BackSync Backup 4.2.5 is now available for download and installation (www.backsync.net/downloads). With this release we added XenServer and Hyper-V cluster backup support. The full release notes can be found HERE.
We will begin pushing this update to clients computers if the client computer is on at least release 4.2.1. To see what version your client computers are running, logon to the web console and select Reports – Client Information Report. If they have not updated automatically in the next few days you can manually install the update. No reboot is required and it only takes a few seconds to install.
Other News
- NEW Product – Mimic Backup with deduplication will be available right after the first of the year. This is a new piece of software that has many of the same features of BackSync Backup. You will see another email on this shortly. The pricing structure is quite a bit less than BackSync Backup and starts at $0.24 per compressed and deduplicated GB for workstations, verified education, government and not for profit (501c3) organizations. Server backup for regular business customers starts at $0.49 p/GB.
- NEW Lower Pricing – Along with the new year and the release of Mimic Backup comes lower pricing for BackSync Backup and BackSync Archive. Another email will coming shortly with the details.
- BackSync Backup Version 4.3 will be release in the next few weeks (release notes). This update includes an apacheless client and Pervasive SQL backups for Windows along with several other enhancements.
What's new in BackSync v4.2.5
- XenServer Backup: BackSync supports backup of Virtual Machines available under XenServer using XenServer Plugin. BackSync provides agent-less backup of virtual machines. BackSync can be installed in any machine to backup the Virtual Machines. BackSync's XenServer plugin uses Xen API to backup the selected Guest OSes and then upload the snapshots to the backup server directly without storing the data locally.
- Streaming for Exchange 2007 backups: BackSync now supports streaming of Exchange server 2007 database backups (without dumping locally). Backup will be faster as data is not written locally before sending to the backup server.
- Hyper-V Cluster support: BackSync can now backup Hyper-V virtual machines from Clustered Hyper-V servers.
- SMTP Server configuration at Reseller and Customer levels: Resellers and Customers can configure their own SMTP Servers in the backup server for BackSync to send the email reports.
- Daily space usage report for reseller/customer/client: You can view the daily disk usage of Resellers, Customers or Clients for a specified period.
Enhancements in BackSync v4.2.5
- Sending backup space exceeded Email alerts to Resellers & Customers. In earlier versions only the server admin would get this report.
- Client level Email reports from the Backup Server.
- Sending Email notification to server admin on client registration in addition to sending Email notification to client.
- To display the list of backup jobs that runs more than 1 hour, 6 hour, etc in server dashboard.
- Changing some reports to AJAX load & pop-up rather than page redirection.
- Improving the web console search UI for easy navigation in the Backup Server side.
- Display the Reseller/Customer/Client list in alphabetic order rather than the saved order.
Bug Fixes in BackSync v4.2.5
- Client Signup Issue – registration with same client name & Customer Passkey Restricted and the user is prompted that the client was registered already.
- VMware listing issue in VCenter 5.1.
- 500:Internal Error while VMware backup streaming.
- Issue fixed in week end Bandwidth Throttling.
- Issue fixed while applying multiple filters using advanced filter mode.
- Issue fixed while restoring advance disk image backup in VHD format.
- Multi volume across disk restore issue fix (both server and client).
- New option provided in server settings to report ‘No new modified files’ in server backup report.
- For easy navigation add backup server and test connectivity options added in client side Seed Backup Migration page.
- Fixed the issue showing File system details wrongly for XFS and LVM partitions and the issue where the total number of partitions count was wrongly updated.
- Some rare scenario, continuous backup schedule will not schedule until we manually scheduled the backup issue is fixed.
- Some rare scenario, issue while applying new patch in client and server is fixed.
- The files are getting skipped due to Unicode character in file path if it is Read_only Access is fixed.
- Issue fixed on error “SG0083: 'Unable to send backup details to Backup server. An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine' while Backup server gets empty buffer, resolved by closing socket and establishing reconnection in the client.
- Scalability crash/high cpu issues fixed.
- Issue where backup gets completed with "No new modified files" while backing up files/folders from mounted drives in XFS (Drive mounted with the option rw,noatime,inode64) issue is fixed.
Limitations in BackSync v4.2.5
- For XenServer backup the backup progress window shows only the OS drive.
- In a Failover Hyper-V cluster environment, BackSync client will backup only those VMs that are present in that cluster server in which it is installed and will not backup VMs from the other nodes of the cluster. BackSync needs to be installed in all the Hyper-V cluster servers.