Zmanda 4.1 Release Notes
Release notes for Zmanda versions 4.1.X
- 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 the instructions.
- LDAP Integration (new feature):
Zmanda can now use your corporate user directories and their MFA capabilities to log into Zmanda and simplify user management.
- API Documentation (new feature):
- UI Notifications (enhancement):
UI Notifications overhaul to allow up to 3 notifications to be shown at once and cross-page/module.
- Explore and Select (enhancement):
Explore and Select re-architectured to now support browsing and restoring files on sources with millions of files.
- Zmanda Logs (enhancement):
Change the level of verbosity for logs with a simple configuration update.
- VMWare File Level Restore (enhancement):
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):
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:
Ubuntu 22.04 compatible client agent released.
- Backup:
Media Parallel Writes: Solved issue related to Media Parallel Writes, now allowing a faster time to backup when using M2 SSD as destination Storage.
Window Clients: Solved issue preventing incremental backups to be completed as expected.
- License:
License consumption optimization.
- Installation:
Solved installation issue where ZMC and Backup Server services hang in Activating status upon machine shutdown/restart.
- Monitor:
Solved issue where monitor displaying incorrect progression/completion on specific scenarios.
- Log:
Solved issue preventing log collection for environments upgraded from 3.6 to latest vesrions.
- Tape:
Solved issue preventing a tape removed from backupset from being renamed.
- Restore:
Windows restores are failing when trying to recover to the "C:/Users" path
Workaround: Users can restore data to a path other "C:/Users"
- Backup:
Exclude function is not working for Windows NTFS/ReFS backups
Workaround: Full backups are triggered
- SUSE Client:
The installation of 4.1.0.4 the latest SUSE Client binaries failed on SUSE 12
Workaround: Install 4.0.1.19 SUSE client binaries
- Solaris Client:
Backups are failing when they are encrypted at Client Solaris 11
Workaround: Install 3.6 Solaries client binaries
- Ubuntu 22.04 Client:
Backups created using Custom compression fail to be restored
Workaround: Perform backups using Client Fast/ Client Best / Server Fast / Server Best
- Zmanda 4.1.2 is the latest Zmanda release with enhancements and defect fixes as 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.
- License:
Introduced new enterprise-grade licensing for large deployments to support unlimited clients.
License enhancements to validate clients.
- Restore:
Optimized the data restore process to reduce the Time to Recover.
- Installation:
Virtual Backup Appliance (OVA format) is available for Zmanda 4.1.1 release for simpler & faster deployments.
Released new Windows Client (4.1.2)
- Backup:
Fixed UI defects related to Backup Media page.
Fixed issue in ‘Backup What’ page, ‘Exclude Paths’ section, to support paths with spaces in the names.
- Restore:
Fixed restore issue related to Windows System State backups.
- Source:
Fixed ESXi issue where the application couldn’t accept ‘root’ as username for Hypervisor sources.
Fixed issue related to VMWare Discovery (checkhost) failures.
- Tape:
Fixed issue related to expired media of tape storage.
Disabled auto-labeling functionality as it could cause non-expired tape backups to be re-written**.**
- Cloud:
Fixed issue for Wasabi cloud backups for large system workloads.
- License:
Fixed issue related to creating DLEs with ‘localhost’ hostname.
- Installation:
Fixed installation issue related to services crashing due to IPV6 dependencies.
- Restore:
Performance issues observed for Explore & Select with large numbers of files or directories.
Workaround: Please contact technical support
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:
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
Incremental backups for Windows systems are triggering full backups instead.
Workaround: Please contact technical support
- SUSE Client:
The installation of the latest SUSE client is failing on SUSE 12.
Workaround: Install 4.0.1.19 SUSE client binaries
- Solaris Client:
Backups are failing when they are encrypted at Client in Solaris 11
Workaround: Install 3.6 Solaris client binaries
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