x64) and SP2 (x64) is resumed
  • Support for Windows XP SP2 (x86) is resumed with a special version of Agent for Windows
  • Support for seven more languages:
  • Bulgarian
  • Norwegian
  • Swedish
  • Finnish
  • Serbian
  • Malay
  • Indonesian

New in Acronis Backup for PC 12.5.12890 (Apr 4, 2019)

  • We are happy to introduce Acronis Backup 12.5 – the most secure backup solution on the market, capable of protecting 20+ platforms no matter the size or location – on-premises, in remote systems, in private and public clouds, and on mobile devices. It ensures business uptime by spinning up backup on a virtual machine or by restoring an entire system to new, dissimilar hardware, overcoming compatibility issues. Acronis Backup provides flexible storage options: NAS, SAN, tapes, disks, Acronis Cloud, or any private or public cloud, such as Azure, AWS, or Google. Its proprietary AI- and ML-based technology features proactively prevent cyber attacks, stop questionable behavior, and automatically recover damaged files. Its intuitive, web-based management console provides full oversight on the backup management tasks and monitoring in 25 languages.
  • What's new in Update 4:
  • Backup:
  • The enhanced backup option Performance and backup window (former Performance) enables you to set one of three levels of backup performance (high, low, prohibited) for every hour within a weekThe high and low levels are configurable in terms of the process priority and output speed.
  • The Physical Data Shipping backup option for cloud backups
  • Recovery
  • The capability to save system information on a local disk or a network share if a recovery with reboot fails.
  • Scalability:
  • The maximum number of physical machines that can be registered on a management server increased from 4000 to 8000.
  • Security:
  • The capability to disable anonymous registration so that a user name and password of a management server administrator are always required when registering a device.
  • All communication during a device registration is done via HTTPSIt works out of the box and cannot be disabledIt is possible to enforce certificate verification during unattended installation in Windows and in Linux.
  • Mass registration of devices by using a token instead of a user name and password
  • The capability to install Agent for Linux in UEFI systems with enabled Secure Boot.
  • During the installation, the Acronis key is generated, used to sign the snapapi module, and registered as a Machine Owner Key (MOK)Once the installation is completed, the user should restart the system and enroll the key by using the password provided by the setup program.
  • Applications:
  • Support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2019
  • CBT (tracking file changes at a block level) can be disabled for backups of SQL and Exchange databases.
  • Active Protection:
  • New protection options:
  • Detection of cryptomining malware
  • The capability to allow certain processes to modify backup files while self-protection is on
  • Protection of network folders mapped as local drives
  • Virtualization:
  • Conversion to the following virtual machine types:
  • VMware Workstation
  • VHDX virtual disks (for connection to a Hyper-V virtual machine)
  • This conversion is supported in a backup plan or in a separate conversion plan created on the Plans tab.
  • Support for Windows Server 2019 with Hyper-V and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2019
  • Support for Citrix XenServer 7.6
  • The boot menu (in the text form) can be used when booting a Citrix XenServer virtual machine.
  • Backup locations:
  • The Acronis Storage product name changed to Acronis Cyber Infrastructure.
  • Administering
  • It is possible to add a comment to a device on the device Details paneDevices can be searched and organized in dynamic groups by comments.
  • In a domain environment, local accounts on the management server are not added by default to the Acronis Centralized Admins group and to the organization administrators list.
  • The name of the Acronis Management Server service (ams) is changed to acrmngsrv, to avoid name conflicts with other software services.
  • Support for new operating systems:
  • Support for RHEL 7.6
  • Support for Ubuntu 18.10
  • Support for Fedora 25, 26, 27, 28, 29
  • Support for Debian 9.5, 9.6
  • Support for Windows XP SP1 (x64) and SP2 (x64) is resumed
  • Support for Windows XP SP2 (x86) is resumed with a special version of Agent for Windows
  • Support for seven more languages:
  • Bulgarian
  • Norwegian
  • Swedish
  • Finnish
  • Serbian
  • Malay
  • Indonesian

New in Acronis Backup for PC 12.5.11010 (Oct 15, 2018)

  • Backup:
  • The capability to stop an execution of a backup plan from the Plans tab.
  • Support for new operating systems
  • Support for Windows Server 2019
  • Support for CentOS 7.5
  • Support for ClearOS 7.4
  • Support for macOS Mojave 10.14
  • Virtualization:
  • Support for Citrix XenServer 7.3, 7.4, 7.5
  • Support for Nutanix AHV

New in Acronis Backup for PC 12.5.7970 (Sep 14, 2017)

  • Issues fixed in build 7970:
  • Installation and upgrade:
  • [ABR-138006] Installation of Acronis Backup fails if the root certificate check fails. The following error appears: "Error 0xfff0: A certificate chain could not be built to a trusted root authority."
  • Solution: The certificate check can now be skipped during installation.
  • [ABR-131248] Links to the 32-bit installer are broken on the instructions page when trying to install Agent for Windows remotely to a 32-bit machine from Acronis Management Server running on a 64-bit machine.
  • Common:
  • [ABR-137070] Backup via acrocmd of a remote machine booted under WinPE-based bootable media fails. The following error appears: "Not enough privileges to perform the operation with the disks. The 'Backup files and directories' (SeBackupPrivilege) and 'Restore files and directories' (SeRestorePrivilege) privileges are required."
  • [ABR-137061] In some cases, logs of backup replication plans may contain credentials for the source or target backup location in plain text.
  • [ABR-135566] Backup to a location managed by Acronis Storage Node fails. The following error appears: "The locations are not initialized yet. Please try again later after the storage node is completely initialized." After that, the mms.exe process crashes.
  • [ABR-135267] After an EFI machine running Windows 10 is recovered and booted, an additional second boot option appears unexpectedly.
  • [ABR-134448] A hidden network share cannot be saved as a backup source in a backup plan: the Items to back up field remains empty.
  • Roles and units management:
  • [ABR-138229] Active Directory user accounts with the Display name value set in a non-English language are shown as "???? ????" in the backup console when adding unit administrators.
  • Active Protection:
  • [ABR-136876] In some cases, Active Protection activities are shown with the "UNTRANSLATED" summary in the backup console.
  • [ABR-135331] After applying an Active Protection plan, an unexpected "Active Protection service is not running" alert may appear in the backup console.

New in Acronis Backup for PC 12.0.3602 (Oct 11, 2016)

  • Overview:
  • We are happy to introduce Acronis Backup 12 – the easiest and fastest backup solution for all your data on-premises, in remote systems, and in private and public clouds. This amazing solution installs in three clicks, protects 15 platforms, encrypts in four standards, backs up and recovers 2x faster than the closest competitor, and is trusted by 500,000 businesses.
  • What's new in version 12
  • Unified cloud and on-premises web console to simplify administration and reduce IT workload
  • Centralized and remote management to reduce complexity and better control data
  • Unique! Backup of Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) and Amazon EC2 instances to safeguard your entire hybrid cloud configuration
  • Unique! Backup of VMware vSphere ESX(i) and Microsoft Hyper-V for complete protection of any virtual workload
  • Backup of Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint, and Active Directory to support application continuity
  • Backup of Mac computers, iPhone, iPad, and Android devices to protect every endpoint (cloud management only)
  • VMware VM replication with WAN optimization for faster disaster recovery
  • Unique! Acronis Instant Restore (Run Backup as VM) and vmFlashback for VMware and Hyper-V to reduce recovery time objectives (RTO)
  • Unique! VMware ESXi and Hyper-V host (not just VMs) bare-metal recovery to protect your entire infrastructure
  • More details:
  • Centralized Web Management. Easily manage all physical, virtual, and cloud machines locally or remotely via the unified web-based management console, deployed on-premises or in the cloud. Assign backup plans to one or more machines, review status updates, and receive alerts – all from a single console.
  • Business Application Protection. Protect Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint, and Active Directory with consistent backups, quick application-aware restores, and easy recoveries of granular items such as emails or mailboxes.
  • Acronis Instant Restore. Achieve RTOs of 15 seconds or less by starting any physical or virtual Windows or Linux system backup as a VMware or Hyper-V VM – directly from backup storage and without moving any data. You can even move this VM to your primary virtual VMware storage, without any downtime.
  • Acronis vmFlashback. Quickly restore VMware or Hyper-V VMs by leveraging changed block tracking (CBT) and recovering only the data changed since the last backup.
  • VMware VM Replication with WAN Optimization. Reduce VMware VM RTOs by maintaining a copy of your VM on a secondary site for quick failover and failback. Reduce the WAN load with built-in WAN optimization and seeding.
  • VMware ESXi Host Backup and Bare-metal Recovery. Increase resilience by backing up the ESXi hosts and restore the entire system to the same or dissimilar hardware.
  • Microsoft’s RCT support. Support of Microsoft’s new Resilient Change Tracking (RCT) API for agentless Hyper-V VM backup on Windows Server 2016.
  • Backup of new platforms and operating systems:
  • Azure VMs and Amazon EC2 instances
  • Windows Server 2016, including Hyper-V VM protection
  • iOS and Android devices
  • Mac computers
  • Microsoft Exchange 2016
  • End of Support:
  • Microsoft Exchange 2003 is no longer supported.
  • Other improvements"
  • Centralized management and the Acronis Management Server component are now included in Acronis Backup 12. The component uses lightweight SQLite database for improved performance.
  • A new, advanced alert system notifies you if a backup did not begin for any reason. For example, you will receive an alert even if the corresponding agent was unreachable at the time of failure.
  • Acronis Instant Restore (Run Backup as VM) now supports backups stored in Acronis Cloud.
  • Agent for VMware (Virtual Appliance) now supports disks larger than 2 TB (GPT) as locally attached storage.
  • Agent for VMware (Windows) now supports the “hot-add” backup mode.
  • The web console now supports searching files within the backups (no cataloging or indexing required).
  • Files/folders recovery is now possible from agentless backups of Linux VMs (both Hyper-V and VMware), including VMs with LVM volumes
  • IMPORTANT:
  • Acronis Backup 12 does not support installation on top of Acronis Backup 12 Beta builds. Please uninstall the Beta before installing the release version of the product.
  • Acronis Backup 12 does not support upgrading Acronis Backup Advanced 11.5/11.7 installation. You will be prompted to uninstall Acronis Backup Advanced before proceeding with installation of Acronis Backup 12. For detailed information on the upgrade functionality, please refer to https://kb.acronis.com/content/57721.
  • Fixed issues:
  • This section describes issues that have been fixed in Update 1.
  • Installation:
  • [ABR-109945] Remote installation of Agent for Windows to Windows 10/Windows 10 Anniversary Update (version 1607) fails. The following error appears: "The system cannot find the file specified."
  • [ABR-109457] It is not possible to install Acronis Management Server in Windows 10 Home via the Acronis Backup 12 installer.
  • [ABR-108936] Installation of Acronis Backup 12 on top of Acronis Backup 11.5/11.7 may improperly migrate local backup plans that contain retention rules. As a result, the retention rules are not executed.
  • [ABR-108633] After upgrading from Acronis Backup 11.7, which uses a non-expired subscription license, an Acronis Backup 12 license is required to perform backups.
  • Common:
  • [ABR-110972] Backup of an entire Linux machine does not include LVM volumes that occupy an entire disk without partitioning.
  • [ABR-110707] It is not possible to specify an SMTP server without encryption when configuring email notifications.
  • [ABR-110431] Adding a license via the web interface may hang Acronis Management Server.
  • [ABR-110191] Acronis Secure Zone that exists on a machine is not available as a backup location.
  • [ABR-110038] Hidden SMB shares hosted on a Linux machine or a Linux-based NAS are not available as a backup location.
  • [ABR-109734] The Acronis Backup 12 for Windows Server Essentials license is not automatically assigned to machines running Windows Server 2012 (R2) Foundation.
  • [ABR-109337] It is not possible to assign the Acronis Backup 12 for Virtual Server license to an unlimited number of virtual machines running on VMware ESXi Free.
  • [ABR-108890] The license keys added via the web interface are not always synced with the Acronis account (at my.acronis.com).
  • [ABR-108592] On the Activities tab of the backup console, the following error appears after backing up a virtual machine by using the trial version of Acronis Backup 12: "One or more machines are not assigned a license."
  • [ABR-108216] It is not possible to delete incomplete backups from Acronis Cloud Storage via the web interface.
  • Virtualization:
  • [ABR-110752] It is not possible to run a virtual machine from a backup that is located on a USB drive. The following error appears: "The specified type of the archive location is not supported."
  • [ABR-110667] Recovery of an ESXi configuration fails if the target system is UEFI and contains more than one disk. The following error appears: "Failed to detect the first bootable disk."
  • [ABR-109552] The disks of a virtual machine are not properly overwritten during the incremental recovery of this machine if the recovery is performed by Agent for VMware (Windows) installed inside any other virtual machine on the same ESXi host.
  • [ABR-109271] Agent for VMware (Virtual Appliance) does not perform simultaneous backups if it is assigned 1 GB of RAM in VMware vSphere.
  • [ABR-109266] Incremental backup of the ESXi configuration fails if encryption is enabled in the backup plan. The following error appears: "The operation is not supported."
  • [ABR-109259] It is not possible to run a virtual machine from a backup on an ESXi host that has the VMkernel adapter for management traffic placed on a dvSwitch. The following error appears: "Failed to find a network route between NFS and ESX(i) server."
  • [ABR-108614] It is not possible to enable an application-aware backup for VMware ESXi virtual machines managed by Agent for VMware (Virtual Appliance).
  • [ABR-108365] Virtual machines are not automatically redistributed among multiple Agents for VMware. As a result, one agent backs up all the machines.
  • Application support:
  • [ABR-108452] Application-aware backup plans for physical machines fail after backup agent re-installation.

New in Acronis Backup for PC 11.7.44421 (Apr 15, 2016)

  • Installation:
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2014 can be used to store the databases of Acronis Backup Management Server.
  • Deduplication:
  • 128 MB of RAM per 1 TB of unique data are required, instead of 3 GB.
  • No need to allocate the deduplication database on expensive SSD disks. Regular HDD disks can be used without performance degradation.
  • Recovery from a deduplicated backup is now 40 percent faster.
  • The backup speed does not reduce as the deduplication database size increases.
  • The Storage Node startup time on large data sets is reduced to 1-3 minutes.
  • Validating deduplicated backups and compacting the data store are now 2.5 times faster.
  • These improvements are effective when v11.7 agents back up to deduplicating vaults created on v11.7 storage nodes. When a new agent backs up to an old vault or an old agent backs up to a new vault, the old deduplication algorithm is used. To apply the new deduplication algorithm to old backups, you need to import the backups into a newly created vault.
  • Tape support:
  • Configurable block size for reading and writing to tapes. The default value is taken from the tape device driver.
  • Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) and Hardware Compatibility Tool are introduced. Hardware Compatibility List contains tape devices with confirmed support by Acronis Backup. To learn if your specific device is supported, use the Hardware Compatibility Tool.
  • Full support for the LTO-7 technology. See the HCL for the exact names of the tested devices.
  • Centralized management:
  • It is possible to specify a custom backup location for each machine that is included in a centralized backup plan.
  • In addition to exporting licenses from the management server to an .xml file, you can export them to a .txt file.
  • Microsoft Exchange Server support:
  • Agent for Exchange can back up and recover Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 databases. Backup and recovery of Exchange 2016 mailboxes (including mailbox recovery from database backups) are not supported.
  • Other:
  • It is possible to use compression in combination with third-party hardware or software deduplication (for disk-level backups only). This effectively reduces the storage space occupied by the backups.
  • More functionality is available via the command-line interface:
  • Generating management server reports
  • Deploying Agent for VMware (Virtual Appliance)
  • Agent for VMware does not back up independent disks and Raw Device Mapping (RDM) disks in physical compatibility mode, regardless of the state of a virtual machine. This limitation is introduced for better predictability of the product behavior.
  • 32-bit Linux-based bootable media was optimized in size by removing the rarely used acrocmd utility.
  • When a disk backup is mounted in the read/write mode, the respective incremental backup is not created immediately, but after the disk backup is unmounted, instead. While the backup is mounted, the changes are saved in the %Temp% folder.
  • FIXED ISSUES:
  • Installation:
  • [ABR-72208] Installation on SuSE Linux 8.2 fails. The following error appears: "--nopostun: unknown option".
  • [ABR-35597] During Acronis Backup installation on a XenServer machine with Windows XP, Windows Small Business Server 2011, or Windows Server 2012 R2 guest operating system, license Acronis Backup Advanced for Citrix XenServer is not accepted.
  • [ABR-100815] Installation of Acronis Backup Storage Node fails if the Backup Operators group is missing on the machine.
  • [ABR-100484] Updating Acronis Backup Agent for Windows to Version 11.7 fails. The following error appears: "Access is denied."
  • [ABR-96631] A perpetual license for Acronis Backup for Windows Server is shown as a subscription license in the installer.
  • Local management:
  • [ABR-70414] Post data capture commands should run even if taking the data snapshot fails.
  • [ABR-82971] Acronis Universal Restore does not automatically set '0' as the "DisableCDDB" value data in the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\PnP. It leads to a system crash with error 0x0000007B ("INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE").
  • Note: The fix works only if the "DisableCDDB" value is created locally (not through Group Policy).
  • [ABR-82513] Acronis Universal Restore fails to apply drivers after the recovery if the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services key in the recovered Windows registry contains more than 504 subkeys.
  • [ABR-76406] The mouse and the keyboard are not detected on a Microsoft Surface Pro 3 tablet booted from Linux-based bootable media.
  • [ABR-75882] Bootability recovery fails with incorrect GRUB loader record (the root definition is wrong).
  • [TTASK-11504] Acronis Managed Machine Service crashes on a machine with a specific GPT header present on disk.
  • [ABR-72212] The Network connection speed backup option does not work when the backup destination is FTP.
  • [ABR-72003] A RAID5 configuration on an Intel fake RAID controller is detected incorrectly under Linux-based bootable media.
  • [ABR-71034] Recovering files to existing LVM volumes under Linux-based bootable media fails.
  • [ABR-70469] Backups via the command-line interface fail. The following error appears: "POR: There is a mismatch in object internal structure. Expected object type is 'composite', actual object type is 'nil'."
  • [ABR-67736] After a specific backup of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux machine is recovered as a Hyper-V virtual machine, the resulting VM is unbootable.
  • [ABR-66816] The second backup to an NFS share created on QNAP NAS fails while the first one is successful.
  • [ABR-60037] The Acronis TIB Mounter driver is shown as "Not digitally signed" in Windows Device Manager.
  • [ABR-53834] Retention rules applied to backups located in a personal vault on an external USB drive hang.
  • [ABR-95876] The list backups command fails under 32-bit WinPE-based bootable media. The following error appears: "Factory for a command with ID = '...' cannot be found".
  • [ABR-89469] Acronis Bootable Media Builder does not detect Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit for Windows 10 (WinPE 6.0).
  • Centralized management:
  • [ABR-86461] Acronis Backup Storage Node hangs after a recovery or a browsing operation is canceled and then the backup is deleted from a managed vault.
  • [ABR-85239] Acronis Backup Management Server incorrectly selects the agent to perform recovery initiated via the command-line utility. As a result, the recovery fails.
  • [ABR-83298] Validation of an archive or a backup in a deduplicating vault fails if the network connection is unstable. The following error appears: "Cannot establish connection. Check the specified machine address."
  • [TTASK-12421] From time to time, backups to a centralized managed vault fail. The following error appears: "Insufficient memory to process the command."
  • [TTASK-11471, TTASK-11683] Acronis Backup Management Server log is filled with the following warnings: "Cannot find the aspect of the instance with ID."
  • [ABR-84000] Slow export and validation of encrypted backups stored in a centralized vault. As a result of the fix, the speed was increased by up to 3 times.
  • [TTASK-10860] From time to time, statuses of backup tasks are shown incorrectly on Acronis Backup Management Server.
  • [TTASK-11440] After the Acronis Backup Storage Node service restart, a deduplicating vault returns the following error: "Vault 'name' is not ready for use."
  • [ABR-72287] An archive is not deleted from a centralized vault created on an NFS share when the operation is initiated via the command-line utility. Acronis Backup Management Server event log contains the following warning: "The operation is not supported."
  • [ABR-71497] Scheduled alert notifications configured in the management server options use the UTC time zone instead of the local time.
  • [ABR-71184] Acronis Backup Management Server uses 98% of CPU when browsing a centralized vault located on a corrupted storage.
  • [ABR-69913] Acronis Backup Management Server may crash after an update from Version 11.5 Update 5.
  • [ABR-66893] The Network connection speed backup option does not work when the backup destination is a deduplicating vault.
  • [ABR-66442] Centralized backups of logical volumes by using selection rules (for example, "/dev/VolGroup/lv_root") fail. The following error appears: "Cannot resolve any inclusion rule."
  • [ABR-100791] Old Acronis and Windows logo are displayed on the Acronis Backup Management Server Web page.
  • [ABR-81307] [TTASK-8567] The time stamp in an email notification is different from the actual time of a backup completion.
  • [ABR-72602] The number of handles for the Acronis Backup Management Server process in Windows Task Manager increases during the list archives and export plan command execution.
  • Applications support:
  • [TTASK-11553] Acronis Backup may fail to browse an Exchange information store while creating a backup plan.
  • [ABR-83250] Recovering contacts from an Exchange 2010 public folder fails. The following error appears: "The optional value is null."
  • Tapes:
  • [ABR-68221] The operation of moving tapes to another slot may fail on a Hyper-V virtual machine.
  • [ABR-100671] In some cases, backing up to manually rotated tapes fails.
  • [ABR-90171] After updating Acronis Backup to Version 11.7, replication from a managed vault to a managed tape vault fails. The following error appears: "The archive is invalid or its type is unsupported."
  • [ABR-84853] Backing up files to a personal tape vault takes too much time.
  • Virtualization:
  • [ABR-84006] The conversion of an EFI machine to a virtual machine from an incremental backup fails while the conversion of the same machine from a full backup is successful. The following error appears: "Failed to prepare operations. Error code: 7 'Disk is not found. Make sure that all the hard disks are installed in your computer.'"
  • [ABR-82538] While a machine running Windows Server 2012 R2 is being recovered to a new ESX(i) virtual machine, the following warning appears: "Device driver 'PCI\VEN_1000&DEV_0030&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_01' for 'Windows Server 2012 R2' cannot be found." The resulting VM is unbootable.
  • [ABR-82514] After a machine running Windows Server 2012 R2 is backed up and recovered to a new ESX(i) virtual machine, the resulting VM does not contain valid network interface cards. The cards have to be added manually.
  • [ABR-82354] A backup of a virtual machine fails after the machine was migrated (via vMotion) between hosts of an ESX(i) cluster, if "Disks/Volumes" was selected in "What to back up".
  • [ABR-82316] A backup of a Generation 2 virtual machine with converting to a Hyper-V virtual machine fails. The following error appears: "The bus type is invalid."
  • [ABR-81018] If a backup contains a disk larger than 2 TB, it is not possible to add a virtual disk larger than 2 TB while configuring recovery from this backup to a new ESX(i) virtual machine.
  • [ABR-78181] Deploying Agent for VMware (Virtual Appliance) fails if the VMware vSphere environment contains two clusters with the same name.
  • [ABR-58718] An incorrect warning "Failed to take a VSS snapshot" may appear while Acronis Backup is backing up Hyper-V virtual machines.
  • [ABR-86319] If vCenter contains more than 2000 virtual machines, the list vms command shows only 2000 of them.

New in Acronis Backup for PC 11.7.44179 (Feb 25, 2016)

  • WHAT'S NEW:
  • Installation:
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2014 can be used to store the databases of Acronis Backup Management Server
  • Deduplication:
  • 128 MB of RAM per 1 TB of unique data are required, instead of 3 GB.
  • No need to allocate the deduplication database on expensive SSD disks. Regular HDD disks can be used without performance degradation.
  • Recovery from a deduplicated backup is now 40 percent faster.
  • The backup speed does not reduce as the deduplication database size increases.
  • The Storage Node startup time on large data sets is reduced to 1-3 minutes.
  • Validating deduplicated backups and compacting the data store are now 2.5 times faster.
  • These improvements are effective when v11.7 agents back up to deduplicating vaults created on v11.7 storage nodes. When a new agent backs up to an old vault or an old agent backs up to a new vault, the old deduplication algorithm is used. To apply the new deduplication algorithm to old backups, you need to import the backups into a newly created vault.
  • Tape support:
  • Configurable block size for reading and writing to tapes. The default value is taken from the tape device driver.
  • Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) and Hardware Compatibility Tool are introduced. Hardware Compatibility List contains tape devices with confirmed support by Acronis Backup. To learn if your specific device is supported, use the Hardware Compatibility Tool.
  • Full support for the LTO-7 technology. See the HCL for the exact names of the tested devices.
  • Centralized management:
  • It is possible to specify a custom backup location for each machine that is included in a centralized backup plan.
  • In addition to exporting licenses from the management server to an .xml file, you can export them to a .txt file.
  • Microsoft Exchange Server support:
  • Agent for Exchange can back up and recover Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 databases. Backup and recovery of Exchange 2016 mailboxes (including mailbox recovery from database backups) are not supported.
  • Other:
  • It is possible to use compression in combination with third-party hardware or software deduplication (for disk-level backups only). This effectively reduces the storage space occupied by the backups.
  • More functionality is available via the command-line interface:
  • Generating management server reports
  • Deploying Agent for VMware (Virtual Appliance)
  • Agent for VMware does not back up independent disks and Raw Device Mapping (RDM) disks in physical compatibility mode, regardless of the state of a virtual machine. This limitation is introduced for better predictability of the product behavior.
  • 32-bit Linux-based bootable media was optimized in size by removing the rarely used acrocmd utility.
  • When a disk backup is mounted in the read/write mode, the respective incremental backup is not created immediately, but after the disk backup is unmounted, instead. While the backup is mounted, the changes are saved in the %Temp% folder.
  • FIXED ISSUES:
  • Installation:
  • [ABR-72208] Installation on SuSE Linux 8.2 fails. The following error appears: "--nopostun: unknown option".
  • [ABR-35597] During Acronis Backup installation on a XenServer machine with Windows XP, Windows Small Business Server 2011, or Windows Server 2012 R2 guest operating system, license Acronis Backup Advanced for Citrix XenServer is not accepted.
  • Local management:
  • [ABR-70414] Post data capture commands should run even if taking the data snapshot fails.
  • [ABR-82971] Acronis Universal Restore does not automatically set '0' as the "DisableCDDB" value data in the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\PnP. It leads to a system crash with error 0x0000007B ("INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE").
  • Note: The fix works only if the "DisableCDDB" value is created locally (not through Group Policy).
  • [ABR-82513] Acronis Universal Restore fails to apply drivers after the recovery if the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services key in the recovered Windows registry contains more than 504 subkeys.
  • [ABR-76406] The mouse and the keyboard are not detected on a Microsoft Surface Pro 3 tablet booted from Linux-based bootable media.
  • [ABR-75882] Bootability recovery fails with incorrect GRUB loader record (the root definition is wrong).
  • [TTASK-11504] Acronis Managed Machine Service crashes on a machine with a specific GPT header present on disk.
  • [ABR-72212] The Network connection speed backup option does not work when the backup destination is FTP.
  • [ABR-72003] A RAID5 configuration on an Intel fake RAID controller is detected incorrectly under Linux-based bootable media.
  • [ABR-71034] Recovering files to existing LVM volumes under Linux-based bootable media fails.
  • [ABR-70469] Backups via the command-line interface fail. The following error appears: "POR: There is a mismatch in object internal structure. Expected object type is 'composite', actual object type is 'nil'."
  • [ABR-67736] After a specific backup of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux machine is recovered as a Hyper-V virtual machine, the resulting VM is unbootable.
  • [ABR-66816] The second backup to an NFS share created on QNAP NAS fails while the first one is successful.
  • [ABR-60037] The Acronis TIB Mounter driver is shown as "Not digitally signed" in Windows Device Manager.
  • [ABR-53834] Retention rules applied to backups located in a personal vault on an external USB drive hang.
  • Centralized management:
  • [ABR-86461] Acronis Backup Storage Node hangs after a recovery or a browsing operation is canceled and then the backup is deleted from a managed vault.
  • [ABR-85239] Acronis Backup Management Server incorrectly selects the agent to perform recovery initiated via the command-line utility. As a result, the recovery fails.
  • [ABR-83298] Validation of an archive or a backup in a deduplicating vault fails if the network connection is unstable. The following error appears: "Cannot establish connection. Check the specified machine address."
  • [TTASK-12421] From time to time, backups to a centralized managed vault fail. The following error appears: "Insufficient memory to process the command."
  • [TTASK-11471, TTASK-11683] Acronis Backup Management Server log is filled with the following warnings: "Cannot find the aspect of the instance with ID."
  • [ABR-84000] Slow export and validation of encrypted backups stored in a centralized vault. As a result of the fix, the speed was increased by up to 3 times.
  • [TTASK-10860] From time to time, statuses of backup tasks are shown incorrectly on Acronis Backup Management Server.
  • [TTASK-11440] After the Acronis Backup Storage Node service restart, a deduplicating vault returns the following error: "Vault 'name' is not ready for use."
  • [ABR-72287] An archive is not deleted from a centralized vault created on an NFS share when the operation is initiated via the command-line utility. Acronis Backup Management Server event log contains the following warning: "The operation is not supported."
  • [ABR-71497] Scheduled alert notifications configured in the management server options use the UTC time zone instead of the local time.
  • [ABR-71184] Acronis Backup Management Server uses 98% of CPU when browsing a centralized vault located on a corrupted storage.
  • [ABR-69913] Acronis Backup Management Server may crash after an update from Version 11.5 Update 5.
  • [ABR-66893] The Network connection speed backup option does not work when the backup destination is a deduplicating vault.
  • [ABR-66442] Centralized backups of logical volumes by using selection rules (for example, "/dev/VolGroup/lv_root") fail. The following error appears: "Cannot resolve any inclusion rule."
  • Applications support:
  • [TTASK-11553] Acronis Backup may fail to browse an Exchange information store while creating a backup plan.
  • [ABR-83250] Recovering contacts from an Exchange 2010 public folder fails. The following error appears: "The optional value is null."
  • Tapes:
  • [ABR-68221] The operation of moving tapes to another slot may fail on a Hyper-V virtual machine.
  • Virtualization:
  • [ABR-84006] The conversion of an EFI machine to a virtual machine from an incremental backup fails while the conversion of the same machine from a full backup is successful. The following error appears: "Failed to prepare operations. Error code: 7 'Disk is not found. Make sure that all the hard disks are installed in your computer.'"
  • [ABR-82538] While a machine running Windows Server 2012 R2 is being recovered to a new ESX(i) virtual machine, the following warning appears: "Device driver 'PCI\VEN_1000&DEV_0030&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_01' for 'Windows Server 2012 R2' cannot be found." The resulting VM is unbootable.
  • [ABR-82514] After a machine running Windows Server 2012 R2 is backed up and recovered to a new ESX(i) virtual machine, the resulting VM does not contain valid network interface cards. The cards have to be added manually.
  • [ABR-82354] A backup of a virtual machine fails after the machine was migrated (via vMotion) between hosts of an ESX(i) cluster, if "Disks/Volumes" was selected in "What to back up".
  • [ABR-82316] A backup of a Generation 2 virtual machine with converting to a Hyper-V virtual machine fails. The following error appears: "The bus type is invalid."
  • [ABR-81018] If a backup contains a disk larger than 2 TB, it is not possible to add a virtual disk larger than 2 TB while configuring recovery from this backup to a new ESX(i) virtual machine.
  • [ABR-78181] Deploying Agent for VMware (Virtual Appliance) fails if the VMware vSphere environment contains two clusters with the same name.
  • [ABR-58718] An incorrect warning "Failed to take a VSS snapshot" may appear while Acronis Backup is backing up Hyper-V virtual machines.

New in Acronis Backup for PC 11.5.43759 (May 5, 2015)

  • Improvements:
  • Acronis Backup Advanced for VMware supports vSphere 6.
  • Cloud backup:
  • It is possible to specify a cloud subscription registration code during local installation of Acronis Backup in Windows. The subscription is registered automatically if the machine is connected to the Internet. Acronis License Server does not accept cloud subscriptions.
  • A registered subscription for Server or for PC is activated automatically when the first backup to cloud starts, if all subscriptions available in your account are the same type and have the same storage quota.
  • Deduplication:
  • 3 GB of RAM per 1 TB of unique data are required, instead of 16 GB.
  • Faster server-side deduplication.
  • Faster compacting of the data store. To apply the new deduplication algorithm to an old vault, you need to recreate the vault’s deduplication database. For more information, see "How to migrate to Update 6 deduplication" in the product Help or the User Guide.
  • New configuration parameters enable you to choose between the old and new indexing algorithms and control the storage node memory allocation.
  • Centralized management:
  • A centralized vault can be created on an NFS share.
  • Backup to NFS can be performed by Agent for Linux, Agent for VMware (Virtual Appliance), or Linux-based bootable media.
  • Virtualization:
  • The memory size of Agent for VMware (Virtual Appliance) is set automatically, based on the host memory, when the agent is deployed from the management server.
  • Acronis Backup Advanced for Hyper-V fully supports Generation 2 virtual machines.
  • Acronis Backup Advanced for Hyper-V can be installed in Windows 8, 8.1 (x64) with Hyper-V.
  • Support for Citrix XenServer 6.5, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.4, 3.5, and Oracle VM Server 3.3 (by installing an agent into a guest system).

New in Acronis Backup for PC 11.5.43713 (Mar 2, 2015)

  • Cloud backup:
  • It is possible to specify a cloud subscription registration code during local installation of Acronis Backup in Windows. The subscription is registered automatically if the machine is connected to the Internet. Acronis License Server does not accept cloud subscriptions.
  • A registered subscription for Server or for PC is activated automatically when the first backup to cloud starts, if all subscriptions available in your account are the same type and have the same storage quota.
  • Deduplication:
  • 3 GB of RAM per 1 TB of unique data are required, instead of 16 GB.
  • Faster server-side deduplication.
  • Faster compacting of the data store.
  • Centralized management:
  • A centralized vault can be created on an NFS share. Backup to NFS can be performed by Agent for Linux, Agent for VMware (Virtual Appliance), or Linux-based bootable media.
  • Virtualization:
  • The memory size of Agent for VMware (Virtual Appliance) is set automatically, based on the host memory, when the agent is deployed from the management server.
  • Acronis Backup Advanced for Hyper-V fully supports Generation 2 virtual machines.
  • Acronis Backup Advanced for Hyper-V can be installed in Windows 8, 8.1 (x64) with Hyper-V.
  • Support for Citrix XenServer 6.5, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.4, 3.5, and Oracle VM Server 3.3 (by installing an agent into a guest system).
  • Fixed issues:
  • Cloud backup:
  • It is impossible to browse an archive with a large number of backups (over 900) by using the management console.
  • When recovering an LSR disk as a new virtual machine from a backup created by using the Initial seeding backup scheme, a license is required.
  • Installation:
  • After updating Agent for VMware (Virtual Appliance), all of its settings and backup plans are lost.
  • If a license server is used in the Acronis Backup infrastructure, browsing of personal vaults by using the management console is slow in case of network issues. This is because the console always requests licenses from the license server.
  • Local management:
  • The AES-256 encryption is slow.
  • The Archive view may not display an incremental backup in an encrypted archive.
  • The recovery of a system disk from a backup stored in an encrypted deduplicating vault to bare metal takes a long time (about three hours).
  • Acronis Managed Machine Service is prone to memory leaks.
  • After recovering basic volumes to an LVM structure by using Acronis Backup Command-Line Tool, an operating system that resides on these volumes may become unbootable.
  • When creating a file backup of the entire Linux volume, there are a lot of "Failed to create snapshot for backup" errors.
  • The Occupied space column is hidden by default in the Archive view.
  • The following error may appear during replication: "Write access is denied."
  • After recovering the system disk from Acronis Secure Zone, Acronis Startup Recovery Manager becomes deactivated.
  • Backup of a system disk that has Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 Enterprise x64 Edition installed on it fails if Acronis VSS Provider is used.
  • Acronis Secure Zone can be created only as a primary volume.
  • It is impossible to back up a disk that contains only LVM volumes.
  • When consolidating backups, a temporary archive becomes available for browsing.
  • An archive is not deleted if all of its backups are deleted by using the delete backup command of Acronis Backup Command-Line Tool.
  • The replicate backup command of Acronis Backup Command-Line Tool does not work with a password-protected archive.
  • Centralized management:
  • After selecting data in the Data catalog and clicking Recover, this data may be not displayed in the What to recover section of a newly created recovery task.
  • The management server fails to execute the list archives command if the location specified in the --loc parameter is an NFS share on a NetApp filer.
  • When attaching a managed vault to a storage node via the management console, the following error may appear: "Access denied for object 'Storage node'."
  • Adding a machine via Add a machine to AMS in the management console fails if the console is connected to the management server under the domain administrator account. The following error appears: "Authentication has failed".
  • It is impossible to browse the contents of a managed vault if there are large number of backups running simultaneously to that vault. The storage node that manages the vault hangs.
  • Acronis Management Server Service may hang on start.
  • Acronis Management Server Service is slow to start.
  • Sometimes, not all backups selected for deletion are deleted.
  • Tapes:
  • The Archive view does not display all backups from an archive created by using the Grandfather-Father-Son (GFS) scheme after rescanning the tapes that store the archive.
  • Export of an archive from a managed vault to a tape device fails. The following error appears: "Write error. Internal database error: An invalid object type."
  • If a backup plan is configured to back up data to a managed vault and replicate it to a tape vault, the replication starts with a long delay in case the managed vault contains a large number of archives with different types of backups.
  • After changing tapes in a tape device and performing the full inventorying, new tapes are detected as existing ones.
  • Tapes that contain archives with different types of backups may be incorrectly rescanned.
  • After successful recovery of data from a tape vault, the log may contain the following errors: "The registry key is corrupted or missing."
  • Virtualization:
  • After adding an ESX host with virtual machines to the management server, the server increases its RAM usage up to 3 GB in 10-15 minutes.
  • Agent for VMware (Virtual Appliance) can start simultaneous backups of the same virtual machine within one backup plan.
  • After updating Agent for VMware (Virtual Appliance), its locally attached storage becomes corrupted.
  • Agent for VMware (Virtual Appliance) may fail to recover files from a large file backup.
  • Acronis Managed Machine Service starts the recovery of a virtual machine from a managed vault that contains a large number of virtual machine backups after a long time (~30 minutes), if the recovery is initiated by the recover vm command of Acronis Backup Command-Line Tool.
  • Backup of a virtual machine with a SATA device fails. The following error appears: "You do not have access rights to this file."
  • Backed-up physical machines recovered as virtual machines of the VMware Workstation 6.5 type do not work in VMware Player 6.
  • The recover vm command does not support configuring RAM amount, CPU count, disk types, disk sizes, and the disk provisioning mode of a virtual machine being recovered.
  • The --retry-count and --retry-delay parameters of the recover vm command do not work.
  • Agent for Windows does not accept the Acronis Backup Advanced for Citrix XenServer license if it is installed on a Windows XP virtual machine that resides on Citrix XenServer.

New in Acronis Backup for PC 11.5.39029 (Aug 27, 2014)

  • What's new in Acronis Backup:
  • The cataloging performance is improved.
  • Acronis Active Restore now works faster, by using a Read-Only Memory cache, and supports Windows 8/8.1 and Windows Server 2012/2012R2.
  • Fixed issues
  • Installation:
  • [ABR-59278] Agent for Hyper-V is not installed during remote installation of Acronis Backup components.
  • Local management:
  • [OBC-73] Backup of a network share in the silent mode, to the cloud storage, fails if a file or a directory is deleted from the share during the process.
  • [ABR-40471] When exporting a backup, the progress in the Details window of the activity works incorrectly.
  • [ABR-58717] The backup export command does not support the --silent_mode parameter.
  • Centralized management:
  • [ABR-58959] Deletion of an incremental single-pass backup from a managed centralized tape-based vault fails. The following error appears: "Internal error: Failed to open the service directory of the location."
  • [ABR-57658] Centralized unmanaged vaults on a DFS share become inaccessible after updating Acronis Backup components.
  • [ABR-57789] A managed centralized vault becomes inaccessible if a file is manually placed in the .meta folder of the vault.
  • Applications:
  • [APPS-1729] Single-pass backup of a Microsoft SQL Server database fails if the database files were removed from a user-defined filegroup.
  • [ABR-57926] Validation of a Microsoft Exchange database backup on a deduplicating vault may fail. The following error appears: "Failed to find the requested checksums in the deduplication database."

New in Acronis Backup for PC 11.5.38774 (Jun 6, 2014)

  • What's new in Acronis Backup:
  • Recovery of Exchange 2013 mailboxes and their contents from database backups to a Microsoft Exchange Server.
  • Support for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.3.
  • Improved backup to Acronis Cloud Storage.
  • Improved backup to tapes.
  • An option to accelerate recovery of large files from tapes.
  • Fixed issues:
  • Local management
  • [ABR-54314] It is impossible to back up files on an LDM disk because of a failure to create a snapshot of the disk.
  • [ABR-41326] Acronis Universal Restore does not install RAID drivers automatically.
  • [ABR-55286] During recovery, MD volumes are not automapped by their names.
  • [ABR-36634] Recovery of SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10 SP3 fails and makes the machine unbootable.
  • [ABR-42619] Replication of a disk backup to a managed vault on a network share in the silent mode hangs when the network share is full.
  • [ABR-42929] An Active Directory user added to a local group on a machine is displayed as a local user.
  • Centralized management
  • [ABR-51115] Moving older backups from a deduplicating vault to tapes (staging) fails. The following error appears: "The requested hashes have not been found in the deduplication database."
  • [ABR-53691] When specifying the account of an Active Directory user for a managed vault, the user name is incorrectly resolved.
  • [ABR-50300] When searching data by using the Search window, there is no visual indication that the search is in progress.
  • Cloud
  • [ABR-55560] File-level backup of a network share to the cloud storage fails if one of the files on the network share is locked.
  • [ABR-35699] File-level backup of a network share to the cloud storage always finishes with warnings.
  • [ABR-42374] File-level backup to the cloud storage fails. The following error appears: "Unknown Win32 error."
  • [ABR-36655] File-level backup with encryption to the cloud storage fails. The following error appears: "Invalid internal API usage."
  • [ABR-40980] There is no data shown under What to recover after selecting files from a backup that is stored on the cloud storage.
  • [ABR-40942] Security attributes of files backed up to the cloud storage are incorrectly recovered.
  • [ABR-40545] Recovery of a network share from the cloud storage to the original location fails. The following error appears: "Access to the file is denied. Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password."
  • [ABR-41001] The "Failed to modify permissions" message appears during recovery of a network share to the original location.
  • [ABR-43194] It is impossible to delete a full backup from a file archive stored on the cloud storage.
  • [ABR-39251] Only one backup in a file archive stored on the cloud storage is shown in the Archive view.
  • [ABR-54723] An unlimited subscription is activated only on one machine, when multiple machines are selected.
  • Tapes
  • [ABR-38642] Parallel backup or replication of virtual machines to a managed tape vault hangs.
  • [ABR-32490] Simultaneous backup of virtual machines to a managed tape vault hangs. The following message appears: "No media in drive."
  • [ABR-37412] A tape drive locks during simultaneous backup of virtual machines to a managed tape vault associated with the drive, if no inventorying is performed during backup.
  • [ABR-40270] Backup to a tape from a stand-alone tape drive fails if the tape is in the Unrecognized tapes pool.
  • [ABR-41541] Backup to a tape from a stand-alone tape drive finishes with the "Nothing to lock" warning if the Eject tapes after successful backups setting is enabled.
  • [ABR-37943] The "No free media" message appears during backup, even though free tapes are available.
  • [ABR-50962] Cleaning up archives on a managed tape vault fails. The following error appears: "Access denied for object 'Storage node'."
  • [ABR-40128] Browsing of a tape vault hangs.
  • [ABR-50854] Loading the contents of a large disk backup from a managed tape vault in the Backup Content window fails.
  • [ABR-50219] A tape management database may become corrupted if Agent for Windows and Acronis Backup Storage Node are installed on the same machine.

New in Acronis Backup for PC 11.5.38350 (Dec 9, 2013)

  • Installation:
  • Remote update from build 37608 to build 37633 takes considerably more time if Visual Studio is installed on the machine where Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 is being updated.
  • If upgrade licenses are specified for Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Agent for Windows in the Change license window, the agent log contains errors.
  • During a remote update of several physical machines, the product incorrectly reports that there are not enough licenses available.
  • Installation of Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Agent for Hyper-V on a read-only domain controller fails.
  • Incorrect link to a Microsoft Download Center webpage is displayed during installation of Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Agent for Exchange.
  • Local management:
  • If an attempt to connect to Acronis Online Backup Storage fails, this failed connection is used instead of a reconnection.
  • If a machine name contains non-Latin characters (for example, Cyrillic), activating an online backup subscription on the machine hangs.
  • An e-mail notification about an alert uses an incorrect time zone for the time.
  • The next start time is not displayed in the Backup plans and tasks view for a backup plan with the Upon time since last backup schedule.
  • A deleted archive is still listed by the list archives command if the archive contained a backup that had been converted to full and a backup that had been deleted with consolidation.
  • The validation commands of the command-line utility must support the --network_speed parameter.
  • The validation commands of the command-line utility must support the --process_priority parameter.
  • A backup plan is imported incorrectly.
  • During the cleanup operation, the XML metadata of backups stored in the online storage is lost.
  • Centralized management:
  • An archive in an encrypted managed vault becomes corrupted if the second incremental backup is canceled.
  • The When there is insufficient space while backing up cleanup rule is available for managed vaults without deduplication.
  • Attaching a deduplicating vault with recreating the deduplication database takes too much time.
  • It is not possible to select a Hyper-V cluster in Data to Back Up.
  • Applications support:
  • It is not possible to mount a Microsoft SQL database that uses FILESTREAM storage.
  • In some cases, the value of the Microsoft Exchange metadata collection backup option is not set by default.
  • The Interaction Required window related to a centralized backup plan is not shown when the console is connected to the management server.
  • A centralized backup of Microsoft Exchange Server data fails if the Management Server node is selected in Data to Back Up. The error is "Internal error: An expression test has failed."
  • A centralized backup (both database-level and mailbox-level) of Microsoft Exchange Server data fails if the Microsoft Exchange Information Store node is selected in Data to Back Up. The error is "Internal error: An expression test has failed."
  • It is possible to create a backup plan of Microsoft Exchange Server data with unacceptable VSS settings.
  • A wrong public folder database is browsed in Data to Back Up (when mailboxes are selected for backup) if Microsoft Exchange 2003 and 2010 servers are present within the same organization.
  • Tapes:
  • A backup fails if the Overwrite a tape in the drive when creating a full backup option is enabled.

New in Acronis Backup for PC 11.5.37975 (Oct 10, 2013)

  • Improvements added:
  • Install Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 in the trial mode without a license key.
  • Upgrade from a stand-alone product to the advanced platform without reinstalling the software.
  • Back up and recover with Agent for ESX(i): VMware vSphere 5.5.
  • Back up and recover from inside a guest system: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.2, Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.x.
  • Basic support for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2.
  • Support for Linux kernel up to version 3.9.
  • Support for Ubuntu 12.10, 13.04, and Fedora 18.
  • Added support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2013:
  • Back up and recover Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 databases by using Agent for Exchange. Backup and recovery of Exchange 2013 mailboxes (including mailbox recovery from database backups) are not yet supported, but will be added in future updates.
  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Cumulative Update 1 (CU1) and later are supported.
  • Single-pass backup of Microsoft SQL Server data:
  • Use a single solution and a single backup plan for both disaster recovery and data protection purposes.
  • Back up a machine and recover disks, volumes, files, or Microsoft SQL databases.
  • Recover Microsoft SQL databases directly to a running SQL Server instance, or extract them as files onto a file system.
  • Truncate SQL Server logs after a backup.
  • Use any backup destination including Acronis Online Backup Storage.
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2012 is supported, as well as the previous Microsoft SQL Server versions.
  • Basic support for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012:
  • Install Agent for Windows, Agent for SQL (single-pass), and management components in Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.
  • Boot a machine from bootable media that is based on WinPE 4.
  • Use bootable media on a machine where UEFI Secure Boot is enabled.
  • Back up and recover (without resize) volumes that have the ReFS file system or any data on these volumes.
  • Back up storage spaces and recover them to the original location, to different storage spaces or as ordinary disks.
  • Back up and recover (at a disk level) volumes where the Data Deduplication feature is enabled.
  • Support for new virtualization platforms:
  • Back up and recover with Agent for ESX(i): VMware vSphere 5.1.
  • Back up and recover with Agent for Hyper-V: Hyper-V 3.0.
  • Agent for Hyper-V cannot be installed in Windows 8, even though this operating system includes the Hyper-V feature.
  • Back up and recover from inside a guest system: Oracle VM Server 3.0, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1.
  • Other:
  • Completely disable backup cataloging on a managed machine, storage node, or the management server.
  • Save a Disaster Recovery Plan to a local or network folder, in addition to sending it via e-mail.
  • Enable VSS Full backup to truncate logs of VSS-aware applications after a disk-level backup.
  • Boot a UEFI machine from bootable media that is based on 64-bit WinPE.
  • Add the scription% variable (the description shown in system properties of a Windows machine) to the e-mail notification subject.
  • Fixed Issues - Installation:
  • Some DLL files may not be updated during a remote upgrade because Acronis Managed Machine Service locks the files during the Agent Core installation.
  • In Oracle Linux, Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 installation files try to install kernel-devel instead of kernel-uek-devel.
  • Cannot uninstall Agent Core installed from an .msi file in the advertised installation mode.
  • Installation of Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Management Console to a non-default folder fails.
  • When adding users to groups, the comparison of user names must be case-insensitive.
  • Fixed Issues - Local management:
  • The Last successful backup property of a machine is updated even if a backup is canceled.
  • The log contains many "Failed to update DML object." messages after successful backup operations.
  • During the recovery of files, the Speed field in the recovery task details shows 0 bytes/s.
  • During a virtual machine backup to a locally attached storage of the virtual appliance, a backup task hangs at 100 percent.
  • When a virtual machine backup includes conversion to another virtual machine, a separate conversion task is not created in the backup plan's tasks.
  • An error occurs while parsing the registry keys during the Universal Restore operation.
  • Disks that are parts of a Fake RAID are incorrectly marked as read-only.
  • After activating Acronis Startup Recovery Manager on a 64-bit Windows machine booted into a Linux-based bootable media that is in the Windows-style volume representation mode and that contains 32-bit components, the machine reboot crashes the operating system.
  • The second run of a backup plan to an RDX drive or USB flash drive (Fixed drive usage mode, Custom backup scheme with a scheduled creation of full backups, with the When there is insufficient space while backing up retention rule enabled) fails if the space on the drive is sufficient for one backup but is not enough for the two backups.
  • After creating a full and several incremental backups to a local folder, and enabling replication to an RDX drive in the backup task settings, an Activities Need Interaction dialog appears during the first replication.
  • Replication of some backups fails.
  • The management console crashes after creating a backup plan of some files from a network share, closing the console, opening it again, and clicking Items to back up.
  • When mounting several volumes by using Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Command-Line Tool without the --letter parameter, all of the volumes are mounted with the same drive letter.
  • The data catalog is loading endlessly.
  • Impossible to recover data from a backup created in CentOS Linux and stored on a DVD; no backup is seen in the Archive view.
  • On Windows XP, a disk-level backup (Use Volume Shadow Copy Service option set to Software - System provider or Software - Select automatically; other options set to the default values) fails and displays the error message "Failed to create volume snapshot" if Microsoft SQL Server is installed.
  • Backup fails after a virtual disk is manually removed from a virtual appliance via vSphere Client, and the information about disks is not updated in the operating system.
  • The log contains warnings after a volume is deleted via the Windows Disk Management.
  • A crash occurs while generating details of a staging activity.
  • Sometimes, a Linux-based bootable media hangs when the user changes the volume representation.
  • Need to speed up the network configuration during the bootable media boot-up.
  • In some environments, Microsoft SQL Server is not detected by Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5.
  • Errors occur while sending a test e-mail message with the TLS encryption. In Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5, the error is "Failed to connect to the mail server." In the Wireshark log, the error is "TLSv1 Record Layer: Alert (Level: Fatal, Description: Unknown CA)."
  • A bootable media crashes if a corrupted driver is selected in Apply Universal Restore > Mass storage drivers to install anyway.
  • Browsing a backup located on a USB flash drive via Windows Explorer hangs.
  • Cannot view the contents of and recover data from a file-level backup created by Acronis True Image Echo.
  • Volume letters of UEFI-based virtual machines are shown incorrectly in the Data to Back Up window.
  • A non-default value of the Replication/cleanup inactivity time backup option is not displayed when editing a backup plan and in the backup plan details.
  • The Apply RAID/LVM option performance needs improvement if an archive is located in a centralized managed vault.
  • The log contains warnings "Failed to find a virtual disk that matches system device..." after a backup of a virtual machine by Agent for ESX(i) (Virtual Appliance).
  • The agent crashes after the user clicks Disk management.
  • "The specified e-mail or password is incorrect" error occurs when the user tries to log in to the online storage by using the credentials of an account with no subscription.
  • Incorrect values of the Time remaining field appear during recovery.
  • An error occurs while exporting a backup plan with one of the Always use a free tape options set in the backup options.
  • Editing a task of recovering to a new virtual machine must be disabled.
  • A time interval over midnight in the custom scheme schedule conditions is reset when the user edits it.
  • Impossible to specify --volume=DynX when recovering a dynamic/logical volume via Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Command-Line Tool.
  • The Overwrite a tape in the drive when creating a full backup option does not work when the tape drive is attached to a storage node.
  • Fixed Issues - Centralized management:
  • After some time, the information about a managed entity (LastStartTime, LastFinishTime, BackupStatus, LastError, Progress, and other data) is not updated on the management server.
  • Sometimes, a backup created by Agent for ESX(i) (Virtual Appliance) fails to replicate from a deduplicating managed vault to a network share. The error is "Failed to create data file..."
  • During the parallel backup (created by Agent for ESX(i) (Virtual Appliance)) of two or more ESX 4.0 virtual machines that are linked clones of the same parent machine, vSphere Client shows a warning about virtual disks with the same UUID.
  • It is impossible to specify a domain administrator as a managed vault administrator because the domain structure is recognized incorrectly.
  • Selecting a volume letter in policy rules when backing up virtual machines does not result in backing up this volume.
  • The catalog is empty after a disk-level backup with fast cataloging to a centralized managed vault.
  • The log of Agent for ESX(i) (Virtual Appliance) contains warnings "VMware_VDDK: SSLVerifyIsEnabled: failed to open the product registry key. Falling back to default behavior: verification off." when the user backs up a virtual machine or browses its disks.
  • Each Kernel-based Virtual Machine takes a separate license from the license server.
  • Sometimes, removing one or several virtual appliances from a host fails. The error is "The DELETE statement conflicted with the REFERENCE constraint "FK_Instance_Machine"."
  • If the name of an archive created by Agent for ESX(i) (Virtual Appliance) contains spaces, the archive replication to the online storage fails.
  • When editing a centralized backup plan with the GFS scheme and the destination of a centralized tape-based vault, the backup type is always shown as Always full.
  • If several Agents for ESX(i) (Virtual Appliances) are registered on the management server and back up many virtual machines, sometimes the backup plan on one of the virtual appliances freezes or fails.
  • An error occurs while backups created by several agents are replicated from a centralized managed vault to a tape-based vault managed by the same storage node.
  • A centralized backup of Microsoft Exchange Server data fails if All Microsoft Exchange servers is selected in Data to Back Up. The error is "Internal error: An expression test has failed."
  • When a folder with more than 1000 subfolders is browsed in Data to Back Up on the management server, only about 100 of the subfolders are shown.
  • After the log cleanup, the Last finish time field in the backup plan information shows Never instead of the actual value.
  • Acronis Storage Node Service crashes while the user tries to browse an archive located in a deduplicating vault.
  • In the Tasks reports, the Next start time value is shown in seconds since 1970.
  • Fixed Issues - Backup and recovery of Microsoft Exchange Server data:
  • Incorrect sent date and time is displayed in Backup Content for all e-mails in a backup created by Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange.
  • A mailbox-level backup of large Exchange databases to FTP fails. The error is "Error occurred while reading the file."
  • A mailbox-level backup fails if Microsoft Exchange Information Store is selected in Data to Back Up. The error is "Internal error: An expression test has failed."
  • In the recovered calendar item, the location name contains only the first letter of the original value (for example, 'A' instead of 'ABC').
  • Fixed Issues - Tapes:
  • Tapes are not ejected after a backup is replicated from a managed vault to a managed tape-based vault (the Eject tapes after successful backups option is enabled).
  • An error occurs while creating a task for recovery from a managed tape-based vault under WinPE-based bootable media. The error is "An error has occurred while obtaining the list of the tapes required for recovery."
  • The Apply RAID/LVM button is missing if the user creates a task for recovery from tapes.
  • If the Eject tapes after successful backups option is enabled, tapes are ejected before all backup and validation tasks are finished, so the validation fails.

New in Acronis Backup for PC 11.5.37608 (Apr 10, 2013)

  • Single-pass backup of Microsoft SQL Server data:
  • Use a single solution and a single backup plan for both disaster recovery and data protection purposes.
  • Back up a machine and recover disks, volumes, files, or Microsoft SQL databases.
  • Recover Microsoft SQL databases directly to a running SQL Server instance, or extract them as files onto a file system.
  • Truncate SQL Server logs after a backup.
  • Use any backup destination including Acronis Online Backup Storage.
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2012 is supported, as well as the previous Microsoft SQL Server versions.
  • Basic support for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012:
  • Install Agent for Windows, Agent for SQL (single-pass), and management components in Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.
  • Boot a machine from bootable media that is based on WinPE 4.
  • Use bootable media on a machine where UEFI Secure Boot is enabled.
  • Back up and recover (without resize) volumes that have the ReFS file system or any data on these volumes.
  • Back up storage spaces and recover them to the original location, to different storage spaces or as ordinary disks.
  • Back up and recover (at a disk level) volumes where the Data Deduplication feature is enabled.
  • Virtualization:
  • Back up and recover with Agent for ESX(i): VMware vSphere 5.1.
  • Back up and recover with Agent for Hyper-V: Hyper-V 3.0.
  • Agent for Hyper-V cannot be installed in Windows 8, even though this operating system includes the Hyper-V feature.
  • Back up and recover from inside a guest system: Oracle VM Server 3.0, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1.
  • Other:
  • Completely disable backup cataloging on a managed machine, storage node, or the management server.
  • Save a Disaster Recovery Plan to a local or network folder, in addition to sending it via e-mail.
  • Enable VSS Full backup to truncate logs of VSS-aware applications after a disk-level backup.
  • Boot a UEFI machine from bootable media that is based on 64-bit WinPE.
  • Add the �scription% variable (the description shown in system properties of a Windows machine) to the e-mail notification subject.
  • Fixed issues:
  • This section describes known issues that have been fixed in Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Update 1.
  • Installation:
  • When changing licenses for the installed Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 components (Help > Change license), an SBS license is not displayed in the License for backup of Microsoft Exchange data field. The "No license specified" message is displayed instead.
  • There is no clear message stating that a trial VE license has expired in the log.
  • License keys are required during remote update of Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 components if Specify license keys manually is selected in Remote Installation Wizard.
  • Cannot remotely install Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 components on a Windows machine that has SSH enabled on port 22.
  • If a remote machine has a local user with the same name as the domain Administrator user, remote installation fails because of logon failure.
  • Remote installation on a Linux machine does not work if the /tmp directory is mounted with the noexec attribute.
  • Installation is not interrupted if Windows PowerShell is corrupted.
  • Installation of Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 fails on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9. dkms displays the "syntax error near `=~'..." error.
  • Local management:
  • The Data view tab displays only 5000 items. If a backup contains more than 5000 items, it is impossible to recover the items which are not displayed in the Data view tab.
  • Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Command-Line Tool cannot recover a volume from a disk backup to unallocated space without resizing the volume so that it occupies all the space.
  • File-level recovery to the original location on a network share fails.
  • If the When there is insufficient space while backing up setting for the Clean up archive parameter within the Custom backup scheme is selected in the backup plan and the disk is full during backup, a warning about lack of space appears in the log.
  • The When there is insufficient space while backing up setting for the Clean up archive parameter within the Custom backup scheme does not work if backup is performed to Acronis Secure Zone.
  • Event time recorded in e-mail notifications about alerts is within the GMT time zone, not within the local time zone.
  • Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Command-Line Tool does not correctly handle volume numbers in commands with the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 command-line syntax.
  • Agent errors added to the Windows application event log are unreadable.
  • Command-line input (a command and its parameters) entered by the user in the command-line interface is not added to the log generated by Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Command-Line Tool. All passwords that the input contains should be removed from the log.
  • Cannot change the network and CPU load during backup and recovery using Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Command-Line Tool.
  • Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 command-line parameter --vm_type:microsoft is not supported.
  • Environment variables specified in the input file that is called via parameters --f or --file_params are not recognized.
  • Cannot start Acronis Startup Recovery Manager on specific hardware (Intel Desktop Board D2500CC).
  • Centralized management:
  • It is possible to create a deduplicating vault on an Acronis Storage Node that is installed on a 32-bit machine.
  • If Acronis Managed Machine Service and Acronis Storage Node are installed on the same machine, disk-level backup of a large amount of data (more than 2 TB) to the vault managed by this storage node and with enabled deduplication fails with the "Not enough memory" error.
  • A centralized backup plan does not create an incremental backup on an RDX drive if the Store each machine's archive in the specified folder on the machine with agent option is selected in the Location window.
  • Files from a Linux disk backup in a managed vault are not displayed in the Data catalog view or in the Data view tab of the vault.
  • Acronis Storage Node Service may crash if the tape management database becomes corrupted.
  • Backup to a managed vault in a high-speed (10 Gbit) network environment takes a long time.
  • Acronis Management Server integrated with the vCenter Server may write multiple "Failed to create the group for cluster" errors in the log after renaming a cluster on the integrated server.
  • Backup and recovery of Microsoft Exchange data:
  • Slow CDP backup of Exchange data.
  • Mailbox-level backup issues: large backup size (especially for incremental backups) and metadata collection issues.
  • Poor error logging for mailbox-level backup and metadata collection.
  • The default value of the Metadata collection backup option has been changed to Include list of mailboxes to get better backup speed in most frequently used backup scenarios.
  • Backup of Exchange data fails with the "The server is not operational" error in some environments that have two domain controllers.
  • Mailbox-level backup may fail with the "Failed to create a MAPI profile. HRESULT: -2147221227" error if IPv6 is enabled on the Exchange server.
  • Not all Exchange items are backed up during mailbox-level backup. The log contains the following errors: "MAPI property type mismatch. Expected: '30'; Obtained: '235143178'."
  • Database-level backup of an Exchange Server 2003 storage group fails with the "Relative paths are not supported" error if the storage group is located in the root folder of the server.
  • CDP backup of Exchange data to a network share does not work after temporary network disconnection.
  • Cannot browse or back up a public folder database and back up a mailbox database if the Exchange server holds a mailbox role without a CAS (Client Access Server) role.
  • Exchange mailboxes with the empty proxyAddresses property are counted as data to back up in the Data to Back Up window.
  • Tapes:
  • The Overwrite a tape in the drive when creating a full backup option which is set in Tape management is always missing in an imported backup plan.
  • When several backup plans are simultaneously running, a request for a free tape may appears even if free tapes are available.

New in Acronis Backup for PC 11.5.32308 (Oct 25, 2012)

  • Installation:
  • [ABR-29974] Cannot install Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Agent for Windows on a machine with Acronis vmProtect 8 Windows Agent.
  • [ABR-30756] After installing Acronis vmProtect 8 Windows Agent on a virtual machine with installed Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5, it is not possible to run Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 tasks and Acronis vmProtect 8 Windows Agent does not accept license keys.
  • Local Management:
  • [ABR-30250] After upgrading from Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 U5 to Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5, running backup plans may hang at 0%.
  • [ABR-29770] Not all mailbox items are backed up during a mailbox-level backup. The log contains the "MAPI property type mismatch" error.
  • [ABR-30109] Letters of volumes in Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012 are shown incorrectly in the Data to Back Up window.
  • [ABR-29424] Improve reliability of Acronis Online Backup Storage.
  • [ABR-20981] There are no steps for virtual machine recovery in a DRP e-mail message which is sent after backing up a virtual machine with the Disaster recovery plan (DRP) option enabled in Backup options of the backup plan.
  • [ABR-31030] After upgrading from Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 to Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5, new entries are not added to the log.
  • [ABR-28299] A machine does not reboot upon exit from WinPE-based bootable media.
  • [ABR-29898] The scheduler's calendar incorrectly displays dates in some localized versions of Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5.
  • [ABR-22193] ASYNC error messages that appear when browsing Exchange items are not consistent with the product's common error reporting style.
  • Centralized Management:
  • [ABR-30531] The data catalog is not updated after removing a backup archive from a vault. So, the deleted archive is available for browsing in Data view.
  • Tapes:
  • [ABR-29631] Backup to a managed vault on a tape fails with the "Failed to parse the XML" error.
  • [ABR-30008] Recovery of a disk backup from a tape fails with the "The end of the file has been reached" error.
  • [ABR-30335] Tape data can be read directly from the tapes instead of from the cache during browsing operations.

New in Acronis Backup for PC 11.0.17438 (Jun 7, 2012)

  • Installation:
  • Acronis Management Server fails to start after installation on Windows Server 2003. The error in the Windows Event Logs: "Failure Audit: Login failed for user 'AMS User'. [CLIENT: ]".
  • Installation of Acronis Management Server fails with the "Windows NT user or group 'localhost\AMS User' not found. Check the name again." error if the existing local SQL server and Acronis Management Server Service account are specified for the operational and/or reporting server during installation.
  • Acronis Storage Node Service hangs in the "Stopping" state after updating Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Update 0 to Update 0.5 in Windows 2008.
  • Cannot connect to a management server or a managed machine if Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 RTM was updated to Update 0 and then to Update 0.5 and the PXE server was installed.
  • Acronis Management Machine Service and Acronis Managed Machine Service crash and are automatically restarted when the product is updating. This leads to an incorrect behavior of the installer.
  • Acronis Managed Machine Service does not start after updating Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 to Update 0.5 because some logs have become corrupted.
  • The '.Meta' folder is removed during Acronis Storage Node uninstallation. After reinstalling Acronis Storage Node, all of its vaults become unavailable to Acronis Management Server.
  • License binding does not work when installing Agent for Linux on an ESX virtual machine and specifying the license server during the installation.
  • Local Management:
  • File-level backup does not include NFS mount points.
  • Backup to a folder which has a name that contains reserved symbols fails. For example, backup to folder 'name#3' goes as follows: The TIB file is placed in a new folder named 'name' and the XML file is placed in folder 'name#3' and the task fails.
  • Backup to a centralized managed vault finishes with the "Failed to find the URI of the last backup." error if the Disaster recovery plan (DRP) option is enabled. The archive is created and the log contains no errors.
  • Incremental backup to an Initial Seeding backup which is split into three or more parts fails with the "The base full backup cannot be found." error.
  • Archive comments are not shown in the Archive view if the archive was created using the Back up now feature.
  • The operating system does not boot after recovery if it was upgraded from Windows XP to Vista/7 in the backup archive.
  • Cannot remove backup data from catalog databases created with Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 RTM/Update 0.
  • Re-attempts are needed when a Network Attached Storage (NAS) returns the "Resource temporarily unavailable" error during backup.
  • Recovery of an incremental backup of an archive on an RDX storage (in the Removable media mode) fails if the full backup of this archive is located on another RDX storage.
  • Recovery of an incremental file backup on an RDX storage to the original location fails with the "Process 'service_process.exe' has failed." error.
  • Connection to a SilverSHielD SFTP server hangs.
  • Comments for a backup are absent in the Archive view if the archive was created in a bootable media.
  • A bootable media fails to boot from a flash drive on DELL machines.
  • Centralized Management:
  • Recovery, compacting and backup operations block each other if they are performed simultaneously.
  • An agent does not notify Acronis Management Server that the IP address of the agent has been changed until Acronis Managed Machine Service is restarted.
  • When an agent is deleted from Acronis Management Server, the agent's centralized recovery tasks are not deleted from Acronis Management Server.
  • Acronis Storage Node Service endlessly writes the same error to the log if the service cannot pre-allocate enough free space for the indexing activity. The log size increases rapidly.
  • Cannot export the Acronis Management Server log to an XML file correctly.
  • Acronis Management Server starts for a long time (>5 mins) after a month of work.
  • After updating Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 to Update 0.5, Acronis Management Server crashes sporadically because of a stack overflow error.
  • Acronis Storage Node Service does not progressively pre-allocate free space for data store and temporary files on NTFS vaults.
  • Cannot explore a centralized unmanaged vault on a NAS storage or re-enter credentials to access the vault.
  • Slow indexing of a deduplicating vault with encryption.
  • Tapes:
  • A tape is not moved from the Free pool to the Acronis pool after backing up to this tape.
  • Old media becomes offline and new media appears after every inventorying of a stand-alone tape drive even if a new media has not been inserted.
  • When browsing the contents of a tape-based vault, some of the data is read directly from the tape if all of the required catalog files are not available.
  • Replication to a tape-based vault hangs if no tape is available and the silent mode is enabled in the backup plan.
  • A backup plan works with tapes from the Acronis pool only even if a tape is located in another pool.
  • Deleting a backup using retention rules leads to inconsistency of the tape management database and the storage node's database.
  • Not all cache files are available for reading if their total count exceeds 2000.
  • The HP LTO Ultrium-3 tape drive is not detected after updating Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 to Update 0.5.
  • Virtualization:
  • ESXi 4.1 becomes unbootable after recovering the SSD disk where it is located via Linux-based bootable media. The "Boot Error" appears on ESXi boot.
  • Deletion of virtual appliances from Acronis Management Server hangs on 33%.
  • The New virtual machine option is not available as a recovery target on the Recover data sheet in the standalone version of Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Update 0.5.