8.13.2
The status of the jobs replicated to Google Cloud Storage when in the corresponding replication mode is now shown on the Replication › Status subtab in the appliance Management Console
The jobs replicated to Google Cloud Storage when in the corresponding replication mode are now shown on the Replicated Jobs subtab in the appliance Management Console
User interface for the DDFS repair status
Starting from the firmware version 8.11, the appliance system was using the RAID excessively
The appliance system logs were occasionally filled with the error messages extract data from STATUS not handled
The appliance system logs were occasionally filled with the error messages Failed to check battery
The Reconcile Secondary button on the Replication › Status subtab was not shown
Support of the legacy 3Ware RAID controller
8.13.1
Google Cloud Storage replication mode. (This is a beta feature, and it is not available in full yet.)
Option to pull the jobs back to the appliance from Google Cloud Storage. (This is a beta feature, and it is not available in full yet.)
Duplicate DR engine processes could start on one client that prevented the DR backup from completion
8.13.0
Right after a DR image backup is finished the system inspects the image and checks its integrity and browsability before the backup job is considered complete
The Cloud tab in the appliance Management Console for managing backup jobs stored in Google Cloud Storage
Appliance failed to show the correct current state of its RAID
8.12.0
This release brings a few user experience and interface updates, as well as lots of improvements under the hood.
At the same time, with this release, we deprecated and removed the archiving functionality. Do not update if you still want to use this feature.
Support of VMware vSphere 8.0
Option to request and upload the replicated data blocks missing on the appliance
The NoDB mode for the appliance Management Console that shows the web interface to the users when the database cannot be initiated or is disconnected
Appliances running firmware v8.6 or earlier can now update to the most recent firmware version only after installing the transitional firmware v8.11
When updating the backup agent from the appliance Management Console, the system showed a false warning about the possible restart of the appliance
Lengthy resetting of the replication connection when replication was idle
The appliance needed to restart a few times after the initial configuration via the Quick Start
An excessive QEMU logging caused extra CPU load on the appliances running boot
journalctl logs were not preserved upon restarting the appliance
/flash and /boot directories were not mounted in the DDFS repair mode
The system failed to find and delete some unreferenced data from the appliance (error message: Invalid Request null)
Failure to download all logs from the Support tab of the appliance Management Console (error java.nio.file.FileAlreadyExistsException)
The appliance failed to restart automatically upon completing DDFS repair that was initiated from the appliance boot menu
When the Export Virtual option in the NIC bonding was selected, settings (MTU and Client ID) did not save properly
The jobs that were running during an unexpected restart or shutdown of the appliance remained in the system database and took the disk space. They were not visible in and could not be cleaned from the appliance Management Console (Settings › Unreferenced Data).
After wiping the appliance, a support tunnel could not be started from the appliance Management Console
System database could become corrupt and some system services could not start after the appliance reboot
Replication hanged in the WORKING state while the queue of the unprocessed jobs was increasing
Appliance Management Console stopped responding if an open job-related tab (for example, Scheduled Jobs, Recent Jobs, or other) contained an enormous number of data records to show
Shredder statistics showed some progress or negative values even when shredder was idle
Appliance failed to operate properly when polling the connected hosts of a Hyper-V cluster and detecting the same VM existed simultaneously on two Hyper-V hosts under the same ID
VMware VM backup jobs failed because the appliance lost connection with the vCenter instance or the host, but the system showed only the java.lang.NullPointerException error with no further explanation
Archiving functionality
Support of Microsoft Active Directory
8.11.1
After updating the appliance firmware to version 8.11.0 and restarting it, DDFS could fail to mount with the error Block Dedup Setup Failed
If the appliance system could not mount DDFS for whatever reason, this also blocked the Management Console UI from loading for quite some time
8.11.0
Support for Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022
DDFS Repair item (to verify and repair DDFS) to the appliance boot menu
Increased the speed of the backup data replication by optimizing the metadata compression
Improved performance of the DDFS repair tool by optimizing the chain of commands
Updated wording for automatic update of the Windows backup agents (appliance Management Console › Settings › Firmware Update)
Self-backup of the appliance system and configuration (Myself backup) completed with warnings
DR image backup job did not boot on the appliance, and also Browse and Restore for the job did not work (error Can't have a partition outside the disk!)
If a VM failed to boot on the appliance (error com.eversync.libvirt.LibvirtManager.getVmsFromConfigDir), the configuration file of the VM became corrupt (zero size, broken content, or else) that led to the Boot › Active tab not showing the VM and the Boot Wizard could not be started
Incorrect default limit of the simultaneously booted VMs (1 instead of 9) for the secondary (cloud) 1880 appliance
Appliance did not respect the email server settings (address and port) when sending a support request
The appliance failed to send the BackupStarted and BackupInProgress monitoring events and thus the system did not show any values in the Latest Restore Point Primary and Latest Restore Point Cloud columns in Disaster Recovery › Backup Status in the Dashboard
A job for the same VMware VM started even if another one was already running (backup jobs were running simultaneously)
After the access credentials to a vCenter instance connected to the appliance changed or expired, the system tried infinitely to back up the VMs managed with that vCenter until stopped manually (instead of failing automatically)
Security issues and vulnerabilities: jQuery End of Life Detection, Object Extensions, and XSS-related; Dropbear Mishandling Filenames and Detection Consolidation; Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral Key Exchange DoS; Weak Host Key and MAC Algorithms
Failure to open a support tunnel on the appliance using TUI if the tunnel number was out of the range 1–200
Appliances with no battery backup units installed on their RAID controllers showed an irrelevant warning (Battery Not Present)
If the appliance was hard restarted, the system database could not be loaded automatically
After breaking the network interface bonding on the appliance without applying the changes right away, the user could not set the static IP address if it was the same as the one used in the bonding
Configuration of the support tunnel was not retained after rebooting the appliance in the NoRAID mode since it was stored on the RAID
List of clients on the secondary (cloud) appliance did not update unless replication was stopped and started again
Appliance software RAID could not be initialized for a few disks from other RAIDs
Appliance booted in the NoRAID mode could not be accessed from the Dashboard
After updating the appliance firmware to version 8.10 or 8.10.1, the network manager deactivated the network ports (especially if the network interface bonding was active)
Incorrect validation of the network settings in the appliance Quick Start (the Next button was grayed out as if the DHCP settings did not pass validation)
When restoring a VMware VM backup as a new VM, the wizard showed the Finish button instead of the Next one
Dialog with the first step in the Browse and Restore Wizard for the Microsoft SQL data had incorrect sizes and did not show the restore options
After editing the default settings for VMs in the appliance Management Console › Clients › Edit, the user was redirected to the Clients tab
A job schedule name could not be edited (appliance Management Console › Settings › Backups › Job Schedules)
8.10.1
DR image incremental backup job failed to merge with the previous one in the synthetic full, but had the successful status
If a backed up VMware VM became unavailable on the ESXi host, it could not be restored because the restore wizard would not start
Replication hanged often for a few minutes trying to process and send the UnimplementedInvokedMethodCollection.xml file
The server.xml log file on the appliance was flooded with the warning Job doesn't have startTime
The appliance Management Console did not start properly and showed the error message Boot groups could not be retrieved because of a failed disk in the appliance RAID
Upon re-initialization, the appliance started in the emergency mode, or started in the normal mode, but did not retain any settings upon the next restart
After updating firmware to version 8.10, 960 and 970 appliance models failed to re-initialize and booted in the NoRAID mode
8.10.0
Support of SMB 3.0 protocol by the appliance
Live migration of VMs that allows you to power them on without the need to wait for restore to complete (VMware vMotion)
Option to specify network for a VM during the restore so that the VM can be immediately used after the restore
DDFS shredder statistics (appliance Management Console › Settings › Tools › Deduplicated File System)
A new host (support2.myinfrascale.net) to open a technical support tunnel to the appliance
Upon logging in to the appliance Management Console for the first time, the system now shows the Terms of Service to accept
Turned off anonymous access to the appliance network share to eliminate the NULL Session vulnerability
Increased the speed of the backup data replication by optimizing the metadata compression
Retention policies are not applied now to those backup jobs that are replicated at the moment
Improved the loading speed of the appliance Management Console
After updating the appliance firmware to version 8.5, the incremental DR backup jobs, when run concurrently, started taking four times longer to complete
Browse and restore failure (error Invalid partition data!)
VMware VM restore failure (error Failed to create VM on restore)
Dynamic disks were not available for browsing and restoring
Upon rebooting a VM booted on the appliance (Management Console › Boot › Active), the VM stopped responding with the libivrt.xml file spoiled pointing to the disk images in the initial backup job
VM boot verification on the appliance could occasionally fail and show the message “Guest has not initialized the display (yet)”
The appliance could not send an alert email about no free space
After canceling a DR or a VM restore job in progress, the dialog with results showed two records about the canceled job instead of one
The system failed to load any information in the Save/Restore Configuration section (appliance Management Console › Settings)
After replacing a failed disk in the RAID and rebooting the appliance, or after restarting the appliance with a failed disk in the RAID, the appliance booted in the emergency mode with inoperable network instead of the NoRAID mode as designed
An email notification sent by the appliance upon the license server communication failure included incorrect contact phone numbers
Appliance could occasionally suggest updating its firmware to the previous version
Backup jobs could not be deleted from the appliance because the system boot manager blocked their removal despite there were no active booted VMs
Failure to completely delete a backup job from the appliance (the system removed the job from the Management Console, but the files and metadata associated with the job were still present on the appliance RAID)
Occasional warning Insufficient Storage Space on /run/initiramfs/overlayfs in the Notices widget in the appliance Management Console
Error after starting the appliance in the NoRAID mode and logging in to its Management Console
8.9.0
Support of 4K sector hard drives and virtual disks for backup and restore operations
Support of Hyper-V clusters for backup and restore operations
Support of VMware HotAdd transport mode that improves performance and increases the speed of VMware VM backups
Option to check if the DR image restore disk supports the RAID controller of the target computer to properly perform the restore
Updated virtual CFA for VMware to use hardware version 11 supported by ESXi 6.0 and later
Improved handling of multiple running VMware VM backup processes so that if one process hangs or stops, and requires restarting, it does not affect the other running backup processes
The CFA operating system now supports the XFS trim/discard for SSDs to decrease the number of writes, increase writing throughput, and thus prolong the drive service life
If free disk space on the CFA is critically low, all running jobs are canceled, new jobs cannot be started, all booted VMs are suspended, and new VMs cannot be booted
Network adapter type in the virtual CFA for VMware from E1000 to VMXNET 3
Hyper-V backup failure because the DR engine could not properly include and exclude the selected disks within the volume set (error Failed to start SnapshotSet)
System logs of the CFA were full of error messages regarding the failure to push the monitoring statistics (pushing monitoring statistics failed)
Every second subsequent incremental DR image or Hyper-V backup job took more time than the first incremental backup even with no significant changes to the backup data set
CFA could not start properly because of the incorrect startup settings generated after the firmware update (invalid /raider/configs/bay.properties file)
The CFAs with small DOM could not boot after diagnostics
Backup jobs could not be deleted from the CFA because the system boot manager blocked their removal despite there were no active booted VMs
If the CFA was hard restarted, the system database could not be loaded automatically
The CFA failed to update the system time and date via NTP servers when configured manually in the Management Console › Settings › Date/Time (error Update of time failed. Please check the configuration or try again later)
After the boot verification of a backup was interrupted (for example, by hard restart or shutdown of the CFA), the system failed to boot any new VMs
DR image backup failure because the DR engine could not properly include and exclude the selected disks within the volume set (error Couldn't prepare backup ranges for {GUID}\Disks\harddiskN)
After an unexpected restart or shutdown of the CFA, the jobs that were running before the event remained in the system database, but were not visible in the Management Console. Also, those jobs were not affected by the backup retention policies, and thus took the CFA disk space.
After deploying a new virtual CFA for VMware and upon its first boot, the system could not mount DDFS, and thus the CFA was not usable (error block dedup setup failed)
After updating the CFA firmware from version 8.7.5 to 8.8.0, the Management Console of the CFA could not be loaded and was unavailable (failure to start the stark service)
DR backup agent could not work in Windows with FIPS mode turned on because of the non-approved cryptographic algorithms
8.8.0
The CFA now shows the amount of time a booted VM has been running and available
The CFA now shows the ID of the backup job, from which the VM was booted
Option to enable CFA to collect and record performance data about its boot process for profiling and troubleshooting
To improve the connection to and interaction with the CFA, the system now limits the metadata transfer rate if the network bandwidth for replication is limited (CFA Management Console › Replication › Mode/Options)
To avoid system overload, the CFA does not now pre-generate and show the VNC addresses used to access the booted VMs via a browser-based VNC viewer
NIC bonding settings are now available again for changing and configuring via the CFA Management Console
During the Hyper-V backup, if the backed up VM had two or more virtual disk files (VHDX) attached with the same name, but with different paths, the CFA would back up only the latest detected one, while overwriting the others
The time zone set manually in the CFA Management Console was not applied at the core system level and thus shifted the backup start timings
DR image backup failed with the CRC data error (bad blocks)
DR image backup jobs failed with error The system cannot find the file specified
Interrupting (restarting the CFA during) the process of conversion of a VM booted on the CFA to a backup resulted in the inconsistent backup data
NullPointerException error during the Hyper-V VM backup restore
Missing step to configure the network switch in the restore wizard for Hyper-V VM backup
When browsing and restoring a DR image or a VM backup, and if network connection with the CFA was lost, browse and restore could not be performed anymore, no protected space was shown for all jobs, and boot verification failed with no boot device available
No notification shown in the Notices widget after starting the support tunnel and then restarting the CFA
The time zone set manually in the CFA Management Console was not set at the core system level, but was shown correctly in the Management Console
When updating CFA firmware to version 8.7.x, the CFA lost the gateway and the update did not complete
After updating firmware to version 8.7.3, the CFA had insufficient disk space for operating system and database to work properly (error Insufficient Storage Space on /run/initramfs/overlayfs)
After updating firmware to version 8.7.x, the CFA could not start properly because of the incorrect startup settings (invalid /raider/configs/bay.properties file)
After updating the CFA firmware from version 8.6.1 to 8.7.3, the service license became invalid, and the CFA had to be registered in the Dashboard again
Failure to import backup jobs if the total number of the backed up files for all jobs on a client exceeded certain value
Updating the CFA firmware from version 8.6.1 to 8.7.3 resulted in complete CFA re-initialization
When submitting a support request, the CFA ignored the SMPT port set in the email settings, and always tried to send emails using port 25
When trying to access a primary CFA remotely from the Dashboard, the system redirected to the wrong CFA
8.7.5
CFA now writes data to DDFS always from the beginning by default, but not sequentially
8.7.4
Improved DDFS and replication performance by decreasing data fragmentation and thus optimizing data read operations
Failure to access the CFA remotely from the Dashboard after the lasting disconnection (Error on getting browse URL)
Failure to back up a Hyper-V VM that included a virtual disk with the uppercase file name extension (error No disks for job)
8.7.3
CFA Console Configuration Utility failed to update the current network configuration when changed in the Management Console and showed a message that the network was not configured (when in fact it was)
After changing the DNS settings (CFA Management Console › Settings › DNS) and restarting the CFA, the system reverted the settings to how they were before the change
CFA could sometimes stop replicating backup data because of the process deadlock and showed the Stalled replication status (CFA Management Console › Replication › Status)
After updating the CFA firmware to version 8.7.0, 8.7.1, or 8.7.2, the Management Console failed to load and an empty screen was shown instead
Secondary (cloud) CFA lost connection to the Dashboard and could not be accessed remotely
When booting the CFA with encrypted RAID in the NORAID mode, the system still mounted the RAID
8.7.2
After updating the CFA with an exported network interface (CFA Management Console › Settings › Network Adapters › Export Virtual option) to firmware version 8.7 or 8.7.1, and then turning the export off, the network interface configuration broke that led to the CFA could not back up and recover data
After updating the CFA connected to two different subnets on two network interfaces to firmware version 8.7 or 8.7.1, the CFA lost network connectivity because of the broken routing
8.7.1
Backup & Disaster Recovery now requires enabling NTLMv2 authentication on the protected client to establish connection with the CFA, and to properly make Hyper-V and DR image backups
After updating the CFA firmware to version 8.7, DR image backups started to fail because the CFA had no SMB users for the DR backup agent to connect to the CFA network share (error The network name cannot be found)
After updating the CFA firmware to version 8.7, the system stopped generating URL addresses for NoVNC connections to booted VMs, but showed only ports instead (CFA Management Console › Boot › Active)
After unsuccessful update of the CFA firmware to version 8.7, DDFS could be mounted several times instead of only once that led to unexpected service behavior
After updating the CFA with configured NIC bonding to firmware version 8.7, NIC had no IP address assigned
After updating the CFA firmware to version 8.7, network settings on a secondary (cloud) CFA were not available (CFA Management Console › Settings › Network Adapters)
8.7.0
Major update of the CFA core operating system to improve security and reliability, and to ensure the long-term support
After updating CFA firmware to version 8.7, NIC bonding settings are now not available for changing via the Management Console (if they were configured before the update) or not shown at all (if they were not configured before the update)
Default number of VMs that can be booted on the CFA depending on its model
When the CFA is creating a backup job from a VM booted on it (fallback job), the system shows a notification in the CFA Management Console (Dashboard › Notices widget, and Settings › Reboot/Shutdown) to inform about potential data loss upon the CFA restart or shutdown
Improved management of needless files that are left after each new Hyper-V VM backup and can take extra space
DR image and Hyper-V backups failed after updating CFA firmware to version 8.7 (error Storage added but is unavailable)
DR image backup using the standard DR engine was marked as Successfully Completed despite no disks were backed up (error No disks for job {job-name} in directory ...)
After changing the content of a file in a Hyper-V VM, and then backing up the VM, content of the file in the backup remained unchanged
Incorrect network name shown in the CFA Management Console › Boot › Active for a VM booted on the bridged network
After updating CFA firmware to version 8.7, client names in the Client column in the CFA Management Console › Jobs › Recent Jobs were not shown
Buttons on the upper right (Refresh, Activate configuration, and Logoff) in the CFA Management Console were not shown after reducing the screen resolution
8.6.1
After updating the CFA firmware to version 8.6, backup of Microsoft Exchange Server and SQL Server failed because of the changes to the default VSS configuration
8.6.0
Backup
New default retention policies for backups. New policies apply only to the newly setup and configured CFAs. Previously configured CFAs keep their current retention policies even after firmware update to 8.6
After updating CFA firmware to version 8.6, the system automatically converts all existing LiveBMR backup jobs to the file-level backup jobs
DR image backup and all related settings are now available only for clients running Windows
DR engine now enforces full DR image backup if the system detects changes in the disk layout of a client between incremental backups
After DR image backup of a client with GPT disk containing only EFI system partition, DR image was browsable, but could not be booted on the CFA because GPT disk was excluded from backup
DR image backup could fail because standard DR engine included non-critical system state components (with NotSystemState flag) when creating VSS snapshot
Incremental DR image backups failed on the systems that had several instances of the same VSS writer (error An item with the same key has already been added)
Restore
Support of LiveBMR jobs for bare-metal restore
Windows LiveBMR restore disk image from the CFA Management Console › Settings › Downloads
LiveBMR option when editing the file set of a client (CFA Management Console › Clients › Edit › File Set)
Hyper-V
Backup jobs that started simultaneously for multiple VMs hosted on the same Hyper-V host could result in some of those jobs finished successfully with warnings or failed after numerous retries
Hyper-V VM backup using the standard DR engine could fail because metadata file path created by VSS for VM snapshots exceeded Windows maximum length of 255 characters (error The system cannot find the path specified)
Backup agent
DR backup agent could crash while parsing output data from DR engine (error System.OutOfMemoryException)
DR backup agent installers for non-supported operating systems (macOS, FreeBSD, Solaris, NetWare, OpenServer, HP/UX, and AIX) from the CFA Management Console › Settings › Downloads
Various
After DR image or VM backup of a Windows machine in the hibernate state or with Fast Startup (Fast Boot) turned on, the backup could not be booted on the CFA
VMware-related functionality on the CFA stopped working if there was at least one registered VMware VM with NVMe controller (Note: CFA still does not support backup of VMware VMs with NVMe controllers)
CFA could incorrectly detect failed verification of a backup job during re-importing and thus show the job as Successfully Completed
8.5.0
Boot
Ability to connect to VMs booted on the secondary CFA (set up in the cloud) via web-based VNC connection
Improved safety of data of a VM booted on the CFA by preventing deletion of the backup job, from which the VM was booted, until another backup is created from the booted VM
Safeguarded integrity and consistency of data of a VM booted on the CFA during the VM backup by preventing all manipulations with the VM (settings editing, power management, backup, deletion) until backup is completed
VMware
Increased timeout to detect completion of a VMware VM backup job from 10 min to 1 hour so the system would not block its progress too early and mark it as failed
CFA can now connect to VMware vCenter 7.0—resolved error VI SDK invoke exception.dom4j.DocumentException: null Nested exception: null)
Hyper-V (beta functionality)
Standard DR engine now supports Hyper-V-related functionality (agentless VM backup, restore, browse and restore)
Ability to restore Hyper-V VMs to a host with Hyper-V version different from the one they were backed up from (according to the restore compatibility matrix)
Hyper-V subtab in the CFA Management Console › Clients is now available by default
When restoring a Hyper-V VM to another Hyper-V host, if network switch configurations of the VM and the host mismatch, it is now possible to manually map virtual switches of the VM to virtual switches on the host
To ensure data consistency at the time of backup, CFA enforces full backup of Hyper-V VM clients if integrity of files necessary for incremental backup was violated
8.4.1
System showed false-negative status (Completed With Errors) for DR image backup jobs made with Standard DR engine
After updating CFA firmware to v8.4.0, time to complete an incremental DR image backup increased significantly because of the issues while cloning backup job files
8.4.0
After updating DR backup agent on a client, the system may run the next scheduled DR image backup for that client as full (regardless of the scheduled backup level), and then change it to what was set before. (Note: After updating to version 8.4, the system will definitely force this behavior.)
DR image backup failed because of the errors with VSS writers not critical for getting basic backups
LiveBMR backup job marked as Successfully Completed despite errors failed to replicate to the secondary CFA. This prevented replication of other backups in queue
LiveBMR backup job was marked as Successfully Completed despite errors (error java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid path)
LiveBMR backup jobs with ASR writer data failed to import, and hence could not be deduplicated, replicated, browsed, and archived
If CFA had proxy enabled and configured (CFA Management Console › Settings › Proxy), this could result in CFA performance slowdown, or even prevent CFA from completing its tasks (for example, stop DR image backups)
After restarting CFA, list of VMs (if any) in the CFA Management Console › Clients › Hyper-V could sometimes be empty
Layout and styles of elements in the CFA Management Console › Job › Importing Jobs so the information in the lower part be more visible and readable
Storage bar in the CFA Management Console would remain green despite CFA showed a storage space warning or alert
After booting a backup job as VM on the CFA, and then deleting that backup job, the system failed to apply and save changes to the booted VM
VMware VM backup jobs could occasionally stop progressing, and hence prevent the following backup jobs from running because of the ‘concurrent job’ limit
8.3.0
Push Backup Agent functionality was replaced with Update Backup Agent, meaning that DR backup agent for Windows cannot now be installed on a client remotely right from the CFA Management Console (that is, pushed when adding or editing a client). Instead, backup agent can be only updated remotely if it is already installed, running and paired with CFA
vCFAs for Hyper-V Server 2008 and 2012–2016 were combined in one vCFA that can be deployed in all supported Hyper-V environments
Error when trying to boot a VM on CFA (Job not found) because the system failed to properly clean configurations and data of VMs that were previously booted for verification and considered to be running while not shown in the CFA Management Console
CFA reported a Hyper-V or a VMware VM backup job as Successfully Completed (CFA Management Console › Jobs › History) despite the backed up VM did not have any virtual hard disk drives
8.2.0
Disaster recovery backup agent
DR backup agent for Windows and the standard DR engine now require at least Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6.2
DR backup agent cannot now be installed on a client remotely right from the CFA Management Console (that is, pushed when adding or editing a client). Instead, pushing the backup agent will only update it if it was installed already
Backup and restore
DR image backup jobs using the standard DR engine could fail if the client returned null response when requested to attach remote storage
After making a Linux file and folder backup and then restoring it to the Appliance Network Share, the restored data was not shown in the CFA Management Console › Settings › Tools › Appliance Network Share, and was unavailable through network
DR image backup jobs using the standard DR engine could fail after running for a long time (An unexpected network error occurred)
Boot and boot verification
CFA would schedule backup jobs for boot verification only on alternate days (regardless of system settings) because of improper handling of time zones and limit to verify only one backup job per day
Monitoring and reporting
CFA would not send information to the Dashboard about completion of a backup job because of the false-negative failure to send information about the start of that job. This resulted in discrepancies between the backup job statuses shown in the CFA Management Console and in the Dashboard
CFA failed to send the daily report with boot verification screenshots included
VMware
Option to reset Changed Block Tracking for VMware VMs right from the CFA Management Console
Various
Reviewed and edited texts in the CFA job message logs for consistency in use of the DR engine names
8.1.0
Disaster recovery engine
DR image backup job failure when committing the backup metadata because the system could not find the metadata files
Incremental DR image backup job failure because the DR engine was unable to read the volume information
Replication and failed verification
Improved the replication process by making the CFA to transfer the SBMF data only once—if and after the replication completed successfully
When configuring replication, the Propagate Manual Delete option is now cleared by default (CFA Management Console › Replication › Mode/Options › Options › Remote Appliance Information)
CFA could respond with significant delays or even stop responding during a high-rate replication process
Boot and boot verification
Option to set DNS when configuring the DR LAN settings for boot orchestration in the CFA Management Console › Boot › Orchestration › LAN
Monitoring and reporting
CFA shows a warning that it is unable to connect and send monitoring data to the Dashboard not only if the account credentials used to register the CFA in the Dashboard changed, but also if the trial period for the account ended, and if the account was locked because of the security reasons
VMware
CFA now shows the status and details of the VMware Tools installed on a VMware client (CFA Management Console › Clients › VMware › VMware Tools column)
CFA would continue making full backups of a VMware VM instead of incremental even if the previous full backup completed successfully with CBT enabled
Message logs of a VMware VM backup job did not show any notification when the CFA was making a full backup instead of incremental if CBT was disabled at the virtual disk level
User experience and user interface
Reworded the error message shown in the message logs of a backup job if the job fails because of the Bacula Director service restart
After adding a Hyper-V cluster to the CFA, Activate Configuration would become active for a few seconds
Broken links to download the DR backup agent for Linux and the DR restore disk (CFA Management Console › Settings › Tools › Downloads)
Storage bar in the CFA Management Console would remain green despite the CFA showed a storage space warning or alert
Various
Message logs of a backup job now include extra information related to the job (CFA firmware version, backup client ID, backup client IP address, backup agent ID)
CFA now uses SMB2 by default unless it was previously configured to use SMB1 before this update
Legacy retention settings shown in the properties of a client (CFA Management Console › Clients › Summary › Properties › Basic Configuration)
8.0.0
Disaster recovery backup agent
Backup agent 8.0 now supports Windows versions only as of Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
Updated installer of the backup agent to include components of the Ignyte (Standard) DR engine
Failure to install the backup agent on Windows 7 because of the missing required updates despite they are already present in the system
Disaster recovery engine
Ignyte is now the default standard DR engine
Improved incremental backup of the hard drive volumes after defragmentation
Improved speed of upload to the SMB share using the variable buffer size (from 64 KB to 1 MB)
After changing the DR engine for a Hyper-V client (CFA Management Console › Clients › Edit), backups failed because the change was not applied on the client side
Standard DR engine could not start backup if a ReFS volume was present in the system
DR image backup failed when the standard DR engine was trying to retrieve metadata of a drive volume not included in the backup
Standard DR engine failed to create a DR image backup of a system with an encrypted volume even if it was not included in the backup
Backup and restore
Ability to download folders from backups when browsing and restoring
Support of NVMe drives for bare-metal restore using the DR restore disk
Extra global backup settings (CFA Management Console › Settings › Backups › Advanced Settings)
When starting backup of a physical machine manually, option to back up as DR image is selected by default (CFA Management Console › Clients › Summary › Manual Backup button)
Restoring files and folders to the CFA network share failed with Unknown stream ignored error
Replication and failed verification
Improper handling of files smaller than 50 MB in a backup job, which was replicated and interrupted while in progress, resulted in errors and different statuses of that job on the primary and on the secondary CFAs
Propagate Manual Delete option did not work (CFA Management Console › Replication › Mode/Options › Options › Remote Appliance Information)
Boot and boot verification
Options to enable boot verification and to set its timeout are now configured per client, but not globally (CFA Management Console › Clients › Edit › Boot)
Changes to the settings of one boot group (where a client belongs) applied to all other boot groups (CFA Management Console › Clients › Edit › Boot)
Monitoring and reporting
Email alerts and notifications sent by the CFA now include its serial number (UUID)
If you delete a client from the CFA, the system also removes all relevant monitoring data from the Dashboard
CFA now uses proxy, if configured, to communicate with the Dashboard
CFA now reports a backup job as definitely failed only after all attempts to retry or rerun it on errors (if configured in the CFA Management Console › Clients › Edit › Error Recovery)
An archive automatically attached to the support request sent from the CFA Management Console › Support contained not all log files
VMware
CBT is now automatically enabled before backup at both VM and virtual disk levels by default
Backup of a VM with enabled CBT failed with a FileFault error when querying for the changed disk areas
Restore of a VM backup to ESXi 6.7 U3 or vCenter 6.7 U3 failed if the backed up VM had automatic video card detection
VM backup failed if the retrieved SSL certificate thumbprint from the host was null because of the network issues
User experience and user interface
Diagnostics tab in the CFA Management Console
If username or password of the account used to register the CFA in the Dashboard is changed, the system now shows a notification in the Notices widget (CFA Management Console › Dashboard)
When a backup job is pushed from the secondary CFA to the primary CFA, the system now shows a notification in the Notices widget (CFA Management Console › Dashboard)
Redesigned UI of the CFA Management Console
Renamed DR engine options available when editing a client in the CFA Management Console › Clients › Edit (Ignyte (beta) to Standard, and Standard to Legacy)
Updated text of the message shown after connection testing failed if replication was configured only on the primary CFA, but not on the secondary CFA (CFA Management Console › Replication › Mode/Options › Remote Appliance Information › Test Connection)
Arrangement and presentation of sections on the Settings tab in the Management Console of the secondary CFA
CFA did not log the user out of the Management Console after restart or shutdown
Garbage Collection History table did not update automatically after the garbage collection process completed (CFA Management Console › Settings › Tools › Deduplicated File System)
Inconsistent date formats in the CFA Management Console
Incorrect default retention policy settings for VM clients shown when adding a VMware connection (CFA Management Console › Clients › VMware › Add Connections)
Incorrect sorting of VMs in the CFA Management Console › Clients › VMware using the Allow CBT column
Incorrect version of the operating system shown in the properties of clients running Windows Server 2019
Information about the VMware host did not update automatically in the CFA Management Console › Clients › VMware › Host Version column
Invalid port displayed when viewing the Hyper-V connections (CFA Management Console › Clients › Hyper-V › View Connections)
Misplaced checkboxes when browsing and restoring backups in the CFA Management Console
RAID status did not update automatically until the Refresh button was clicked (CFA Management Console › Settings › Tools › RAID Configuration)
Secondary CFA showed progress of a backup job started on the primary CFA
When logging in to the CFA Management Console, the login form was not blocking after sending the request and until receiving the response
Diagnostics item in the Help menu in the CFA Management Console
Various
Quick Start Wizard now shows Network Interface Configuration first (instead of the login dialog) if the CFA is unable to access internet
Job message logs now include details for all Hyper-V and DR image backup and restore errors (if any)
Seeding is unavailable now if replication is not configured (CFA Management Console › Settings › Tools › Seeding)
Increased size of the file that reserves disk space on the CFA up to 10 GB
A backup job, which should be deleted under the retention policies, could not be deleted from the primary CFA if it failed verification on the associated secondary CFA
A ZIP file downloaded when browsing and restoring a backup job contained no files if unpacked using the Windows built-in tool
Failure to restore the CFA configuration because of the incorrect processing of the uploaded configuration file (CFA Management Console › Settings › Tools › Save/Restore Configuration)
Negation operator (!) did not work when used in filters in the CFA Management Console › Jobs › History
When trying to search files in a client with no backup jobs performed, the system showed an error instead of notification (CFA Management Console › Clients › Summary › Search)
Recover Catalog feature (CFA Management Console › Jobs › Importing Jobs)