What's New

8.1 (22-Apr-2025)

Features

• System Requirements: Windows Server 2025 is now supported
• Compression: Backup data now uses Zstandard compression, reducing backup size by 5-10%. The transition to this method will occur during the first full backup.

Deprecated Features

• MS Exchange Restore: Item-level restore in no longer available.

Improvements

• Bare-Metal Restore:
  • Enhanced the Restore Wizard to ensure a successful restore when the repository lacks sufficient space for all required operations.
  • Improved logging for better diagnostics.
  • Added the ability to change the repository location during the restore process.
  • Implemented date and time validation to prevent restore issues caused by incorrect system settings.
• On-Demand File backup: Performance and efficiency enhancements
• Restore deleted files: Improved logic for handling files that are already deleted

Resolved Issues

• Backup plans were not appearing correctly on the Backup Plans tab.
• Fixed an issue with restoring legacy backup restore points based on point on time selection
• Restore Verification: Screenshots were taken at thi wrong moment during the boot process

8.0.4 (30-Jan-2025)

Improvements

• Forever Forward Incremental: Backup data processing improved.

Resolved Issues

• Minor bug fixes

8.0.3 (14-Jan-2025)

Improvements

• System Requirements Update: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.2 installation is now required for better functionality and security. Update to .NET Framework 4.7.2 will be performed automatically during the Backup Agent for Windows upgrade to version 8.0.3. This change may have the following implications:
  • Installation Requirements: Ensure that Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.2 is installed on the server or computer.
  • System Restart: In certain environments, a system restart may be required to complete the installation of the .NET Framework.
  • Update Dependencies: If the .NET Framework cannot be installed:
    • Automatic updates will fail.
    • The server or computer will remain not updated.

Resolved Issues

• Minor bug fixes

8.0.2.41 (05-Dec-2024)

Resolved Issues

• Azure V1: Minor bug fixes

8.0.2 (28-Nov-2024)

Resolved Issues

• Minor bug fixes

Known Issues

• Microsoft Defender SmartScreen may temporarily display the "Windows protected your PC" warning during the installation of our application. This is because we are using a new code signing certificate. For more details on this, refer to the KB article

8.0.1 (21-Nov-2024)

Features

• Backup plan management: Backup plans can now be edited while they are running, with changes saved seamlessly without needing to interrupt the backup process.

Improvements

• Synthetic full backup: Enhanced for faster processing, aiming to reduce backup times and improve efficiency.
• Enhanced logging

Resolved Issues

• Incorrect data about copied files in detailed reports for synthetic full backups
• Minor bug fixes

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