Zmanda 4.2 Release Notes
- Immutable Backups with AWS and Wasabi Storage: Protect your data against Ransomware Attacks through a seamless integration with immutable storage capabilities of AWS and Wasabi.
- Global Exclusion Policies for Linux Backups: Create global policies to exclude specific files or folders using full paths or regular expressions across all Linux systems backups.
- Docker Container for Zmanda: Skip the installation process and setup Zmanda in few steps in container format.
- New Client OS Versions released: Updated Zmanda agents for RHEL 9, Rocky Linux 9, Debian 11, and Windows 11 operating systems.
- Bulk Actions for Zmanda setup utility: New utility to simplify tasks for the setup of Sources, Backupsets, Schedules, Storages and Backup Servers in bulk in a single operation.
- Security Enhancements: Upgraded components for Zmanda to harden the product against security vulnerabilities.
- Backup & Restore:
- Guide for Timeout values based on the number of files/directories for a given backupset to avoid timeouts resulting in backup failures.
- Port Ranges in Backup How and global configuration updated to avoid using system reserved ports.
- Cloud - GCP - Backup and Restores stabilized to support backups up to 5TB per Source/DLE.
- Cloud - AWS and S3 - Backup and Restores stabilized to support backups up to 5TB per Source/DLE.
- Cloud - Azure - Backup and Restores stabilized to support backups up to 5TB per Source/DLE.
- Cloud Backup session management fixed for AWS and Azure to keep the restore operations running in the event of an interruption of connectivity.
- Backupsets:
- Clone Backupset fix for scenarios where ‘Clone Backupset Storage’ option is not selected.
- Log:
- Optimized log rotation policy.
- Sources:
- Two or more sources cannot be created with the same configuration details.
- VMWare discovery fix to correctly pass the username and password to complete the addition of the sources.
- Exclusion Paths fix for Windows and Linux filesystems using both full path and relative path.
- Tape:
- Tape module enhancement to avoid locks for tapes in corner cases.
- Storage:
- Hyphen characters (consecutive) now supported in storage paths.
- Windows Restore:
- Restores fail when trying to recover to “C:/Users” path.
- Cloud Storage Restore:
- Backups for DLEs larger than 5TB fail to be restored.
- Upgrade/Migration - AWS and Wasabi Backup:
- Backupsets using AWS or Wasabi as storage created on versions prior to Zmanda 4.2 can’t be reconfigured or backedup.
- NDMP Source Creation:
- Source creation is failing when the password is pasted in the pop-up
- SUSE Client:
- The installation of 4.1.0.4 SUSE Client binaries failing on SUSE 12.
- Solaris Client:
- Backups are failing when they are encrypted at Client in Solaris 11.
- Ubuntu 22.04 Client:
- Backups created using Custom compression fail to be restored.
- Backup Port (10080) is not starting upon installation of Ubuntu 22.04 client agent binaries.
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