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Updates/Fixes in this Build:
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New DF2K Locked File Backup Driver
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New "Primary Restore" flag. Allows for a "Primary
Restore" for first domain controller recovery.
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Mailbox improvements in the Exchange Agent.
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Exchange Agent reports more useful error messages.
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Supports even more autoloaders.
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Exchange 2000/2003 problems resolved. Agent will
not clear the MDBDATA directory if all databases are dismounted and marked
to be overwritten.
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Oracle 8.0 updated. Better handling of
backup/restore, and supports 9i.
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UI fix for the scheduler.
Current
Limitations:
- UltraBac v7.x does not support 64-bit operating systems
Updates/Fixes in this Build:
- Image Agent: Fixed enumeration issue for NT 4 machines.
- Fixed Image Agent crash.
- New DF2K.sys, or the Locked File Backup Driver.
Updates/Fixes in this Build:
- SQL timeout issue, root cause being a logon failure.
- Email notification sending full backup reports.
- Crash loading slot library in the User Interface.
- Intermittent crashes at the end of scheduled backup. (Few affected.)
- Random backup crashes. (Few affected.)
- SFR (single file restore) hanging while backing up dynamic disks.
- 300 second timeout error fixed.
- Resource leak fixed.
- Some hives in the registry were not available for backup selection.
- Single mailbox agent wasn't deleting temporary profile that it creates
during backup.
- Exchange and Network preferences crash fixed.
Current Known Issues:
- Unix Agent skips some directories on some machines.
- When attempting to freeze a drive that is already frozen, UB logs have bad error reporting.
- If UltraBac is installed on a machine that has Veritas, Power Quest, or
any other backup software package that includes "Locked File" technology, we
cannot guarantee the success of the backup or restore.
Updates/Fixes in this Build:
- Timeout issues resolved. Will no longer receive 300-second timeout error message.
- Single file restore hangs are eliminated.
- Single file restore from an image backup with dynamic disks fixed.
- Eliminates SQL connectivity issue when backing up across domains. UltraBac will now report correct error messages.
- Resolved additional backup application crashes, which were happening in very specific cases
- Altered the way UltraBac removes pagefiles during image backups.
- Resolved additional SQL backup issue that in rare cases caused backups to be unrestorable
Current Known Issues:
- 'Start With Current media' pulls the tape from slot1 if there is no tape in the drive
Updates/Fixes in this Build:
- Autoloader backup bug fixed
- Individual customer fixes
- Timeout error addressed
- System State "Sysvol" error message addressed
- UBDR Pro reporting more consistent
Current Known Issues:
- Unix Agent skips some directories on some machines.
- DFS Directory does not enumerate.
- When attempting to freeze a drive that is already frozen, UB logs have bad error reporting.
- UBDR Pro will not restore image backups made on an NT4 Server. (Call for
hotfix.)
- If UltraBac is installed on a machine that has Veritas, Power Quest, or
any other backup software package that includes "Locked File" technology, we
cannot guarantee the success of the backup or restore.
Updates/Fixes in this Build:
- Event viewer error message when successful remove of pagefile fixed
- Resource leak
- Timeout errors addressed
- Media Spanning – wasn’t clearing the media on spanned volume
- Alternate domain Exchange restores
- Unable to parse error when backing up Exchange 2000
- Error 30 and socket error fixed with Netware Agent
- UBDR DOS restore on some RAID controllers
- Remote Autoloaders always pulled from slot 1 fixed
Current Known Issues:
- Unix Agent skips some directories on some machines
- DFS Directory does not enumerate
- When attempting to freeze a drive that is already frozen, UB logs have bad error reporting
- UBDR Pro will not restore Image Backups made on an NT4 Server (Call for
hotfix)
New Features:
- Restore of extended partitions now supported via UBDR
- Dynamic Disk Backup support (including Dynamic Disk groups)
- New and improved Locked File Backup Driver
Updates/Fixes in this Build:
- Backup log improvements
- Single File Restore improvements
- Mailbox Agent improvements (users may need to recreate mailbox sets)
- Memory leaks addressed
- Orphaned UBMS fixed
- Multi-processor bug fixed
- Timeout errors addressed
- Volume Label overwriting bug fixed
- Exchange Backup Log reporting bug fixed
- Cascading from Tape0 to Tape1 during backup bug fixed
- NT4 remote registry restore bug fixed
- System State backup to Tivoli device fixed
- Dynamic Disk enumeration through Image Backup Wizard bug fixed
- Static Mirror Image Backups for Dynamic Disk Group bug fixed
- Remote installation didn't recognize "Custom Path" bug fixed
- Mailbox Agent improvements (users may need to recreate mailbox sets)
- Exchange 2K backup/restore issues addressed
Current Known Issues:
- Unix Agent skips some directories on some machines
- DFS Directory does not enumerate
- When attempting to freeze a drive that is already frozen, UB logs have bad error reporting
- UBUI will display "A required resource was" pop-up box when left open too long with UltraVue running
- UBMS has a resource leak in rare instances
- UBDR Pro will not restore Image Backups made on an NT4 Server (Call for
hotfix)
- The Exchange Agent will not restore to an alternate server in a
different domain
- Unix Agent has tendency to timeout on some machines
- Event Log error when Image agent removes pagefile from the image backup
Please note: All customers that use the Exchange, UBDR or Locked File Backup Agents are highly encouraged to update to this build.
7.1.0 HOT FIXES
New Features:
- Support for Windows 2003 Server Family
- Auto Update
- UNIX Agent supports Mac OSX, AIX, Linux, FreeBSD, Sun Solaris, Sun Intel and HP-UX
- Image of Dynamic Disk and Quorum Devices
- *Command line set up
- Month-at-a-Glance scheduling
- Barcodes show in the UI for libraries
- Japanese localization
- Ability to run as backup operator
- PNP Tape support for more devices (VXA Firewire specifically) and some USB tape drives
- Enables customers to rebuild Express Index(TM) from media
- Copy index from media to disk
- GUI-based Disaster Recovery restore
- Write backups to a disk path in another domain
- Backup sets can be seen in the File Viewer
Updates/Fixes in this Build:
- Better support for extended partitions and dynamic disks
- Faster index loading and less memory used, greatly speeding up "Find Files"
- Show Tasks on XP working
- Remote backup paths in alternate domain if account is specified for disk path in tools\options\general\accounts
- Ability to see set in notepad by going to file\open and right clicking on the set and selecting "Show in file viewer"
- Ability to open file while set is loaded
- Ability to sort columns in restore wizard and backup set wizard
- Find Files is 10 times faster - 150,000 files a second
- Ability to email *.ubb and all sets to support rep
- Set-up detects running ubui, netboot and licensemaint on machine being set-up, and it won't install if any of these executables are running
- Back up to BackupPath devices in other domain/workgroup will use Account Info for connection if the account for the machine hosting the devices fails
- Will no longer remove ubholiday,ini on update/uninstall, to avoid losing customers' custom holidays
- Find Files optimized to be 10x faster -- 150,000 files a second
- Back up locked files on a Windows 2003 server
- Backup log enhanced to provide much more information
- Oracle 9i support
- Support for Post SP3 for Exchange
- Timeout issues fixed
- Image Single File verify issues fixed
- Static Mirror backup issues fixed
- Netware backups hung on certain files fixed
- Install checks for previous install path
- Firewire/USB/IDE tape drive support improved
Current Known Issues:
- Compatibility problem exists between 7.0.3 and 7.1
7.0.3 HOT FIXES
New Features:
- Encryption
- Client side file compression.
- Single file restore from Image backups.
Updates/Fixes in this Build:
- Improved Autoloader support.
- A workstation engine can use a server license.
- Manage Licenses - able to see the date of the last time license was renewed.
- New context menu in the "library" view.
- "Set Properties" button added.
- Licensing errors are now more descriptive.
- "Compare to Disk During Verify" is turned off for Image backups.
- Ability to disable the splash screen on the start-up option.
- Exchange 2000 alternate restore location available for transaction logs.
- Exchange 2000 queries Active Directory for Exchange servers.
- Disk Devices in the Scheduler now show the actual backup path.
- Able to create environmental variable for UB directory.
- ub.exe hang in the background, causing "device in use" errors.
Not Supported in this Build:
- Unix
- Oracle 9i
- "Device Sets" for storage device, as was available in UltraBac version
6
- Barcode support for autoloaders
Current Known Issues:
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The executable ub.exe will sometimes hang in
the background, prohibiting future jobs from running, since the storage device
will be reported as "in use." This issue will be addressed
in 7.0.3, our next release.
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Error enumerating Exchange 5.5
servers -- "1168 - Element not found." Please call technical
support for the fix.
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Sony TSL models are not working
properly with the autoloader module. This has been fixed and will be
available in the next build.
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Find files will Dr. Watson when
loading the index from storage media and selecting files.
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Mailbox agent sometimes has a
problem with impersonation in UBMS.
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Backup hangs when the client is
taken offline.
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When UltraBac hits the ending
autoloader slot, it gives a vague error message.
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Media spanning on standalone
tape drives is clumsy on restore. UltraBac requests the same tape that
is already in the drive. Click OK for the restore
to continue.
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Autopurge of online indexes
isn't working in this build.
New Features:
- Addition of FTP device, located in "Select/Storage Devices."
- Addition of Tivoli device,
located in "Select/Storage Devices."
- New "Set Properties" shortcut button on the toolbar.
- This build supports SQL 6.5.
Updates/Fixes in This Build:
- All the bugs/issues shown below, in version 7.0.1
Not Supported in This Build:
- Unix
- Oracle 9i
- "Device Sets" for storage device, as was available in UltraBac version
6
- Barcode support for autoloaders
- Enhanced speed when backing up with the Win32 File Agent.
- The Locked File Backup Agent now has the capability of
"freezing" all partitions at the same time before the backup
begins.
- The addition of a "Tivoli Device" through
"Select"/"Storage Devices."
- All the bugs/issues shown below
- Static Mirror Image backups report an invalid error message, but the image backup completes successfully.
- Include, exclude, and include will cause a SQL set to give an application error in UBUI.exe.
- UB "Dr. Watsons" when enumerating a "Single Mailbox" set using Outlook from Office XP. This is a Microsoft Office bug and can be corrected by updating to Office XP service pack 1.
- UBMS can orphan processes on client machines.
- Windows NT 4 registry restore will return errors restoring the system hive.
Please call support for patch.
- The Locked File Backup driver will NOT install on disks running software RAID.
- Remote image backup sets on NT4 machines must be modified in order to work. Please call support if you are running into this problem.
- Oracle Passwords stored as clear text in the registry.
- UBMS is leaving orphaned processes on some clients.
- UltraBac will issue a socket error under certain circumstances when job is being viewed through UltraVue or certain licensing configurations.
- UltraBac "Dr. Watsons" on verify for Exchange 2000 mailbox sets
(bug in MAPI).
- UltraBac "Dr. Watsons" when trying to restore when connected to remote machine through the "Connect" feature on the toolbar.
- Error 3 attempting to restore file names larger than 256 characters.
- Type 12 (diagnostic partitions) not recognized by ubdr.exe. Please call support for update.
- Unix
- Oracle 9i
- "Device Sets" for storage device, as was available in UltraBac
version 6
- Barcode support for autoloaders
- SQL version 6.5
- Event IDs in the application log are being reported as ID #3, instead of
their own unique number.
- When creating a boot diskette through NetBoot.exe, adding SCSI
support causes DOS to hang when the machine attempts to boot from the
floppy.
- Exchange 5.5 backup is crashing if it reached the end of media.
- Opening and closing a machine's progress dialog box several times through
UltraVue causes the UI to "Dr. Watson."
- Mailboxes that exist in containers other than recipient's don't show up
when the mailbox set is enumerated.
- Ejecting to a mailbox doesn't work through the autoloader
administration console.
- More than 16 characters when creating a diskpath through
"Select"/"Storage Device"/"BackupPath" would
cause the backup path to appear incorrectly and flaky behavior through the
GUI.
- A scheduled backup will not run if the "Run Every x Minutes" is
checked. You'll find this setting in the scheduled backup properties
in the Devices tab.
- Single Mailbox Backup was not backing up all the mail and some sub-folders
underneath the Inbox. Only some customers were
experiencing this problem.
- Netboot.exe fixes creating boot floppy from the Windows
2000 CD.
- Active Directory is not restoring the Sys Vol directory
correctly, therefore, the Domain Security Policy isn't accessible upon
reboot. This is a Microsoft issue.
- Restoring NetWare to an alternate server doesn't work
correctly--receiving invalid errors.
- Incremental and differential set creation is not including
the correct selection logic. This bug is reflected in SQL as well as
Win32 file-by-file set creation.
- Win32 File Agent is terribly slow in some instances where
UltraBac is using the accelerator or the Win32 File agent on the client in
which it's connecting to.
- Small business server cannot license through UB7 license
interface.
- Oracle hot backups are not working.
- Intermittent crashing on machines using the Locked File Backup agent.
- Intermittent crashing on machines running NT4.
- Mailbox Agent is not seeing all mailboxes when it enumerates the mailboxes
on the Exchange server.
- Some autoloaders' SCSI IDs need to be re-configured in order for the
autoloader driver to work correctly.
- Unix
- Oracle 9i
- "Device Sets" for storage device, as was available in UltraBac
version 6
- Barcode support for autoloaders
- Event IDs in the application log are being reported as ID #3, instead of
their own unique number.
- When creating a boot diskette through NetBoot.exe, adding SCSI
support causes DOS to hang when the machine attempts to boot from the
floppy.
- Opening and closing a machine's progress dialog box several times through UltraVue causes the UI to
"Dr. Watson."
- Mailboxes that exist in containers other than recipient's don't show up
when the mailbox set is enumerated.
- Ejecting to a mailbox doesn't work through the autoloader
administration console.
- More than one folder cannot be created through adding a diskpath in
"Select"/"Storage Devices"/"Diskpath."
- A scheduled backup will not run if the "Run Every x Minutes" is
checked. You'll find this setting in the scheduled backup properties
in the Devices tab.
- Exchange 2000 remote restores. The actual restore will work, if you
rename the mailbox and public folder store to the original name under which
it was backed up. But when the "cleanup agent" is executed
on the newly restored Exchange 2000 box, the mailboxes are rendered useless as
they're not accessible.
Not Supported in this Build:
- Unix
- Oracle 9i
- "Device Sets" for storage device, as was available in UltraBac
version 6
- Barcode support for autoloaders
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