v9.1.0.0 Release Notes (25-Jan-2022)

Limitation / Known Issue of This Version
Deployment / Upgrade
  • For multi-domain SSL certificates added to CBS before v7.17.0.30, users are required to re-add the SSL certificates to CBS v7.17.0.30 or above, before the certificates can be used on sub-admins accounts.
Note
  • Besides the availability of re-branding option, the license key must have valid maintenance in order to build any v9 branded AhsayCBS/OBM/ACB installer.
  • Starting in v9.1.4.0, Office 365 modules will be renamed to Microsoft 365.

This release contains the major features listed below:

Enhancements
Key Enhancements
  • In-File Delta v3 - Restore Performance Tuning (ref: T-29507)
  • File Listing Performance Tuning (ref: T-29553)
  • Support of Backup Data Deduplication (ref: T-30679)
Application specific Backup - Office365
  • CBS, OBM - Change Office365 “Term Store Admin” related log message from hide to warn (ref: T-28405)
  • CBS, OBM - Performance Tuning - SharePoint Restore (ref: T-33463)
  • CBS, OBM - Support Restore Deleted Public Folders in ECP to original or alternate organization (ref: T-22827)
  • CBS, OBM - Provide informative error message in restore log when user is deleted or not existing in Office365 (ref: T-22828)
  • CBS, OBM - Enhance warning message when attempt to restore Personal Sites with “Allow custom scripts” disabled (ref: T-23593)
  • CBS, OBM - Option to exclude unlicensed Office365 accounts when creating backup sets using the default menu page (ref: T-25934)
  • CBS, OBM - Support to list and backup files in same directory when large file with more than 1 version exists (ref: T-26027)
  • CBS, OBM - Fix to restore file under OneDrive when OneDrive folder is selected in Office365 backup set (ref: T-32363)
  • CBS, OBM - Update to show accurate item info in the overwrite prompt when restoring Office365 Mail items (ref: T-19447)
Backup Destination
  • CBS, OBC - Support of OpenStack Wallaby (ref: T-30758)
  • CBS, OBC - Accept bucket name with dot (“.”) in AWS S3 destination (ref: T-31700)
  • CBS, OBC - Added new Aliyun Region - oss-cn-wulanchabu (ref: T-27745)
  • CBS, OBC - Added new Aliyun Region - oss-cn-guangzhou(ref: T-29529)
  • CBS, OBC - Added new Wasabi Region - US Central 1 (Texas)(ref: T-29060)
  • CBS, OBC - Added new Wasabi EU West 1 (London), AP Northeast 1 (Tokyo), AP Northeast 2 (Osaka) (ref: T-32745)
Customization
  • CBS - Remove Google+ from Social Media Link (ref: T-32517)
General / Miscellaneous
  • CBS - Add display of Meter License usage in AhsayCBS Administrator Console (ref: T-31631)
  • CBS, OBC - Removal of Log4j dependencies (ref: T-33227)
  • CBS, OBC - Enhanced handling to Shrink Data block files (ref: T-31408)
  • CBS, OBC - Enhanced Index handling Logic for Backup (ref: T-25664)
  • CBS, OBC - Enhanced Error handling for Backup (ref: T-29834)
  • CBS, OBC - Enhanced Retry Logic for Backup (ref: T-25774)
  • CBS, OBC - Enhanced Performance - Space Freeing up (ref: T-30795)
  • CBS, OBC - Support of Delta File Streaming to Destination (ref: T-29973)
  • CBS, OBC - Increased the size of Data Block File from 32MB to 64MB (ref: T-31192)
  • OBM - Support Login with 2FA for LinuxCLI & FreeBSD OBM (CLI) (ref: T-30300)
Application specific Backup - Cloud File
  • CBS, OBC - Support files with duplicated name on Google Drive & Google Cloud Storage (ref: T-24981, T-25874)
Application specific Backup - MS Exchange (Mail-Level)
  • OBM - Support Restore Deleted Public Folders in ECP to original or alternate organization (ref: T-22827)
  • OBM - Update to show accurate item info in the overwrite prompt when restoring Exchange 2016 Mail items (ref: T-19447)
Application specific Backup - Microsoft SQL
  • Enhanced Differential Backup for VSS Mode (ref: T-31135)
  • Enhanced Restore from Backup for VSS Mode (ref: T-31136)
Application specific Backup - Hyper-V
  • OBM - Hyper-V Application Aware Backup (ref: T-30253)
  • OBM - Hyper-V Backup Logic Revamp (ref: T-30088)
  • OBM - Hyper-V Backup File Size Reduction
  • OBM - Hyper-V Run-Direct Performance Tuning (ref: T-30582)
  • OBM - Enhance VSS Backup and Restore for Hyper-V 2016 (ref: T-28997))
Application specific Backup - VMWare
  • OBM - VMWare Application Aware Backup (ref: T-32281)
  • OBM - VMWare Backup File Size Reduction (ref: T-29741)
  • OBM - VMWare Backup & Restore Performance Tuning (ref: T-30113)
  • OBM - VMWare VDDK v7.0.2 update (ref: T-30903)
  • OBM - Remove support of non-VDDK backup (ref: T-31480)
File Backup
  • OBC - Enhanced handling of move/update permission for File backup (ref: T-32373)
Application specific Backup - VMWare
  • OBM - Added “Make a copy” option for File Backupsets for overwrite file(s) in Restore (ref: T-31794)
  • OBM - Enhanced Error handling for Restore (ref: T-29664)
  • OBM - Enhanced Retry Logic for Restore (ref: T-31792)
  • OBM - Enhanced File Listing Logic for Restore (ref: T-32368)
  • OBM - Enhanced handling backupset shows backup date out of the retention period on the Restore Screen and no data can be restored from the date (ref: T-15668)
  • OBM - Performance Tuning for Merging Delta Files (ref: T-27123)
  • OBM - Support Backup source path contains “.” or “..” in Windows Environment (ref: T-30588)
Reporting
  • CBS - Added option to compress client Backup Log files (ref: T-19770)
Synology / QNAP NAS
  • OBM - Updated Digital Signature for QNAP OBM Installer (ref: T-24969)
  • OBM - Synology OBM support longer top level domain name for AhsayCBS (ref: T-32516)
User Experiences
  • CBS - Reorder the Country List in 2FA setup wizard (ref: T-29411)
  • OBC - Follow setup in Quick Start Wizard to save single destination config when destination pool was added to Destination Visible to Users (ref: T-32729)
Bug Fixes
File Backup
  • OBC - File backup gets error “[ERROR] Invalid Volume ”%“: \ (volume shadow copy is assumed)” when Google Drive application is running. (ref: T-32657)
  • OBC - Application crashes when running file backup (Problematic frame: # C [KERNELBASE.dll+0x34f99]) (ref: T-32265)
  • OBC - File backup gets error “[MigrateV6Index.downloadV6Index] Failed to download v6 index” (ref: T-32494)
Application specific Backup - Cloud File
  • OBC - Correct “Can Edit” to “Can View” File Status after restored files from OneDrive for Business to Original location (ref: T-31222)
  • CBS, OBC - When backup Files and folder with '\' in the filename, “Failed to getInputStream of file” error is hit (ref: T-30105)
  • CBS, OBC - When backing up files/folders with special characters in Google Cloud Storage backup set, RuntimeException error is returned (ref: T-24643)
  • CBS, OBC - Failed to backup special characters for MS Azure Cloud File backup set with InputStream error (ref: T-26264)
Application specific Backup - MS Exchange (Mail-Level)
  • OBM - Unable to backup the folder permission for Exchange 2016 Mail level backup set (ref: T-19296)
  • OBM - Outdated sub-index files retained in backup destination (ref: PCG-655-64690, T-32557)
Application specific Backup - Office365
  • CBS, OBC - Office365 Run on Server backup gets error “[SharePointManager.listDirectFromCloud] Failed to create a new folder iterator.” (ref: T-32410)
  • CBS, OBC - Office365 SharePoint “Data Syncronization Check” backup stuck after running for 1.5 hours (ref: T-32492)
  • CBS, OBC - When performing Office365 restore using first backup job, Delta of second backup job is also downloaded (ref: T-29165)
  • CBS, OBC - Incorrect Statistics warning appears when the user runs a DIC job for Office365 backup set (ref: T-29225)
  • CBS, OBC - Additional mail uploaded when user select only one mail (ref: T-29403)
  • CBS, OBC - Multiple warning log “423 Locked”, “404 Not Found” during restore for document library with Require Check Out setting (ref: T-29609)
  • CBS, OBC - When selected Site Collections or Public Folders shortcut with their nodes deselected, child items are always selected (ref: T-24073)
  • CBS, OBM - Failed to list/backup Office365 mail items under folder with Unicode 005C \ in name (ref: T-16250)
  • CBS, OBM - After directory deleted in backup job, restore explorer still show the deleted directory as an empty folder (ref: T-27607)
Reporting / Email report
  • CBS - In-File Delta Module disabled warning message is not shown in French Backup Report (ref: T-32472)
  • CBS - Progress of New, update, delete files are logged only in client logs but not to PDF report (ref: T-28848)
Replication
  • When replicating 1GB file to OpenStack, “Exception=java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space” replication error is returned (ref: T-25554)

Product Abbreviations:

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