Zmanda 4.1 Release Notes

Release notes for Zmanda versions 4.1.X

Backups created using Custom compression fail to be restored

Workaround: Perform backups using Client Fast/ Client Best / Server Fast / Server Best

4.1.2

• 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.

For upgrade instructions, please refer to Upgrade - Zmanda Documentation.

New Features and Enhancements

• 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)

Fixed Issues

• 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.

Known Issues

• 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