Release Notes For GigaVaultStorage 2.4

New Features In GigaVaultStorage 2.4

1. Bandwidth Throttling – Limiting the maximum bandwidth a GigaVaultStorage client can use.

2. Advanced Retention – Retention based on age of the version files and retention of deleted files both based on the version count as well as age of the deleted files.

3. Exchange Server 2007 Mailbox backup – Backing up Exchange mailbox in 64 bit Exchange server.

4. Windows 2008 System State Backup – Support for backing up System State in Windows 2008 machines.

Enhancements in GigaVaultStorage 2.4

1. Resume Restore from where it left off – Resume restore from where it left off after an interruption.

2. Email notifications for missed backup.

3. Restore performance improvements.

4. Option to edit local dump location for the plugin based backups (MS SQL Server/ Exchange Server/ Exchange Mailbox).

5. Consolidated list of all backup locations with the used space has been added in the Server Settings page in the backup server web console.

6. Added new email filter option to not send Emails when there is no files to replicate.

7. Option to allow unlimited number of attempts when a backup fails due to space, license etc for non-plugin based backups.

8. Option to configure time interval to reschedule a backup every 5/10/15/20/25/30 minutes, whenever an attempted backup is incomplete because of a network error, server crash etc.

Minor changes and bug fixes in GigaVaultStorage 2.4

1. Keep all previous installation settings during upgrade installation.

2. Enhanced Advanced port configuration in a Windows installation setup to display separate dialog window.

3. The local dump location can now be configured while creating system state backup schedule in the client webconsole.

4. Moved MySQL Server database(s) backup configuration to separate screen "Backup -> Create MySQL Database Backup".

5. Fixed the issue in taking incremental backup of Exchange Mailbox user subfolders.

6. Removed backup space validation when editing client settings in replication server.

7. Filter delete of folder should also delete the references to the folder from the DB so that the emtpy folder doesn't get listed in restore tree.

8. Option to select the months of the year when you configure the full backup of plugin backups(MS SQL Server/Exchange Server/Exchange Mailbox).

9. Option to select days of the week when you configure the additional full backup for file and folders backup.

10. Upgraded Apache to v2.0.63 in the Windows Installation setup. This has fixed 'GigaVaultStorage webserver start issue in non English OS' issue.

11. Upgraded PHP to 5.2.6 in the Windows, Linux and FreeBSD installation setup.

12. Skipped file count displayed in the server side backup progress window.

13. Fixed in the issue in sending the false Email report while successfully deleting the backup data using 'Backup Data only' option.

14. Fixed the issue in displaying the backed up files with double quotes in the 'List of backed up files' in the client side backup report.

15. Fixed the issue in navigating the files/folders with double quotes in the restore tree.

16. Enabled auto refresh of 'List Backups for Restore' page.

17. Fixed the logic issue in displaying the pie chart of used/available space on the Server Dashboard page.

18. Fixed the issue in editing the File/Folders Filter settings, if the number of filters configured for backup is large.

19. Fixed the issue in backing up Exchange Mailbox user folder/subfolder name with special characters like double quote("), forward slash(/), backward slash(\), question(?), colon(:), asterisk(*), lesser than(<), greater than(>), pipe(|) and empty space( ) at the end of the folder name.

20. Supporting Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database backup.

21. GigaVaultStorage can now run with backup operator privilege to avoid access denied issue while reading files for backup.

22. In Windows, default filters have been added to remove System Volume Information, Windows, RECYCLER folders and pagefile.sys file for the full drive backup schedules.

New Features In Giga Vault Storage 2.3.5

1. Single page all backup status report: Status report of all backup schedules will now be available in a single page in the backup server web console. The report indicates backups that have completed successfully, failed, partially completed and missed. The report can be customized through user defined filters and can be scheduled to be sent in an Email on a daily or weekly basis.

2. Backup Window: Giga Vault Storage client can now be configured not to backup during certain hours of the day.

3. Consolidated Customer Report: A consolidated report of all backup schedules of all clients under a customer along with disk space usage details can now be automatically generated on a daily, weekly or monthly basis and sent to the customer’s Email ID.

4. Windows Mail backup.

Enhancements in Giga Vault Storage 2.3.5

1. The number of versions to be kept for a file can now be set to zero when Intelli-Delta backup option is disabled. The backup server will then just store the latest version of the full file. When the file changes, Giga Vault Storage will backup the entire file and replace the existing file with this latest version.

2. Added a filter option to include or exclude files/folders by providing the complete name or by giving the complete path in Advanced file/folder backup filters.

3. Email notifications can now be sent to different Email addresses based on the status. For example, backup notification Emails can be configured to be sent to one Email address when the backups fails and to another when the backup completes successfully..

4. Specific calendar months can be selected while configuring additional monthly full backups.

5. Included details of skipped folders in the backup reports in the client as well as in the backup server.

6. Restoring folders/files by specifying the complete path instead of selecting from file/folder tree listing.

7. Incremental backup is now supported for MySQL backup in Linux. In earlier Giga Vault Storage versions, it was supported only in Windows.

8. New options added in Silent Installation for:

   1. Whether given Windows login credentials (for running Giga Vault Storage as a service) should be verified or not
   2. Enabling/disabling SSL port
   3. Specifying the SSL backup port

Minor changes and bug fixes in Giga Vault Storage 2.3.5

1. Updated the restore progress window to show the number of files listed for restore when Giga Vault Storage is initiating the restore process.

2. Fixed the issue where editing a backup with files/folders containing special characters (like &, ‘, “ etc) failed.

3. Fixed the issue where the backup report would show status as partially completed but 100% backed up when a few files were skipped in a large backup set.

4. Software update will now be enabled by default. In 2.3, it was disabled by default and have to enabled manually after installation.

5. Fixed client side software update reports.

6. Giga Vault Storage sometimes exiting or hanging when mailbox is corrupted are fixed.

7. Cleaning up the dump location when Giga Vault Storage is aborted during mailbox backup.

8. Limiting the number of attempts to reschedule the backup when mailbox backup fails.

9. Fixed the backup progress window to correctly update the status during mailbox backup.

10. Fixed the issues with installing Giga Vault Storage builds in 64 bit Ubuntu machines.

11. Removed the MSPEUs shortage alert from the server dashboard in the replication server since MSPEUs are not relevant to replication server.

12. Enabled auto refresh of ‘List of Backup Schedules’ page.

13. Fixed the issue where ‘Keep Alive’ packets were not sent over SSL connection.

14. Enabled auto refresh in server dash board page.

15. Fixed automatic reconnection failure issue when the client is sending keep-alive messages to the backup server.

16. Fixed the issue where the data location path goes in a loop when configuring backup of ‘Document settings’ in Windows Vista.

17. Giga Vault Storage will now automatically recover the backup configuration (.sbc) file in the backup server if the file is corrupted.

18. Listing files and folders in ascending order in Restore Page.

Issues fixed in Giga Vault Storage v2.3 SP1 (Build No. - 2302008040515)

1. Backup server license gets disabled when Giga Vault Storage gets bound under multiple IP addresses when the backup server has multiple NIC cards.

2. Giga Vault Storage skipping open files even when Volume Shadow Copy is enabled.

3. Giga Vault Storage skips Outlook .pst files even when VSS is enabled.

4. Giga Vault Storage stoping while backing up NTFS permissions of folders/files for which Giga Vault Storage doesn't have read permission.

5. Giga Vault Storage skipping files with long file names.

New Features In Giga Vault Storage 2.3

1. Mailbox/Folder Level Exchange Backup and Restore in 32 bit environment.

   PLEASE NOTE: Giga Vault Storage can backup only up to Group level in 2007 Exchange Server (64 bit) machines. Giga Vault Storage doesn't support backing up Mailboxes in 2007 Exchange Sever (64 bit). Click here for more details

2. All Databases Backup of MS SQL Server.

3. Automatic Giga Vault Storage update from backup server.

4. SSL connectivity between client, backup server and replication server.

5. NTFS File Permissions Backup.

6. Advanced filters for selecting files/folders to backup.

7. Same Machine Backup: Backing up to local/external drives in Client Only installation. This feature is only for Local to Remote Server Migration purposes. You cannot restore from Same Machine Backup data.

8. Testing SMTP server settings and connectivity.

9. Testing backup server connectivity from client.

10. Moving backup data when changing the client backup location in the backup server.

11. Skipped file(s) report in backup server.

Enhancements in Giga Vault Storage 2.3

1. Significant backup performance enhancement especially for large number of small files.

2. Reestablishing client connection automatically after network interruption.

3. Optimized Event Sharing protocol.

4. Upgraded the SQLite version to 3.5.4 to reduce chances of database corruption.

5. Web console user interface enhancements.

6. In-built Mapped Network Drive Support for client backups.

7. Aborting backup and restore processes from client and backup server.

8. Versioning of backup data with Intelli-Delta disabled.

9. Limiting the number of client rescheduling attempts to connect to backup server in case of backup failure.

10. Multiple simultaneous restores at the client.

11. Limiting the number of client attempts to delete backup data in backup server.

12. Propagating backup delete operations from backup server to replication server.

13. Cleaning up idle sessions in the backup server.

14. Precompiled installation binaries for Linux and Mac.

15. Resuming replication from where it left off, even within a file.

16. Rebuilding sgbackup.db file from backup data.

Click here for a list of Known Issues In GigaVaultStorage 2.4

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