Release Notes For StoreGrid 2.4

New Features In StoreGrid 2.4

1. Bandwidth Throttling - Limiting the maximum bandwidth a StoreGrid 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 StoreGrid 2.4

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

2. Automatic software update of backup server from replication server.

3. Backup location settings at Customer level - currently the backup location can be specified at server and client levels only.

4. Email notifications for missed backup.

5. Restore performance improvements.

6. MSPEUs added and usage history in backup server.

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

8. Support for manually moving of backup data location in the backup server; user can then update the settings through the web console.

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

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

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

12. 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 StoreGrid 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 'StoreGrid 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. StoreGrid 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 StoreGrid 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: StoreGrid 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. On Demand Invoicing: Invoices can now be generated on demand for a specified billing period.

5. Email alerts for license expiry and disk space shortage: StoreGrid backup server can now be configured to send Email alerts for license expiry and disk space shortage. Replication server can be configured to send Email alerts for license expiry.

6. Windows Mail backup.

Enhancements in StoreGrid 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, StoreGrid 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. Reports of the delete notifications (when backups, clients or customers are deleted) sent from the backup server to the replication server will now be available in the backup server.

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

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

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

8. Displaying all client details (like client’s OS type, client’s plug-in type, client build/version number, license type etc.) in the backup server.

9. Incremental backup is now supported for MySQL backup in Linux. In earlier StoreGrid versions, it was supported only in Windows.

10. New options added in Silent Installation for:

    1. Whether given Windows login credentials (for running StoreGrid 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 StoreGrid 2.3.5

1. Replication progress window will now show activity as the backup server is gathering files for replication or when it is replication directories. As the backup server is gathering the files, the total file/folder count will increases. As the directories are replicated, the number of directories replicated so far will be displayed in the progress window.

2. Updated the restore progress window to show the number of files listed for restore when StoreGrid is initiating the restore process.

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

4. 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.

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

6. Fixed client side software update reports.

7. If a peer is added using the IP address in the Add/Delete peer page, the IP will be added as entered. In earlier versions, StoreGrid does a DNS lookup on the IP and adds the peer with the lookup name and not the IP address.

8. StoreGrid sometimes exiting or hanging when mailbox is corrupted are fixed.

9. Cleaning up the dump location when StoreGrid is aborted during mailbox backup.

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

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

12. Fixed the issues with installing StoreGrid builds in 64 bit Ubuntu machines.

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

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

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

16. Enabled auto refresh in server dash board page.

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

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

19. Fixed the issue where replication sometimes doesn’t start.

20. StoreGrid will now automatically recover the backup configuration (.sbc) file in the backup server if the file is corrupted.

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

Issues fixed in StoreGrid v2.3 SP1 (Build No. - 2302008040515)

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

2. StoreGrid skipping open files even when Volume Shadow Copy is enabled.

3. StoreGrid skips Outlook .pst files even when VSS is enabled.

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

5. StoreGrid skipping files with long file names.

6. High CPU usage in the backup server while starting a replication schedule.

7. Files shown as skipped in the replication reports while replicating "Deleted File" notifications, though the notifications are actually replicated.

8. Backup server not showing the added MSPEUs though it reports that the license was applied successfully for partners who had their backup server migrated from 2.1 to 2.2

9. Server side backup email report shows "Failure" in subject while the email content shows "Success".

10. Error while creating a new Fixed Slab invoice plan.

11. Web console not displaying the build details in "About Us" link in server-only installations.

New Features In StoreGrid 2.3

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

   PLEASE NOTE: StoreGrid can backup only up to Group level in 2007 Exchange Server (64 bit) machines. StoreGrid 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 StoreGrid update from backup server.

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

5. NTFS File Permissions Backup.

6. Importing backup data from backup server to replication server.

7. Authentication of Backup Server with Replication Server.

8. Customer level disk space allocation in the backup server.

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

10. 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.

11. Testing SMTP server settings and connectivity.

12. Testing backup server connectivity from client.

13. Deletion of Primary Server data in replication server.

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

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

Enhancements in StoreGrid 2.3

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

2. Significant Replication performance optimizations.

3. Reestablishing client connection automatically after network interruption.

4. Optimized Event Sharing protocol.

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

6. Web console user interface enhancements.

7. Prorating invoices for partial billing periods.

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

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

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

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

12. Multiple simultaneous restores at the client.

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

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

15. Cleaning up idle sessions in the backup server.

16. Precompiled installation binaries for Linux and Mac.

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

18. Rebuilding sgbackup.db file from backup data.

Bugs Fixed In StoreGrid 2.2.5

1. Have made enhancements to significantly improve the performance of the backup process. Performance improvement could be up to 60%, especially when backing up large number of small files.

2. Made enhancements to reduce backup server CPU usage during simultaneous replication of multiple backups.

3. Added a Vembu Technologies logo in the email reports. For branded builds, the partner logo will appear.

4. Application level Keep Alive is now enabled by default to prevent early closure of the network connection between the StoreGrid client and the backup server.

5. Fixed the client authorization issues in the client and the server. If the client is not present in the backup server and 'Auto Authorization' is not enabled, then the Authorization page will now show the right error messages. Also, once authorized, the user will be automatically redirected to the login page.

6. Fixed an issue related to not sending email reports when a few files are skipped during backup.

7. In the SP edition, the feature that automatically applies the StoreGrid server licenses to other StoreGrid servers in the same network has been disabled.

8. Fixed the issue where a client connecting with a new IP address would get rejected if its previous connection from a different IP could not be cleaned up in the backup server. With this release, the previous connection will be cleanup forcefully and the new connection would be established.

9. Now you can update the encryption key to the old value after Client Disaster Recovery

10. Fixed the issue with updating the used space in the client side backup report when there are large number of backups scheduled. Also fixed an issue in updating the disk space usage in the server side reports after deletion of a full backup.

11. Improved error recovery in Volume Shadow Copy enabled backups

12. Disabled the harmless 'Error:0' message from the tray.

13. Added an alert in the Edit Backup Server List of Edit Backup Schedule page to indicate that changing the backup server will create fresh backups on the new server and that user should rather do a Local to Remote migration.

14. Fixed the reports for backup schedules in partially completed status.

15. Added an UI alert indicating that changing backup location on the server will change only for subsequent backups.

16. Added an UI alert indicating that space allocation may have to be done both at the server and the client levels.

17. Added an alert message for Suspend/Resume backup action.

18. Fixed the issue in the UI related to editing a customer with 'Auto MSPEU' allocation setting.

Bugs Fixed In StoreGrid 2.2.1

1. Fixed the issue of StoreGrid client exiting while listing files with wide characters.

2. Fixed the issue of StoreGrid displaying invalid file size while backing up files greater than 4 GB when Volume Shadow Copy is enabled.

3. Fixed the bug in StoreGrid client reset password when the backup server system name and the backup server name in the client are different.

4. Fixed the issue of Replication failure if the Trial Customer's auto-authorization is configured as "Denied".

5. Email SMTP server configurations related to SMTP authorization are now properly rendered in the StoreGrid WebConsole. The user name and password fields are still not rendered for security purposes.

6. Fixed the issue in receiving email reports when SMTP server adds more headers to the email sent by StoreGrid.

7. Fixed the security issue with the way StoreGrid was handling the backup encryption password.

8. New configuration option to allow backup database in the StoreGrid server to be stored in a separate hard disk other than the client backup location. This is useful to improve StoreGrid server performance including the StoreGrid server Webconsole performance.

9. More customization of server dashboard features and dashboard refresh times added.

New Features In StoreGrid 2.2

StoreGrid Server

1. Improved organization of the clients backing up to the server.

2. Server Side management of all licenses (MSPEU based licensing).

3. Revamped 'Local To Remote Server Migration'; now additional full backups can also be done locally and migrated to the remote backup server.

4. Revamped replication management, flexible replication scheduling, CPU usage control and lots more.

5. Replication progress support in both the Backup Server and the Replication Server

6. Primary Server Disaster Recovery from Replication Server using StoreGrid webconsole.

7. Invoice Generation based on Invoice Plans. You can assign the same plan across Customers.

8. Server Activities Dashboard (Current Active Clients Monitoring, Last 5 Successful/Failed Backups, Disk Space Monitoring, License Monitoring, etc.,)

9. Trial Client Settings (Evaluation Period/De-Activation Period/Automatic Cleanup of De-Activated Client, etc.,).

10. Individual Client/Backup De-activation.

StoreGrid Client

1. Advanced Plugins for Exchange using ESE APIs.

2. Advanced Plugins for MS SQL Server using VDI APIs.

3. Volume Shadow Copy support for Windows XP, Windows 2003 Servers systems.

4. In StoreGrid Service Provider Edition, there is no need to apply license keys in the client.

5. MySQL Plugin for windows

6. Restore progress window enhanced to show file based restore progress

7. Revamped Client Dashboard.

General

1. Secure(https) WebConsole.

2. Support for 64-bit Windows Operating Systems.

Bugs Fixed In StoreGrid 2.2

1. Unicode File listing and backup (supporting long file path > 256 characters) in windows.

2. Local Dump location for Exchange/SQL plugins can be specified from the backup configuration page itself.

3. Application level Keep Alive protocol supported for working around the 'Unable to send backup details ...' issue.

4. Outlook Mail box PST File is backed up even if it is specified in a location other than the default location.

5. Fixed the error 'File Modified during backup' when Open File Plugin is installed and available.

6. "Replication In Progress" issue in the Replication Server fixed.

7. Disk Space Allocation issue in replication server fixed.

8. Client Backup Location can now be modified even if a client is already backing up to the server. Note that, only the new backup schedules will be backed up to the new location and the older backup schedules will continue backing up to the older backup location

9. Service Installation of Apache in Vista is now supported

10. Duplicate peers issue in the discovered peer list fixed.

11. Fixed the bug on Skipped file count when a file is listed for backup and is unavailable during the backup process.

12. Fixed restore tree listing issue when one of the drive is available in the backup database but no files are available for the drive in the current full backup.

New Features In StoreGrid 2.1.1

StoreGrid Server

1. Server Side Restore --> Restoring client's backed up files from Server WebConsole itself.

2. Server Side Email Reporting - Backup/Restore/Delete/Replication

3. Performance Improvements in Replication

4. Email Filtering based on Backup Status and Customer/Client/Backup Jobs.

5. Customer Invoice Configuration from the StoreGrid WebConsole.

StoreGrid Client

1. Run a list of commands before & after a Backup Schedule.

2. MSSQL - Maximum number of DIFFERENTIAL backups to be had in server.

3. MSSQL - Support for multiple databases in single backup job.

4. Suspend & Resume on Large file backups. Start from where it left.

5. Client side Historical Backup Report.

6. Client Backup Progress updated with a particular File's backup progress.

7. Multi-threaded backup scheduling.

8. Skipped files list on Restore Report.

9. Email Filtering based on Backup Status and Backup Names.

General

1. Performance improvements for backups.

2. Internationalization related enhancements.

3. Configurable StoreGrid Ports [GUI/SERVER].

4. Configurable IP Address to which the sockets are bound.

Bugs Fixed In StoreGrid 2.1.1

1. Immediate Scheduling/Suspension of Replication Schedules after Replication Configuration.

2. Multiple Replication Report entries for the same error fixed

3. Suspend/Resume/ScheduleNow of SQL Server backup jobs

4. Password is not mandatory in Add Client, when auto authorization is enabled

5. Listing Empty folders in Restore Tree

6. When Invoice generation frequency updated, Next Invoice Update time is also updated

7. Unique invoice recipients for different customers

8. Updation of Used space in Replication server's Backup report

9. Exchange Server 2000 supported.

10. Error message reporting on Exchange Server & SQL Server backup failure

11. MSSQL Server & Exchange Server backup failure when installed under directory with special characters

12. Client License is not updated in server when the new license is applied

13. Added backup progress message for all plugins.

New Features In StoreGrid 2.1

StoreGrid Server

1. Support for generating rules based Customer Invoice.

2. Support for Replication of data in StoreGrid Server.

3. All server databases moved to Server Backup location to support easily creating redundancy for a StoreGrid Server's data.

4. Support for monitoring Backup activity from the server side.

5. Local to Remote Migration now supports migrating clients to Trial Customer too.

StoreGrid Client

1. Support for automatic MS Exchange Server backups.

2. Support for automatic MS SQL Server backups.

3. Support for automatic Active Directory/System State backups.

4. Support for editing files and folders of a backup schedule.

5. On Demand scheduling of backup schedules using a "Schedule Now" feature.

6. Option to disable Automatic Directory Monitoring in Windows to support backing up mapped drives and application generated files, which could delete and create the same files, create lots of temp files which need not be backed up.

7. Support for backing up empty folders.

8. Supporting of listing Mapped Drives in the backup schedule configuration tree.

9. Added keep alive feature in connections to server to fix NAT timeout issues.

Bugs Fixed In StoreGrid 2.1

1. Fixed bugs in calculation of used and free disk space for customers and clients.

2. Fixed bugs and usability issues in Auto Authorization between StoreGrid client and server.

3. Fixed the limitation while deleting a file and creating a new file with the same name.

4. Fixed RSync bug while restoring versioned large files greater than 4 GB.

5. Fixed the bug related to not emailing backup reports when there is a connection failure with the StoreGrid server fixed.

6. Fixed a few memory leak issues.

7. Fixed bugs in updating reports and disk space usage during Local to Remote Migration.

8. Fixed the bug related to server showing "backup in Progress" after the client has completed the backup.

9. Fixed the bug related to server not sending a negative file acknowledgement when the server could not rename the temp file name to the original file name for a successfully backed up file.

10. Fixed the bug related to client getting added to the server even if authorization fails.

11. Updated MySQL backup in Linux to use mysqldump utility to support InnoDB tables.

12. Fixed issue related to Trial Customer Migration overwriting an existing client data if the same client is migrated from trial to a customer. Only fresh clients can be migrated from trial to a customer.

Release Notes For StoreGrid 2.0

New Features In StoreGrid 2.0

Infrastructure

1. Major Design and Architecture changes for better scalability and performance.

2. All modules in both server and client use embedded RDBMS.

3. All metadata of a client and client book keeping for management use the RDBMS. Provides better capability for reporting, easier management functionality and better scalability.

4. Designed to easily support other RDBMSs like MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS-SQLServer, Oracle etc. for enterprise scalability, in future releases of StoreGrid.

StoreGrid Server

General

1. Configure authentication requirements for a client.

2. Server side drill down reports for each backup schedule of a client.

3. Reporting on disk space based on both original size of files and the disk space used in the server after compression.

4. Server side historical reports for each backup schedule for each client.

5. Ability to consolidate client events in the server and filtering based on client name and other event parameters.

Service Provider Edition

1. Comprehensive Customer based management in StoreGrid server.

2. Ability to add customers.

3. Apply license for a customer with restrictions on number of clients.

4. Disk quota management at the customer level and client level.

5. Ability to activate/deactivate a customer or a specific client within a customer.

6. Local to Remote Server Migration of Backups.

7. Trial Customer to New Customer migration of backups.

StoreGrid Client

1. Support for multiple full backups and incremental backups in between.

2. Support for the first full backup to a local server and then incremental backup to a remote server.

3. Configurable encryption key length (from 64 to 448 bits).

4. Support for time based restores.

5. Files and Folders filtering support in restore UI.

6. Permanent deletion of backed up Files and Folders with filtering support.

7. Support for sharing client events to StoreGrid servers.

8. Support for event filtering based on various event parameters.

9. Support for configuring clients with password protected access to the server.

10. Support for emailing backup and restore reports to the user.

11. Local to Remote Server Migration of Backups.

Bugs Fixed In StoreGrid 2.0

1. The 256 character problem in Windows backups & restore is resolved.

2. StoreGrid 2.0 can now accept varying length password for encryption. In StoreGrid 1.6, the encryption password had to be exactly 8 characters.

3. For Outlook and Outlook Express, StoreGrid 2.0 has the option of closing it automatically and backing it up or you can install the StoreGrid Open File Backup Plugin to backup Outlook and Outlook Express without closing the applications during backup.

4. In StoreGrid 1.6, a full backup of StoreGrid Metadata database was done for every schedule. This was taking time even when the incremental backup schedules were very small. In StoreGrid 2.0, you can configure the metadata backups to run infrequently or even disable it.

5. Suppose a backup is scheduled to run daily at 8:00AM. However, if the StoreGrid machine is started only at 9:00 AM then this backup schedule will be rescheduled for next day 8:00AM without actually running the backup. This issue is fixed in StoreGrid 2.0 Release.

6. FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) problem fixed in Discovery Module.

7. In StoreGrid 1.6, special characters was not allowed in License User name. This is fixed in StoreGrid 2.0 Release.

8. When a backup is restored to another machine instead of the original client, then its restore report cannot be viewed. This issue is fixed in StoreGrid 2.0. And now restore report can be viewed(Reports->Restore Reports) in the machine in which the restore was done.

9. Directory Statistics are now correctly backed up and restored.

Click here for a list of Known Issues In StoreGrid 2.4

Click here for a list of Limitations In StoreGrid 2.4