Version 9.3.1 (Build 1742 05-08-13 – last update 05-08-13)

Issues Fixed this Build:

• Some Backup files were erased if there was more than one Set in Group and "delete after X number of days" was chosen for an option in the BackupPath Device.
• When Backup spans media (either tape or BackupPath) the volume label is written correctly for correct restore capability.
• Large Backup Indexes on 32bit backup servers can now be read correctly and restored.
   

Current Known Issues:

• Image Agent - UBDR Gold v7.0 does not currently support dissimilar hardware restores for the new Windows 8 and Server 2012 platforms.
   

Version 9.3.0 (Build 1740 03-29-13 – last update 04-04-13)

New Features:

• Support for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.
• New Locked File Agent for better VSS compatibility.
• Increased backup speeds of 40 - 60% faster.
• Enhanced file backup wizard to include Win32File set Properties in set creation.
   
• Image Agent - UBDR Gold support for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.
   
• vSphere Agent - Support for vSphere 5.1.
• vSphere Agent - New encryption support for vSphere 5 and 5.1.
   
• Ux Agent - New Linux file data protection agent.
   
• Ux Image Agent - New Linux imaging agent that backs up used blocks only and performs bare metal restores to like hardware.
   
• UltraBac Management Console - E-mail Distribution can now use ESMTP for Authenticated Mail Servers.
• UltraBac Management Console - License management for new UltraBac Warp product.
   
• UltraCopy - New Backup Migration Tool with the ability to queue up finished backup jobs.
   

Added / Changed Functionality:

• UltraBac Management - Media Index will use local Express Indexes when possible for ultra fast restores.
• UltraBac Management - New UB installation logs for install messages/errors.
• UltraBac Management - The option to cancel a backup if it takes longer than a user specified time or runs past a certain time of day.
   
• MySQL Agent - The ability to restore to a flat file.
   

Issues Fixed this Build:

• Fixed many Kernel Power errors and Image Freezing issues.
• Restore in use files option is now replacing in use files after reboot as requested.
   
• UltraBac Management Console - E-mail notifications set correct Macros listed from Backup/Verify logs.
• UltraBac Management Console - "Delete after X days" cleans up orphaned ubd files that are incomplete backups that meet the "X" criteria.
• UltraBac Management Console - Backups are restarting on second media if first media fails, rather than spanning.
• UltraBac Management Console - Centralized Reporting supports vSphere Agent and new Ux Agent.
   
• Exchange Agent - Changing options now does not change VSS switch from on to off.
   
• vSphere Agent - Backup is using failover to NBD mode now.
   

Current Known Issues:

• Image Agent - UBDR Gold v7.0 does not currently support dissimilar hardware restores for the new Windows 8 and Server 2012 platforms.
   

Version 9.2.5 (Build 1245 07-26-12 – last update 07-26-12)

Issues Fixed this Build:

• Exchange Agent - VSS property for Exchange Agent (in 2007) interprets correctly.
• Exchange Agent - VSS option is correctly used in sets.
• Exchange Agent - Exchange 2010 backs up required logs and EDB files, and restores correctly.
• Exchange Agent - Login fixed to report correct behavior.
• Exchange Agent - Exchange 2007 is aware of UB Incremental backups.
   
• SQL Agent - Correctly backs up MS SQL 2000 named instances.
   
• UltraBac Management Console - FxF selection logic rules are displaying correctly.

Current Known Issues:

• Exchange Agent - Flat file Exchange Restore is not possible if original exchange system is not online.
   
• vSphere Agent - If group has more than 1 set, backup through SAN fails; only NBD sets run in the group.
   
• UltraBac Management Console - UB Sets created prior to v9.1 need to be opened and resaved in v9.2.5.
   

Version 9.2.4 (Build 1240 02-15-12 – last update 02-15-12)

New Features:

• vSphere Agent - Support for vSphere 5.

Issues Fixed this Build:

• vSphere Agent - Restore/Mount data index file created from UltraBac 9.2.3, build 1238, v1.0 index, if created from a 64-bit backup server.
• vSphere Agent - Restore/mount virtual volume on a 64-bit machine.
   
• Image Agent - Updated the locked file driver to fix rare subsequence sets that would fail if Single File Restore was selected.

Current Known Issues:

• Exchange Agent - The "Disable VSS" property for Exchange Agent (in 2007) interprets 0 and 1 backwards.
• Exchange Agent - Flat file Exchange Restore is not possible if original exchange system is not online.
• Exchange Agent - In an Exchange 2010 Restore to original location, the database states it is in a dirty state and need to run "eseutil /r" to fix.
• Exchange Agent - Exchange 2007 is not aware of incremental backups; differentials work fine.
   
• vSphere Agent - If group has more than 1 set, backup through SAN fails; only NBD sets run in the group.
   

Version 9.2.3 (Build 1238 11-10-11 – last update 11-22-11)

New Features:

• UltraBac Management - Support added for Iomega StorCenter ix4 NAS devices.
   
• UltraBac Engine - File fevel backup of FAT32 partitions with Locked File enabled.
   
• UBDR Gold - Now only a single UBDR Gold Restore CD is needed for Bare Metal Restores on either x86 or A64 machines.
• UBDR Gold - Updated additional drivers library onto the new UBDR Gold Restore CD.

Added / Changed Functionality:

• UltraBac Engine - Supports larger than 2GB memory needed in mounting extra-large indexes for restore.

Issues Fixed this Build:

• Virtual Disk Agent - Supports VHD backups for Physical Machines with more than 2 partitions on same disk.

Current Known Issues:

• UltraBac Management - Encrypted file-by-file differential backups are not completing the verify - reporting "unable to position correctly" error when in a group with multiple sets, and one of the sets has no data to back up in a differential/incremental set.
• UltraBac Management - 2008/2008 R2 Active Directory is not aware of UltraBac System State backups and is giving warning messages that it has not been backed up in x amount of days.
   

Version 9.2.2 (Build 1232 08-24-11 – last update 08-25-11)

New Features:

• vSphere Agent - Agentless Backup of VMware 4.x and greater virtual machines using vStorage API and CBT(Changed Block Tracking).
• vSphere Agent - Support for advanced transport modes (SAN/iSCSI).
• Image Agent - "Create Virtual Disk file(s) only" option for VMware (VMDK) and Hyper-V (VHD).
• UB Management - Support added for new HP D2D CIFS compatibility devices.

Added / Changed Functionality:

• UltraBac Management - Setting license server on a slow network shows progress while waiting for response from selected license server.
• UltraBac Management - Default Device showing in the Media Options dialog.
• UltraBac Management - Managed Machines window: provides 'Uncheck all' support like 'Check all'.
• UltraBac Management - After job "eject to mailbox", only ejects the tape(s) used.
   
• UltraBac Agents - License reset will be changed to 90 day default from 21 day.
   
• Image Agent - Provides access to the "UltraBac Progress" window in UBDR if it has been closed while BMR restore is in progress.
   
• SQL Agent - Browse button in the SQL Server - Edit Server List dialog expanded function.
• SQL Agent - SQL Database may contain a slash.
   
• Exchange Agent - Backup (using without VSS) succeeds when backup set contains files ebd, log & chk on three different drives.
• Exchange Agent - Exchange Agent backup of a single Exchange 2007 set created in UltraBac v9.1 works with other Exchange Server Agents.
   
• UltraBac Logs - Error log reporting for Tape Drive functions changed.
• UltraBac Logs - Add media pool and barcode info to UltraCopy summary.
• UltraBac Logs - Show agent friendly name in backup set.
• UltraBac Logs - Backup data count matches UB log summary data count.
• UltraBac Logs - All backup errors are recorded on UB backup logs or on e-mail notifications.
• UltraBac Logs - Restore log report file has the individual components' entries message of successful completion.

Issues Fixed this Build:

• Device BackupPath - Media Spanning pauses and stalls.
   
• UltraBac Management - New BEIUtility.dll, fixes UB Group aborts if a single set fails. UB Group Schedule continues.
   
• Virtual Disk Agent - Fixed issue with using a VHD created by UltraBac failing to start, with stop code 7B, in Hyper-V.
   
• Image Agent - Image Backup with UBFD causes shadow copies to fail.
• Image Agent - Enumeration of in use files during SFR backups fail.
   
• Exchange Agent - Restores are UltraBac backwards compatible.
   
• UltraBac Engine - Support for Windows 7 64-bit machines.
• UltraBac Engine - Support for GPT dynamic disks.
   
• UltraCopy - Fails to span media.
• UltraCopy - Not seeing devices after upgrade install.

Current Known Issues:

• UltraCopy - Unsuccessful if source media is non-UltraBac media.
   

Version 9.2.1 (Build 1200 05-10-11 – last update 05-10-11)

Issues Fixed this Build:

• Device BackupPath - Fixed issue with HP D2D Backup System CIFS compatibility.
• Device BackupPath - Fixed issue with group.ubb backup aborts if remote.ub set is disconnected while the backup is in progress.
   
• UltraBac Management - Fixed issue with Email Distribution List being overwritten during an upgrade.
• UltraBac Management - Fixed issue with backup log containing invalid character, causing log to not open in XLM.
• UltraBac Management - Fixed issue with 9.2 not backing up 9.1 systems, but not reporting any errors.
• UltraBac Management - Fixed issue with media limit maxing out and filling c:\ with log files.
   
• Virtual Disk Agent - Fixed issue with using a VHD created by UltraBac failing to start, with stop code 7B, in Hyper-V.
   
• Image Agent - Fixed issue with UBDR dissimilar hardware restores of Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7 COLD images failing when updating drivers.
• Image Agent - Fixed issue with 7B driver error after Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7 dissimilar hardware restore.
   
• SQL Agent - Fixed issue with incremental/differential restore using VDI/Namedpipe options failing.
• SQL Agent - Fixed issue with SQL writer being in a failed state after a successful backup.
• SQL Agent - Fixed issue with SQL databases detaching while restoring databases using "Restore as SQL.back files" option enabled.
• SQL Agent - Fixed issue with backup (using VSS) failure when backup set contains databases on different drives.
   
• Exchange Agent - Removed Single Mailbox Agent option.
• Exchange Agent - Fixed issue with logs not being purged after a full backup.
• Exchange Agent - Fixed issue with the backup reports error connecting to Other Exchange Server.
• Exchange Agent - Fixed issue with selecting remote Exchange Server for backup results in other servers getting enumerated as well.
• Exchange Agent - Fixed issue with .edb and .log files cannot backup if they are on separate partitions (VSS).
• Exchange Agent - Fixed issue with Exchange 2007 with SCR or CCR enabled not restoring properly.

Current Known Issues:

• UltraBac Engine - UB hangs if network connection is dropped during remote backup of System State data.
• UltraBac Engine - Image backup with UBFD causes VSS shadow copies to fail on Windows Server 2008 R2 when running at the same time.
• UltraBac Engine - UBFD fails to freeze GPT dynamic disks.
   

Version 9.2.0 (Build 1170 03-03-11 – Last update 03-03-11)

New Features:

• Active Directory Backup and Restore for 2008 & 2008 R2.
• Direct Write to Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk Format (VHD).
• Exchange 2010 Support, as well as Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) Support for 2007 & 2010.
• Restore to Flat Files Using the MySQL Agent.
• SQL 2008 R2 Support, as well as Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) Support for 2005 & 2008.
• Maintain and Manage Backup Machines by Groups.

Issues Fixed this Build:

• UltraBac Management Console - Fixed issue with Server 2008 R2 deploying to Server 2008 R2 returning an error copying ubfd.sys.
   
• SQL Agent - Fixed issue with remote SQL named instances (non-default) not backing up properly.
   

Version 9.1.1
(Build 1016 11-01-10 -- Last Update 11-01-10)

Issues Fixed this Build:

• Image Agent - Fixed issue with SFR enabled Image backup incorrectly indexing long paths.
• Image Agent - Fixed issue with Incremental/Differential backups backing up only changed clusters when the previous full backup failed to complete.
   
• MySQL Agent - Fixed issue with MySQL Agent backups not properly backing up the procedures.
• MySQL Agent - Fixed issue with MySQL Agent not restoring when the restore path has a space.
   
• SQL Agent - Fixed issue with file selection filter not removing unselected servers.
   
• UltraBac Management Console - Fixed issue with Management console closing when opening backup logs on a Server Core OS.
• UltraBac Management Console - Fixed issue with Management console closing when selecting inactive files from a non-configured Tivoli device.
• UltraBac Management Console - Final UltraCopy button changed to "Copy" instead of "Next."
• UltraBac Management Console - Fixed issue with Quick Access toolbar support.
   
• UltraCopy - Fixed issue with UltraCopy hanging when the "Clear destination media" option is checked.

Current Known Issues:

• Image Agent - Windows 7 backups fail if "backup partitions individually" option is de-selected.

Version 9.1.1
(Build 1015 04-05-10 -- Last Update 04-05-10)

Issues Fixed this Build:

• Image Agent - Fixed issue with SFR enabled Image backups entering a hung state.
   
• UltraBac Management - Fixed issue with email notifications not being sent when a set is skipped.
• UltraBac Management - Fixed issue with licensemaint.exe not appearing on the Windows taskbar.
• UltraBac Management - Fixed issue with jobs failing to eject media after backup.
• UltraBac Management - Fixed issue with Autoclean intervals not being used.
• UltraBac Management - Fixed issue with characters in filenames not converting properly when detailed logging is enabled.

Version 9.1.0 (Build 995 01-26-10 -- Last Update 01-27-10)

Issues Fixed this Build:

• Image Agent - The Image Agent can now freeze all drives using the UltraBac Locked File Backup driver.
   
• UltraBac Management - Fixed issue with UBUI behavior when encountering multiple consecutive button clicks.
• UltraBac Management - Fixed issue with launching the License Maintenance utility on Vista/2008 systems.
   
• UltraCopy - Fixed issue with UltraCopy of SFR (single file restore) enabled image backups copying improperly.
• UltraCopy - UltraCopy can now email logs after a scheduled copy operation.
   
• VCB Agent - Fixed issue with the VCB Agent timing out during some backup jobs.
• VCB Agent - Fixed issue with UBUI closing if an incorrect host is specified for VCB Agent.

Version 9.1.0 (Build 992 11-20-09 -- Last Update 11-20-09)

New Features:

• MySQL Agent.
• ESX formatted VMDK files are directly written to the ESX datastore.
• ESX formatted VMDK files can use Thin Disk Provisioning.
• Sets, groups, and logs added to MSSQL/MySQL/SQLExpress databases, along with online indexes to allow customized reporting options.
• Backup logs attached to notification emails will be in plain text format.

Issues Fixed this Build:

• UltraBac Management - Quick access toolbar improvements.
• UltraBac Management - Event log entries now listed by UltraBac executable.
• UltraBac Management - Management console now able to transform logs if all tags were not closed.
• UltraBac Management - Jobs with AES encryption would fail if the connection to the encryption server was dropped.
• UltraBac Management - Sets with special characters wouldn't enumerate properly.
• UltraBac Management - Error 50 backing up unix/samba share from 2008.
• UltraBac Management - Installer only using the host default account when deploying to remote systems.
   
• SQL Agent - SQL Agent restores could not use Blowfish encryption.
   
• UltraCopy - UltraCopy jobs were failing to span media in some cases.
• UltraCopy - UltraCopy license errors written to the event logs when Ultracopy was not being used.
• UltraCopy - Various other UltraCopy improvements.
   
• Setup - Installer only using the host default account when deploying to remote systems.

As a note, UltraBac has discontinued native Itanium (ia64) support.

Version 9.0.1 (Build 893 07-15-09 -- Last Update 07-15-09)

Issues Fixed this Build:

• UltraBac Management - Media spanning behavior incorrect.
• UltraBac Management - Reparse points settings causing incorrect agent behavior.
• UltraBac Management - Non-unicode .ub/.ubb files causing issues with international keyboards.
• UltraBac Management - Email notifications not attaching verify logs.
• UltraBac Management - v9 unable to run backups if disabled v8 jobs were present.
• UltraBac Management - Command line backups set to verify causing issues in the backup log.
   
• Image Agent - GSX VMDK files returning errors at the end of backup.
• Image Agent - GSX VMDK files of Vista operating systems failing to mount.
• Image Agent - GSX VMDK files only backing up one partition of a disk.
   
• UltraCopy - UltraCopy unable to see newly created backup devices.
   
• Setup - Setup.exe returning false reboot prompt after some installs.

Current Known Issues:

• UltraBac Management - Version number in Support/About shows 9.0.0.
• UltraBac Management - Sets with special characters fail to enumerate.
• UltraBac Management - 2008 Active directory not supported.
• UltraBac Management - Backups using AES encryption fail if the connection to the encryption server is broken.

Version 9.0.0 (Build 892 05-12-09 -- Last Update 05-12-09)

Issues Fixed this Build:

• UltraBac Management - Scheduled job end date cannot be removed.
• UltraBac Management - Cannot browse or create remote Index Database paths.
• UltraBac Management - Current Operations does not display active jobs.
• UltraBac Management - Index Database setup wizard dialogs unclear.
• UltraBac Management - UltraBac Management Console terminates when running UltraCopy with autoresponse option.
   
• UltraCopy - Summary information missing when UltraCopy is run from the command line.
• UltraCopy - UltraCopy jobs not visible in Current Operations pane.

Current Known Issues:

• UltraBac Engine - Command line backups returning unusual message.
• UltraBac Engine - Backups to SFTP device terminate after network interruption.
• UltraBac Engine - Disabled jobs prevent the Scheduler service from starting enabled jobs.
• UltraBac Engine - Online Indexes handled incorrectly when using Index Database.
   
• Image Agent - GSX VMDK creation only works for one partition of a multiple partition disk.
• Image Agent - GSX VMDK creation of Vista/2008 fails to mount.
   
• UltraBac Management - "Clearing archive bit" does not appear in the backup logs.
• UltraBac Management - Management Console has to be closed for new media to appear in UltraCopy.
• UltraBac Management - Management Console shows as "not responding" when database setup wizard is open.
• UltraBac Management - Email notifications not attaching verify log.
   
• UltraBac Installer - Setup.exe returing false reboot prompt after update.

Version 9.0.0 (Build 892 05-08-09 -- Last Update 05-08-09)

Issues Fixed in this Build:

• Image Agent - VMDK files created of 2008/Vista are failing with HAL errors.
• Image Agent - ESX VMDK differential backups terminate abnormally.
• Image Agent - Incorrect lsi_scsi.sys for VMDK files.
   
• UltraBac Management - Current Operations does not display active jobs.
• UltraBac Management - Index Database setup wizard dialogs unclear.
   
• UltraBac Engine - On rare occasions, backup processes will terminate when running on systems with multiple processors.

Current Known Issues:

• UltraBac Management - UltraBac Management Console terminates when running UltraCopy with autoresponse option.
• UltraBac Management - Scheduled job end date cannot be removed.
• UltraBac Management - Some error codes showing as hex instead of decimal.
• UltraBac Management - Cannot browse or create remote Index Database paths.
   
• UltraCopy - UltraCopy jobs not visible in Current Operations pane.
• UltraCopy - Summary information missing when UltraCopy is run from the command line.
   
• UltraBac Engine - Online Indexes handled incorrectly when using Index Database.
• UltraBac Engine - Disabled jobs prevent the Scheduler service from starting enabled jobs.
   
• Image Agent - GSX VMDK creation only works for one partition of a multiple partition disk.
• Image Agent - Dynamic disk images fail to restore with resize or dissimilar hardware.

Version 9.0.0 (Build 892 05-04-09 -- Last Update 05-07-09)

New Features:

• New and Improved UltraBac Management Console.
• VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) Agent.
• Direct write to ESX and GSX VMDK files.
• Dissimilar Hardware support for 2008/Vista.
• Customizable SMTP Notification emails.
• Sharepoint 2007 support.

Current Known Issues:

• Image Agent - VMDK files created of 2008/Vista are failing with HAL errors.
• Image Agent - GSX VMDK creation only works for one partition of a multiple partition disk.
• Image Agent - Dynamic disk images fail to restore with resize or dissimilar hardware.
   
• UltraBac Engine - On rare occasions, backup processes will terminate when running on systems with multiple processors.
• UltraBac Engine - Backups to SFTP device terminate after network interruption.
• UltraBac Engine - Disabled jobs prevent the Scheduler service from starting enabled jobs.
   
• UltraBac Management - Cannot browse or create remote Index Database paths.
• UltraBac Management - Current Operations does not display active jobs.
• UltraBac Management - Index Database setup wizard dialogs unclear.

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