Headline enhancements

Our latest release includes volumes of new functionality which brings with it a wealth of benefits. Some of the key highlights include:

• ABMR support for Dell EMC Avamar client/server version up to 18.2.100-134/18.2.0.134 respectively.
• NBMR support for Dell EMC NetWorker™ client/server version up to 18.2.0.0/18.2.0.1 respectively.
• All BMR products include an option to allow management of all BTRFS sub-volumes.
• All BMR products support Windows 2019 where the third appropriate third party client provides support.
• All BMR products are able to report Dissimilar Hardware (DHW) errors in the Cristie VA during Simulations or Recoveries.

Bug Fixes

Common Bug Fixes for all BMR products

• Driver Validation Tool WinPE 5 driver database incorrectly contained WinPE 10 native drivers.
• BTRFS options selection were not remembered and disrec SubvolRestore was not being set.
• An incorrect BTRFS snapshot sub-volume path was used during recovery.
• BTRFS snapshot sub-volumes were still created when the /.snapshots folder was excluded in the recovery options.
• SLES 11 and 15 BTRFS snapshots were not mounted on recovery.
• Licensing didn’t recognise RHEV as a virtual platform.
• Running bmrcfg resulted in a multi-path error if multi-path was installed but not configured.
• Solaris 11u1 DR boot script restarted during the FDisk phase.
• Solaris 9 recoveries failed.

CBMR Bug Fixes

• A VTD recovery of a Windows 2012 server from AWS to vSphere fails to boot.
• FTP backups failed with error “Failed to set Use SSL”.
• Incorrect version number shown for some components shown in Version Information dialogue.
• Scanning new backup devices on AIX did not populate iSCSI tape in the backup location list.

NBMR Bug Fixes

• Recovery of Windows 2008 R2 failed to boot with a 0x7B error code (no boot device).
• Recovery of Windows 2008 R2 backed up with a Dell EMC NetWorker™ 18.1 client fails if previously backed up with a 7.6.5 client.
• Windows 2008 R2 Point-in-Time recoveries fail to update boot files.
• WinPE 10 recoveries crash after the user confirms that they wish to reboot the target machine.

TBMR Bug Fixes

• Connections to IBM Spectrum Protect were lost if there was a delay in entering the password for an encrypted file.
• An “Encountered an improper argument” error was reported during backupset recoveries.

Support Information

• There is no support for Solaris 11.4 on Intel.
• WinPE 10 DR environments now require the use of the Microsoft WADK 10 version 1809.