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AhsayACB / AhsayOBM / AhsayOBR v8.3.4.42 Release Notes (03-Aug-2020)

This release contains the major features listed below:

Enhancements

Application specific backup - MSSQL

  • Support of MSSQL 2019

Application specific backup - MS Exchange Mail

  • Add an option to show all users in MS Mail-level 2013 or above EWS mode backup (ref: RYP-670-55761, T-26717)

Application specific backup - VMware

  • Better handling of Error & Debug message for VMware Backupset (ref: T-21030)
  • Support of vCenter Server / ESXi 7.0 (Release date: 2/4/2020) (ref: T-27054)

Backup Destination

  • Allow to update password for OpenStack / FTP / SFTP destination (ref: T-20617)
  • Support of Amazon S3 Regions - Africa (Cape Town) & Europe (Milan) on OBC (ref: T-27302)
  • Support of Wasabi Region - EU Central 1 (Amsterdam) on OBC (ref: T-27306)
  • Support of Aliyun Region - 华南 2 (oss-cn-heyuan) on OBC (ref: T-27304)

File Backup

  • Support Periodic Schedule Backup for all Backupset types in OBM/ACB (ref: T-25853)
  • Support selecting UNC path as the backup source without prior mapping with drive letter (ref: T-15131)

Miscellaneous

  • Reduce the frequency of login attempts from Scheduler service for deleted/suspended/locked backup users (ref: T-21992)
  • Update of .obm permission required in Linux (ref: TPV-501-83709, T-19278)

System maintenance

  • Performance tuning of listing jobs folders in Retention Policy (ref: T-26998)
  • Periodic Data Integrity Check (PDIC) support checking of the existent of Physical Block files in User Storage (ref: OSK-362-21528, PBW-476-91642, T-27212)

Synology / QNAP OBM

  • Support Daily, Monthly and Custom Backup Schedules (ref: FQH-342-11590, T-21753)

Operating Systems

  • Support of macOS Catalina (10.15) (Release date: 7/10/2019) (ref: AXK-151-78493, BDJ-384-91664, HCT-326-42093, NUO-244-71713, T-25319)

Bug Fixes

Backup Destination

  • OBM - Cloud File Backup - Folder names contains "\" in Wasabi could not be listed properly in Backup Source Tree & cause Backup job failure (ref: T-25105)
  • OBM - When expand folder with ';' in wasabi source tree, it does not expand properly & when backup it causes folder looping and stackoverflow (ref: T-25608)
  • OBM - Backup Error, "You have exceeded your storage quota limit." happened randomly when sufficient Quota available. (ref: RTD-440-34743, XRO-997-84779, ZFX-628-32766, T-26902)
  • OBM - Backup to AWS S3 Compatible Storage setup on QNAP encounters "sLastModified is invalid" error (ref: COQ-221-97973, T-27128)
  • OBM - Backup Error, "Failed to upload cached index file ..., "[CloudException.InterruptedExpt] [CloudManager.mirrorDir] has been interrupted"" error (ref: AFL-269-73788, UDQ-146-97179, T-25407)

General / Miscellaneous

  • OBM - Fix Typo "\\servername.doamin\path", change to "\\servername.domain\path" on OBM Add Network Address interface (Special build ref: IWI-421-51614, T-27645)
  • OBM - Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) caused by CBTFilter.sys (ref: KSI-718-20225, T-26856)
  • OBM - Restore.bat > SYNC_OPTION does not work properly when restore Windows COMMON FOLDER backup source to original folder (ref: T-16772)
  • OBM - Backup/restore job will continue to run even if destination is full (ref: T-21599)

Restore / Decrypt

  • OBM - Hyper-V Granular Restore Error = "[RunDirectUtils.addSegmentToSource] Failed to find backup file" (ref: BZE-506-48480, T-26840)
  • OBM - Restore Error, "Delta file is corrupt (Download size ("xx") is not equal to original size ("yy")) on Office 365 restore job (ref: CFS-378-40449, T-26576)
  • OBM - Exchange Server Restore Error, No .edb file available on Restore GUI (ref: ZFI-709-41629, T-26378)
  • OBM - Exchange Mail Level restore fails due to "Target is not a file" error caused by missing bak file (ref: DQW-978-21775, T-27063)
  • OBM - Restore from MSSQL 2019 does not show database for some backup jobs (ref: WKD-173-67774, T-27653)
  • OBM - Handle network issue that downloaded file size NOT match with that in index, OBM will keep retry downloading the block file until user interrupt (ref: T-25882)

Application specific backup - Hyper-V

  • OBM - Hyper-V backup got snapshot retained after backup (ref: OUY-735-87525, T-27139)
  • OBM - Hyper-V Server 2019 Failed to backup virtual machine "xxxx"., Reason = "Disk "C:\Windows\system32\vmguest.iso" does not exist." (ref: IKA-887-76636, T-26999)
  • OBM - Hyper-V 2016 Failover Cluster backup encounters "...bak NOT Found" error (ref: RHP-513-38351, T-26053)

Application specific backup - MS Exchange Mail

  • OBM - Mail-level backup gets Failed in listing sub-folders/items from path ... [ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException] 8192 errors (ref: DMB-729-85765, FJO-354-46796, JYJ-595-49595, LGJ-327-63739, LTF-562-61356, SBU-383-23545, VIS-909-25826, T-26609)
  • OBM - Exchange EWS backup get massive [EwsService.getItems] Retry after 60 seconds messages and the jobs are stuck (ref: SCZ-925-59487, T-26824)
  • OBM - "NullPointerException" Error when performing Incremental Backup with Source Changes (ref: T-27556)

Application specific backup - MSSQL

  • OBM - Backup Error, "Required file %File_Path% for database is missing (ref: AOI-517-40929, FIS-980-74056, T-26120)

Application specific backup - Office365

  • OBM - O365 client backup has missing site in source list, CBS shows incorrect O365 credentials prompt when trying to modify Backupset settings (ref: SXB-356-83784, T-26214)
  • OBM - O365 China cannot list emails/files from source with sufficient permission granted (ref: QSK-139-92765, T-26484)
  • OBM - After backup SharePoint site with delta TWICE, restore error "Fail to restore "Office 365/Site " is hit (ref: T-26640)
  • OBM - "NullPointerException" Error when performing Incremental Backup with Source Changes (ref: T-27556)
  • OBM - When Office 365 backup job is performed to Local and S3, hit error StringIndexOutOfBoundsException & crashes on S3 (ref: T-26904)
  • OBM - When Site Collection URL contains special character, it cannot be listed on Source Tree (ref: T-26154)

Application specific backup - VMware

  • OBM - When perform VMware backup to 2 destinations, OBM crashed when backup the same segment for 2nd time (ref: T-26463)

Application specific backup - Others

  • OBM - Oracle Database Server Host Should be Filled in Automatically with "127.0.0.1" and Should be Read-only (ref: JMH-372-61054, T-20506)

File backup

  • OBM - Backup Error, File="%FilePath%\Ufffd\Ufffdש ק\Ufffd\Ufffdש\Ufffd \Ufffdצ צUfffd...File New[10120=Version][BackupFile ([as already exists (ref: BMN-848-19082, PAM-220-31196, T-26065)
  • OBM - Backup recognises files/folders with accent marks in filename as "does not exist" on Linux platform (ref: LJT-468-63699, T-27199)
  • OBM - Backup Error, [CloudFileSystem.createFile] Parent directory %path_with_special_characters_with_accent% does not exist errors (ref: WRD-329-21590, T-27100)
  • OBM - Backup Error, Failed to list sPath="%Blocks Folder', caused by [NullPointerException] null (ref: VVU-499-20709, T-27039)
  • OBM - Backup stuck at Delete File Directory for Fresh installed OBM in macOS (ref: T-27712)
  • OBM - Backup Files without File Permissions does not work (ref: T-14967)
  • OBM - File Backupset PDIC after migration failed due to "[NullPointerException] null" error (ref: BSP-742-23160, BTH-315-91451, OSR-692-73232, RNP-469-40820, T-26384)
  • OBM - File backup removed all data by DIC due to backup job failed and empty/faulty db index generated (ref: MVH-883-12051, T-27320)
  • OBM - "Found more than 1 full backup file" & "No full file found for in-file delta backup files" hit in backup jobs (ref: T-27336)

Auto Update

  • OBM - Backup Error, "Error=[UnsatisfiedLinkError]" after upgraded by AUA. (ref: BGL-671-33005, ICD-763-52744, T-26585)
  • OBM - After OBM has latest hotfix manually applied, AUA still triggered and AUA to the version (smaller or same as OBM hotfix) in index.xml (ref: T-26253)

Reporting / Email report

  • OBM - After backup job done, backup client log shows backup successful although backup PDF show Error and Activities log show quota exceed (ref: T-24738)
  • OBM - When Checking Logs of the test mode prompt during DIC is running, previous DIC job log is displayed (ref: T-27031)

Synology / QNAP OBM

  • OBM - OBM prompts Internal Server Error when opening on QNAP TS-251+ (ref: NNA-139-98766, RBK-762-66219, SIG-138-36523, T-26355)
  • OBM - When create Backupsets with fixed-time schedule enabled, failed to create Backupset (ref: T-27713)
  • OBM - LocationType is NOT shown when create standard GCS destination in NAS OBM (ref: T-27707)
  • OBM - Upon creating trial user in OBM login page, and upon clicking Show advanced option link, it is not responding (ref: T-25408)

System maintenance

  • OBM - When using CLI mode to export file Backupset backupSet.xml, shortcut selection is not shown and failed to import the xml again (ref: T-23437)
  • OBM - After backup job with data migration is performed when restore wizard not closed in Linux OBM, perform DIC and restore job will hit error (ref: T-26944)

Product Abbreviations:

  • AhsayACB - ACB
  • AhsayOBM - OBM
  • AhsayOBR - OBR
  • AhsayCBS - CBS
  • AhsayMobile - MOB
  • Mobile Backup Server (AhsayMobile) - MBS