v6.0 Release Notes
Release Date: 22 March 2016
New Features in v6.0
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AWS EC2 Support: Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (AWS EC2) instances can be backed up and replicated in the same AWS region, across AWS regions, or offsite.
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Backup Copy Jobs: Enables copying backups from one repository to another repository. The backup copy can be run on demand or on schedule, and use the original or a custom retention policy.
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VMs and Templates View: Added thejob wizards.
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Native NFS Shares Support: Backup repositories can be created on NFS shares directly from the web UI.
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Internationalization: Date/time format, first day of the week, and the decimal symbol can be customized.
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Live Charts: Speed and Transferred Data charts display live information during the job run.
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Web Interface Redesign: New fonts, icons, page background, dashboards and menus.
v6.0 Limitations
- AWS EC2 instances with Marketplace Code are not supported for backup in v6.0
Improvements in v6.0
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Improved Microsoft Exchange email encoding processing
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Improved CBT error handling
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Improved automatic CBT reset
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Improved OS quiescing error handling
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Copied repository can be imported without removing the original one
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Configurable compression during data transfer
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Display name was added for Inventory items
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Previous job schedule is stored internally if scheduling is disabled
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Additional VMX settings were added for replicas and recovered VMs
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Improved error messages for Exchange log truncation
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Debug logging can be enabled for transporters in web UI
Fixed Issues in v6.0
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Exchange log truncation on some configurations
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Repository maintenance interruption
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Recovery of IDE disks to specific ESXi versions
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MAC address handling during recovery or flash boot
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Number of job-level re-tries
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Size of selected disks displayed on Dashboard
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Icon display in job reports
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Job scheduling issue when the next day is deselected
Known Issues in v6.0
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Synology DSM v6 is not supported by Windows installer for NAS
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v6.0 update can be applied only to v5.X; update from v4.X or older is not supported
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Encrypted repositories are not supported with RHEL/SLES (required packages are missing)
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NFS datastores cannot be used as target datastores for flash VM boot or screenshot verification
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Replica/recovered VM disks are always created as Lazy zeroed if a source VM has both lazy and eager zeroed
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Exchange OLR: Emails that were forwarded to recipient as attachments cannot be recovered from the mailbox
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Linux transporter should be used for replicating/backing up VMs with SATA disks
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Exchange Public Folders are not supported for granular recovery
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Default backup repository of the Virtual Appliance cannot be extended beyond 16 TB
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Application-aware processing for AWS EC2 may hang when using domain credentials
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Active Directory printers are skipped during recovered items import