Release Notes for BackupAssist v6

• Imaging
• 12787 Fix bug preventing imaging backups from starting on some non-English operating systems. The bug also prevented the console from opening in some environments.
• 13222 Fix cluster shared volume (CSV) detection preventing CSV volumes from being backed up since 6.4.3 in some environments.
• Mailbox
• 12614 Fix bug causing the backup result to appear as a major warning, and activity monitoring to stall, when the backup actually succeeded on some non-English operating systems.
• Misc
• 13366 Fix bugs on some non-English operating systems caused by incorrect handling of some culture settings.
• RestoreConsole
• 7908 Last modified dates in BackupAssist Restore Console are adjusted to the local time zone.
• SQL Add-on
• 12121 Fix ArgumentOutOfRangeException in SQL Restore when selecting the point in time across multiple time ranges for a database.
• 13334 Improved monitoring of restores and reporting on failure. Also backup each database prior to restoration, and automatically restore to this backup if the restore fails.
• UI
• 12308 Fix NullReferenceException in the reports list when changing the filters
• 12510 Fix edge case bugs in Test Connection feature since 6.4.3.
• 10109 Fix the Size and Last modified columns display in Hyper-V file lists.
• 12599 Fix bug when testing connections for encrypted destinations.
• 12713 Fix typo in support warning prompt dialog

• Reports
  • 12295 Fix empty VSS section in backup report for imaging backup with iSCSI destination.
• Restore Console
  • 12456 Fix zip restore error in SBS2011.
  • 12310 Fix Restore Console crash when restoring imaging backups from iSCSI destination.
  • 12483 New button in the restore console to generate a report of the backed up files.
• VSS
  • 12397 Fix issue where backup jobs stay queued indefinitely in some cases where VSS is encountering errors.

• iSCSI
  • 12105 Remove duplicate entries from Media Check section of the job report.
  • 11748 Fix bug preventing multiple iSCSI restores in the Restore Console.
• NAS
  • 12336 Fix long standing issue causing NAS connections to fail during the backup even though the "Test Connection" action succeeds.
• Reports/Notifcations
  • 11088 Introduce new type of report notification - File Notification, which would save a html report at a user-specified location.
• Rsync
  • 12302 Allow backslash \ characters in rsync usernames.
• UI
  • 12334 Hide items for deleted and deactivated jobs from the "previous jobs" list.

• Destinations
  • 11923 Fix race-condition bug during catalog creation.
• HyperV
  • 11963 Issue a warning in backup report if staging disk has not been set up.
• Mailbox
  • 10780 Fix the corrupt spelling of backed up mailbox folders shown when a backup is in progress (for languages other than English).
• Misc
  • 12094 Fix a bug which prevented changing the schedule in some ZIP to DVD jobs.
  • 12110 Fix an exception in the German language version due to a mistranslation of a warning message (Related to Client Access Server and Exchange 2010).
  • 12130 Fixed rare startup exception affecting console and jobs on some machines.
  • 11222 Prevent installation on pre XP/2003 Operating Systems and display a message advising the user to contact Technical Support in their area.
  • 12092 Fix the bug with wrongly reported 0 size of the Imaging backup under "One week daily" scheme.
• RecoverAssist
  • 12158 Fix a bug preventing RecoverAssist from running on an Italian OS.
• RestoreConsole
  • 12160 Attempt to restore imaging backup even if VSS snapshot cannot be found in backup destination.
• Rsync
  • 12175 Fix case where rsync restore from a Linux host would fail if the destination directory had setgid or setuid permissions set.
• Settings/Logging
  • 12150 Fix bug in loading jobs, which under some circumstances may corrupt the job.
• Zip-to-Tape
  • 12012 Improve handling of a potentially corrupted tape when appending a backup.
  • 12030 Add an error to the restore report if the backup cannot be found when restoring from tape.
  • 11701 Show underlying error in backup report if writing MTF to tape fails.

• Critical bug fix to enable the ability to perform backups on Windows XP and 2003

• NEW! Support added for iSCSI as a dedicated backup destination.
  • Imaging, file replication, and zip backups all supported
  • Up to twice as fast as other backup destinations
• NEW! Recoveries from iSCSI supported with RecoverAssist
• NEW! RecoverAssist - Windows™ recoveries made easy!
  • Recover to dissimilar hardware from differing devices
  • Easy to add hardware drivers whilst building your own recovery media
  • Help repair broken recoveries with useful tools at your fingertips
  • Smartly integrated with BackupAssist
• HyperV
  • 11811 Clean up obsolete files from CSV QuickRestore folder
  • 11845 Fix a minor exception in CSV imaging backup
  • 11715 Introduce a short random wait before starting a backup involving CSV
  • 11669 New file naming scheme for CSV QuickRestore folder
  • 11912 Fix a potential unhandled exception in HyperV backups
• Licencing
  • 11398 Fix a UI glitch during product deactivation
• RestoreConsole
  • 11624 Fix restore console showing volumes that won't be restored
  • 11658 Minor change in restore report to reflect that counter of restored objects also counts restored folders along with restored files
• Service/CPU/Mem
  • 10324 Implement auto-recovery for the BackupAssist Service
  • 11676 Fix bug where the service stops after a few seconds
• SQL Add-on
  • 11901 Fix misleading backup status when an SQL transactional backup fails
• User Interface
  • 11691 Fix controls overlap in New Job Wizard when adding Exchange Servers into job
• Zip
  • 11191 Fix failed zip backup preventing future backups from running
• FileRep
  • 12014 Don't abort the backup if we get a "privilege not held" error for a single file
• Imaging
  • 11966 Oracle VSS backup breaks bare metal recovery
• VSS
  • 11961 Fix VSS errors being written to Windows Application Log, even though backups were completing successfully
• Misc
  • 10747 allow dots in server name when typing network destination

• Restore Console
  • 10125 Fix misleading message about restoring from unprepared or wrong media
• Exchange Server
  • 11508 Improve mailbox restore UI to allow reading of mailboxes with long names
• Zip
  • 10075 Fix slight discrepancy in backup size reported in zip compression and media usage reports
  • 11414 Fix and log certain restore errors due to missing catalogue when loading backup directly from tape
• HyperV
  • 11498 Improve restore of CSV components. Show progress during the restore as well as report number of restored files & their total size
  • 11522 Fix duplicate non-CSV HyperV guests backups in the staging disk and imaging destination
  • 11576 Fix incorrect alternate restore path when restoring embedded Hyper-V CSV backup
  • 11612 Remove old backups from CSV staging disk
  • 11814 CSV: Allow any drive except the system drive and backup destination to be used as a staging disk
  • 11813 Handle and report a potential permission issue when backing up HyperV guests
  • 11828 Fix a potential time out error when manually launching an imaging backup
• Ntbackup
  • 11443 Fix bug affecting TrueCrypt-compatible encryption for NTBackup since 6.2.8.
• Reports/Notifications
  • 11360 Correct problem in foreign language OS's where compression section of reports were being displayed inappropriately

• Mailbox
  • 11485 Fix isolated bug which could cause additional mailboxes to be incorrectly backed up if a second Exchange server's Public Folders (only) are selected.
  • 11502 Warn user again not specifying CAS for backing up Exchange Server 2010 without installed CAS role.
• Misc
  • 11494 Fix bug where the TrueCrypt settings where obscured in foreign language.
• UI
  • 11400 Fix incorrect parsing of numbers on TrueCrypt-compatible destination setup screen.
  • 11462 Provide better UI feedback to the user during search for Exchange Server, which may take a while.
  • 11300 Fix a bug when Bare Metal option may auto-select wrong drives if their drive labels match.
• FileRep
  • 11347 Important! Fix the problem introduced in 6.2.6, which may break mirror file replication backups.
  • 10516 NEW! Add option to set maximum number of hard links to use for single instance store. May help some users who see significant slow-down when they have lots of backups.
• HyperV
  • 11061 NEW! Support HyperV CSV backup in imaging engine via a local staging disk.
• Imaging
  • 11421 Fix unhandled exception in Imaging job when BA attempts to detect dynamic volumes.
  • 10944 Fix for rare failure of Exchange consistency check.
• Mailbox Restore
  • 10550 NEW! Add ability to restore mailboxes via Exchange Client Access Server.
  • 11165 Important! Fix mailboxes with certain European language characters not being detected in Restore Console.
• SBS Integration
  • 10372 Fix problem of occasional failure of Imaging job with embedded email backup on SBS 2011.
• SQL Add-on
  • 10974 Fix scheduled start time bug for SQL near continuous data protection.
• VSS
  • 11305 Avoid error "This document is missing the BACKUP_COMPONENTS element" in the application event viewer when performing a restore of a backup that did not use VSS.
• Zip-to-Tape
  • 10166 Fix change in the tape drive selection cannot be saved.
  • 11473 Important! Fix issues occurring when two or more identical tape drivers are installed.
  • 11415 When copying files from tape, write to the destination folder directly.
  • 11420 Fix backup destination check not checking tape label properly.

• CMC/Web
  • 10843 Attempt to reconnect to the CMC server more frequently upon connection failure: updated to address more failure types
• Installer
  • 11257 Fix uninstall error message shown during uninstall on some older machines
• Misc
  • 11253 Modify folder browser to work with Windows 2000
  • 11248 Fixed bug when changing interval in transactional SQL settings
• TrueCrypt
  • 11251 Fix single instance store for destinations with TrueCrypt-compatible encryption.
• UI
  • 11266 Hide the Hyper-V restore option on systems that don't support it
• Zip
  • 10795 Limit the number of skipped files allowed in a zip backup.
  • 11201 Updated compression library
• Zip and NTBackup
  • 11167 in media usage report, show previous backups in sorted order.
• Zip-to-Tape
  • 11089 Fix zip restore not cancelled properly when the Cancel button is pressed.
  • 9821 Remove a misleading message in TapeRestoreUI.exe

• CMC/Web
  • 10843 Attempt to reconnect to the CMC server more frequently upon connection failure.
• Imaging
  • 11082 Fix rare duplicated items in the backup history section of the imaging backup report.
  • 10953 A new checkbox in the Imaging Engine Options UI to allow for creation of "quick" catalogues.
  • 11019 Fix for very rare failure during imaging restore due to missing VSS snapshot info in the backup catalog.
• Settings/Logging
  • 11143 Prevent job files from growing in size when job is often run manually.
• SQL Add-on
  • 11005 A new parameter for the BA manual launcher to also run the scheduled backup.
• UI
  • 10730 Fix manual activation and browse folders in Server Core
  • 11136 Fix minor text display bug in German version.
  • 11074 Automatically increase the size of Register button in Central Monitoring dialog in localized versions as necessary.
  • 10514 If Windows Imaging component not installed reposition appropriate help link correctly.
  • 11097 Localize "Enable TrueCrypt encryption" checkbox in second step of New Job wizard.
  • 10963 Fix minor bug in UI due to which elapsed time did not stop ticking for completed Imaging jobs.
• Zip
  • 10897 Fix rare handle leak in zip backup.

• Zip
  • 10794 Fix error BA4023 - One or more files cannot be linked to any existing catalogue.
  • 10859 Fix when failure to restore the file to the System Hidden Partition (100MB) may be reported with the wrong error message "Illegal character in path" instead of actual "Access Denied".
• Scheduling
  • 10414 Fix to preserved customized backup labels if schedule is modified.
• Hyper-V
  • 10142 Support backup of clustered shared volumes in the zip, file replication and rsync engines.
• Imaging
  • 10876 Fix rare unhandled exception during VHD mount.
• Localization
  • 10981 Fix string translation issue in media usage reports for some job types.
• UI
  • 10126 Fix incorrect controls positioning when Restore Console Progress Window is re-sized.
  • 10789 Minor UI fix in the dialog showing selections: show horizontal scrollbar if selections are too long.
  • 10905 Fix rare bug causing crash while editing the job selections if BareMetal is selected.
• VSS
  • 10863 Match *.* filespec against files without an extension.

• File Replication
  • Fix to allow system state backups to work with TrueCrypt-compatible encryption.
  • Fix unhandled exception in file replication engine.
• Hyper-V GRC
  • Fix bug preventing mounting of some rare guest drives, caused by unusual .avhd files configured with strange parent paths.
  • Improve handling and selection from multiple guest partitions. Slow-to-detect volumes will automatically be included in the list for selection.
  • Fix common exception caused by clicking on 'locate and mount a VHD' prior to a background task completing.
  • Fix bug causing failure message "unmount failed despite returning success"
  • CopyAssist functionality is now used to allow copying otherwise inaccessible guest files after mounting.
  • Fix bug preventing mounting of some guest drives where the guest has one or more Hyper-V snapshots and the backup is stored on a NAS device.
• Imaging
  • Detect and warn for bare metal backup to a dynamic disk
  • Fix bug which could prevent the Restore Console from locating the correct backup, when run on non US-culture machines.
  • Fix bug on 2008R2 which was sometimes causing exclusions of files and folders to be ignored.
  • Correctly handle machines with critical volumes mounted to directory paths
  • Fix bug in driver causing problems with WMI during the cataloguing step on some machines, resulting in eg. System Center Virtual Machine Manager connections to local Hyper-V servers to be lost.
  • Fixed bug causing Bare Metal backup option to be disabled on machines with dynamic system drives
  • Write the list of image backups on the backup device to the logs both before and after the backup, so that a comparison may be made.
• Installer
  • Prevent v6 users from being able to accidentally downgrade from this version. Downgrading requires uninstall and remove settings, then reinstall.
• Mailbox
  • Allow backing up an Exchange 2010 server via a Client Access Server.
  • Fix to ensure mailbox backup catalogue files don't become oversized.
  • fix unhandled exception "The process cannot access the file '...Exbackup...log' because it is being used by another process"
• Notifications
  • When emailing html reports, if an error occurs when generating the plaintext version, the email will still be sent.
• Restore Console
  • Fix minor issue in encrypted restores from tape, where the progress bar stopped showing progress.
  • Fix restore of embedded mailboxes from zip-to-tape backups.
  • Fix bug with restoring files to the hidden system partition from zip backups.
• Rsync
  • Fix unhandled exception (BA1) when backing up Exchange via VSS.
  • Fix a bug that could, in some cases, cause a backup to "succeed" with no files backed up when "use full path" option was disabled.
• TrueCrypt
  • Add option to copy the TrueCrypt binaries to the destination.
• UI
  • Minor clarification in the SQL Add-on destination screen.
  • Fix browse for location bug when performing manual license activation in Server Core.
  • Add support in the BackupAssist Restore Console and Hyper-V Granular Restore Console for Server Core and Hyper-V Server (core) systems
  • Fix error causing crash when selecting volumes and directories for backup on some computers with BareMetal option ticked.
  • Fix occasional crash when selecting volumes and directories to backup. Observed on some Windows 2008R2 Servers with BareMetal option ticked.
  • Fix a potential console crash when estimating file selection size.
  • Fix grammatical error in UI
  • Fix some broken links in Help file.
• VSS
  • Fix bug preventing display and selection of all MS-SQL instances. Bug may also have affected some other VSS applications.
• Zip
  • Fix bug preventing proper backup of System State on systems with an EFI System Partition.
  • Detect and issue a warning about any corrupted zip backup catalogue.
  • Fix restore zip backup from an alternate source. Zip: Report a condition if during backup a file cannot be linked back to the catalogue for a previous backup.
  • Handle duplicate items in a zip backup's file catalogue.

• 9714: NEW - SBS Reporting Integration is now compatible with SBS 2011.
  

• 9900: Important fix for BA1875 unhandled exception "Value cannot be null" that randomly occurs for some larger mailbox backups.
• 9589: Notify the user when attempting to use Outlook 2003 to back up mailboxes from an Exchange 2010 Server, which is not currently supported.
  

• 9820: Important fix for tape-only bug that could potentially result in corrupted restored files. Errors may or may not be reported, but can include: "broken uncompressed block", "Illegal rep dist code", and "The data is invalid".
• 10006: NEW - Confirm that every file restores correctly using a CRC check.
• 10004: Increase the speed of tape restores by about 5-10%.
• 9819:  Fixed error in Restore Console where errors were incorrectly reported on files that were restored successfully. The restore report has also been enhanced.
• 9613: Fixed an error in the unzipping code that would occasionally drop a portion of the restored file, writing zeros instead of the lost chunk of data.
• 9930: Files with Unicode characters in the filename can now be restored without additional steps.
• 9834: Fixed UI glitch causing the progress bar to stop if an error was encountered during the restore process. Restore Console window is also re-sized correctly now.
  

• 9977: To avoid confusion, volumes that aren't NTFS are now shown in the files, folders and applications selections UI, though these volumes are not available for selection.

• 10035: Fixed major issue preventing the backup console from opening on upgrade or new install of v6.2.3. Workaround is to install Windows Backup.

• 9271: Added support in the Hyper-V Config Reporter for Server Core and Hyper-V Server (core) systems.

• 9685: Enhanced diagnostics to include information about disabled components and disk information.

• 9833: On upgrade from 6.2.1 and older, avoid enabling Bare Metal Recovery when it isn't supported (ie. a critical volume is FAT32 formatted)
• 9832: Make the "System volumes (Bare Metal Recovery)" option unavailable on systems that don't support it (ie. a critical volume is FAT32 formatted)
• 9831: To avoid confusion, volumes that aren't NTFS are now shown in the selections UI, though they are not available for selection.
  

• 8933: Fixed bug which may lead to log files continually growing in size, hence affecting performance, and potentially causing the BackupAssist Service to fail.

• 9823: Due to the rare use of ASR for NTBackup jobs, don't use that as the default System Recovery level.
• 9429: Added missing help links into NTBackup options screen.
  

• 9830: Minor tweak in JobWizard - skip "Recovery Type" tab if it has only one option available, automatically activating the next tab instead.
  
• 9829: Fixed bug in the New Job Wizard, which could incorrectly display options belonging to different backup method.
• 9804: Minor fix in the File Replication monitoring screen - ensure that the path in the "Processing:" box is left aligned
• 9770: If the System State recovery option is ticked but no other volumes or files are selected, don't show false warning.
  

• 9897: Temporarily include TapeRestore.exe in the BA install directory while the TapeRestoreUI.exe is being fixed
• 9588: Fixed bug causing Zip backups to remote hard drive to fail.

• 9319: fix bug causing transactional backups to run at incorrect times from midnight onwards for some setups

• Important fix - 9229: Fixed potential process crash or BSOD during the cataloguing step of imaging jobs on some systems. Also fixes the same issue seen when starting the Hyper-V Granular Restore Console on affected systems.
• 9519: New integrated System recovery UI for selecting between ASR (ntbackup only), System State recovery (file replication, zip and 2008 R2 imaging), Bare Metal recovery (imaging only) or data only backups.
  

• 9668: Fixed incorrectly diagnosed "inactivity timeout" issue seen when backing up some large mailboxes for the 2nd or further time in a period.

• 9560: Fix for missing mailbox report section when configured in Rsync jobs.

• 7868: Fix issues with setting/displaying time on systems without AM/PM in the time format (e.g. where 24 hours is preferred time format).

• 9489: The %STATUS% variable now produces the correct status in post-scripts for ntbackup jobs where one or more files have been skipped.

• 9463: Fix bug causing problems when reinstalling the same version of BackupAssist if the install directory is changed on a reinstall, eg. from "C:\program files (x86)\BackupAssist V6" to "d:\my programs\BackupAssist V6"

• 9091: Allow the Block size to be overridden for zip-to-tape jobs if needed in advanced cases.
  

• 9420: Fix warning message "No full or copy backups are configured" that is incorrectly shown when the job is configured properly.

• 9521: Fixed bug in the Hyper-V Granular Restore Console preventing the use of the Microsoft Hyper-V API for mounting vhds on some Hyper-V systems.

• Important fix - 9268: ensure a reboot is requested if the vhd driver is upgraded during the install, fixes several catalogue-related errors (NOTE: not a fix for the BA2 crash during cataloguing)
• 9301: Fix rare problems during product upgrade that potentially require a license reactivation and service restart.
• 9438: EULA is updated including licenses for utilities distributed along side of BackupAssist.
  

• 9322: Fix a UI glitch which caused an incomplete view of imaging backup schedule time.

• Important fix - 9228: fix timeout issues causing incorrect BA1898 errors in mailbox backups.
• Important fix - 9418: fix BA1893 crash when using the latest Exchange MAPI versions (including 6.5.8190, 6.5.8211)
• 9313: Fix possible invalid character in catalogue file name.

• 8650: Fix compressed backup size not being reported correctly in NTBackup tape backup reports.

• 8887: Fix an intraday imaging backup restore error.
• 9248: Fix bug where mailbox restore fails if Restore Console is launched by the Backup User Identity
• 8914: Fix bug where specifically de-selected mailboxes are still selected for restore.
• 9290: Fix rare problem with CannotLogonUserException during mailbox restore
• 9070: Fix so the "From Backup Location" field updates after changing the backup location.
  

• 9294: Fix a bug causing Zip-To-Tape backup to hang on certain tape drives.

• 8916: Fix bug with detection of incompatible TrueCrypt installations.

• 9191: Fix glitches in tape append control.
  

• 9252: Fix error "Unable to find an entry point named 'GetVolumePathNamesForVolumeName'".

• Important fix - 8860: Fixed driver causing rare system crashes, including blue-screens, job execution and VM Granular Restore Console process crashes.

• New - 7198: Allow multiple zip backups to be appended to the same tape
• 8659: Enhance the schedule customization user interface to check whether at least one full backup has been scheduled.
• 8423: Fixed hung tape backup on certain tape drives.

• New - 7564: "Daily backup weekly rotating" schemes for File Replication, Zip and Imaging jobs to external hard disk/RDX/REV/Optical media/Tape. Full backups daily to the same medium, which are rotated weekly.
• New - 8027: Monthly/quarterly/yearly archive schemes.
• 8064: Add basic support for multiple backups a day for other engines using new variables in the backup path: %HOUR24%, %HOURTT%, %TIME24% and %TIMETT% (for example, for a job running at 3:24PM these variables convert to 15, 3PM, 1524 and 0324PM respectively).
• 8399: Raise the limit on the number of weekly backups in Daily-N-weekly scheme to 53.

• New - 8069: Allow multiple external hard disks to be connected at the same time and allow media preparation of these hard drives.

• New - 8112: button to launch a new Copy From Tape utility when tape restore fails using the Restore Console.
• 7887: Fixed bug where Restore Console does not show the correct restored file size if the file is not in the original source location.
• 8688: Fixed bug that would reset the alternate backup location back to the original backup location when entering an alternate restore location.
• 8592: Fix failed image backup restore from changed/renamed backup location.
• 8584: Improve restore speed from Zip backups stored on tape.
  

• 8237: Fixed a null reference exception during the catalogue creation phase following the creation of an image backup.

• 9114: Fixed unhandled exception that could occur if a VSS component file specification starts with \\?\GlobalRoot\

• 8653: Non-critical warnings are no longer displayed in the backup report if a mailbox backup is successful.
• 7079: Downgrade "Table is too large" from error to warning, since an overflow PST is automatically created in this case.
• 8695: Fixed BA4321 error in a large mailbox backup that runs for an extended period of time.
• 8706: Fixed BA4401 error during a large mailbox backup.
• 8728: Fixed bug in 6.1.2 that caused reporting results to be lost for some mailboxes.
• 8697: Fixed normal grouping period mailbox backup being skipped when the all-time grouping period is enabled.
• 8141: Fixed PSTs not being updated properly with old items if the all-time grouping period is enabled.
• 8721: Show a condition in the backup report if exbackup is killed due to inactivity or exit timeout.
• 8651: The "Export other items" step will no longer show up in the activity monitor if it is not required.
• 9058: Fixed bug related to the restoration of public folders when using the Restore Console.
  

• 8076: Can now test the Backup User Identity at any time (even if the fields aren't changed).
• 8683: Fixed bug causing "Perform manual export" jobs to fail after an upgrade from v5 to v6.
• 8623: Fixed bug causing File Replications jobs to fail when using the "Daily backup weekly rotating full" scheme.
• 8577: Fix rare NullReferenceException during license Activation/Deactivation.
• 8677: Fix rare NullReferenceException following an Exchange backup.
• 8671: Fixed rare NullReferenceException at BackupAssist.UI.ContentPanels.Job.Overview. JobNameAndSummaryControl.SetJob
  

• 8350: Add a tick symbol to the destination control to show when SSH tunnelling has been configured.
• 8844: Add extra logging for Single Instance Store.
• 7824: Allow restore from local directory.
• 8348: Check for valid IPv4 address when configuring an Rsync server.
  

• 8065: Allow monitoring fields to resize properly so that the currently processing file can be seen (File Replication and Rsync).
• 8685: Fixed an incorrect icon appearing in the legend of Optical disc backup schemes for Zip jobs.
  

• 7204: Jobs no longer fail if the secondary location isn't available. A warrning will appear in the backup report instead.

• Important: 8627 Fix unlikely bug causing a BSOD or hard reboot in certain mounting scenarios on a Hyper-V host
• 8593 fixed bug causing mounting failure error "failed to mount valid VHD Unable to fix the VHD chain for this specified volume, parent not found", occurring for guests with vhd filenames with a capitalised .VHD extension
• 8500 Fixed potential unhandled NullReferenceException when unmounting an image backup in the Hyper-V Granular Restore Console
• 8491 Fixed potential unhandled XmlException when loading the Hyper-V Granular Restore Console

• Important: 8308 For application backup of SQL Server databases, Exchange databases and Hyper-V VHD files, don't use the last modified date and size to determine whether the files have changed since the last backup. Affects File Replication, Rsync and incremental Zip backups.
• 8351 Ensure the VSS Applications section of the report is only shown if any are backed up

• Important: 7948 On 2008 R2, ensure that the bare-metal restore option is available even if VSS applications are backed up, by allowing wbadmin to run the faster full volume backup when entire volumes are selected
• Important: 8462 on 2008R2 ensure that all Exchange storage groups on selected volumes are backed up. Llogs will not be truncated on storage groups that are not backed up.
• 8461 allow individual components of VSS applications to be selected on Vista and 2008.
• 8237 Fix a null reference exception during the catalogue creation phase following an image backup
• 8222 Fix BA2529 error when running image backups on certain Windows 2008 servers with Service Pack 2
• 8522 fix bug with "Select required volumes" button in VSS applications selection.

• Important: 8519 Fix detection of 32-bit Outlook (64-bit Outlook is not supported).
• Important: 8596 Fix detection of Outlook on machines using regional settings where the '.' character is not treated as a decimal point
• Important: 8141 Fix PSTs not being updated properly with old items if all-time folders backup is enabled.
• Important: 8440 Highlight failing mailboxes in the report and ensure warning messages are shown even if there are no error messages
• 8551 Improved handling of "-1 exit code" issues previously resulting in BA4399
• 8557 ensure the "root" exbackup.log from the install directory is included in diagnostics

• Important: 8297 fix memory leak in status monitor.
  
• Important: 8369 fix performance slow-down in v6 compared to v5
• 8566 add option to disable incremental recursion. Can help prevent certain kinds of errors.
• 8549 add option to disable preservation of hard links. Can help prevent certain kinds of errors.
• 7823 allow specification of an alternate backup location in the Restore Console.
• 8336 fix bug preventing backup of .nt_streams folders.
• 8464 fix unhandled exception if the rsync log file is locked when a job starts executing.
• 8367 make rsync.exe terminal services aware so it can run when data execution prevention (DEP) is enabled.

• 8547 updated the sections for setting mailbox rights for Exchange 2007/2010 and for the advanced Rsync options screen

• 7411 Hyphens are now allowed in email addresses, eg. mary-jane@company.com

• 8341 Fix made for continuous message logged by the service since 6.1.0, potentially contributing to a vss issue for imaging jobs

• 8235 Fix bug where the media usage report for File Replication jobs using TrueCrypt-compatible encryption was not showing the space saving from the Single Instance Store.

• 8101 Fix bug accounting for about a large proportion of reported exceptions, triggered by repetitive click on "Folders and Files" item in the edit job UI. Seen starting from BA v5.
• 8263 Fix Events screen to correctly show the most recent items at the top, and to show 500 items by default

• 8248 remove all temporary files left behind by file catalogue creation.
  

• Fixed missing and incorrect system state backup selection UI for File Rep, Zip, Ntbackup and Imaging jobs (case 8123)
• Fixed missing mailbox restore date selection UI in the BackupAssist Restore Console (case 8123)
• Fixed the installation of the Hyper-V Config Reporter shortcut and binaries (case 8306)

• New: SBS08 console backup integration with BackupAssist (case 6248)
• Rsync:
  • Altered wording for the credentials section of the S3Rsync destination (case 6925)
  • Allow encrypted rsync backups to be restored from the backup copy of the catalogue (case 7814)
  • Fix unhandled exception when "test connection" button is clicked during a backup (case 7752)
• Mailbox: Reduce size of history files for mailbox jobs (case 7835)
• TrueCrypt: Media usage report was not being generated for File Replications jobs using TrueCrypt-compatible encryption (case 7816)
• VSS: fix bug which was preventing VSS working for file replication, zip and rsync engines in Windows XP Home (case 7934)
• Restore: fix permanently disabled Restore button when restoring mailboxes in the BackupAssist Restore Console (case 8130)

Known Issue in 6.1.0:

• Some users have reported a BA2529 error during Imaging backups on 6.0.3, caused by a different underlying issue that we haven’t fixed in 6.1.0. All users that have reported this so far have been using Server 2008 SP2. We’re working on a fix for this now and will release it ASAP.

• Fix BA2524 and BA2523 "volume not found" errors for imaging jobs on 2008 R2 (case 7960)
• Make sure the drive letter used to catalogue image backups isn't already used by a mapped network drive (case 8084)
• Fix missing root path in zip catalogues causing the tree view to be shown incorrectly in the restore console (case 8084)

• Hyper-V GRC:
  • Important: Various bugs when running on Server 2008, including error “The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable”
  • Ask user before overwriting existing vhd/avhd files during export (case 7741)
  • Handle IO problems during export to avoid unhandled exceptions (case 7741)
• WinImage:
  • Important: fix “No backed up volume detected” bug preventing file catalogue generation on foreign language OS’s (case 7885)
  • Important: fix incorrectly diagnosed BA2529 error caused by “The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable” error when mounting on some Server 2008 systems (case 7919)
  • Add a minor warning if a selected VSS component contains a file that doesn’t exist (case 7759)
  • Remove any duplicates from the wbadmin command line to avoid syntax errors (case 7759)
  • Fix to ensure file catalogue can be created when backing up to NAS destinations (case 7769)
  • Raise a backup condition if an unsupported partition type can’t be catalogued (case 7670)
  • Handle case where catalogue can’t be created when the latest version can’t be determined (case 7826)
• Rsync:
  • Seeding of encrypted rsync backups is failing (case 7749).
  • Bug in encrypted rsync restores when the selected path has spaces (case 7739)
  • Cleanup running rsync processes if a restore has been cancelled (case 7707)
  • Hide some redundant warnings
  • Prevent extra directory level from being created when restoring to a new directory (case 7744)
  • Fix bug that was preventing restore of rsync backups when the user has used "browse for backups" to load the catalogue (only fixed for non-encrypted backups)  (case 7807)
• Mailbox backups:
  • “Dummy session” issues causing backup to hang or result in -1073741819 exit code
  • Avoid showing blank/unknown entries in the monitor and in backup reports (case 7345)
  • Improve Outlook 2010 detection on 64bit machines (case 7877)
  • Enhanced: Error messages now indicate the folder where problems occur, eg.
    • [Folder ‘Spam’] Message failed to backup

• Backup:
  • Emailed HTML reports aren’t embedding images for some ntbackup jobs
  • Report a major warning if a selected VSS writer has no components (case 7673)
  • Avoid generating the file catalogue if the backup fails or is cancelled (case 7684)
  • Cleanup destinations if a job fails or is cancelled (eg. unmount TrueCrypt volume, disconnect from FTP site) (case 7681)
  • Improve detection of installed TrueCrypt (to ensure no conflicts) (case 7546)
  • Fix so that ntbackup, file replication, zip and rsync jobs don’t run mailbox jobs when an exchange server has been added even though no mailboxes are selected for backup (case 7852)
  • Ntbackup: fix bug preventing parsing of logs on Russian versions of Server 2003 (case 7487)
  • Prevent NullReferenceException when saving the catalogue for an embedded mailbox backup (case 7711)
• Restore:
  • Important: Sharepoint restores enabled(case 7762)
  • Delete temporary files after restore (case 7649)
  • Restore file attributes in zip restores (case 7677)
• Misc:
  • Licensing: bug causing keys to be accidentally repeated across separate actions
  • Backup user Identity: bug on some foreign OS’s preventing the BUI from being changed even when the service is running as the default Local System account (case 7912)

• New: Server 2008 R2 ready, Exchange 2010 ready and SQL 2008 R2 ready.
• New: VSS application backup
  • Back up Microsoft applications, such as Exchange Server, SQL Server and Hyper-V
  • Back up any VSS-aware application that uses standard VSS backup methods.
• New: System State backup
  • Individual System State backup on Windows XP, 2003, Vista, 7, 2008 and 2008 R2 using File Replication, Zip or Windows Imaging (Server 2008 R2).
• New: Restore Console improvements
  • File and VSS application restore from any File Replication, Rsync, Zip or Windows Image backup
  • System State restore from any File Replication or Zip backup
  • Exchange mailbox and public folder restore.
• New: Internet backup improvements
  • Fully ‘Cloud’ ready: back up to any Rsync cloud provider you choose, including Amazon S3 Rsync, RSync.net, or your own Rsync Server.
  • Military-grade AES 256-bit encryption and file name obfuscation for backups stored on any Rsync server
  • Exact file backups including NTFS security and attributes.
• New: Hyper-V backup and restore capabilities
  • Use the new Hyper-V Config Reporter tool to create a HTML report of your Hyper-V Host setup and Guest VM settings
  • Export a Guest VM drive volume to a .vhd file so you can easily rebuild a virtual machine
  • BackupAssist VM Granular Restore Console now works with NAS backups.
• New: TrueCrypt-compatible encryption
  • File Replication and Ntbackup jobs can now take advantage of our TrueCrypt compatible encryption container, providing industrial strength encryption for these job types
  • Supports most backup destinations (excluding tape drive), and provides full backup and seamless restore using the BackupAssist Restore Console
• New: Integrated mailbox backups
  • Add Exchange mailbox and public folder backups to any BackupAssist job.
• New: Import and export BackupAssist settings
  • Save your BackupAssist job and global settings to a file that can be imported on any machine running BackupAssist v6.
• New: Zip Engine additions
  • Schedule full, differential, incremental, and copy backups using the BackupAssist Zip Engine.
• New:SQL 2008 and SQL 2008 R2 support in our SQL Addon, both 32bit and 64bit versions supported