Incremental Forever schedules for NAS CIFS and NFS assets
You can now run incremental backups of your NAS CIFS and NFS assets to greatly reduce backup times and provide additional recovery points.
Windows agent
This release includes updated Windows core and bare metal agents. The 10.4.9 core agent is recommended for all Windows assets and is required for Windows fixes in this release.
IMPORTANT!
Windows image-level backups – After upgrading to the 10.4.9 agent, the next backup is automatically promoted to a full.
Fixes
The table below lists fixes included in this release. Unless stated otherwise, you can apply each fix by simply upgrading your appliance.
Component
Fix
Backups
VMware backups – Resolved an issue where new or migrated VMs were not being added to the backup schedule due to an XML size limitation.
Windows image-level backups – Resolved an issue where an incremental could be promoted to a full in cases where a full was not needed. This fix requires the 10.4.9 Windows agent.
Windows image-level backups – Resolved an issue that caused backups to fail with this error: Process cannot be continued due to size and overlapping errors. This fix requires the 10.4.9 Windows agent.
Recovery
The following fixes require the 10.4.9 Windows agent. After upgrading to the 10.4.9 agent, the next Windows image-level incremental is automatically promoted to a full.
Unified bare metal recovery of a Windows image-level backup – Resolved an issue where recovery failed with this error: DiskMetaData: Failed to find at least one critical volume.
Unified bare metal recovery of a Windows image-level backup – Resolved an issue where recovery failed if the disk size was not a megabyte multiple.
Unified bare metal recovery of a Windows image-level backup – Resolved an issue that caused the recovered asset to boot into repair mode.
Windows agent installer
Putty components have been removed from the installer. This resolves an issue where these components were sometimes being flagged by Windows Defender. This fix requires the 10.4.9 Windows agent.