AhsayACB / AhsayOBM / AhsayOBR v7.5.0.0 Release Notes (07-Dec-2015)

This release contains the major features listed below:

Enhancements

Application specific backup

Support backup and restore of MS Exchange DAG (MS Exchange 2010 and 2013) (ref: T-11237)
Support backup/restore of MS HyperV Server cluster (MS Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2012, and Windows 2012R2) (ref: T-8197, QWF-583-96255, CBU-591-74766, WGA-370-72815, GMT-395-61472, IRQ-303-18772, HYS-313-50689, RDS-603-23401, ETW-604-87567, RTR-608-16659, WGA-370-72815, LYZ-701-48658, QDC-941-59947, QJY-137-62632, PHS-933-29765, STH-171-31715, RNO-992-47569)
Cannot show non-existing backup sources for MS Exchange DAG server/mail-level backupset (ref: T-7832)
Support incremental backup for Microsoft SQL Server (ref: T-12073)

Auto upgrade agent

Backup Destination

Customization

Simplify the preparation process of AhsayOBM/ACB installer with customized content. Partners can now prepare customized content and build customized installer directly on AhsayCBS instead of Ahsay Customization Portal. The building time of customized installer is much shortened.

Deployment

General / Miscellaneous

Restore / Decrypt

Support Run Direct for VMware to start up guest VM directly from backup (ref: T-9986, T-10079)
Support Run Direct for MS HyperV to start up guest VM directly from backup (ref: T-9984)
Standalone restore application (ref: T-11996)
Better alert message when VMware vCenter/ESXi is unable to resolve AhsayOBM IP (ref: T-12181)

User experiences

Application specific backup

Unable to distinguish MS Exchange mailboxes with same display name (ref: T-10161)
VMware Workstation 11 backup failed with "Vmrun.executeCmd" error (ref: T-11231)
Elapsed time keep counting after manual backup job completed successfully for MS Windows System, MS Windows System State, ShadowProtect and MySQL backup (ref: T-11324)
AhsayOBM does not prompt user to setup encryption setting for ShadowProtect Encryption backup set created from AhsayCBS (ref: T-11949)
VMware license should not be needed when backup VMs on VMware ESXi6 free edition (ref: T-12013)

File backup

Scheduled and CDP backups still run during the process of backup set deletion (ref: T-10545)
Backup log still shows "Deleting temporary file" if "Remove temporary files" is un-checked in backupset (ref: T-10680)
AhsayOBM/ACB shows alert message incorrectly if a symlink (target to folder) is selected as backup source (ref: T-11062)
CDP file backup does not run for "Desktop" and "Documents" (ref: T-11969)
CDP file backup does not run for Outlook shortcut (ref: T-12101)
When it is time to run the next scheduled backup job, the current scheduled backup job status turns to "Incomplete" but it is actually still running (ref: T-12159)
Cannot move backup file to retention for Windows encrypted files (ref: T-12204, XLG-456-14902)

General / Miscellaneous

Extra temp folder is added to the drive with largest free size for the first non-file backupset (ref: T-10693)
Failed to logon AhsayOBM/ACB via proxy if proxy login ID and password are required for the proxy server (ref: T-11263)
Select "Always" type Bandwidth & save backupset in AhsayOBM/ACB, "Only within this period" type shown in AhsayCBS (ref: T-11806)

License / Billing Module

Can still run local copy and seed load backup successfully when MS Exchange mailbox quota exceeded (ref: T-7806)

Restore / Decrypt

Local copy backupsets in the Decrypt Local Copy Wizard are dimmed when they are available on disk (local copy converted to local destination in v7) (ref: FFY-769111, T-6996)
Restore successful but with "NullPointerException" error for restoring raw file for Hyper-V backup set (ref: T-11484)
AhsayOBM/ACB v7.3 unable to restore files to original location if backup source is a network drive (ref: T-12120)

User experiences

AhsayOBM cannot quit after MS Exchange mail-level backup is finished (ref: GZQ-444-81031, KHW-757-62215, T-8373)
Custom retention period cannot be set in the advanced retention policy (ref: LAW-995-80892, T-12097)

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