Active Backup for Business 2.1.1-1124 (2020-03-03)

What's New
1. Added support for inserting the argument to the Windows registry to avoid the UUID conflict issue.
2. Enhanced the performance of snapshots and replications when the replicated devices are running on or restoring to Synology Virtual Machine Manager.

Fixed Issues (General Issues)
1. Fixed the issue where Backup Calendar in the Overview page might not display properly after the system time reverted to standard time from daylight saving time.

Fixed Issues (Servers and Workstations)
1. Fixed the issue where the backup of a connected device might fail after the renaming of the DSM account already signed in on Synology Active Backup for Business Agent.
2. Fixed the issue where Synology NAS might not hibernate if there are connected physical servers or PCs.
3. Fixed the issue where the status of connected physical servers and PCs might display incorrectly as offline.

Fixed Issues (Virtual Machines)
1. Fixed the issue where Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine backup and restoration might fail if the password of the hypervisor contained a comma.
2. Fixed the issue where Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine backup and restoration might fail if the account of the hypervisor contained a space.
3. Fixed the issue where Microsoft Hyper-V machine backup might fail if there were multiple active network interface cards on Synology NAS.
4. Fixed the issue where the restoration might fail if the network interface card of a virtual machine lacked network attributes.
5. Fixed the issue where restoring VMware vSphere virtual machine with external devices might fail.
6. Fixed the issue where storage space might not be released after backed up data was deleted.
7. Fixed the issue where other backup jobs might be postponed if the system triggered the retention policy while running a backup task.

Fixed Issues (File Server)
1. Fixed the issue where the servers using different ports on the same IP address might not be added properly.

Limitation and Known Issues
1. ext3 file system is not supported to be the backup destination.

Release Notes

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Snapshot Replication 7.2.0-0478 (2020-04-28)

What's New
1. Users can now customize when to transfer snapshots to the destination server to reduce the performance impact of replication tasks.
2. Added support for replicating local scheduled snapshots to the destination server along with replication tasks. (Requires DSM 6.2.3.)

Fixed Issues
1. Fixed an issue where replicating shared folder snapshots to a local volume might fail.
2. Minor bug fixes.

Release Notes

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Hyper Backup 2.2.5-1261 (2020-07-07)

What's New
1. Added support for sorting data of encrypted backup tasks by file name on Hyper Backup Explorer.

Fixed Issues
1. Fixed the issue where the retention policy settings might be incorrect when the backup target was renamed.
2. Fixed the issue where relinking an encrypted backup task to Backblaze might fail.
3. Fixed the issue where data might be overwritten upon the restoration of backup tasks containing Active Backup for Business data.
4. Fixed the issue where the timeline in Backup Explorer might not display properly when the backup destination is Synology C2 and the interval between any two backup versions is longer than one month.
5. Fixed the issue where the restoration from existing repositories might fail after the encrypted backup task data was downloaded from a cloud service to a USB device.
6. Fixed the issue where backup tasks might be canceled by an auto-update of Hyper Backup.

Release Notes

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Hyper Backup 2.2.6-1316 (2020-10-20)

Important Note
1. Creating new backup tasks for Amazon Cloud Drive is no longer supported as Amazon Cloud Drive will end the service by November 2020. Existing backup tasks will keep running until the service is ended. For data safety, moving the data to other destinations in advance is strongly suggested.

Fixed Issues
1. Fixed the issue where editing backup tasks that back up volumes might cause backup failure.
2. Fixed the issue where the integrity check might fail when the backup destination is an encrypted shared folder or the file system of the destination is ext3.
3. Fixed the issue where the integrity check might fail when some of the backup files are corrupted.
4. Enhanced the compatibility of exported file change detail logs (CSV format) with the standard for CSV (RFC-4180).
5. Support customizing port for the backup task whose backup destination is S3.
6. Fixed the issue where selecting external devices as backup destinations in some models might cause the external devices to still be mounted after the backup tasks finished.
7. Fixed the issue where automatic logout might not work properly when the backup widget is on the DSM desktop.
8. Fixed the issue where task settings might not work properly when the versions are too many.

Limitations
1. Due to the system mechanism of Microsoft Azure, shared folders with "." at end of the names will no longer be backed up.

Release Notes

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Hyper Backup Vault 2.2.6-1316 (2020-10-20)

Compatibility & Installation
1. Upgraded to be compatible with Hyper Backup 2.2.6.

Fixed Issues
1. Minor bug fixes.

Release Notes

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Active Backup for Business 2.2.0-1761 (Beta)

https://www.synology.com/ru-ru/beta/2020_ABB_2_2_0_Beta_DSM6

What's new
1. Supports backing up and restoring Linux physical servers of the following distributions:
• CentOS: 6.10, 7.8, 8.1
• RHEL: 6.10, 7.8, 8.1
• Ubuntu: 16.04, 18.04, 20.04
• Fedora: 30, 31, 32
• Debian: 8.0 to 10
2. Added support for VMware vSphere 7.0.0
3. Added support for compression and encryption settings for personal computers, physical servers, and virtual machines at the backup destination.
4. Supports migrating instantly restored virtual machines on Virtual Machine Manager to VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V.
5. Users can now back up a maximum of 50 devices (personal computers, physical servers, and virtual machines) concurrently. The actual number varies by RAM capacity:
• Less than 8 GB: 10
• Between 8 GB and 32 GB: 30
• More than 32 GB: 50
6. Supports customizing pre/post scripts for physical server backups.
7. Supports removing data when the storage is deleted.
8. Added support for backup reports in PDF format to be attached in emails.
9. Supports deleting reports.
10. Supports automatically checking if the required services on VMware vSphere/Microsoft Hyper-V are properly configured when adding a hypervisor or creating a backup task.
11. Supports skipping duplicated pagefile.sys, hiberfil.sys, and swapfiles.sys files when backing up personal computers and physical servers.
12. Scheduled backup tasks for physical servers/personal computers will be canceled when the devices are disconnected for over an hour after tasks start.
13. Displays tasks that have been restored within the last 48 hours in "Restore Status."
14. Added support for restoring a file's metadata along with the file restoration from Active Backup for Business Portal.

Fixed Issues (General Issue)
1. Fixed an issue where the schedule of reports might not be editable.
2. Fixed an issue where manually creating a folder in the "@ActiveBackup" folder might cause the backup data within the manually created folder inaccessible.
3. Fixed an issue where "Backup now" might fail when the backup task was created during the forbidden backup time of the backup window.
4. Fixed an issue where the system might not properly display the finish time of backup tasks on the Activities page and the Task List tab

Fixed Issues (Servers and Workstations)
1. Fixed an issue where the system might incorrectly identify multiple devices with the same UUID when performing entire device restoration.

Fixed Issues (Virtual Machines)
1. Fixed an issue where Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine backup tasks might fail if the size of the virtual machine disk was not an integer multiple of 1 KB.
2. Fixed an issue where Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine backup tasks might fail when it was connected to Synology NAS via its hostname.
3. Fixed an issue where Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine restoration might fail if the virtual machine used Cluster Shared Volumes.
4. Fixed an issue where Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine restoration might fail when its Windows guest OS time format was 24-hours.
5. Fix an issue where the restoration performance might be slow when there were too many files in the destination folder.
6. Fixed an issue where the restoration might fail if the virtual machine contained a physical disk or a Raw Device Mapping (RDM).
7. Fixed an issue where instantly restored virtual machines might not display in the Restore Status page if Active Backup for Business had been restarted.
8. Fixed an issue where the system might not able to perform a backup task and a retention policy at the same time.

Limitations
1. Backup tasks that have enabled compression or encryption at backup destinations can't apply the following settings:
• Instant restore to Synology Virtual Machine Manager
• Instant restore to VMware (for virtual machines on VMware vSphere 7.0.1)
• Instant restore to Microsoft Hyper-V
• Backup verification

Release Notes

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Snapshot Replication 7.2.1-0607 (2021-02-23)

Fixed issues
1. Fixed an issue where replication tasks could not execute if their previous tasks failed.
2. Minor bug fixes.

Release Notes

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Hyper Backup 2.2.7-1374 (2021-05-04)

Fixed Issues
1. Enhanced the stability of relinking to avoid relinking failure when the connection is bad.
2. Enhanced the retry mechanism when restoring from public cloud services to increase the success rate.
3. Enhanced the retry mechanism when backing up to Microsoft Azure or a WebDAV server to avoid backup failures.
4. Fixed an issue where the restoration might fail when the path of the restored file includes "@eaDir".
5. Fixed an issue where restoring Synology Moments might fail if the backup version was created in DSM 6.2.3 or earlier versions.
6. Fixed an issue where restoring a large number of files from a remote Synology NAS might fail.
7. Fixed an issue where backup data on Dropbox might be corrupted.
8. Fixed an issue where a backup task might fail when its schedule conflicts with that of Snapshot Replication.
9. Fixed multiple security vulnerabilities (Synology-SA-21:18).

Release Notes

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Hyper Backup Vault 2.2.7-1374 (2021-05-04)

Fixed Issues
1. Fixed an issue where the package could not be opened immediately after remote Hyper Backup tasks are created on the source Synology NAS.

Release Notes

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Active Backup for Business 2.2.0-12070 (2021-06-01)

Compatibility and Installation
1. Updated to be compatible with DSM 7.0.

What’s New
1. Supports backing up and restoring Linux physical servers of the following distributions:
o CentOS: 6.10, 7.8, 8.1
o RHEL: 6.10, 7.8, 8.1
o Ubuntu: 16.04, 18.04, 20.04
o Fedora: 30, 31, 32
o Debian: 8.0 to 10
2. Added support for VMware vSphere 7.0.0.
3. Added support for compression and encryption at the backup destination for personal computers, physical servers, and virtual machines.
4. Supports migrating instantly restored virtual machines on Virtual Machine Manager to VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V.
5. Users can now back up a maximum of 50 devices (personal computers, physical servers, and virtual machines) concurrently. The actual number varies depending on RAM capacity:
o Less than 8 GB: 10
o Between 8 GB and 31 GB: 30
o 32 GB or more: 50
6. Supports customizing pre/post scripts for physical server backups.
7. Supports backing up disks with the virtio_blk driver on Linux physical servers.
8. Supports removing stored data when the storage is deleted.
9. Supports attaching backup reports in PDF format in report emails.
10. Supports deleting reports.
11. Supports automatically checking if the required services on VMware vSphere/Microsoft Hyper-V are properly configured when adding a hypervisor or creating a backup task.
12. Supports skipping duplicated pagefile.sys, hiberfil.sys, and swapfiles.sys files when backing up personal computers and physical servers.
13. Scheduled backup tasks for physical servers/personal computers will be canceled when the devices are disconnected for over an hour after tasks start.
14. Displays tasks that have been restored within the last 48 hours in "Restore Status."
15. Supports Instant Restore to Hyper-V or Synology Virtual Machine Manager and Backup Verification for backup tasks with compression or encryption at backup destination enabled.
o Applied models:
 FS-series: FS6400, FS3600, FS3400, FS1018, FS2017
 SA-series: SA3600, SA3400, SA3200D
 21-series: DS1621xs+, DS1621+
 20-series: RS820RP+, RS820+, DS1520+, DS920+, DS720+, DS620slim, DS420+, DS220+
 19-series: RS1619xs+, DS2419+, DS1819+, DS1019+
 18-series: RS3618xs, RS2818RP+, RS2418RP+, RS2418+, DS3018xs, DS1618+, DS918+, DS718+, DS418play, DS218+
 17-series: RS18017xs+, RS4017xs+, RS3617RPxs, RS3617xs+, DS3617xs

Limitations
1. For Microsoft Hyper-V backup tasks, Instant Restore to VMware vSphere isn't available when compression or encryption at backup destinations is enabled.

Release Notes

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Hyper Backup 3.0.0-2277 (2021-06-01)

Important Notes
1. Due to the database format upgrade, the tasks of Hyper Backup 3.0.0 or above will not be available for earlier versions of Hyper Backup to relink.
2. Creating new backup tasks for Amazon Cloud Drive is no longer supported as Amazon Cloud Drive ended the service in November 2020.
3. Synology C2 Backup has been renamed Synology C2 Storage.

Compatibility and Installation
1. Updated to be compatible with DSM 7.0.
2. This version is compatible with Hyper Backup Vault 2.2.0, and existing backup tasks will not be affected after the update.

What's New
1. Supports delegating administrator privileges to non-administrator user accounts and allowing them to manage backup tasks.
2. Supports displaying detailed task status when deleting backup versions.
3. Enhanced error logs information for better error handling.
4. Enhanced the performance when deleting backup versions on public cloud services.
5. Supports backing up more DSM applications.
6. Added support for Synology Secure SignIn. When creating a backup task to a remote Synology NAS, the connection to the destination server can be verified by Secure SignIn. (Hyper Backup Vault 3.0.0 Beta or above is required on the target Synology NAS.)
7. Supports encrypting backup data using the ECC Curve25519 encryption technology. (Only applicable to backup tasks created after updating to Hyper Backup 3.0.0.)
8. Includes more details in successful backup notification emails, such as source data size and increased data size.

Release Notes

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Hyper Backup Vault 3.0.0-2277 (2021-06-01)

Compatibility and Installation
1. Updated to be compatible with DSM 7.0.
2. This version is compatible with Hyper Backup on DSM 6.0, and existing backup tasks will not be affected after the update.

What's New
1. Supports decrypting backup data encrypted by the ECC Curve 25519 encryption technology.

Release Notes

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