Enhancements in Gbackup 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. Gbackup client can now backup the site collections of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.

Bug Fixes in Gbackup 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 Gbackup 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.

Build Number: 3202010041915

New Features in Gbackup 3.2

1. Migration of v2.5.5 Server and 2.5.1 Client installations to v3.2: Gbackup v3.2 supports all the features included in v3.0 and v3.1 (listed below) along with migration of v2.5.5 Server and v2.5.1 client installations to v3.2. Gbackup backup server and replication server running v2.5.5 can now be upgraded to v3.2 and clients running v2.5.1 to Gbackup v3.2.

Build Number: 3102010083121
Date: 04 September 2010

New Features in Gbackup 3.1 SP2:

Supporting integration with ConnectWise and Autotask: Gbackup can integrate with ConnectWise and Autotask PSA (Professional Services Automation) applications. Currently Gbackup can push major events like backup/restore/replication process status and alerts (such as disk space shortage, trial client expiry) to the PSA services. More features integration with PSA is coming. To get more details Gbackup's integration with these PSA , refer the following online documentation:

ConnectWise

Autotask

Enhancements in Gbackup 3.1 SP2:

1. Supporting backup of My Pictures, My Music and My Videos folders as one-click backup schedule in Windows Vista and above OSes. In prior Gbackup versions, these folders will be backed up along with My Documents folder backup schedule.

2. Fixed database connection related issues in Gbackup backup server.(MySQL Server gone away, crash issues)

3. Enhanced the built-in CheckAndUpdate utility for recovering Gbackup Backup Server's MySQL database from backup data alone. This utility now recovers Reseller and Customer account details as well automatically.

Minor enhancements and bug fixes in Gbackup 3.1 SP2:

1. The issue where Gbackup backup server crashes when the internal client configuration file (sgclient.txt) is corrupted is now fixed.

2. Fixed the issue where Gbackup crashes sometimes when trial client cleanup process runs.

3. Outlook archive folders not backing up if configured to non-default location is fixed.

4. Fixed issues with backing up files with Unicode file name.

5. The issue in running retention cleanup of replicated deleted files is fixed.

6. Fixed the issue where Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 mailboxes were not listed when the Exchange server was migrated from lower version.

7. Issue in backing up Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 data if the Exchange server is upgraded from Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 is fixed.

8. Restored "All Public Folders" items was not accessible to all users in the Exchange Server, instead it was accessible only to profile user and this issue was fixed.

9. Issue in listing & backing up Microsoft Exchange Server mailboxes if Microsoft Exchange Server contains more than one default store, is fixed.

10. Showing different email report time due to DST changes issue is fixed.

11. Issue in restoring all Microsoft Exchange Server databases from locally restored data to Exchange Server is fixed.

12. Consolidated customer report shows 100% success rate for failed backups issue is fixed.

13. Several other minor fixes

Enhancements in Gbackup 3.1 SP1:

1. Support for Exchange Server 2010 database level backup and restore.

2. Option for Enabling/Disabling SGTrash Management through Gbackup configuration file – by default Gbackup moves version files that have exceeded retention policy to a SGTrash folder in the storage location in the backup server. This can now be disabled (so that the files are just deleted and not moved to SGTrash) in the backup server by changing the appropriate tag in the SGConfiguration.conf file of Gbackup.

3. Configure email Settings with NTLM SMTP authentication supported email servers - Gbackup can now be configured to send email reports via Exchange Server 2003 and above versions, which support only NTLM authentication type by default.

4. Uniform Discount Invoice Plan can now be created with a fixed rate for the initial x GB for the first slab and then the regular per GB slabs. Fixed rate can be specified by entering 0 in the per GB field for that slab.

5. In the backup server web console, added links for Reseller, Customer, Client and Backup names under "Client Activity [Current]" section in Server Dashboard page.

Bug Fixes in Gbackup 3.1 SP1:

1. Exchange Server 2010 mailboxes not listed in some cases.

2. After Client Disaster Recovery, Exchange Server backup schedule shows "No new or modified files found for backup" message.

3. Large latency between the completion of Exchange Server backup data dump and uploading of the dumped files to the backup server when large number of files are dumped in Exchange Server.

4. Outlook Express is not backed up in Windows XP SP3 when Gbackup is installed as a service.

5. Outlook (pst) files in non-default location doesn’t get backed up.

6. Issues in backing up Unicode file/folders.

7. The number of established socket connections on SSL backup port 32007 increases in the backup server over a period of time.

8. Hidden files and folders are not displayed in the "Add Backup Schedule" page tree list in linux clients.

9. Reports of all the clients available in the 'Consolidated client backup status' report for customer level login in the backup server, instead of for just that customer.

10. Replication to S3 storage failed with errors "The specified bucket is not empty, hence cannot be removed."

11. Replication Server sometimes crashes when time based retention cleanup process runs.

12. Backup performance affected when processing deleted files/folders notification.

Build Number: 3102010021517

New Features in Gbackup 3.1

1. Bare Metal Restore of Windows 2008, Windows 7 and Windows Vista: Gbackup can backup the entire image of the client machines running Windows 7, Windows 2008 & Windows Vista Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate editions. The backed up image can be restored to the same machine or to a machine with very similar hardware as the original client machine.

2. Backup and Restore from local drives: Gbackup client can now backup to a local drive and also restore from it, without having to connect to a backup server.

3. SharePoint Server Backup: Gbackup client can now backup the site collections of SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

4. Publishing Gbackup Events as Windows Events: You can now configure Gbackup to also generate Windows Events when Gbackup Events are created. This will help Service Providers to monitor Gbackup events through third party applications that can monitor Windows Events.

5. Customization of Gbackup's Email notifications: The Emails generated by Gbackup can be now customized.Service Providers can now send their own customized messages embedded in Gbackup's Email notifications to their customers.

6. Reseller Level Invoicing: Invoicing is now possible at Reseller level also.

7. Customer Invoicing based on Uncompressed File Size and Transferred Data Size - The backup server can now be configured to invoice customers based on the uncompressed size of the data and the size of the data transferred (uploaded during backup and downloaded during restore). Prior to v3.1, customer invoicing was based only on the size of the backup data used in the backup server.

8. Bandwidth Throttling during Replication: The maximum bandwidth that a backup server can use while replicating to a replication server can now be throttled. The bandwidth throttling settings can be set at the replication server.

9. Enabling/Disabling Reseller Management: Reseller Management in Backup and Replication servers can now be enabled or disabled during Gbackup fresh installation in the server. For existing Gbackup v3.0 server installations, Reseller Management can be be disabled by changing the Gbackup configuration file after migrating to v3.1.

10. Client Registration from Client Web Console: Users/Customers can now register their client machines under the appropriate customer account in the backup server from the client web console itself. The Gbackup backup server now sends a unique Customer 'Passkey' to the Customer through email when the customer's account is created in the backup server. Using this unique passkey, users () can register the client machines under that Customer account in the backup.

Enhancements in Gbackup 3.1

1. Support for backing up Exchange Server cluster.

2. New mailboxes can now be added to an existing Exchange Server Mailbox Backup through client web console.

3. Connectivity check can now be run from the backup server to replication server in the backup server web console.

4. Additional full seed backups can now be run from the client to a locally attached drive before importing them into the backup server.

5. Ability to abort a live backup from the client web console.

6. Ability to limit the number of clients backing up under a customer account in the backup server.

7. Added a search capability in the backup server to search by backup/client/customer/reseller name.

8. Monthly Charges and Taxes can now be added to the invoice plans.

9. Exchange Server Backup data can now be optionally restored in the uncompressed state on the server side. This data can then be applied into the Exchange Server manually through third party application. Prior to v3.1, the restored data will be in compressed state and therefore required Gbackup Client to apply it into the Exchange Server.

10. Ability to suspend, abort MSSQL Server and Exchange Mailbox backups while its dump is in progress.

11. The speed of the replication process performance is improved in the backup server.

Minor enhancements and bug fixes in Gbackup 3.1

1. No MCALs will be used for the clients' automatic software update connection to the backup server.

2. Adding Microsoft SQL Server instance name from client's web console, if Gbackup couldn't detect the MSDE/SQL Server Express Instances.

3. Displaying client's NAT & local IP address details in the backup server's client information web console page.

4. Ability to edit the invoice plans currently in use.

5. Issue in backing up Outlook Express filter settings issue is fixed.

6. Additional full backup data with file versions is supported for seed backup at backup server.

7. Gbackup client exits, if the restore data location doesn't have space for restore data issue is fixed.

Build Number: 3002009102219

New Features In Gbackup 3.0

Gbackup Server

1. Comprehensive Reseller based management in Gbackup server - Master Service Providers (MSPs) who take their backup service to the customers through resellers can group the client machines and the customers under their respective Reseller accounts in the backup server. Just like a Customer account, a Reseller account can be configured and managed for backup location and space, client license units, bandwidth throttling, authentication etc.

2. Clustering and Load Balancing of Gbackup Servers - Gbackup Backup Server installations can now be configured into a cluster. New client machines connecting to the cluster will be automatically assigned a backup server instance to which the client will then run its backups to. As the clients machines grow, new backup server instances can be dynamically added to the cluster to handle the increased load without any changes on the client side.

3. Reseller/Customer/Client access to backup server - Resellers, Customers and Clients present in the backup server can now be provided access to the backup server. A Reseller logging into the backup server's web console can access all Reseller related details and all the Customers and Clients under that Reseller. Similarly a Customer can access the details of that Customer and all the Clients listed under that Customer. End user (Client) can access their backups, run restore and download the restored files, if needed through their web access to the backup server.

4. Replication of Gbackup Backup Server to Amazon S3 - Gbackup backup server can now be replicated to Amazon's S3 Cloud storage for backup data redundancy.

5. Alarm based Management of Gbackup Events - Gbackup can now generate Alarms based on the Events it generates, for better monitoring.

6. Automatic Disk Allocation for Clients - Clients under a Customer can now share the disk space allocated to the Customer in the backup server; each client doesn't need to be allocated disk space individually.

7. Gbackup Server Side Restore & Download for Clients - Users with Reseller, Customer or Client access to the backup server can now log into the backup server web console from any machine, run a server side restore and download the restored files from backup server.

8. WebServices APIs to access Gbackup modules - Gbackup's internal data and functionalities can now be accessed via Web Service based APIs. These APIs can be used to integrate third party applications, like billing software or monitoring systems with Gbackup.

9. Database Sharding to enhance scalability of backup server - With the v3.0, each backup is stored in a separate database in the external database of the backup server, providing higher scalability and performance of the backup server.

Gbackup Client

1. Support for 3DES Encryption - Users can now choose between BlowFish and 3DES encryption algorithms while creating a backup schedule.

2. ‘Read-Only’ user accounts supported - Read-Only user accounts can now be created to access the client web console. ‘Read Only’ users logging into the client machine can force an existing backup schedule to run or do restores. They will not be able to add new backup schedules or change existing schedules.

3. System Generated Password for backups - Users can now optionally choose Gbackup to generate its own encryption password while creating a backup schedule instead of the user specifying an encryption password. A backup created with System Generated password for encryption will not require the user to enter the password for restore or for deleting the backup schedule.

Release Notes for Gbackup 2.5.5

Build Number: 2552009080521

New Features In Gbackup 2.5.5

1. Support for MySQL database (instead of SQLite) for Backup Server and Replication Server backend.

Enhancements in Gbackup 2.5.5

1. Restore process optimized for bulk restore with large number of directories and files.

2. Gbackup monitor script added for Linux installations to monitor the Gbackup process.

Release Notes for Gbackup 2.5.1 SP2

Enhancements In Gbackup 2.5.1 SP2

1. Supporting incremental backups for system state backup in Windows 2008.

2. Added an option where the client backup status report in the backup server will show only the latest status of each backup.

3. Added the feature where Exchange Server user details can be specified through the client web console for Mailbox backup.

4. Added the feature where Microsoft SQL Server instance name can be specified through the client web console when Gbackup is unable to automatically detect the Microsoft SQL Server instance.

5. Resume from where it left off after an interruption during the replication is now made more efficient.

6. Performance improvements when backing up files in large number for folders.

Major Bug Fixes In Gbackup 2.5.1 SP2

1. High CPU utilization issue fix during retention cleanup process.

2. Fixed the issue where client sometimes runs a full backup to the backup server after local to remote server migration.

3. Fixed the issue where sometimes Gbackup crashes when restoring files with Unicode names.

4. Fixed the issue in backing up Exchange Mailbox folders with display name ending with a dot(.).

5. Fixed the issue in displaying erroneous restore status and restore report for Exchange Server, Exchange Mailbox and SQL Server backups.

6. Gbackup reports success message when it is unable to start the Exchange Server 2007 Mailbox dump process issue is fixed.

7. In incremental Exchange Server Mailbox backup schedules, the issue of dumping large amount of data for a selected folder, if the folder contains large number of sub-folders, is fixed.

8. Fixed issue in backing up a sub-folder under Exchange Server public folders when a sub-folder is chosen individually for that backup.

Minor Bug Fixes In Gbackup 2.5.1 SP2

1. Invalid backup space usage issue fixed in the replication server.

2. Sometimes older versions not cleaned up for system state backup issue is fixed.

3. Directory monitoring and retention of deleted files option is now disabled for run once backup types.

4. Fixed issue in displaying the exact mount status [Mounted/Dismounted status] of the exchange database(s) in restore report after the completion of the exchange restore process.

Release Notes for Gbackup 2.5.1 SP1

Enhancements In Gbackup 2.5.1 SP1

1. Performance improvement in the retention cleanup process in the backup server.

2. Performance improvement in incremental backup schedule when the backup set contains very large number of files.

3. Performance improvement in backing up empty folders during incremental backup schedules.

Major Bug Fixes In Gbackup 2.5.1 SP1

1. Backup server fails to replicate backup data to the replication server due to the socket connection timed out issue fixed.

2. Gbackup client takes full backup, if the client's day light saving time (DST) changes issue is fixed.

3. Gbackup client crashes when backing up Exchange Server Mailbox public sub-folders.

4. Gbackup gives error message when listing Exchange Server Mailbox folders, if Exchange Server runs with IPv6 option.

5. Re-attaching archived backup data back to the backup server through service side Local to Remote Server Migration issue is fixed.

6. Exchange Mailbox sub-folder items getting dumped again in incremental backup issue is fixed.

7. Restoring Exchange Server backup schedule from where it left off issue is fixed.

8. Problem in listing MySQL databases in Linux, FreeBSD OSes, if database files stored in non-default location, issue is fixed.

9. In the client side consolidated backup report dashboard page, success rate for latest schedule will be shown.

10. The alert settings web console page hanging in Gbackup Professional Edition issue is fixed.

11. Fixed the issue in updating the SQL Server backup schedule status from active to idle state, if the backup server connection was timed out.

Minor Bug Fixes In Gbackup 2.5.1 SP1

1. The client's backup schedule with VSS option fails as the Gbackup VSS writer is not listed when taking backup. This issue is fixed.

2. Gbackup backup server skips files during replication process issue is fixed.

3. Showing higher transfer rate for file transfer with bandwidth throttling option is enabled issue is fixed.

4. Listing Exchange Server MailBox folders fails with MAPI_E_INVALID_PARAMETER error in some Exchange Server system issue is fixed.

5. Plugin backup schedule success email report's subject line is incorrect, in some cases, issue is fixed.

6. In some cases, not inserting the renamed/deleted files details in the backup server database issue is fixed.

7. Gbackup intermediate files not cleaned up for backup schedules configured with Directory Monitoring option enabled, issue is fixed.

8. Gbackup Windows installation hangs in Windows 2008 OS, if system contains more number of disk drives issue is fixed.

9. Software update issue fix for 2.3.5 clients for non-English builds.

10. Opening web console with systems default web browser application in Gbackup system tray.

Release Notes for Gbackup 2.5.1

Build Number: 2512009032420

New Features In Gbackup 2.5.1

1. Backing up and restoring files or folders with Unicode names is now supported.

Enhancements in Gbackup 2.5.1

1. Backing up multiple mailboxes with the same (display) name is now supported.

2. High CPU utilization and occasional internal sgserver.db database file corruption issue in backup server is fixed.

Minor changes and bug fixes in Gbackup 2.5.1

1. Issue in restoring files with filenames containing specific set of characters when backup is encrypted is fixed.

2. Fixed the issue where sometimes replication seems to be in progress in the backup server but actually gets stuck without replicating the files.

3. If additional full backup is configured with monthly schedule option, the backup may be additionally scheduled on that day of the week in the next month, for example, schedule configured to run additional full backup on 4th Sunday may be scheduled on 3rd Sunday of the next month. Also, if the additional full backup was configured to schedule on particular days, around end of the month, the full backup mistakenly occurs on that day of the week in the next month's first week. Both of these issues were fixed in this build.

4. Client side filter delete of files doesn't work for the backups stored in client's old backup storage location [and the client's backup storage location is changed] issue is fixed.

5. Issue where files were not listed for restore when additional full backup is migrated into backup server through Local to Remote Migration is fixed.

6. Issue in showing the schedule details in client side backup schedule view page & edit backup schedule page, if monthly full backup is configured, is fixed.

7. Advanced filter options configuration in Internet Explorer web browser issue is fixed.

Release Notes for Gbackup 2.5

New Features In Gbackup 2.5

1. Using MySQL RDBMS backend as Gbackup backend database (replacing the current embedded RDBMS engine SQLite).

2. Backend data storage on Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).

3. Out-of-the-box support for Gbackup in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

Bug fixes in Gbackup 2.5

1. Resuming Restore from where it left off when the restore process is suspended/killed during Restore of an encrypted backup is fixed.

2. No response from server while doing Client Disaster Recovery fixed.

3. Disk space usage updation while doing retention cleanup fixed.

Release Notes for Gbackup 2.4

New Features In Gbackup 2.4

1. Bandwidth Throttling Limiting the maximum bandwidth a Gbackup 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 Gbackup 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. MCALs 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 Gbackup 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 web console.

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 empty 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 'Gbackup 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. Gbackup 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 Gbackup 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: Gbackup 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: Gbackup 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 Gbackup 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, Gbackup 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 Gbackup versions, it was supported only in Windows.

10. New options added in Silent Installation for:

    1. Whether given Windows login credentials (for running Gbackup 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 Gbackup 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 Gbackup 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, Gbackup does a DNS lookup on the IP and adds the peer with the lookup name and not the IP address.

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

9. Cleaning up the dump location when Gbackup 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 Gbackup builds in 64 bit Ubuntu machines.

13. Removed the MCALs shortage alert from the server dashboard in the replication server since MCALs 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. Gbackup 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 Gbackup v2.3 SP1 (Build No. - 2302008040515)

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

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

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

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

5. Gbackup 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 MCALs 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 Gbackup 2.3

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

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

2. All Databases Backup of MS SQL Server.

3. Automatic Gbackup 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. Customerlevel 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 Gbackup 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 Gbackup 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 Gsolutions 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 Gbackup 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 Gbackup server licenses to other Gbackup 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 MCAL' allocation setting.

Bugs Fixed In Gbackup 2.2.1

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

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

3. Fixed the bug in Gbackup 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 Gbackup Web Console. 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 Gbackup.

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

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

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

New Features In Gbackup 2.2

Gbackup Server

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

2. Server Side management of all licenses (MCAL 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 Gbackup web console.

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.

Gbackup 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 Gbackup 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) Web Console.

2. Support for 64-bit Windows Operating Systems.

Bugs Fixed In Gbackup 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 Gbackup 2.1.1

Gbackup Server

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

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

3. Performance Improvements in Replication

4. Email Filtering based on Backup Status and Customer

5. Customer Invoice Configuration from the Gbackup Web Console.

Gbackup 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 Gbackup Ports [GUI/SERVER].

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

Bugs Fixed In Gbackup 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 Gbackup 2.1

Gbackup Server

1. Support for generating rules based Customer Invoice.

2. Support for Replication of data in Gbackup Server.

3. All server databases moved to Server Backup location to support easily creating redundancy for a Gbackup 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.

Gbackup 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 Gbackup 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 Gbackup 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 Gbackup 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 Gbackup 2.0

New Features In Gbackup 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 Gbackup.

Gbackup 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 Gbackup 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.

Gbackup 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 Gbackup 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 Gbackup 2.0

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

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

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

4. In Gbackup 1.6, a full backup of Gbackup Metadata database was done for every schedule. This was taking time even when the incremental backup schedules were very small. In Gbackup 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 Gbackup 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 Gbackup 2.0 Release.

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

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