v8.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 26 August 2018

New Features

Site Recovery

NAKIVO Backup & Replication v8.0 can help orchestrate and automate disaster recovery activities with the Site Recovery feature allowing users to create comprehensive site recovery jobs. A site recovery job is a set of customizable data protection and recovery actions that can be tested on schedule or launched manually at any time. Site Recovery allows users to be well prepared for any type of disaster.

Improvements

  • Removing all events is allowed

Fixed Issues

  • Flash VM boot job checking free space for the target datastore

  • An "apt-get update" command executed before installing EC2 transporter

  • Full recovery point copied as incremental leaving no fulls at the target

  • Auto-creating network mapping was fixed for replication jobs

  • Several documentation issues fixed

Known Issues

  • After the update you can see incorrect maintenance end date due to missing information in the old license. Please contact support@nakivo.com to obtain an updated license

  • You may be unable to update from v7.2 and older because of missing information in the old license. Please contact support@nakivo.com to obtain an updated license

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

  • File recovery may skip empty folders from NTFS file system in certain configurations

  • With backup copy jobs, the value of the job speed on dashboard can vary from the value provided via bandwidth throttling settings

  • Incorrect error is displayed when attempting to run Re-IP on Ubuntu 14.04 while there is no IP address

  • If DNS Server field is empty in the Re-IP rule, this may lead to creation of an empty DNS record in the target VM

  • 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, 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 the following platforms:

    • ASUSTOR NAS

    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x

  • 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

  • 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

  • Windows transporter AMI cannot be launched into Amazon EC2 instances with enhanced networking

  • VSS quiescing is not available for Microsoft Windows 7 on some platforms

  • Restarting a file-recovered VM with dynamic disks mounted to Transporter may fail the dynamic disks to be recognized

  • Issues with Integration Services for Ubuntu 12.04 Server (x64), and SLES 11 SP3/SP4 (x64) prevent connecting to source VMs running on Hyper-V

  • VMs that were recovered from encrypted source VMs with NVRAM settings modified may fail to boot

  • Bandwidth throttling is not applicable for backing up Instances to local Amazon EC2 Regions with a single Transporter

  • Authentication error occurs for jobs with Microsoft Exchange 2010 logs truncation enabled in case user credentials miss domain name

  • Failback EC2 Instances action with Original Location option selected turns off the source Instance instead of terminating it