v7.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 23 August 2017

New Features in v7.0

  • Support for Hyper-V 2016, 2012 (R2) backup and replication

  • vSphere v6.5 support

  • Active Directory integration

  • Activities tab

  • Skip swap files and partitions

  • Bulk delete backups

  • The ability to exclude individual items in a selected container

  • Windows 2016 support

  • Ubuntu 16.04 support

Improvements in v7.0

  • Improved web interface

  • Exchange log truncation provides more information on errors

  • Added new time zones

  • Added new EC2 regions

  • Added progress bar and warning for space reclaim

Fixed Issues in v7.0

  • Repository maintenance is resumed if there was a connection loss between Director and Transporter

  • Repository refresh could freeze in case one of ESXi hosts in inventory is inaccessible

  • Labels in multi-tenant mode don't work if applied to more than one tenant

  • Search for Active Directory objects may work improperly on some configurations

  • Object recovery for Exchange 2016 may work improperly on some configurations

Known Issues in v7.0

  • CBT Driver for Hyper-V 2012 (R2) is not available (this feature will be available in one of the next releases)

  • Flash VM Boot and Screenshot Verification for Hyper-V are not available (this feature will be available in one of the next releases)

  • Encrypted repositories are not supported with RHEL/SLES (required packages are missing)

  • NFS datastores cannot be used as target datastores for flash VM boot or screenshot verification

  • Replica/recovered VM disks are always created as Lazy zeroed if source VM had both Lazy and Eager zeroed disks

  • Exchange OLR: Emails that were forwarded to recipient as attachments cannot be recovered from the mailbox

  • Linux transporter should be used for replicating/backing up VMs with SATA disks

  • Exchange Public Folders are not supported for granular recovery

  • Default backup repository of the Virtual Appliance cannot be extended beyond 16 TB

  • Application-aware processing for AWS EC2 may freeze when using domain credentials

  • Replica AMIs and recovered EC2 instances have "Platform" attribute set to "Other Linux" due to AWS API limitations

  • Active Directory printers are skipped during recovered items import

  • First Class Disk (FCD) cannot be backed up if it is not attached to any VM

  • VSS quiescing is not supported for encrypted VMs

  • HotAdd is not supported if the VA with Nakivo Backup & Replication has the same BIOS UUID as the VM to be backed up or replicated

  • Swap file skipping is not supported for the Dynamic Disks

  • If the same Hyper-V VM is processed by multiple jobs simultaneously and those jobs are started at the same time, some of the jobs may fail to create VM checkpoint.

  • Recovery job on Hyper-V does not allow creating VMs with identical names.

  • Backup and replication of Hyper-V VMs with shared drives are not supported.

  • Linux swap in files currently is not skipped. Only Linux swap partitions are supported.

  • Older versions of ESXi (4.1, 5.0, 5.1) require an installation of the special Transporter.

  • File recovery fails if the HDD's Virtual Device Node is SATA and Transporter proceeding the job is installed on Windows.