Release Date: 2017-03-28
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.
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.
Recovery job on Hyper-V does not allow creating VMs with identical names.