A2 Release Notes 6.1 #8181


Alike v6.1

Released: 4/23/2019


A stabilization update. All A2 customers are encouraged to upgrade to this build.


Please note-

A cache rebuild may occur after this update. During this rebuild process, some/all backups may not show up in the UI. They are not lost, and will appear again once the rebuild is completed. The rebuild progress can be view on the Dashboard (a force refresh of your browser may be necessary).


Features and Improvements

  • Email notifications available for Vault Jobs
  • DB Cache rebuild status and progress now visible on the dashboard


Bug Fixes

  • Address backup failures with "meta file never arrived" errors
  • Vault jobs with GFS parent schedules will now abide by GFS retention rules properly
  • Stopping the Scheduling Service still allowed system jobs to run
  • Orphan ABD detection and attempted self-cleanup
  • Properly handle extremely delayed backup commits
  • Exclude exotic non-ntfs volumes from vss snapshot attempts on EFI systems
  • Extend retry/timeout for Q-Hybrid/Hyper-V systems getting "delayed write cache" errors
  • UI checkbox to filter only VMs with Vaulted Backups has been fixed
  • Fixed "unparseable" throughput file error


Known Issues

  • "alike" user for RestoreFS does not always change password properly
  • Drive order is not always correct in Job scheduling window (although the tooltip does properly show the disk's order)
  • Q-Hybrid Replication can fail with missing repCache (hcl) files
  • Hyper-V custom path for VHD/x files in replicate and restore jobs is not preserved
  • LVM file-level restore not supported for RestoreFS (full restores are supported)
  • Deleting an entire VM from the UI will remove it to be lost from any configured jobs
  • Dashboard graph empty on first day after initial install and setup