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Zmanda Release Notes 4.1.3
Introduction
What is 4.1.3?
- Zmanda 4.1.3 is the latest release available with new features and enhancements.
- Customers currently on 3.6 or 4.1.2.8 can be directly upgraded to 4.1.3 by following instructions.
For upgrade instructions, please refer to Upgrade - Zmanda Documentation
New Features and Enhancements:
· LDAP Integration (new feature):
o Zmanda can now use your corporate user directories and their MFA capabilites to log into Zmanda and simplify user management.
· API Documentation (new feature):
o Zmanda API documentation now available in OpenAPI v2 format at api.zmanda.com
· UI Notifications (enhancement):
o UI Notifications overhaul to allow up to 3 notifications to be shown at once and cross page/module.
· Explore and Select (enhancement):
o Explore and Select re-architectured to now support browsing and restoring files on sources with millions of files.
· Zmanda Logs (enhancement):
o Change the level of verbosity for logs with a simple configuration update.
· VMWare File Level Restore (enhancement):
o Validation and UI message added for Guestmount Utility in AE server to inform users of corrective actions required to enable VMWare File Level Restore.
· Compression Utilities (enhancement):
o Validation and UI message added informing user when the selected compression utility is not detected to be running on Client side.
· Client Binaries - Ubuntu 22.04:
o Ubuntu 22.04 compatible client agent released.
Fixed Issues:
· Backup:
o Media Parallel Writes: Solved issue related to Media Parallel Writes, now allowing a faster time to backup when using M2 SSD as destination Storage.
o Window Clients: Solved issue preventing incremental backups to be completed as expected.
· License:
o License consumption optimization.
· Installation:
o Solved installation issue where ZMC and Backup Server services hang in Activating status upon machine shutdown/restart.
· Monitor:
o Solved issue where monitor displaying incorrect progression/completion on specific scenarios.
· Log:
o Solved issue preventing log collection for environments upgraded from 3.6 to latest vesrions.
· Tape:
o Solved issue preventing a tape removed from backupset from being renamed.
Known Issues:
· Restore:
o Windows restores are failing when tried to recover to "C:/Users" path
§ Workaround: Users can restore data to path other "C:/Users"
· Backup:
o Exclude function is not working for Windows NTFS/ReFS backups
§ Workaround: Full backup are triggered
· SUSE Client:
o The installation of 4.1.0.4 the latest SUSE Client binaries failing on SUSE 12
§ Workaround: Install 4.0.1.19 SUSE client binaries
· Solaries Client:
o Backups are failing when they are encrypted at Client Solaries 11
§ Workaround: Install 3.6 Solaries client binaries
· Ubuntu 22.04 Client:
o Bacups created using Custom compression fail to be restored
§ Workaround: Perform backups using Client Fast/ Client Best / Server Fast / Server Best
Zmanda Release Notes 4.1.2
4.1.2 (internally referred as 4.1.2.8)
Introduction
What is 4.1.2?
- Zmanda 4.1.2 is the latest Zmanda release with enhancements and defect fixesas described in these release notes.
- Release 4.1.2 can be installed directly on any new system.
- Customers currently on 3.6, 4.1(4.1.0.18) or 4.1.1 (4.1.0.106) can be upgraded to 4.1.2 by following the upgrade instructions.
For upgrade instructions, please refer to Upgrade - Zmanda Documentation.
New Features
· License:
o Introduced new enterprise grade licensing for large deployments to support unlimited clients.
o License enhancements to validate clients.
· Restore:
o Optimized the data restore process to reduce the Time to Recover.
· Installation:
o Virtual Backup Appliance (OVA format)isavailable for Zmanda 4.1.1 releasefor simpler & faster deployments.
o Released new Windows Client (4.1.2)
Fixed Issues
· Backup:
o Fixed UI defects related to Backup Media page.
o Fixed issue in ‘Backup What’ page, ‘Exclude Paths’ section, to support paths with spaces in the names.
· Restore:
o Fixed restore issue related to Windows System State backups.
· Source:
o Fixed ESXi issue where the application couldn’t accept ‘root’ as username for Hypervisor sources.
o Fixed issue related to VMWare Discovery (checkhost) failures.
· Tape:
o Fixed issue related to expired media of tape storage.
o Disabled auto-labeling functionality as it could cause non-expired tape backups to be re-written.
· Cloud:
o Fixed issue for Wasabi cloud backups for large system workloads.
· License:
o Fixed issue related to creating DLEs with ‘localhost’ hostname.
· Installation:
o Fixed installation issue related to services crashing due to IPV6 dependencies.
Known Issues
· Restore:
o Performance issues observed for Explore & Select with large numbers of files or directories.
§ Workaround: Please contact technical support
o Issues observed when restoring data to 'C:/Users' directory in Windows Systems.
§ Workaround: Please choose a different directory when restoring data in Windows Systems.
· Backup:
o Exclude paths functionality is not working for Windows File System backups. The backup runs successfully but not excluding the defined paths.
§ Workaround: Please contact technical support
o Incremental backups for Windows systems are triggering full backups instead.
§ Workaround: Please contact technical support
· SUSE Client:
o The installation of the latest SUSE client is failing on SUSE 12.
§ Workaround: Install 4.0.1.19 SUSE client binaries
· Solaris Client:
o Backups are failing when they are encrypted at Client in Solaris 11
§ Workaround: Install 3.6 Solaris client binaries