BackupAssist 9.5 maintenance releases

BackupAssist 9.5.5

June 1, 2017

General

  • 27592 Fixed a security vulnerability that affected customers running BackupAssist versions 9.4.3 to 9.5.4

BitLocker

  • 27411 Enabled BitLocker encryption for Windows Desktop 7, 8 and 10, and re-enabled support for Windows Server 2008R2.(GMC_BA-1508)
  • 27474 Fixed the media usage section for some BitLocker job types.

RecoverAssist

  • 28037 Extended the time out period to allow Bootable Backup media to successfully create on some machines.

Reports / Notifications

  • 27937 Updated backup error BA6 "The Backup did not start as scheduled" to show as a Major Warning.

Restore Console

  • 27737 The progress bar will now update correctly bar when restoring files from a Hyper-V guest.

Server 2016

  • 27501 Improved the Core Server detection process to include post 2012 Core Server products and fixed application crashes under Server 2016 Core.

User Interface

  • 27732 Changed the sort order of restore points to descending order by date.

BackupAssist 9.5.4

March 22, 2017

Hyper-V GRC

  • 27447 Fixed a problem introduced in 9.5.3 that was producing backups that did not show up in the ”Files inside Hyper-V Guests” or “Exchange Granular Restore” restore options, even though the data was backed up correctly. (GMC_BA-1520, GMC_BA-1260)

Reports / Notifications

  • 27359 Fixed a problem that, in some circumstances, prevented backup reports from being sent via email. (GMC_BA-1510, GMC_BA-1511, GMC_BA-1256, GMC_BA-1514, GMC_BA-1515)
  • 27290 Fixed a problem that caused backup reports to incorrectly show a backup as failed in the BackupAssist console report. (GMC_BA-1253, GMC_BA-1512, GMC_BA-1258)

BackupAssist 9.5.3

February 22, 2017

Exchange Granular Restore Add-on

  • 24280 More targeted Exchange Service detection in Hyper-V Guests via user-specified Directory Servers.

Exchange Mailbox Add-on

  • 27186 Added a warning for the impending deprecation of Exchange Mailbox Protection feature in BackupAssist v10, with a listing of the affected jobs.

File Protection (rsync)

  • 27038 Fixed an issue where the Rsync restore process failed if there was a round bracket - '(' - character in any selected directories or file names. (CLOS GMC_BA-1223)

RecoverAssist

  • 27136 Some recent updates for Windows 7 (KB3212646), Windows 10 (KB3205383), 2012 (KB3205409), 2012 R2 (KB3205401) and 2016 have resulted in RecoverAssist media failing to boot. This release includes a new version of RecoverAssist that allows RecoverAssist media to boot successfully after these Windows updates. Also fixed the Error 0xc0000034 that could occur when trying to start 32-bit applications on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016
  • 27168 Fixed an issue where some external hard drives, including Seagate drives, identified themselves as SCSI rather than USBSTOR, and were therefore not identified as a possible RecoverAssist destination. (GMC_BA-1502)

User Interface

  • 21805 Addressed an error pop-up that some users were experiencing when exiting the BackupAssist console.

BackupAssist 9.5.2

January 19, 2017

Hyper-V GRC

  • 27005 Resolved issue preventing the Legacy Hyper-V Granular Restore tool from running properly.
  • 27035 Fixed an issue introduced in 9.5.1 and 9.5.1r1 where HyperV guests were not displayed correctly in the Integrated Restore Console, preventing granular Hyper-V restores (GMC_BA-1239, GMC_BA-1240, GMC_BA-1241, GMC_BA-1242, GMC_BA-1244, GMC_BA-1245)

RecoverAssist

  • 27019 Fixed missing additional tools step in RecoverAssist Builder

User Interface

  • 26650 Fixed the main Help button

BackupAssist 9.5.1 R1

December 28, 2016

File Protection / File Archiving

26976 Fixed an issue that caused mapped network drives to not appear in the Selection’s step when creating a new File Protection or File Archiving backup job.

BackupAssist 9.5.1

December 20, 2016

MultiSite Manager

  • 26228 Resolved an issue that could cause a service start up crash.

RecoverAssist

  • 26588 Fixed an issue that could result in a recovery environment not loading from USB media for some EFI based Windows 10 machines.
  • 26158 Fixed a problem that could cause Bootable Backup Media on ReFS file system destinations to have trouble loading the operating system.
  • 26633 Fixed an issue with the RecoverAssist builder that could cause some Bootable Backup jobs to fail when downloading the VNC tool.
  • 25053 When using a recovery media to recover Windows 10, the Windows 10 loading screen is shown during boot up instead of a black screen. (GMC_BA-1425)

Reports / Notifications

  • 25900 A reference link has been added to the Single Instance Storage Statistics section of backup reports, titled "What is Single-Instance Storage (SIS)?".
  • 26126 More information is now provided when reporting on backup schedule errors.
  • 26020 Improved the reporting of Hyper-V guest sizes in the backup report. (GMC_BA-1200, GMC_BA-1459)
  • 26021 Applied a fix to improve the rendering of German language characters. (GMC_BA-1211)

Restore Console

  • 26500 Fixed incorrect (extra) drive listings that could appear when making a backup folder selection.

BackupAssist UI

  • 25964 Support email addresses now support more than 3 characters for top-level domains.
  • 25432 When you select a backup scheme, there is now an indication of the space required by backups in the scheme.
  • 26304 Renamed the "Feedback and Support..." option under the Help menu to "Contact Support..."

BackupAssist 9.5.0 R1

November 9, 2016

Fixed a bug that could cause MultiSite Manager's remote session connections to BackupAssist installations to fail. This fix requires updates to both MultiSite Manager and the BackupAssist Site Controller.

BackupAssist 9.5.0

October 27, 2016

Backup Verification

  • 26163 Fixed an error in the Backup Verification of Hyper-V guests in the Job Report. (GMC_BA-1474, GMC_BA-1483)

Reports / Notifications

  • 26020 Improved the reporting of Hyper-V guest sizes in the backup report. (GMC_BA-1200, GMC_BA-1459)

General

  • 25661 Fixed an error condition that could cause the service to lock up on some machines. This could prevent scheduled backups and the BackupAssist console from starting. (GMC_BA-1457)