Zmanda 5.1.5 release notes

Overview:

We are pleased to announce the release of Zmanda 5.1.5, featuring enhancements and bug fixes to further improve your backup experience.

For a smooth and effective installation, please refer to our update instructions and installation guide.

Updates:

• Tape Backup Enhancements: Enhanced tape backup performance with modified backup configurations.

• Enhanced Data Restoration: Optimized processes for restoring large-scale data from NAS and local environments, enhancing efficiency and reliability in data recovery.

Known Issues:

• Windows File System incremental backups failing post disaster recovery (DR): Incremental backup fails after a DR restore for Windows sources. Workaround: The workaround for this issue can be found here.

• Initial backup after Linux client upgrade: The first backup following a Linux client upgrade to version 5.1.5 behaves like a full backup, even if it's an incremental backup. Workaround: Follow our Knowledge Base steps for seamless incremental backups. Read more here.

• Windows Client-Server Migration: The first incremental backup post an upgrade from version 3.x or 4.x fails for Windows workloads. Workaround: Ensure that the first backup taken post-server upgrade to 5.1.5 is a full backup. Incremental backups after the full backup will run successfully.

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