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.
Fixed Issues
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.
Known Issues
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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