Release Notes
PresSTORE Release Notes
Version 4.3.5 released. Changes since last release
- Corrected CLI Archiv job submission bug introduced by the previous patch.
- Corrected storage of encrypted files in B2Go to always save the encryption header.
- Corrected race-condition in archive indexer when two or more different jobs to different clients
produced index entries for the first job that created the indexer thread.
Version 4.3.4 released. Changes since last release
- Simplified B2Go statistic generation.
- Corrected occasional problems where log mails could not be sent by terminating jobs.
Version 4.3.2 released. Changes since last release
- Fixed statistics display for B2Go.
- Fixed filtering of directory structures for CLI jobs.
- Fixed long path name problem in B2Go repository on Windows.
- Prevented collision between snapshots purge routine and workstation backups in B2Go.
- Fixed proxy initialization which in some cases resulted in some necessary libraries not properly
loaded.
Version 4.3.1 released. Changes since last release
- Fixed handling of Bonjour-configured servers during B2Go restores.
- Added support for pre-calculated previews and metadata for archives.
- Fixed deletion of non-Xinet compatible folders located under Xinet volumes.
- Corrected virtual library open/label on Mac.
- Corrected rare crashes on Linux when attempting to locate optional fileserver products.
- Changed incremental backup lookup index creation to fix problem where we were saving too
much files during alternating backups. - Added internal timed cache for username/password checks to cope with bogus Linux PAM implementations that slow down when running more than 100 requests
over the same PAM object. - Fixed “read over upper boundary” error and connection loss problem involving Windows.
- Fixed occasional job termination when attempting to replacing tapes in the drive(s) once they
are full and no further tapes are available. Problem often presented when cloning was turned on, although it was not associated with cloning.
Version 4.3 released.
Read PresSTORE 4.3 feature list.
Version 4.2.4 released. Changes since last release
- Added expert option for B2Go to allow manipulating the index-rebuild frequency.
- Work around LSI Linux driver problem with LTO-5 drives during labeling.
- Work around the LTO-5 problem, where it does not report EOM when full, so no exchange of tapes takes place.
- Corrected single/removable drive script calling after eject, the drive would not un-mount since the disk file was still in use.
- Corrected Windows B2Go client (“can´t create ´/´ directory” message)
- Corrected lockup (“waiting on writabe buffers” message).
- Improved parsing of Netatalk volumes file.
- Fixed handling of modification time for Xinet resource forks.
- Set Netatalk default character encoding to UTF8-precomposed.
- Corrected overshadowing in the index due to a double slash in the path for windows when the root path (for example /C or ALL) is used.
- Fixed index restore that failed to uncopress index chunks restored from the media.
- Fixed internal filter expressions related to reserved directories.
Version 4.2.3 released. Changes since last release
- Renamed a shared library that would prevent server startup on Mac 10.7 (Lion) release.
- Corrected stop-time handling for jobs repeating several times per day.
- Fixed startup problems on some Macs where Bonjour library fails to initialize.
- Resolves deadlock caused by the index backup job when there is a limit of clients per stream.
Version 4.2.2 released. Changes since last release
- Increased timeout on ZFS snapshot manipulation commands to cope with slow(er) configurations.
- Fixed incremental backup that was re-saving files when only file metadata (not content) was changed.
- Ignore and log files with bogus filepaths during snapshot merge in B2Go.
- Improved handling of B2GO snapshots when snapshots are being modified and/or deleted from the outside.
- Fixed GUI for installing new tape libraries.
- Fixed Windows SCSI driver to handle iSCSI connections.
- Worked around firmware bug for labeling new tapes for IBM LTO-5 drives.
- Workarround symlink problems when merging B2Go snapshots.
- Client auto-update is now allowed/set per default.
- Fixed server-side adjusting of CPU throttle for B2Go.
- Fixed file-picker for B2Go “Restore To ...”.
- Added provisions for using RDX and other removable drives.
Version 4.2.1 released. Changes since last release
- Fixed search in archive index when new date-pickers are not exposed in the GUI.
- Fixed toggle of the post-script execution flag after the archive plan ends with error.
- Fixed deletion of files in B2Go when same files are being created and deleted accross snapshots.
- Fixed usage of paths with embedded blanks as B2Go repository.
- Fixed sending email notifications on some platforms.
- B2Go snapshot usage is now calculated on snapshot creation and cached on per-workstation basis.
- Fixed broken Job monitor display when there are B2Go jobs running.
- Fixed file-picker for B2Go “Restore To ...”.
Version 4.2 released.
Read PresSTORE 4.2 feature list.
Version 4.1.6 released. Changes since last release
- Back-ported de-selection of the unique index path in archive, as partially supported option for rare expert users.
- Fixed bug where we were unable to suppress preview generation during archive, even if there was no user-preview generator defined nor any sizes for pixel count (still images) or clip-length (movies) were specified.
- Fixed migration of some older archive volumes.
- Volume import can now be configured to sequentially scan the tape instead of using pre-calculated index found on the tape.
- Force re-setting of target file mtime during Sync on Mac OSX 10.6 as the OS wildly re-sets modification time of restored files which were already copied, closed and their inode data set correctly.
Version 4.1.5 released. Changes since last release
- Implicitly enable or disable progressive backup depending on existence of the full backup schedule.
- Explicitly adjust Win socket buffer size to 64K+1 to get maximum speed when operating cross-platform.
- Fixed file-descriptor leak in Sync when linking new cycles.
- Improved Backup2Go purge routine to prune partially referenced snapshots.
- Corrected calculation of lists of volumes to keep for files that were deleted in the meantime.
Version 4.1.4 released. Changes since last release
- Fixed large memory leak on Windows
- Fixed deletion of old sync cycles on Xinet volumes
- Volume recycle date is now not being extended for files found to be deleted during the increment backup.
- Sync cycles generated with links now properly setup protection and owner of directories.
- Fixed handling of filesystem events in conjunction with synchronize jobs configured for multiple sources.
- Archive index purge now omits cleaning empty directories which are saved on existent media volumes.
- Improved B2Go snapshot purge routine.
- Tape labeling now handles situation where very first block on the tape is a filemark.
- Fixed reading of blocks with different sizes from one media volume.
- Linux machid now omits some special network interfaces containing bogus hardware addresses.
- Fixed race-condition between two or more jobs working in parallel on one archive index.
- Fixed archive from remote clients when user-defined preview generator is defined.
Version 4.1.3 released. Changes since last release
- Fixed changing Host ID on multihomed linux hosts.
- Fixed handling of full and increment backups done on different media pools.
- Fixed “file truncated” errors while reading encrypted files from remote clients.
- Fixed Solaris scatter-gather network write to limit the number of buffers sent in one write operation.
- Improved job scheduler to cope with machines going into sleep mode.
- Fixed client/server communication making the server properly send EOD packets at the end of data transfer.
- Improved archive and backup index cleanup by heavily caching index layout in memory.
- Improved network bandwidth throttle calculation to better handle very slow networks.
- Fixed snapshot purge to skip deleting referenced directories.
- Improved snapshot generation on non-ZFS filesystems to be more tolerant on stale symlinks.
- Fixed read-mounting of ZFS snapshots.
- Fixed linux crash on large SCSI-bus scans.
- Extended the waiting time for libraries with elevators (like Tandberg T160).
- Fixed Service Functions for Windows Service Manager.
- Fixed volume migration.
- Forbid starting the sofware on Unix systems without the “en_US.UTF-8” locale installed.
Version 4.1.2 released. Changes since last release
- Fixed snapshot creation if some snapshots were prematurely deleted.
- Forbid creation of resources containing special characters.
- Fixed labeling of disk volumes.
Version 4.1.1 released. Changes since last release
- Fixed handling of large integer values in job reports.
- Fixed license handling for version 4.1 and updates from V4.0.
- Fixed and improved network bandwidth reduction calculation to better handle very slow networks.
- Fixed markup of deleted elements in backup index.
- User notifications are now per default enabled and filled with all known notification events.
Version 4.1 released.
Version 4.0.3 released. Changes since last release
- Fixed deletion of versions directory on Sync cycle change.
- Fixed translation of Helios special-escaped characters.
- Fixed creation of volumes with different blocksizes within one pool.
- Fixed markup of deleted elements in backup index.
- Added persistent FSEvents store for filesystems where Apple's fseventsd is unable to maintain its database.
- Fixed volume recycling for everlasting increments.
Version 4.0.2 released. Changes since last release
- Volume migration now allows migrating of volumes whose followers are missing or disabled.
- Volume import now allows for scanning media-chunks sequentially in case on-media chunk-directory file is missing or empty.
- Tightened locking when calling externally supplied (and most probably not MT-safe) routines.
- Improved interface to FSEvents on Darwin to manage very slow event delivery.
- Fixed problems with filesystems that report optimal IO-size which is not rounded to 8Kbytes.
- Prevent configuring illegal schedules that could cause infinite loops while looking for the next schedule time.
- Corrected internal index problems when file names are composed of special/control characters.
- Fixed bug in B2Go workstation where drop index flag was not reset after successful index rebuild on the server.
Version 4.0.1 released. Changes since last release
- Cycle generation with links enabled for Xinet.
- Fixed sync with events when event source host was declared as empty.
- B2GO workstations do not attempt to re-create index on every connection. Instead, index is re-created either by user intervention (GUI) or by certain destructive operations on the server (snapshot deletion, repository change etc).
- Snapshot purge is now scheduled as detached procedure at 3AM (subject to static configuration) in addition to run at server startup.
- Fixed order of jobs displayed in the job monitor to display the last done jobs first.
- Fixed archive volume migration when a cloned volume is taken as a source.
- Fixed unsigned integer overflow in job report for backups saving more than 4TB per drive.
- Fixed size filter.
- Fixed PresSTOREServiceManager for Windows.
- Fixed sync with blanks in source path.