New Features in WorldBackups v4.1

Build Number: 4102011110720
Date: 10th December 2011

1. Hyper-V Virtual Machines can now be backed up using WorldBackups. WorldBackups needs to be installed on the Hyper-V Server and it can then centrally backup all the VMs running on that Hyper-V server.
   Backing up - Backing up Hyper-V Virtual Machines
   Restoring - Restoring Hyper-V Virtual Machines
   

Enhancements in WorldBackups v4.1

1. Bandwidth Throttling can now be disabled during weekends.
2. Exchange Mailbox backup can now be configured to upload the previous Mailbox and delete its dump whilst the next Mailbox is being dumped on the Exchange Server. This will save dump space required for the Exchange Mailbox backup. Currently all the Mailboxes have to be dumped locally before being uploaded to the backup server.
3. Server side MySQL DB and query optimisations to improve performance and resource utilisation.
4. We have added a skipped file report during the server side restore.
5. We have added the option to not ask for an encryption password when deleting a backup job in the client machine through the Centralised Client Management feature in the backup server.
6. You can now send email reports from the backup server (on backup/restore success/failure etc.) to Customers and Resellers. Currently only the Server Admin gets the emails.
7. Uncompressed size of files included in Backup Reports.
8. Filter delete performance improvement and removing empty directories after filter delete

Minor Enhancements and Bug Fixes in WorldBackups v4.1

1. Fixed the issue where the backup will be reported as 'Failed' when the root folder configured for the backup is missing from the client machine.
2. Fixed an issue where unicode files where getting skipped when the files were opened with VSS enabled.
3. Fixed the issue where the file/folder tree listing hangs when the number of files is several million.
4. Fixed the issue where backups run outside of the backup window when two backups are configured in a client machine with the same start time.
5. Fixed the issue in SharePoint backup where dumping site-collections with "https" extension fails if already an identical site-collection with "http" enabled is fixed
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Build Number: 4002011071521
Date: 18 November 2011

New Features in WorldBackups v4.0

1. Support for Disk Image Backup and Bare Metal Restore (BMR) on all versions of Windows. The image backup can be restored even to a machine with a dissimilar hardware (P2P).
2. Support for conversion of Physical Disk Image to Hyper-V or VMWare Virtual Machine image (P2V).
3. Backup data can now be exported from the backup server in an encrypted format and imported into the client for restore.
4. User activity log report to log user activities in the backup servers.

Enhancements in WorldBackups v4.0

1. List of files backed up in a backup job can now be optionally included in the backup completion notification email.
2. Ability to abort a restore job from both client and backup server.
3. Newly designed menu for easier navigation in the web console UI.
4. Add Backup from backup server with a System Generated Password is now supported through portal.
5. The time at which the automated consolidated customer email report is sent can now be configured in SGConfiguration.conf file.
6. WorldBackups client now checks if other third party backup software is also running in the client machine for SQL and Exchange Server Backups. Backups will be aborted if both applications run backups out of sequence.

Minor Enhancements and Bug Fixes in WorldBackups v4.0

1. Issue where custom SSL certificates would get over written during upgrade with default certificates is now fixed.
2. Fixed the issue where backup status would be wrongly reported as failed when deleted DBs where present in the SQL Backup. Now the deleted backups would be skipped and the backup would be reported as success with the message that deleted DBs were skipped.
3. Restore failure due to 0 KB ori file is now handled. If the ori file is a 0 KB file, a full backup of the file will be run.
4. Fixed the issue where multiple emails were mistakenly sent from the backup server for missed backups.
5. Fixed the issue in authenticating backup server with replication server.
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Build Number: 3502011041520
Date: 15 April 2011

New Features in WorldBackups 3.5 SP3

1. Supports Centralised Client Management feature to manage client settings and backup schedules from the backup server.
2. Support for maintaining a local copy of the backup for plugin based backups.

Enhancements in WorldBackups 3.5 SP3

1. Ability to perform Client Disaster Recover directly from local drive backups (without the backup server).
2. Option for the clients to reset their backup server web access password.
3. Support for configuring the Email SSL settings from the web console itself.
4. Support for backing up Microsoft SQL Server databases with Unicode names.
5. Performance improvement in filter based deletion of backed up files.
6. Performance improvements in backup, restore and replication processes.

Minor Enhancements and Bug Fixes in WorldBackups 3.5 SP3

1. Backup failure issue under certain cases while backing up over SSL is fixed.
2. Listing Exchange Server log files in Exchange Server restore tree is made optional.
3. The *.edb files dumped for Exchange Server Information Stores with same names in Exchange 2000/2003/2007 are not uploaded to the backup server issue is fixed.
4. Dump process failure issue for Exchange 2010 databases if the DB name contains more than one continuous white spaces is fixed.
5. WorldBackups will be by default installed as a Windows service on local system account in Microsoft Windows Vista and above OSes.
6. While restoring the whole Mailbox store data, public folder will also be restored now.
7. Memory leak issue under certain failures is fixed.
8. Issue of scrambled content in Email reports is fixed.
9. Issue where old events and alarms are sometimes not properly cleaned up is fixed.
10. Issue when sometimes processing deleted files in replication server is fixed.
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Build Number: 3502010122919
Date: 07 January 2011

Applicable to: Windows & Linux OS, Client and Server installations

New Features in WorldBackups 3.5 SP2

1. Supports backup of VMWare Guest OSes.

Enhancements in WorldBackups 3.5 SP2

1. For backup server, following report pages are directly retrieved from MySQL database to reduce load on WorldBackups process and faster report rendering.
   1. Client backup status report.
   2. Consolidated client backup status report.
   3. Client information report.
   4. Server dashboard.
2. Supports adding and removing databases by editing that backup schedule for MySQL Server database backup.
3. Events and alarms web console page is modified for faster rendering.

Bug Fixes in WorldBackups 3.5 SP2

1. Issue where Synthetic Backup is not scheduled if the backup schedule is aborted is fixed.
2. Issue where Exchange Server Mailboxes are not listed in Exchange 2010 DAG member Exchange Servers issue is fixed.
3. Fixed the issue where mails are not restored if the folder name contains Unicode characters.
4. Fixed the issue where WorldBackups crashes when backing up an empty mailbox folder.
5. Issue where Client backups sometime hang when backing up through SSL based socket.
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Build Number: 3502010111115
Date: 15 November 2010

Applicable to: Windows Client only installations

New Features in WorldBackups 3.5 SP1

1. Supports Mail Level Restore from restored Exchange Server mailbox (.pst files) data.

Enhancements in WorldBackups 3.5 SP1

1. Client Disaster Recovery page is re-designed to support recovering backup configurations for both authenticated as well as auto-authenticated clients.

Bug Fixes in WorldBackups 3.5 SP1

1. Fixed Exchange Server restore issue when locally restored Exchange Server backup data is separately loaded and restored to the Exchange Server.
2. Fixed MSSQL Server restore issue due to incorrect order of restoring log files, in some cases.
3. Fixed issue in editing and continuing plugin backup schedules after recovering plugin backup schedules through Client Disaster Recovery.
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Build Number: 3502010102621

New Features in WorldBackups 3.5

1. Synthetic Full Backup of Files: During incremental backup schedules, WorldBackups client automatically runs a Synthetic Full Backup of a file if its backed up version file is larger than a certain percentage of its initial full backup. During Synthetic Full Backup, changed data with respect to the earlier Full Backup or Synthetic Full Backup alone is uploaded. Version files uploaded after a Synthetic Full Backup contain modified data with respect to the last Synthetic Full Backup and are therefore much smaller.

2. Synthetic Full Backup of Exchange Server: Instead of running Additional Full Backup of the Exchange Server to limit the number of incremental backups in the backup server, WorldBackups can now optionally run Synthetic Full Backups. During Synthetic Full Backups, only the data that is changed after the previous Full Backup or Synthetic Full Backup alone is uploaded and not the entire the Exchange Server data.

Enhancements in WorldBackups 3.5:

1. Further performance enhancements for backing up Unicode files.

2. Support for cleaning up multiple alarms at a time.

3. Ability to choose the parent folder and exclude sub folders or files while configuring file backups.

4. Adding client name and backup name in Windows Events.

5. Improved the performance in files tree listing during client side restore when large number of files exist in a folder.

6. WorldBackups client can now backup the site collections of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.

Bug Fixes in WorldBackups 3.5:

1. Issue when backing up large files in Nexenta Open Solaris OS fixed.

2. Made changes to automatically include the missed libraries while installing WorldBackups in Linux.

3. Fixed the issue where sometimes tickets were not created in ConnectWise PSA when Email reports were also enabled in the backup server.