Server Backup Enterprise Changelog

What's new in Server Backup Enterprise 5.4.0

• NEW FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS IN THIS RELEASE:
• Supports Microsoft Exchange Server 2013:
• Server Backup now supports Microsoft Exchange Server 2013. For additional information about Server Backup requirements, see System Requirements.
• Improved Linux deployment:
• Server Backup now allows Linux users to remotely deploy the Backup Agent using the deployment wizard or the Add Server window. You must use a login account with the appropriate permissions, unless the user account specified is root (uid = 0). For more information about remotely deploying the Linux Backup Agent, see Installing Backup Agent on Linux.
• Simplified Data Center Console installation:
• Improvements were made to the Data Center Console to simplify upgrades, installations, and configuration. For more information about installing DCC, see Data Center Console Installation.
• Simple Backup Agent configuration from Backup Manager:
• Users can now manage their Backup Agent configuration directly from the Backup Manager without restarting the Agent process. For more information about managing your Backup Agent configuration from the Backup Manager, see Changing Agent Configuration from Backup Manager.
• Supports LDAP authentication:
• Server Backup now offers LDAP authentication for you to authenticate your users against a database such as Active Directory. Configure your LDAP authentication using the LDAP Authentication window, and then check the appropriate box when adding a user to Server Backup.
• Enhanced API functionality:
• The Server Backup API includes updates that now allow you to:
• Enable report creation
• Track merge performance metrics
• Deploy Backup Agents
• Performance Fixes/enhancements:
• This release includes a number of upgrades to improve performance and response time.
• Upgraded the framework used for the Server Backup user interface.
• Improved the speed for a bare-metal restore.
• FIXED ISSUES;
• General issues:
• The Server Backup server now successfully restarts after using apt-get to upgrade from 5.0.2 to 5.2.1 or later.
• An issue causing the Server Backup dashboard to display a version number different from the version installed on the Backup Agent host server no longer occurs.
• The Server Count restriction now takes virtual servers into account.
• Server Backup includes an update that triggers an error much faster when a user runs out of disk space while performing a backup.
• Server Backup now tracks available disk space accurately and no longer causes backups to fail due to quota limits.
• Server issues:
• Users no longer receive inaccurate error messages concerning a failed LVM configuration backup on their non-LVM-partitioned machines.
• Backups no longer include LVM information on iSCSI volumes.
• Disk safe issues:
• The Server Backup service no longer stops when it confronts a corrupted disk safe.
• Server Backup no longer displays an error message when a user moves a disk safe to another disk and then attempts to attach the disk safe using the new path.
• Policy issues:
• If a user experiences a MySQL crash while a policy is running, you now can cancel the task. An issue in the previous release required users to restart the server to resolve the block caused by the paused policy.
• Replication, merge, and disk safe verification policy schedules each have unique messages regarding On Demand settings.
• Recovery point issues:
• Users no longer experience failed merges if a volume is detached and moved on the file system.
• Moving a disk safe no longer negatively affects the creation of archive points or merging on recovery points.
• In the Recovery Points view and Bare Metal Restore wizard, mount points now properly appear for users who have Virtfs mount points enabled in the cPanel agent.
• The Recovery Points column on the Disk Safes view now properly sorts data.
• Restore issues:
• Server Backup now shows the correct value for the /dev/sda disk when restoring and mapping partitions using the bare-metal restore CentOS RecoveryCD for Hyper-V.
• Data Center Console issues:
• The Recovery Points column in the Data Center Console Disk Safes view now displays the correct number of recovery points in the Disk Safes list. An issue caused merged files to be inaccurately counted.
• The Data Center Console no longer displays an exception when trying to add a sub-user to a Backup Agent using a power-user account.
• Backup Agent issues:
• An issue causing some users to experience a Backup Agent crash with more than 45 mount points no longer occurs.
• An issue causing the Backup Agent to crash while running a policy related to an encrypted disk safe no longer occurs.
• Users no longer experience a disconnect in the cdp-agent network connection when an excessive amount of traffic occurs on the Server Backup Agent port 1167.
• The /etc/init.d/cdp-agent script is updated and now recognizes when the Backup Agent exists, no longer causing a loop.
• API issues;
• The getRecoveryPointByID API now returns getDevices.
• CLI issues:
• The /usr/sbin/hcp --show-hcp-device [ or -s ] CLI is updated and now shows the proper results.