v8.3.4.42 Release Notes (03-Aug-2020)

AhsayCBS

API

• AddSysUser & UpdateSysUser - Support of hashed user password when adding or editing system users (ref: T-27235)
• New APIs - ListRestoreJobs & ListRestoreJobStatus for listing restore job(s) of a specific user (ref: DBN-652-15819, DKL-724-63396, XPL-364-31995, T-23634)
• Better error message for API response “Message”: “[Error] Parameter SysUser is null!” incorrect for syntax errors (ref: T-25923)

Backup Destination

• Support of Amazon S3 Regions - Africa (Cape Town) & Europe (Milan) on CBS (ref: T-27301)
• Support of Wasabi Region - EU Central 1 (Amsterdam) on CBS (ref: T-27305)
• Support of Aliyun Region - 华南 2 (oss-cn-heyuan) on CBS (ref: T-27303)
• Support of Google Cloud Storage regional location on CBS to specific location instead of using multi-regional type (ref: T-24161)

Application specific backup - Cloud File

• Accept folder name with “\” on Cloud file backup (ref: T-27312)

Application specific backup - Office365

• Performance Enhancement - Support the use of Microsoft's ChangeKey API (Graph) to enhance listing for Incremental Backup Jobs (ref: T-27176)
• Provide schedule options to run “Data Synchronization Check” (ref: T-27242)

File Backup

• Support Periodic Schedule Backup for all Backupset types (CBS) (ref: T-25881)

Group feature / Reseller panel

• Able to restrict sub-admin to access Free Trial Registration (ref: NHZ-435-43969, T-20414)

Operating systems

• Support of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (ref: T-27299)

Replication

• Allow change of number of Replication concurrent Backupsets up in CBS UI (ref: T-26718)

Security

• Update Apache Commons BeanUtils to 1.9.4 (ref: T-25334)

System maintenance

• Password complexity requirements for Admin/Sub-Admin accounts (ref: T-23733)
• Performance Enhancement - Create a Separate Process to run the backup job for Run on Server backup (ref: USJ-279-11538, T-26857)
• Performance Enhancement - Speed up the start-up time of CBS Services which contain 600+ users (ref: CNW-631-89274, T-25463)
• Performance Enhancement - Speed up the start-up time of CBS Services when the same server is set as both AhsayRDR Host and client (ref: T-26200)
• Support TLSv1.2 Protocol for SMTP Server

User Experiences

• Speed up the User Listing in Users, Groups & Policies (ref: T-25902)
• Modification on UI for replication configuration in [Sending Data] (ref: T-23988)
• Modification on UI for replication configuration in [Accepting Data] (ref: T-23989)
• Improve presentation of username filter in AhsayCBS > Monitoring > [Administration Logs] > [Audit Trails] (ref: T-23739)

AhsayOBM / AhsayACB

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)

API

• CBS - BackupJobMode in ListBackupJobMode.do , response “M” but job is Scheduled (S) (ref: T-26598)
• CBS - GetLicense.do JSON API returns wrong values for “MaxUsers” and “EnableReplication” (ref: T-15394)
• CBS - Value of parameter “ClientVersion”, “AllHostClientVersion” and “Version7Checked” are reset unexpectedly after calling v6 API “UpdateBackupSet.do” (ref: T-20538)
• CBS - Unable to call v2 AddSchedule, v2 UpdateSchedule, v2 GetBackupSet, v2 UpdateBackupSet, ListRestoreJobs, ListRestoreJobStatus (ref: T-27561)
• CBS - Align AddUser to UpdateUserProfile API to prompt error for negative quota value (ref: T-22248)
• CBS - Log user group changes for user when updated via API (ref: T-24703)
• CBS - UpdateConfig.do , able to input “AdminContacts” without bracket [ ], response is Status OK , but does not update changes (ref: T-25922)
• CBS - GetBackupJobProgress.do API always returns {“Status”:“OK”} even when DestinationID or BackupJobID does not exist (ref: T-27258)
• CBS - When call AuthUser.do with incorrect “Password” , incorrect error message with extra string is returned (ref: T-27267)
• CBS - Backupset created by AddBackupSet API missing default Temporary directory (ref: FTP-486-65465, T-25484)
• CBS - UpdateReplicationConfig.do, passing in fake username, will result in response Status OK (ref: T-26628)
• CBS - Modify empty schedule ID and name in user profile during migration from OBSR v6 (ref: T-16143)

Backup Destination

• CBS - Cannot refresh Openstack token when Run on Server Backupset running (ref: WPL-102-52637, T-26007)
• CBS, 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)
• CBS, 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

• CBS - Web Console enable schedule with invalid Computer Name and owner “-” will prompt message “The Backupset … is owned by “null”” in OBC (ref: T-20242)
• CBS - When create Backupset, no “duplicated CBS destination error” returned when trying to add Standard & Predefined CBS destination together (ref: T-23003)
• CBS - CBS Web Console UI breaks on Microsoft Edge (ref: T-21203)
• CBS - CBS Web Console will be stuck in loading status when Stay button is clicked on Cancel warning prompt when using Microsoft Edge (ref: T-21245)
• CBS - Unable to set User Home, System Home and Replication Folder to path containing “Space character” in CBS web console (ref: T-17295)
• CBS - All “Default Values” sliders reset to DISABLED if CBS admin click [OK] button in a fast pace (ref: T-11742)
• CBS - Allow the creation of new admin users even if “Re-type Password” field is empty (ref: T-14184)
• CBS - Missing several choices of filter type under [Administration Logs > Audit Trails] (ref: T-20471)
• CBS - After login to a CBS which without valid license, page is not redirected to “ShowSystem.do” page. (ref: T-25399)
• CBS - Fix typo “Unlimit”, change to “Unlimited” on CBS Console > [Backup User] > [User Profile] > [Backup Client Settings] > Quota (ref: T-25919)
• CBS - Cannot select France country code (+33) in Multi-Factor Authentication (Twilio on CBS Server) (ref: OCY-330-53109, T-26498)
• CBS - ProfileServiceError “[ProfileService.doGetProfile] [RuntimeException] Key already exists” during user login (ref: T-24627)
• CBS - Duplicated Backupset found in users.xml (ref: LIL-478-79652, T-25234)
• CBS - Chrome (Browser) cannot access to Subadmin Profile in CBS > Administrative Access occasionally (ref: UGF-213-57954, T-25619)
• 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)

Customization

• CBS - Modifying CBS “Host Name” kicksoff Rebuild Client, but attempts to build for all Admin accounts (ref: CTU-982-62622, T-25473)

Restore / Decrypt

• CBS - Fail to restore O365 SharePoint with “Reason = “Save Conflict” (ref: ZRP-722-58230, T-26937)
• CBS - Restore OneDrive Cloud File Backup to CBS gets stuck when processing delta merge of a specific file (ref: RFE-480-11959, T-27096)
• 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)0

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

• CBS - O365 Run on Server Backupset, Insufficient disk space available for temporary directory …. Required free space at least: 100MB (ref: CLW-450-90439, T-26616)
• CBS - O365 login failed due to “incorrect” credential error while MFA & Security Defaults disabled & correct credential provided (ref: GDR-667-48249, T-27086)
• CBS - O365 sharepoint backup gets stuck for many hours for “refresh digest” (ref: NMJ-274-27762, T-27183)
• CBS - O365 backup OneNote file in OneDrive cannot be backed up with error ” SharePointManager is NULL“ (ref: JBP-994-18556, T-27365)
• CBS - When perform Run on Server jobs, some jobs failed randomly due to Java crash (ref: T-27400)
• CBS, 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)
• CBS, OBM - O365 China cannot list emails/files from source with sufficient permission granted (ref: QSK-139-92765, T-26484)
• CBS, OBM - After backup SharePoint site with delta TWICE, restore error “Fail to restore “Office 365/Site ” is hit (ref: T-26640)
• CBS, OBM - “NullPointerException” Error when performing Incremental Backup with Source Changes (ref: T-27556)
• CBS, OBM - When Office 365 backup job is performed to Local and S3, hit error StringIndexOutOfBoundsException & crashes on S3 (ref: T-26904)
• CBS, 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)

Group feature / Reseller panel

• CBS - Trial period fixed to 30 days (ref: RIZ-965-78206, RXY-619-25482, T-26548)
• CBS - When create MSSQL Backupsets, Backupset schedule = OFF, while it is ON in Default User Policy (ref: OEE-999-23522, T-25721)
• CBS - Incorrect online help page for “Free Trial Registration” when login with sub-admin account in CBS Sub Admin console (ref: T-21093)
• CBS - Upon saving Sub-Admin accounts having excess license on System Settings> Basic > Administrative Access page, no warning message is prompted (ref: T-23846)

Redirection

• CBS - Connection to CBS is still tested when disabling a server in Redirector host (ref: XMF-118-64380, T-27297)
• CBS - Fresh installed CBS has RDR configuration by default wrongly set to ENABLED (ref: T-19081)

Replication

• CBS - When Replication enabled, OBM Backup Failed to run space freeing up of destination … http code: 500, java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed ReplicableManager.addMovedPath() (ref: MTJ-323-19072, NFA-355-81479, YWC-347-99702, T-25641)
• CBS - ReplicateFile, repeats “Delete” and “Replicating” for Backupset logs, which already existed on Receiver (or PreDefined) (ref: T-26624)
• CBS - v7 CBS failed to replicate any data backup with v6 OBM after user home is moved (ref: T-20340)

Reporting / Email report

• CBS - No PDF backup reports generated and no Email reports received after CBS upgrade (ref: OQK-191-33529, T-27649)
• CBS - “[ReportGenerator.generatePdfBackupReport] Client log is not found…” kept logged on CBS after Backupset is DELETED before PDF generation (ref: T-20185)
• CBS - Support generating correct sub-admin protocol-port pairing in hyperlinks in Emails (ref: ZJW-609-35697, T-22940)
• CBS - When missing backup in one of the scheduled hosts, backup report is “Missed Backup” instead of “Missed Schedule host” in Hyper-V & Exchange DAG Backup (ref: T-23116)
• CBS backup reports not being sent quarter hourly and customers get many reports at once (ref: TZR-822-69984, WIP-316-52618, T-25286)
• CBS, 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

• CBS - Unable to view files of Symbolic Link Folder on CBS > File Explorer and SystemError (Too many levels of symbolic links) logged (ref: T-26141)
• CBS - License check flip flop between Local IP addresses of multiple connectors causing license error (ref: NGU-838-28723, T-26771)
• CBS - CBS server was extremely slow with high CPU usage (ref: EKF-908-20964, ENP-749-58667, JXS-164-71591, XBZ-194-17497, T-25709)
• CBS - access.log is now in “xxx_access_.YYYY-MM-DD.log” instead of “xxx_access_YYYY-MM-DD.log” (ref: T-22995)
• 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)

Security

• CBS - Security Patch, CVE-2020-1938 (ref: QLK-600-73720, T-26699)

AhsayUBS

• When viewing copyright message, year indicated is incorrect (ref: T-27586)