v7.3 Release Notes

Release Date: 11 December 2017

New Features

Deduplication Appliances Support

NAKIVO Backup & Replication provides support for enterprise-grade deduplication appliances such as EMC Data Domain, HP StoreOnce, NEC Hydrastor, Quantum DXi, and other similar appliances, which can be used as a backup target. NAKIVO Backup & Replication provides a special backup repository type with the special architecture optimized for working with deduplication devices. Thus, before backing up VM data to a deduplication appliance, you can choose to use this repository type, and your data will be backed up to the storage server at a great performance level.

Native Package for Western Digital NAS

The native package for supported Western Digital NAS servers is now available and enables deploying NAKIVO Backup & Replication directly on the NAS. Support for the following new WD MyCloud NAS models has been added:

  • My Cloud PR2100
  • My Cloud PR4100

Support for new Synology NAS Servers

The new version provides support for the Synology NAS models featuring Appollolake and Broadwellnk CPU architecture.

Improvements

  • VMware VDDK v6.5.2 has been included

  • Windows Dynamic disks are now supported for file recovery and SQL object recovery. 

  • SQL object level recovery is now available for Microsoft SQL Server 2008

  • SQL object level recovery is now available for x86 SQL instances

  • Interaction with Hyper-V is done via SMBv2 instead of less secure SMBv1

  • It is possible to set number of backups and folder path used for product database backups

  • New API methods are introduced

  • Job Dashboard speed has been improved

  • VM recovery job allows not to connect recovered VM to a network 

Fixed Issues

  • Multiple SQL object level recovery and log truncation issues were fixed.

  • It was impossible to remove Hyper-V host from Inventory in some configurations

Known Issues

  • 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

  • File Recovery from Windows dynamic disks is not supported for ASUSTOR NAS

  • If Transporter is installed on Windows 2008R2 or later, it is recommended to set SAN Policy to OfflineShared or OfflineAll

  • Deployment of source Transporter and source VM from the same Windows VM template may cause backup corruption in HotAdd mode

  • Hyper-V on Windows Nano Server cannot be added to NAKIVO Backup & Replication Inventory

  • It is possible to downgrade Western Digital NAS package to an older version, which leads to lost configuration

  • VM boot order in Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 can be incorrect due to API limitations

  • SQL Server object recovery does not work with databases that have memory-optimized data filegroup containers

  • SQL Server object recovery cannot recover system-versioned table if table with such name already exists in the SQL Server

  • Application log truncation is not available on VMware ESXi 4.1