What's New

8.0 (24-Oct-2024)

Features

• Microsoft Azure storage account: Azure Azure Cold access tier is now supported as a backup destination in the Backup Agent

Improvements

• System Requirements: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6.2 installation is now required. If the framework cannot be installed, the automatic update fails, and the server/computer remains not updated
• Simplified schedule settings in the backup plan wizards
• Advanced options now include the following options:
  • Synthetic full backup management
  • Backup storage class selection

Resolved Issues

• Minor bug fixes

7.9.7 (31-Jul-2024)

Improvements

• Restore performance is improved
• Image-based backup performance is improved
• Intelligent Retention is enabled for all types of backup plans

Resolved Issues

• SQL Server backup issues

7.9.6 (01-Jul-2024)

Resolved Issues

• Minor bug fixes

7.9.5 (12-Jun-2024)

Features

• Improved mechanism of incremental backup creation to reduce the backup size. Warning: the first incremental backup after the Backup Agent update could be larger than usual.
• Enhanced restore functionality for partially corrupted file backups.
• Forever Forward Incremental: Intelligent Retention is now enabled by default, and cannot be disabled using UI.
• New backup format: backup plan now requires that the full backup schedule is set before the plan can be saved.
• New backup format: full and incremental backups can now have a different start time.

Improvements

• Improved Force using VS (Volume Shadow Copy Service) option processing in case of enabled Use VSS by default in Global Agent Options.
• New backup format: Purge logic improvement for generations with warnings.

Deprecated Features

• Show Predefined Plans toolbar link is now deprecated.
• Legacy backup format: For new and changed plans in legacy backup format 'Back up NTFS permissions', 'Mark objects deleted in a backup source', 'File name encryption' advanced options are no longer available

Resolved Issues

• Minor bug fixes

7.9.4 (19-Mar-2024)

Resolved Issues

• Minor bug fixes

7.9.3 (14-Feb-2024)

Features

• SQL Server Backup: Added ability to run differential and transaction log backup on demand
• Files Backup: Dropbox online files are now ignored if Do not backup on-demand files option is selected

Resolved Issues

• Network Shares: Files in use by another process are reported as unexpected error (code 1003)
• Long timeout on attempt to retrieve exclusive access to repository (code 1072)
• Minor bug fixes

7.9.2.267 (05-Jan-2024)

Resolved Issues

• Non-latin symbols are case insensitive during backup
• False negative error: There is no active upload of a large file when backing up to BackBlaze B2

7.9.2 (20-Dec-2023)

Deprecated Features

• Legacy Archive V2/V1 is deprecated in this release.

Features

• A possibility of partial restore from corrupted backup data is now supported for file backups in new backup format ###Improvements
• Command Line Interface (CLI) help is improved

Resolved Issues

• Minor bug fixes

7.9.1.152 (09-Nov-2023)

Resolved Issues

• Minor bug fixes

7.9.1 (10-Oct-2023)

Resolved Issues

• Backup: error messages were improved
• Minor bug fixes

7.9 (31-Aug-2023)

Features

• Hyper-V: VM-level application processing settings are now available
• VMware: VM-level application processing settings are now available
• Hyper-V: Item-level exclude for Hyper-V backup plans
• Restore: File-level restore for Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines with Linux guest OS is now supported
• Restore: Single drive restore for Hyper-V backup plans

Improvements

• General: UI graphics are updated

Resolved Issues

• Forever Forward Incremental: intelligent retention information for storages with early deletion policies
• Virtual machine naming is now case insensitive
• VM socket calculation issues resolved
• Minor bug fixes

7.8.7 (08-Jun-2023)

CloudBerry is now part of MSP360 and the product is renamed to MSP360 Backup Agent for Windows

Improvements

• Forever Forward Incremental performance improvements

Resolved Issues

• Minor bug fixes

7.8.6 (09-May-2023)

Resolved Issues

• Minor bug fixes

7.8.4 (22-Mar-2023)

Improvements

• Backup: error messages were improved
• Hyper-V Backup: Processing of virtual machines in invalid state was improved

Resolved Issues

• Export configuration: functionality is restored
• Restore: minor bug fixes
• Hyper-V/VMware Backup: minor bug fixes

7.8.3 (15-Feb-2023)

Features

• Backup plan upgrade from the legacy backup format to the new backup format (via CLI)

Improvements

• Retention policy: Scheduled full backup is mandatory to apply the retention policy in the new backup format
• Immutability feature renamed to Object Lock

Known Issues

• Upon rollback from version 7.8.3 to 7.8.2 or earlier, all passwords (storage accounts, network credentials, encryption passwords) are reset and require manual re-entering

Resolved Issues

• Backup storage: Block-level backup is displayed instead of full from another computer
• SQL backup: Sync fails after the failed backup plan execution
• Consistency check: 'Sequence contains more than one element' error upon consistency check in the new backup format
• Forever Forward Incremental: 'Unnecessary restore point was found' error after re-enabling Forever Forward Incremental backup
• VMware backup: Error upon editing VM list using the quick edit

7.8.2 (20-Dec-2022)

Improvements

• Memory performance improvement on million folders to file system destinations (local disk/network share)
• Reporting: Detailed report generation improvement for backup plans with large numbers (millions) of files
• Diagnostic: Event logs can be sent until the app is running under the administrator account
• Ability to re-init the repository database in case it is corrupted

Resolved Issues

• File backup: Incorrect behavior of the 'Do not back up files used by other processes' option
• Image-based backup: First full backup is interrupted by the scheduled full backup
• Reporting: Some files are missing in the detailed report
• Backblaze B2: Deep sync fails due to the 'Unknown file size' error
• Restore: Issue with filenames upon restore to a specific location

7.8 (08-Nov-2022)

Features

• Forever Forward Incremental backup
• Intelligent Retention for Forever Forward Incremental backups

Resolved Issues

• Backup: High memory consumption upon deep sync
• Backup: 'Large files must have at least 2 parts' error upon uploading compressed files to Backblaze B2 storage
• MS SQL restore: Restore job restores one excess transaction log file

7.7.1 (14-Sep-2022)

Features

• Restore Verification for virtual environments (VMware, Hyper-V)

Resolved Issues

• File backup: Legacy backup format backup plans fail on listing of files containing unsupported characters
• Hyper-V backup: Backup fails if VM config file is in use at the moment of backup
• SQL backup:
  • Log sequence number chain breaks upon sync or consistency check
  • Log sequence number does not change after a full backup
  • Transaction log backup after differential backup forces full backup
• Restore:
  • Folder NTFS permissions not restored
  • Restore: Incorrect restore parameters used if storage account in restore-only mode

7.7 (23-Aug-2022)

Features

• Immutability support for Backblaze B2

Enhancements

• S3-compatible: Full backup execution if consistency check detects non-native multiparts for plan in the new backup format

Resolved Issues

• Exchange/VMware: Data purge issue in legacy format backup plans

7.6.1 (27-Jul-2022)

Resolved Issues

• Backup:
  • "Could not find file" error upon consistency checks on QNAP shares
  • 'Skip consistency check for legacy backup format' option issue
  • Plan in the new backup format fails with 'Sequence contains no elements' error
  • Backup: First backup destination set while editing the plan
  • Backup: Consistency check hangs generation database directory cannot be deleted
  • Backup: Dropbox file backup issue
• File backup: Error upon backup of large amount (>1 000 000) of files
• Image-based backup: Error on encrypted backup to Backblaze B2 destinations
• Restore Verification: Error after running a synthetic backup
• VMware backup: Error on backups of datacenters with special symbols in names
• MS SQL backup: Full backup instead of differential upon new version update
• File restore: Error upon restore of the latest version from destinations with enabled versioning
• File restore: Latest file version restored instead of manually selected
• Bootable USB/ISO: Error if partition label contains special symbols

7.6 (28-Jun-2022)

Features

• File backup: 'Keep EFS-encryption' option

Enhancements

• AWS S3: Number of listing operations reduced upon purge
• Restore: Restore of large numbers of files improved in the new backup format
• Restore: Multi-thread restore for image-based, VMware, and Hyper-V restore plans

Resolved Issues

• File backup: Incorrect behavior if an invalid local destination is set
• Restore: VM restore from AWS GovCloud fails

7.5.3 (2-Jun-2022)

Resolved Issues

• MS Exchange backup: Some plans fail on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1/Exchange Server 2010 SP3 instances

27-May-2022

• Support for Wasabi AP Southeast 1 region (Singapore)

7.5.2 (19-May-2022)

Resolved Issues

• Image-based backup: Restore Verification component installation issue
• MS Exchange backup:
  • Backup plan interrupted unexpectedly
  • Backup plans fail on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and Windows SBS 2011

7.5 (25-Apr-2022)

Features

• Schedule: 'Repeat Every' option in the new backup format backup plans
• Retention policy: Improved logic of data retention in the new backup format
• MS SQL backup: Backup sequence consistency improvement
• Real-time backup improvement

Resolved Issues

• File backup: Backup is interrupted if a source network share is not available at the moment of backup
• Backup wizard: 'Check Network Shares' wizard step is skipped if any subfolders are excluded on source network share
• Hyper-V backup: Invalid socket count for clustered VMs
• Retention policy (legacy backup format): 'Delay Purge' option is reset after consistency check
• Backup Storage: 'A header you provided implies functionality that is not implemented' error upon generation deletion for backups in S3-compatible/MinIO

7.4.3 (13-Apr-2022)

Resolved Issues

• Backup: Minor bug fixes
• Restore: Minor bug fixes

7.4.2 (17-Mar-2002)

Features

• Support for Wasabi EU Central 2 region (Frankfurt, Germany)

7.4.1 (14-Mar-2022)

Resolved Issues

Hyper-V backup issue hotfix

7.5 (21-Apr-2022)

Features

• Schedule: 'Repeat Every' option in the new backup format backup plans
• Image-based backup: Changed Block Tracking improvement
• Retention policy: Logic improvement data retention in the new backup format
• MS SQL backup: Bacup consistency imporvement
• Real-Time backup improvement

Resolved Issues

7.4.3 (13-Apr-2022)

Resolved Issues

• Backup: Minor bug fixes
• Restore: Minor bug fixes

7.4.2 (17-Mar-2002)

Features

• Support for Wasabi EU Central 2 region (Frankfurt, Germany)

7.4.1 (14-Mar-2022)

Resolved Issues

Hyper-V backup issue hotfix

7.4 (21-Feb-2022)

Features

Hyper-V

• Support for Hyper-V backup in the new backup format
  • Synthetic full backup
  • GFS retention policy
  • Immutability
  • Increased object size limit to 256TB
• Backup of current checkpoint only
• Changed Block Tracking (Resilient Change Tracking) (BETA)
• Support for application-consistent backups
• Support for Failover Cluster backup and restore

VMware

• Application-consistent backups improvement

Resolved Issues

• GUI: Missing 'Restore Backup Plan' item in the Restore Point context menu
• Logging: Host server OS VMMS Admin event logs are not collected

7.3.2 (02-Feb-2022)

Features

• Wasabi: Support for EU West 2 region (Paris, France)

7.3 (07-Dec-2021)

Features

• Immutability support for Wasabi
• Amazon S3/Wasabi: Support for versioning buckets
• Security: Master password security improvement in CLI

Resolved Issues

• Backblaze B2: repository sync issue
• Setup: Microsoft Visual C++ package installation issue
• Restore: Upon item-level restore of MS Exchange 2016 no selected messages are displayed
• Bootable USB: Error upon selecting bare-metal recovery option

7.2.3 (01-Dec-2021)

• Support for new Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval storage class

7.2.2 (18-Nov-2021)

Features

• Support for Windows 11
• Image-based backup: 'Back Up All Fixed Drives' option
• Wasabi: Support for AP Northeast 2 (Osaka, Japan) and EU West 1 (London, England) regions

Resolved Issues

• Junction points and symbolic links are included in backup
• Null reference error upon VSS snapshot creation

7.2.1 (19-Oct-2021)

Features

• CLI: New command to create and schedule consistency check plans

Resolved Issues

• CLI: security update
• General: Incorrect redirects from HTTPS to HTTP
• Backblaze B2: Error on data purging
• Hyper-V: 'The process cannot access the file because another process has locked a portion of the file' error
• Restore to EC2: Invalid restore plan setting if created from ribbon menu
• Restore-Only: Error occurs on listing current prefix in the Restore-Only account

7.2 (21-Sep-2021)

Features

• Immutability (Write-Once-Read-Many) support for AWS storage (BETA)

7.1.2 (08-Jul-2021)

Features

• Data seeding for the new backup format
• Restore: VMware/Disk Image restore from network share improved for the new backup formt
• Automatic deletion of incomplete multipart uploads for Backblaze B2

Resolved Issues

• GUI: Backup Wizard opens slowly in the new backup format
• Image-based Restore: Error on excluding folders
• VMware Restore: Incorrect status displayed after the restore plan is completed
• Restore Verification: error on Restore Verification service starting

7.1 (13-May-2021)

Features

• GFS Retention Policy Support
• Restore Verification: results of restore verification added to the notification email

Resolved Issues

• MS Exchange backup: No databases displayed for MS Exchange 2016
• VMware Backup: VMware backup plan interrupted by a user is displayed as failed
• Restore: VMware restore data size is displayed incorrectly on selecting different virtual machines with manual restore point option selected
• Restore: Some email info cannot be displayed on MS Exchange 2013/2016 item-level restore

7.0.2 (01-Mar-2021)

Features

• Freeware limit for AWS S3 is 5TB
• Image-based backup: incremental backup size reduced with renewed deduplication

Resolved Issues

• File-level backup does not back up on-demand files even if the option Do not back up On-Demand files' is disabled and fast NTFS scan is enabled
• VMware backup in legacy format fails with "Value cannot be null. Parameter name: source"
• Cloud to local backup: Selected backup storage unintentionally changes if a new Storage Account created

7.0.1 (03-Feb-2021)

Features

• Deduplication of renamed or moved files
• Wasabi: Support for US-Central-1 region

Resolved Issues

• VM hybrid backup: Virtual machine backup plan terminates with the 'Length cannot be less than zero' error
• CLI: The 'list' command does not return disks and volumes in the JSON output for the new backup format

7.0 (07-Dec-2020)

Features

• The new backup format for File, Image-based, and VMware backups
• Client-Side Deduplication
• Synthetic Full Backup Support for File, Image-based, VMware backups in the new backup format. Supported storage providers:
  • Amazon S3 (except S3 Glacier and Deep Archive)
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Backblaze B2
  • Wasabi
  • S3-compatible storage (depends on the storage provider)
• Mandatory and Full Consistency Checks
• Restore Verification for Image-based Backups
• Changed Block Tracking for Image-based Backups
• Restore On Restore Points
• Improved GUI
• Continued upload in case of network issues
• Support for any characters (emoji, 0xFFFF, etc) and extra-long filenames
• Filename encryption in the box (one password for generation)
• Real full backup for file-level backups
• Fast synchronization (reduced number of objects in backup storage)
• Plan configuration is always included in a backup
• Backup logs are backed up along with backup data
• Object size is limited to 256TB regardless of the storage provider limitations
• Fast purge (reduced number objects on backup storage, deletion of whole generation database)
• Password Hint

Resolved Issues

• Microsoft Azure: special characters are not supported
• Wasabi: special characters are not supported
• Engine: Connections are not closed, sockets are left intact
• An attempt was made to create more links on a file than the file system supports.
• Backblaze B2: Long filenames are not supported
• Restore-Only mode: VMware full backup is not displayed correctly
• Legacy backup format: VMware VM config is not displayed if backup data is in Glacier
• Repository sync: cannot display characters for xml hexadecimal value 0xFFFF
• VMware backup: forced full backup of a stopped virtual machine is displayed wrong
• Hyper-V backup: full backup size is displayed wrong
• Archive mode: files on backup storage are not displayed in the History tab
• Archive mode: backup time is too long when backup consists of numerous small files
• VM restore: just created device is not displayed (NVME controller 0)
• File and Image-based backup: conflict while two backup plans (file and image-based) are running simultaneously
• Hyper-V backup: force full backup fails after full backup if at least one VM is powered off
• High memory consumption on backup plan consistency check when filename encryption enabled
• Restore from NAS: username or password is incorrect
• Restore NTFS permissions: permissions are not inherited after restoration
• Overflow on a backup of big amounts of files and frequent synchronization/consistency checks
• Image-based backup: Slow execution of block-level backups
• Invalid password request on the deletion of file backed up with filename encryption previously deleted from backup storage on Backup Storage tab

6.3.3 (07-Oct-2020)

Features

• Improved Hyper-V Backup
• Restore to Hyper-V With VM Import
• Support for Hyper-V Backup for Windows 8 and 10
• Synthetic Full Backup Support for MinIO
• Support for vSphere 7.0

6.3.2 (15-Jul-2020)

Features

• Item-Level Restore for Volumes with Windows Deduplication
• Support for vSphere 6.7
• Support for AWS Europe (Milan region)
• Compression is Enabled By Default
• Error Messages Copy Feature