AhsayACB / AhsayOBM / AhsayOBR v8.5.0.63 Release Notes (26-Jan-2021)

This release contains the major features listed below:

Enhancements

Application specific backup - Office365

  • In Backupset Creation / Configuration Screen, Change "Required if Multi-Factor Authentication is enforced" to "Required if Office 365 Multi-Factor Authentication is enforced"
  • Performance Tuning - Reduce half of the number of folder and the number of attributes in each folder in cloudcache for Office 365 backup (ref: T-26187)
  • Better handling for storing the Manager once get the SharePointAttribute from CloudCache (>5000 items -> in temp table) (ref: CPR-447-98883, DNC-339-60477, T-28113)
  • Add Overwrite option for existing mail item when restore via AhsayCBS (ref: T-28548)

Application specific backup - VMware

  • Support of VMware Fusion 12 (ref: T-28554)
  • Support of VMware Workstation 16 (ref: T-28558)
  • Rollback to VDDK 6 API (ref: YLB-368-58924, T-28957)

Application specific backup - Others

  • Support of Oracle 19c (ref: T-28169)
  • Support of MariaDB (ref: T-12614)

Auto Update Agent

  • OBM/ACB Auto-Login can convert config.ini to config.sys like on v6 (ref: QSJ-798-83832, T-28314)

General / Miscellaneous

  • Performance Tuning - Checksum and delta generation speed (ref: T-28331)
  • Support DIC with Rebuild Index option (UI and CLI) (ref: IIR-131-59894, T-28607)

Security

  • OBM / ACB Unquoted Service Path Enumeration Security Vulnerability (ref: HHW-639-56974, T-28573)
  • Enhanced security logic to OBM / ACB user profile (ref: T-28147)

System Maintenance

  • Migration of MaxMetaspaceSize and SurvivorRatio and -Djdk.nio.maxCachedBufferSize in cbssvc.ini of existing AhsayCBS (ref: T-26043)

Ahsay Mobile

  • Backup photos and videos from user's iOS / Android device to Windows / Mac local storage through home Wi-Fi
  • Act as 2-Factor Authentication tool during login to CBS, OBM, and ACB

Bug Fixes

Application specific backup - Hyper-V

  • OBM - Hyper-V Failover Cluster 2019 backup shows VM not in Cluster Group, VHD not being backed up (ref: TMS-165-24208, T-28862)

Application specific backup - MS Exchange Server

  • OBM - Exchange DAG backup with slow performance after upgrade. (ref: KVF-768-55659, T-28852)

Application specific backup - MySQL

  • OBM - Restored data from incremental delta backup gets errors when importing to the MySQL Server (ref: EMZ-332-42092, T-29319)

Application specific backup - Office365

  • ACB - Upon selecting only Office 365 root node as source to backup on ACB, site collections are also backed up (ref: T-24068)
  • OBM - When select both list items and document files to restore, document files are not restored when grand parent path is the same (ref: T-23599)
  • OBM - Version history of the restored items are NOT the same as the versions at backup for document library and list items (ref: T-28586)
  • OBM - Office 365 Sharepoint backup error "The attempted operation is prohibited because it exceeds the list view threshold enforced by the administrator" (ref: CXB-817-99298, T-28494)
  • ACB, OBM - Office 365 SharePoint cannot list & backup a site which has all required permissions set (ref: PEM-339-58642, T-28797)
  • ACB, OBM - Office 365 backup encounters "Failed to list sPath" and "Failed to log backup" error due to request header too large (ref: GFM-322-41349, NDE-397-65442, PSW-530-37456, TJO-430-27796, T-29058)
  • ACB, OBM - Office 365 backup source explorer does not show Notes items of Outlook mailboxes (ref: YTN-359-68822, T-28859)
  • ACB, OBM - Office 365 backup does not stop immediately after error caused by insufficient space for temporary directory (ref: T-21422)
  • ACB, OBM - Office 365 backup to BackBlaze encounters "Target path does not exists" error (ref: TME-850-21024, T-29346)

Application specific backup - VMware

  • OBM - No files are shown under the drives during VMware Granular Restore (ref: HVC-728-26625, T-29324)

Backup Destination

  • OBM - When an Amazon S3 bucket with period character is selected as source in Cloud File backupset, CBS/OBM will load indefinitely (ref: T-23376)

Deployment

  • OBM - OBM Installation removed home.txt which causing Silent install + Automate client user login failed on Linux Platforms (ref: EAO-599-48205, T-29405)

File Backup

  • ACB, OBM - After upgraded ACB/OBM some open files could not be backed up even VSS is enabled (ref: SPO-343-99848, T-28251)

Index

  • OBM - Failed to check integrity of destination with Error: "[RuntimeException] [FileAttributeIterator.hasNext] Failed to list sPath=%Path%" (ref: QDV-376-69289, T-28766)

Reporting / Email report

  • ACB, OBM - When storage quota exceeded, backup logged many lines of LOG_BACKUP_ERROR_FAILED_MSG Errors (ref: T-29149)

System Maintenance

  • OBM - Logged "APR based Apache Tomcat Native library ... was not found ..." in catalina log under mbs folder (ref: T-28484)
  • ACB, OBM - Encountered 'Please grant full disk to ACB/OBM to avoid unexpected backup fail' warning when opening ACB/OBM even granted full disk access on macOS (ref: T-28736)

Translation

  • ACB, OBM - German Translation for Restore Dialogue (ref: LGW-773-22312, T-29164)

Product Abbreviations:

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