v7.3 Release Notes
Release Date: 11 December 2017
New Features
Deduplication Appliances Support
NAKIVO Backup & Replication provides support for enterprise-grade deduplication appliances such as EMC Data Domain, HP StoreOnce, NEC Hydrastor, Quantum DXi, and other similar appliances, which can be used as a backup target. NAKIVO Backup & Replication provides a special backup repository type with the special architecture optimized for working with deduplication devices. Thus, before backing up VM data to a deduplication appliance, you can choose to use this repository type, and your data will be backed up to the storage server at a great performance level.
Native Package for Western Digital NAS
The native package for supported Western Digital NAS servers is now available and enables deploying NAKIVO Backup & Replication directly on the NAS. Support for the following new WD MyCloud NAS models has been added:
- My Cloud PR2100
- My Cloud PR4100
Support for new Synology NAS Servers
The new version provides support for the Synology NAS models featuring Appollolake and Broadwellnk CPU architecture.
Improvements
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VMware VDDK v6.5.2 has been included
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Windows Dynamic disks are now supported for file recovery and SQL object recovery.
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SQL object level recovery is now available for Microsoft SQL Server 2008
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SQL object level recovery is now available for x86 SQL instances
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Interaction with Hyper-V is done via SMBv2 instead of less secure SMBv1
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It is possible to set number of backups and folder path used for product database backups
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New API methods are introduced
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Job Dashboard speed has been improved
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VM recovery job allows not to connect recovered VM to a network
Fixed Issues
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Multiple SQL object level recovery and log truncation issues were fixed.
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It was impossible to remove Hyper-V host from Inventory in some configurations
Known Issues
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CBT Driver for Hyper-V 2012 (R2) is not available (this feature will be available in one of the next releases)
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Flash VM Boot and Screenshot Verification for Hyper-V are not available (this feature will be available in one of the next releases)
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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 source VM had both Lazy and Eager zeroed disks
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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 freeze when using domain credentials
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Replica AMIs and recovered EC2 instances have "Platform" attribute set to "Other Linux" due to AWS API limitations
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Active Directory printers are skipped during recovered items import
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First Class Disk (FCD) cannot be backed up if it is not attached to any VM
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VSS quiescing is not supported for encrypted VMs
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HotAdd is not supported if the VA with Nakivo Backup & Replication has the same BIOS UUID as the VM to be backed up or replicated
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Swap file skipping is not supported for the Dynamic Disks
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If the same Hyper-V VM is processed by multiple jobs simultaneously and those jobs are started at the same time, some of the jobs may fail to create VM checkpoint.
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Recovery job on Hyper-V does not allow creating VMs with identical names.
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Backup and replication of Hyper-V VMs with shared drives are not supported.
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Linux swap in files currently is not skipped. Only Linux swap partitions are supported.
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Older versions of ESXi (4.1, 5.0, 5.1) require an installation of the special Transporter.
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File recovery fails if the HDD's Virtual Device Node is SATA and Transporter proceeding the job is installed on Windows
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File Recovery from Windows dynamic disks is not supported for ASUSTOR NAS
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If Transporter is installed on Windows 2008R2 or later, it is recommended to set SAN Policy to
OfflineShared
orOfflineAll
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Deployment of source Transporter and source VM from the same Windows VM template may cause backup corruption in HotAdd mode
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Hyper-V on Windows Nano Server cannot be added to NAKIVO Backup & Replication Inventory
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It is possible to downgrade Western Digital NAS package to an older version, which leads to lost configuration
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VM boot order in Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 can be incorrect due to API limitations
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SQL Server object recovery does not work with databases that have memory-optimized data filegroup containers
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SQL Server object recovery cannot recover system-versioned table if table with such name already exists in the SQL Server
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Application log truncation is not available on VMware ESXi 4.1