Zmanda 5.0 Release Notes
Introduction
Zmanda 5.0 is the latest release with new features and enhancements that upgrades the Zmanda backup and recovery experience.
With this release, we’re adding Client Side Data Deduplication, Zmanda Managed Cloud, and AWS Glacier storage classes compatibility and SSO support.
If you are an existing Zmanda customer, please refer to our upgrade instructions page.
New Features and Enhancements
Zmanda Cloud Storage: An integrated, simplified, and affordable cloud storage solution powered by Zmanda helps you reduce up to 80% cloud storage costs when compared to S3.
AWS Glacier Integration Enhancement: transition your data across Glacier Instant Retrieval, Flexible Retrieval, and Deep Archive based on lifecycle rules defined in Zmanda for more efficient cost management based on your needs.
SSO Integration: enable SSO login to manage Zmanda Management Console access using your Identity provider of choice like AzureAD, Okta, Auth0, and more.
Global Exclusion Policies for Windows Backups: Create global policies to exclude specific files or folders using full paths or regular expressions across all Windows systems backups.
KeyVault implementation for Secrets: security hardening for Zmanda, storing secrets in a Key Vault.
Cloud-Based Trial Environments: accelerate your trial experience through a ready-to-go cloud-hosted environment to jump straight into the action.
New Client Agents: now compatible with Fedora 36 and 37, Rocky Linux 7 and 8 versions.
Virtual Backup Appliance and AMI: use a virtual backup appliance for Zmanda Backup Server to simplify and speed up the deployment of your backup solution while also improving backup performance.
Launch of Zmanda Partner Portal: accessible on partner.zmanda.com now.
Known Issues
Windows Restore:
Restores fail when trying to recover to the “C:/Users” path.
Cloud Storage Restore:
Backups for DLEs larger than 5TB fail to be restored.
Upgrade/Migration - AWS and Wasabi Backup:
Backup sets using AWS or Wasabi as storage created on versions prior to Zmanda 4.2 can’t be reconfigured or backed up.
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 is 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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