What's new in SOS Online Backup 7.3.3.762
Nov 14, 2018
- Added:
- Remote backup policy: Bandwidth throttling and daily upload limiting.
- Custom MSI building: Autologin for automatically created backup accounts.
New in SOS Online Backup 7.3.1.731 (Nov 2, 2018)
- File upload speed was not shown in the backup progress window.
New in SOS Online Backup 7.3.0.724 (Oct 15, 2018)
- Added:
- Remote backup policy: Ability to scan personal files and folders of a user without providing the relevant Windows user credentials.
- Remote backup policy: Option to include/exclude specific files and folders to/from scanning.
- Remote backup policy: Option to include/exclude specific files and folders to/from the backup.
- Support for Windows Server 2019.
- Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2017.
- Improved:
- Reduced memory consumption when backing up and recovering with the retention policy applied.
- Reduced memory consumption and improved performance for the backup sets containing a lot of small files.
- Performance when backing up large data sets locally.
- Fixed:
- Include folders section was hidden, if Scan all folders has been selected.
- Inaccurate number of the processed files during recovery, if Recover all file versions was selected.
- Occasional backup failure, if several locked files were uploaded in a large set.
- Backup sets containing large files were occasionally uploaded in one thread.
- Layout collapsed on 4K displays with 150% scaling.
- Application update from the Dashboard led to the warning message from the Interactive Services Detection (if enabled).
- Automatic IE proxy configuration was not applied.
- Backup exchange failure due to PowerShell could not find the terminator.
- Occasional failure when backing up huge files (Package size exceeded error).
- Continuous failure when backing up the locked files despite proper VSS.
- AccountCreatorRunner module execution failure on 32-bit operating systems.
- Application crashed during the schedule setup (Cannot load Counter Name data because an invalid index exception).
- Advanced Folder Backup failure (Nullable object must have a value) if Move Files to Cloud was selected.
- Incorrect counters when recovering all file versions.
- Scheduled time for the BareMetal Backup and the Advanced Folder Backup changed after modifying the backup settings.
- Occasional backup failure (OutOfMemoryException error).
- Remote backup policy: Long file paths resulted in the files being removed by the retention policy and then processed again during each next backup.
- Occasional recovery failure (NullReferenceException error).
New in SOS Online Backup 7.2.1.840 (Aug 24, 2018)
- After upgrading from v6.8 (or previous) to v7.2, users could not log in.
New in SOS Online Backup 7.2.0.815 (Jun 19, 2018)
- Automatic download of Microsoft .Net Framework during installation, if needed
- Option to restore data to the original locations, i.e. before backup
- Huge backup sets
- Reduced delay before a backup starts
- Increased speed of the files deleting via the recovery view
- Reduced delays when changing a backup set
- MS SQL Server and MS Exchange Server incremental/differential backups are optional
- Added link to the backup history page in the main application window
- Added support for MS SQL Server backup in the cluster
- FIXED:
- BareMetal Backup - Boot failure after recovery of a Windows Server 2008 system with an EFI volume
- Recovery from a local backup – Inaccurate number and sizes of the recovered files in the progress window
- Increased speed of processing of a local backup
- Backup progress indicator showed twice larger size of a BareMetal, an MS SQL Server or an MS Exchange Server backup
- Added case insensitivity for the files with non-Latin characters in their names
- Scheduled backup tasks ignored the daylight savings time changes
- Hourly scheduled File and Folder backup on a Windows 10 device restarted 10 seconds after the previous backup was completed
- Files with periods at the end of their filenames could not be backed up
- Failed MS Exchange Server backup led to the failure of the next backup
- Scheduled MS SQL Server incremental backup became full, if a File and Folder backup occurred between two MS SQL Server backup jobs
- Improved stability of the Advanced Folder Backup
New in SOS Online Backup 7.1.0.752 (Jan 23, 2018)
- Recovery experience improvements:
- Dramatically improved recovery speed
- Dramatically improved search speed
- Dramatically improved speed of getting the list of files for recovery
- Reduced CPU load during recovery
- FIXED:
- Retention policy for deleted from the local PC files was not applied to the data on UNC shares
- Local backup:
- Couldn't protect locked files
- False positive in case of lack of the space in target folder
- Stability issue for backup to password protected network storage
- BareMetal backup:
- Guest account credentials were required if the target folder is not password protected network share
- Sometimes could not create bootable ISO/USB on Windows Server 2008
- Unneeded cache files were not removed:
- In case of backup cancellation
- After deletion of the files according to the retention policy
- Unhandled exception happened when starting application having it already running and minimized
- Sometimes MS SQL backup was failing with "Process cannot access the file" error message
- Backup of a file fails if it gets locked during the backup
- Advanced folder backup with replicate policy - old file versions were not purged if the whole drive is selected for the backup
- Sometimes using proxy settings could cause a stuck of the backup at uploading step
New in SOS Online Backup 7.0.0.715 (Sep 29, 2017)
- Single application build for Home and Business users
- Security feature - Verify digital signature of update package before executing
- Recovery view - added search through locally backed up files
- Now destination folder is used as a temporary folder during recovery
- Option to protect OST files which are skipped by default
- Old Local Backup is removed
- BareMetal backup:
- Option to skip upload to the cloud and store only locally
- Windows Server 2016 support
- Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 limited support (no UEFI systems supported)
- New Backup will not be created until previous one is fully uploaded to the cloud
- FIXED:
- MS SQL backup leaves temp files on the network share
- Backup failure when processing locked files with characters "{" or "}" in the filename
- Local backup was unable to process locked files
- Sometimes Backup Reports are not sent
- Inaccurate text align on signup page
- Application crash on Veiw/Restore button click
- Inaccurate sorting by file names on network folders in backup wizard
- Inaccurate sorting by folder size on recovery view
- SMessaging module did not work properly if application is installed in non-default folder
- BareMetal backup:
- Recovery failure for machine with dynamic system disk
- Upload issue when backing up from a network share
New in SOS Online Backup 6.9.0.690 (Jul 3, 2017)
- Online Backup for Windows v6.9.0 (06/30/2017):
- MS Windows Server 2016 support
- MS Windows 10 "Redstone" support
- MS Exchange 2016 support
- Rebuilt local backup
- Support for USB & network storage
- Additional source for LB on recovery wizard
- Intellicache setting in the Caching options menu
- All backup types resume in the event of a connection interruption to the backup server (customer connection or server issue)
- Option to recover all versions of files
- Auto-switch to replica storage during recovery if data is missing/damaged on the main storage (for accounts with enabled replication)
- Filename-based Ransomware detection
- BareMetal backup
- Added BM backup progress bar
- Added Remove BM backup option
- Added Create bootable USB drive option
- Added Configure BM backup option on PC-client
- Resume upload of previous BM backup before creating a new one
- Retry logic for interaction with central management service
- Changes in batch processing algo - now upload will start before calculating of all hash sums is finished
- FIXED:
- UI errors after backup cancellation
- Temporary files are not removed
- Issue during backup of network share
- Messaging service starts a new session for every terminal user
- "Cannot create VSS copy" error for locked files located at C:UsersAll Users
- Application crashes at the backup set selection step
- Time option within the scheduler is not editable after installation of Windows 10 Creators Update
New in SOS Online Backup 6.8.2.642 (Apr 27, 2017)
- File and Folder Backup – manual selection: folders are excluded forever from the file tree after de-selection
New in SOS Online Backup 6.8.1.630 (Apr 27, 2017)
- FIXED:
- Application crash on the second step of backup wizard
- UI issue in Backup wizard if text size is scaled out
New in SOS Online Backup 6.8.0.618 (Mar 23, 2017)
- Online Backup for Windows v6.8.0 (03/21/2017):
- BareMetal backup using Paragon software:
- Option to specify ADK location (if installed in non-default folder)
- Change format of backup storage from PVHD to VMDK, more user friendly folder structure
- Retention policy based on backups age
- Ability to specify how often do a Full and Incremental backups
- Backup to a special path in the cloud
- UpdateNotifier:
- Install new version upon click on “new version is available” message
- FIXED:
- Files backed up from mapped drive and then deleted from cloud are not re-backed up
- Incorrect backup size calculation. Skipped and excluded files are shown on the tree view of files selected for backup
- Various UI fixes and improvements
- Flickering during entering email address for reports
- Backup progress typo: “will exclude files..” displayed for excluded folders
- Misplaced description for Email address and End time fields
- Artifact on search view of recovery wizard
- Default value for From filter on recovery wizard is always 26.05.2016
- Adjusted search button height and layout of recovery wizard
- Broken validation of “End at:” value on the last step of recovery wizard
- Available languages” dropdown list is too narrow and short
- Other improvements/fixes
New in SOS Online Backup 6.6.0.454 (Nov 24, 2016)
- Added Multi-factor authentication (MFA) via email or phone
- Bandwidth throttling – added option to enable it for specified week days and/or time
- Default value of scanner option to skip large files was increased from 5Gb to 20GB
- During first installation, our application will use windows display language as default
- Protect delta with baseline hash instead of ID
- Re-backup files deleted on backup server or from other device, except files backed up from mapped drive
New in SOS Online Backup 6.5.0.361 (Jul 19, 2016)
- Multi-threaded recovery
- Network throttling for backup speed
- New retention policy for behavior when files are deleted from the machine
- VSS (open-file) support for advanced folder backup
- Advanced Folder Backup: ability to delete file versions for Temporary (Cloud Time-Limited) policy
- Advanced Folder Backup: ability to delete files by Backup date for Temporary (Cloud Time-Limited) policy
- FIXED:
- Improved UI for DPI more then 100%
- Advanced Folder Backup scheduled jobs run just once
- Advanced backup for one folded changes scheduled time for another folder
- Fix text label on retention policy
- File not found error appears during multithreading recovery
- Folder backup-Replicate is not working for files with changed modification date but unchanged content
- Exchange backup: backup fails with “Error occured during database reupload”
- Progress bar shows invalid data if previous version is recovered instead of selected one
New in SOS Online Backup 6.4.1.217 (Mar 10, 2016)
- Ability to limit backup due to account quota
- Few small issues fixed
New in SOS Online Backup 6.4.0.199 (Feb 10, 2016)
- Encrypt installation ID with machine specific key
- Switch to Full backup when SQL server reports that deferential one is impossible
- Make Replicate retention policy to delete previous versions of the files only after fully successful backup
- Block install of 6.4 on Win XP and Win 2003
- Changed maximum value of field Keep Last days for SQL backup from 365 to 9999 days
- FIXED:
- Cannot create a VSS copy during backup locked files
- SQL Backup fails when Temp folder is configured as network share
- LiveProtect: new version is backed up even if file is not changed
- Exchange: Never ending backup
- Non English localization causes Exchange backup to fail
- Files on mounted folders (reparse points) are skipped during back up
- Get access to files SYSTEM doesn’t have access to
- Memory usage is high when you create several XmlSerializer
- Replicate policy works incorrectly when UNC paths configured from Dashboard
- Email reports are not showing error if the drive with cache folder is absent
- Error is displayed when expanding server when protecting a network folder
- AlphaFS Access denied errors for files which are not accessible without explicit elevation to Administrator via Windows Explorer
New in SOS Online Backup 6.2.3 (Nov 22, 2015)
- Ability to see more failed files in the last backup details on the monitoring page
- Send new event to monitoring after backup is configured and saved
- FIX: recover files due to small connection timeout
- FIX: set up Hourly frequency in Backup scheduler
New in SOS Online Backup 6.2.2 (Nov 22, 2015)
- FIX: Backup errors due to permissions issues are now registered in logs and monitoring services.
- FIX: Network Connections are not closed when you finish wizard
- FIX: When encountering files with empty or invalid names, these files are skipped and the backup will continue.
New in SOS Online Backup 6.2.1 (Nov 22, 2015)
- Network folder now is backed up if entire network location is selected
- Fixed timeout error at communication between upload agent screen and backup service
New in SOS Online Backup 6.2.0.4 (Aug 20, 2015)
- Windows 10 support
- Disabled backup of OST files, removed from scanner
- Added Dutch Language Option
- Changed general error message for failed files to include more instruction
- Desktop Icon Name Rebranding added
New in SOS Online Backup 6.1.3 (Aug 20, 2015)
- Bug Fixes:
- Re-upload chunk in case of CRC mismatch error
New in SOS Online Backup 6.1.2 (Aug 20, 2015)
- Bug Fixes:
- Issues with EGR Licenses not working
- Upload of large files fails with TimeOutExceptions
New in SOS Online Backup 6.1.1 (Aug 20, 2015)
- Bug Fixes:
- “PathTooLongException” error on deleting files
- Wrong monitoring data when EDB file backup is failed with CRC error
- SQL backup cannot work with named instances
- Fixed case when PC client couldn’t connect to the instance having the same name as the server
- Changed display of default instance to MSSQLSERVER
- MS Exchange backup fails for database on the mounted point
New in SOS Online Backup 6.1.0.12 (Jun 19, 2015)
- Auto-upgrade
- Polling Advanced Folder Backup settings on timer
- Option to run single backup ignoring policy
- Recovery of latest working version
- MS SQL Server and Exchange backup options for Business build
- Bug-fixes
New in SOS Online Backup 6.0.0.33 (Mar 25, 2015)
- Spanish, Spanish (Mexico), Italian, Portuguese(Brazil) localization
- Updated look for the login screen
- File-level errors info in monitoring events
New in SOS Online Backup 5.17.0.20 (Mar 25, 2015)
- FIXED: FIPS compliance
- FIXED: More Exchange Retention Policies
- FIXED: Advanced Folder backup set is moved from local DB to server DB
- FIXED: General MD5 algorithm is replaced with custom one
New in SOS Online Backup 5.15.1 (Nov 22, 2014)
- FIXED: Exchange Kerberos issue
- FIXED: Backup email reports are not sent to "sosonlinebackup.com" domain
- FIXED: If VSS files copy fails on one file then all other are skipped
New in SOS Online Backup 5.15.0.37 (Nov 22, 2014)
- New Language Option - German
- File-exclusion filter based on file modification date
- Ability to deselect sub-files/folders as exclusions from entire parent dir selection but still protect newly added files/folders.
- Recovery UX Improvements
- GUI adjustments
- Bug-fixes
New in SOS Online Backup 5.14.2 (Nov 22, 2014)
- Remote Control optimization
- Editable "Domain" combo-box on Windows Authentication form
- Added possibility to provide Exchange authentication method in config file
- "Forgot your password?" link goes to Reset Password page instead of Request Password page
New in SOS Online Backup 5.14.0.91 (Jul 17, 2014)
- UltraSafe MAX
- New Home page design
New in SOS Online Backup 5.13.1.24 (Mar 28, 2014)
New in SOS Online Backup 5.12.0.725 (Feb 21, 2014)
- Added account-level deduplication.
- Added enforcement for account usage.
- Performance enhancements for large accounts.
- Fixed issues with backup and recovery of files with long file paths.
- Added Retention settings for CSV file reports.
New in SOS Online Backup 5.9.0.4699 (Aug 5, 2013)
- NEW: Transfer over SSL option in Advanced Options
- NEW: File-Level Backup Session Reporting in Advanced Tab
- General Bug Fixes and Improvements
- Upload Agent writes to the Windows Event Log
New in SOS Online Backup 5.7.2.3894 (Jul 3, 2013)
- NEW: Added progress bar with estimated time to completion
New in SOS Online Backup 4.9.2.981 (Sep 29, 2011)
- Changes PC Improvements & Core Features
- Network drive support
- USB HDD Support
- Open File Backup Support
- Continuous Data Protection
- Unlimited Versioning
- Archiving
- Resumable File Upload
- Private Key (Ultrasafe) Encryption
New in SOS Online Backup 4.9.1.939 (Sep 16, 2011)
- Changes Data Coverage
- Backup your Facebook
- Backup your iPhone
- Backup your Mac PC Improvements & Core Features
- New Integrated Installer
- SOS Rules Engine
- Up to 8 Mbit Transfer