What's new in SOS Online Backup for Business 7.3.1.731
Nov 14, 2018
- Fixed:
- File upload speed was not shown in the backup progress window.
New in SOS Online Backup for Business 7.3.0.724 (Nov 14, 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 for Business 7.2.0.818 (Jun 13, 2018)
- Optional automatic download of Microsoft .Net Framework during installation
- 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 for Business 7.1.0.754 (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 for Business 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 for Business 6.8.2.643 (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 for Business 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 for Business 6.8.0.619 (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 for Business 6.6.0.455 (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 for Business 6.5.0.362 (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 for Business 6.4.0.201 (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 for Business 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 for Business 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 for Business 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 for Business 6.2.0.6 (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 for Business 6.1.0.14 (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 for Business 6.0.0.31 (Mar 25, 2015)
- Spanish, Spanish (Mexico), Italian, Portuguese(Brazil) localization
- Updated look for the login screen
- In-application MS SQL Server backup prerequisites installation
- Dedicated monitoring events for every Advanced Backup folder
- File-level errors info in monitoring events
New in SOS Online Backup for Business 5.15.1 (Dec 23, 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 for Business 5.15 (Dec 23, 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 for Business 5.14.2 (Dec 23, 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 for Business 5.14 (Dec 23, 2014)
- UltraSafe MAX
- Exchange 2013 Backup Support
- New Home page design
New in SOS Online Backup for Business 5.13.1.26 (Apr 7, 2014)
- Bandwidth throttling controls
- Monitoring support for ShadowProtect backup jobs
New in SOS Online Backup for Business 5.12.0.727 (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 for Business 5.9.0.4699 (Dec 4, 2013)
- Native SQL Backup with Local Backup Option (2008, 2008 R2, 2012)
- Local Backup Option for Native Exchange Backup (2010)
- Fixed Issues with Larger Exchange DB Backup
- RMM Support via Writing to Event Logs
- File-level reporting per Backup Session in Advanced Tab
- Option to enable/disable transfer over SSL
- Fixed Speed Display on Upload Summary Screen
New in SOS Online Backup for Business 5.7.2.3894 (Jul 3, 2013)
- NEW: Added progress bar with estimated time to completion
New in SOS Online Backup for Business 5.5.0 (Jul 3, 2013)
- NEW: Network Location support for ImageStream Backups
- NEW: Cache Warning Message during backup set selection
- NEW: USB Drive Support for File & Folder Backup & for ImageStream Backup
- NEW: Email Reporting for ImageStream Backup
- NEW: Ability to set a backup "end-time" in the wizard
- NEW: Cancel and Pause Backup from Upload Agent
New in SOS Online Backup for Business 5.4.1 (Jul 3, 2013)
- Backup network locations
- Internet temp and cache files are skipped during backup
- Improved performance of unchanged files processing at upload agent start
- Fixed backup files which were removed from one machine, but still present in backup job on other machine
- Added remote backup policies
- Added MSI parameters for mass deployment via domain policies
- Machine name and username are added to subject of backup report emails
New in SOS Online Backup for Business 5.3.0 (Jul 3, 2013)
- User is notified when new version of application is available.
- Centralized monitoring.
- Improved upload speed (~40% faster on large payloads).
- Reduced local disk and network usage through improved caching strategy.
- Faster and resumable recovery. Recovery doesn't require temporary disk space.
- Improved performance with big backup sets.
- Better backup speed and performance with streaming compression and encryption.
- Backup E-mail reports with new look and list of "Top 20"errors.
- Request Upload Path for each package (improved session resumability).
- Improved refresh recovery data speed.
- Ability to force re-upload of data ("self healing" backup chains).
- Improved speed of scan and tree view in Online Backup Wizard.
- Improved UI of recovery progress window.
- Application-level file type filters in Preferences.
- Changed look of Classic View (and improved stability & speed).
- Updated installer UI.