Release Notes for NAKIVO Backup and Replication

NAKIVO Backup and Replication is a fast, reliable, and affordable solution for protecting VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and AWS EC2 environments. NAKIVO Backup and Replication offers great backup performance, reliability, and advanced recovery features.

Version: 7.2.0.19211


(2017-09-21)

New Features
1. Microsoft SQL Object Recovery
2. Microsoft SQL Log Truncation
3. Calendar Jobs View
4. Multiple schedules per job

Improvements
1. Default password for NAKIVO VA was changed
2. Ability to add the same host multiple times to NAKIVO inventory
3. Additional time zones were added to the product
4. Description is shown in the list of available credentials for Log Truncation
5. Exchange Log Truncation is supported for Public Folders databases now.

Fixed Issues
1. Backup and recovery of Encrypted VMware VMs could fail.
2. Incorrect amount of free space was shown for EFS repository.
3. Multiple fixes for Exchange Log Truncation functionality.
4. Product inventory could show duplicates of Hyper-V VMs on Failover Cluster.
5. Repository space reclaim could be not interrupted by recovery job that has higher priority.

Version: 7.1.0.17782


(2017-06-21)

New Features

  • Hyper-V Failover Clusters Support.

Improved

  • EC2 Transporter uses smarter disk naming to improve performance
  • Increased timeouts for Hyper-V operations (create disk, create checkpoint, etc.)
  • Added support of Exchange Log Truncation for Public Folder databases

Fixed

  • Problem with one of 3rd party libraries was causing internal job error
  • EC2 backup jobs for Marketplace instances could loose information about increments

Version: 7.2.0.19211


(2017-09-21)

New Features
1. Microsoft SQL Object Recovery
2. Microsoft SQL Log Truncation
3. Calendar Jobs View
4. Multiple schedules per job

Improvements
1. Default password for NAKIVO VA was changed
2. Ability to add the same host multiple times to NAKIVO inventory
3. Additional time zones were added to the product
4. Description is shown in the list of available credentials for Log Truncation
5. Exchange Log Truncation is supported for Public Folders databases now.

Fixed Issues
1. Backup and recovery of Encrypted VMware VMs could fail.
2. Incorrect amount of free space was shown for EFS repository.
3. Multiple fixes for Exchange Log Truncation functionality.
4. Product inventory could show duplicates of Hyper-V VMs on Failover Cluster.
5. Repository space reclaim could be not interrupted by recovery job that has higher priority.

Version: 7.1.0.17782


(2017-06-21)

New Features

  • Hyper-V Failover Clusters Support.

Improved

  • EC2 Transporter uses smarter disk naming to improve performance
  • Increased timeouts for Hyper-V operations (create disk, create checkpoint, etc.)
  • Added support of Exchange Log Truncation for Public Folder databases

Fixed

  • Problem with one of 3rd party libraries was causing internal job error
  • EC2 backup jobs for Marketplace instances could loose information about increments

Version: 6.2.0.14838


(2017-02-17)

Improvements in v 6.2

  • EC2 instances with Marketplace IDs are now supported for backup
  • EC2 Transporters can be set to run only when required
  • Added the ability to choose a volume type for Amazon EBS backup repository
  • Added the ability to choose a type for EC2 backup job temporary volumes
  • Added support for Storage vMotion migration to Flash VM Boot feature
  • New Alarms view on dashboards
  • Added the amount of transferred data and speed per VM in job reports
  • Added target storage in job reports
  • System mailboxes removed from wizard for Exchange 2013/2016
  • Improved encryption for passwords stored inside product database

Fixed Issues in v 6.2

  • Fixed the issue of backup repository corruption that occurred after an unexpected Transporter machine/service shutdown * while a mainatance task is in progress.
  • Fixed the issue when replicas were connected to a network during screenshot verification
  • Fixed the issue with product version update inside Windows Programs and Features
  • Fixed the issue when ESXi hosts with the same management IP could not be added to inventory
  • Fixed the issue when disks added to Transporter VM for Hot-Add were added to backup job
  • Fixed the issue with rounding across Job reports and Dashboard charts to show the same data
  • Fixed the issue when Exchange 2016 OLR could not open Exchange database
  • Fixed the issue when jobs that use VMware resource pool as a target could fail

Known Issues in v6.2

  • Search for Active Directory objects may work improperly on some configurations
  • Object recovery for Exchange 2016 may work improperly on some configurations
  • Encrypted repositories are not supported with RHEL/SLES (required packages are missing)
  • NFS datastores cannot be used as target datastores for flash VM boot or screenshot verification
  • Replica/recovered VM disks are always created as Lazy zeroed if source VM had both Lazy and Eager zeroed disks
  • Exchange OLR: Emails that were forwarded to recipient as attachments cannot be recovered from the mailbox
  • Linux transporter should be used for replicating/backing up VMs with SATA disks
  • Exchange Public Folders are not supported for granular recovery
  • Default backup repository of the Virtual Appliance cannot be extended beyond 16 TB
  • Application-aware processing for AWS EC2 may hang when using domain credentials
  • Replica AMIs and recovered EC2 instances have "Platform" attribute set to "Other Linux" due to AWS API limitations
  • Active Directory printers are skipped during recovered items import