Zmanda (Amanda Enterprise) Release Notes

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