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SQL Safe is ONLY compatible with IDERA Dashboard version 4.6 and with limited support.

9.2.2 New Features

Restore

For Restore operations, you can now Prioritize the Operation.

9.2.2 Fixed Issues

Availability Group

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-15109
You can change the Database Owner for restored databases in Availability Groups.

Instance

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14031
Instances are listed in alphabetical order now.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13993
You can register instances with the same name in different domains.

Policy

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14910
The selected options in the wizard are retained when you click back on the wizard.

Restore

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14676
The restore file list provides support for Cloud Storage.

SQL Safe Agent

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14931
The panel Upgrade Status displays now information properly when upgrading the SQL Safe Backup Agent.

SQL Safe Management Console

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-15056
The instance status is now displaying the information properly in the SQL Safe Management Console.

9.2.1 New Features

Instances

Registered instances are now stored centrally for all users.

SQL Safe Agent

When upgrading the SQL Safe Agents you can also install the Extended Store Procedure.

SQL Safe Backup Operations

Users can perform SQL Safe Backup operations on online and offline databases. Offline databases are shown as 'Skipped' in the Status column of the Operation History panel.

9.2.1 Fixed Issues

Availability Group

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14897
Full (copy-only) backups are running normally on secondary replicas when the backup preference is set to "Prefer Secondary".
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14976
The Mass Agent Upgrade option works properly using AG Listener and AG Cluster nodes.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14906
Users can now apply changes to policies involved with Failover Cluster Instances.

Virtual Database

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14365
The issue of restoring virtual databases is solved now.

9.2 New Features

Amazon S3

The On-Premise storage option is now available when performing backup operations.

Instances

Users can now move their registered instances from the User Preferences to the SQL Safe Repository.

Policies

Users can now Import / Export their policies.

9.2 Fixed Issues

Amazon S3 Cloud

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14621
Restore operations are performed successfully on Amazon Cloud Storage.

Availability Group

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14534
The License Key Manager and Repository and Management Service Settings are now properly identifying and displaying the Availability Group Listener Name registered at installation.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14850
There are no delays when performing simultaneous Backup operations on Availability Group instances.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14852
The SQL Safe Agent is running properly on the Availability Group listener.

Azure Cloud

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14704
Restore operations are working properly on Azure Blob Storage.

Backup

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14820
The Backup time and compression on TDE-enabled databases are working properly.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14866
Information about Pre/Post Backup commands is displayed now in the Option section of the Summary tab.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14006
There is no FileStream error message for any Backup operations performed on any databases.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14684
The Mount VDB and Object Level Recovery operations are working properly for Differential Backups.

Policies

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14328
The Location Path is not altered when changing a Policy compression type.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14840
Users can now edit successfully existing policies.

SQL Safe Backup/Restore

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14699
Users can now perform Backup and Restore operations for more than one backup file from multiple locations.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13044
Backup and Restore operations are successful with SQL Server Multi-Subnet Clustering.

9.1 New Features

Azure

New Authentication Methods are available: Key and SAS (Shared Access Signature Service URL).

Backup in Desktop Console

Users can now run Pre/Post-Backup Commands.

Upgrade

A new wizard to upgrade SQL Safe Agents is available.

9.1 Fixed Issues

Amazon S3 Cloud

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14622
Restores of backup files with FILESTREAM files are working properly now.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14842
Users can now rename the bucket properly.

Availability Group

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14341
Full and Differential backups are working properly on Availability Groups.

Azure Cloud

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14619
Backup operations to the Azure Storage account are running faster than before.

Installation

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13999
Users can now install remotely the SQL Safe Backup Agent where the Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 redistributable or greater is previously installed.

Object Level Recovery

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14554
Object Level Recovery operations on remote instances using CLI or XSP are working properly now.

Policies

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14393
Users can now perform log shipping policies properly using CLI with and without encryption.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14572
The SQL Server Agent is working properly when performing backup policies.

Virtual Database

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14733
The Virtual Database is mounting the original database.

9.0 New Features

User Interface

New User Interface features include UI Scaling (support for 4K monitors and scaled fonts) and a new dark mode theme.

8.7.2 New Features

Amazon S3 Cloud

The StorageClass parameter is now available when backing up to Amazon S3 Cloud (AWS S3).

SQL Safe Repository

Users can now record the cluster details in the SQL Safe Repository.

8.7.2 Fixed Issues

Azure Cloud

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14448
Backup and Restore operations are allowed on Azure File storage and Azure Blob storage.

Backup / Restore

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13991
Backup and Restore operations of a database from an Untrusted Domain server are successful.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14381
Backup and Restore operations are allowed from Untrusted Domains.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14559
Backup and Restore operations are working properly on the Amazon S3 cloud.

CLI Command

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14296
Restore Policies are working properly through CLI commands for backups in the Amazon S3 cloud.

Instant Restore

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13868
Restore Hydration operations can be canceled on the Management Console.

Management Service

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14268
The Management Service is working properly.

Object Level Recovery

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14425
Reference objects are included in Object Level Recovery operations.

Policies

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14196
Backup and Restore policies are working properly for the Azure cloud.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14255
SQL Safe detects when a policy is out of sync.

Restore

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14265
The Restore Again option is assigning properly the new path location.

SQL Safe Agent

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14130
In untrusted domains, Windows Authentication is blocked and the SQL Safe Agent authenticates using SQL Server Authentication.

Upgrade

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13889
Upgrade the repository when the temporary database has been previously backed up. Please contact support for further assistance.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14129
After upgrading SQL Safe Backup, the registration of the Web Console is successful.

Virtual Database

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14626
Virtual Database operations are working properly for both local and remote instances.

8.7.1 New Features

Cloud Support

Extended support is now available for cloud backups and restores from Azure and Amazon S3.

Desktop Console

The user experience has been improved in the Desktop Console.

Object Level Recovery / Virtual Database

The Object Level Recovery and Virtual Database functionalities are now refined and reinforced.

8.7.1 Fixed Issues

Backup

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14526
Backup files are now deleted from the temporary download location while performing a
backup.

Cloud Storage

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14460
Amazon S3 and Azure cloud storage performance has been improved to load large backup
files.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14264

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14513
Restore operations from Amazon and Azure cloud storage through T-SQL
and CLI commands are now working properly.

Notifications

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14132
Email notifications are sent properly now after the product upgrade.

Operation Status

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14544
Queued operations are now displayed correctly in the Operation Status window.

Policies

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14166

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14259
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14280

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14500

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14562
Policies performance has
been improved.

Virtual Database and Object Level Recovery

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14232
Virtual Database and Object Level Recovery operations are now supported in a cluster
environment after a failover.
Make sure you set up manually the VDBMetadata directory structure before a Virtual Database operation is
attempted on an availability group environment.

8.7 New Features

Object Level Recovery

The Object Level Recovery functionality is now available in the Desktop Console.

Policies

Users can now copy policies in the Desktop Console.

Virtual Database

The Virtual Database functionality is now available in the Desktop Console.

8.6.1 New Features

Backup and Restore operations

SQL Safe Backup now supports backup compression for TDE-enabled databases with native SQL Server (.bak) format.
SQL Safe Backup now supports backup and restore for Change Data Capture (CDC) enabled databases preserving the CDC metadata and capture \ cleanup jobs.

Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2019

IDERA SQL Safe Backup 8.6.1 version now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2019 for all operations.

8.6.1 Fixed Issues

CLI and T-SQL Commands

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14275

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14269
CLI and T-SQL commands are now working properly for all SQL Safe Backup operations.

Policies

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14247
Backup operation statuses are now displayed properly in the Policy Status tab for SQL Server versions older than 2012.

Restore

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14267
Performing a Point-In-Time restore no longer leaves the database in a "recovering" state.

8.6 New Features

Azure / Amazon S3 Cloud

SQL Safe Backup 8.6 version now supports Azure and Amazon S3 subfolders.

Cloud Environment

Redesigned cloud backup and restore operations for Azure and Amazon S3 storage.

Support for Microsoft Windows 2019

IDERA SQL Safe Backup 8.6 version now supports Microsoft Windows 2019.

8.6 Fixed Issues

Availability Group

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14063
Users can now host their SQL Safe Backup repository databases in an availability group environment. The SQL Server instances are registered using the listener name. For both cases, the license is tied to the listener name instead of each node. Keep in mind that if the availability group listener is registered and licensed instead of the node, then non-availability group databases would not be visible in SQL Safe Backup.

Backup

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14206
Users can now perform backup operations to an Azure location specifying the container name as "Page blob".

Backup / Restore

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-11856

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13585

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13890

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13924

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14009

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14161
Users can now backup and restore large databases to/from Azure and Amazon S3 locations.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13539

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14083
Users can now backup and restore to/from Azure and Amazon S3 cloud base storage using subfolders.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14193

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14194
Users can now perform AdHoc backup and AdHoc restore operations to Amazon S3 and Azure cloud storage using subfolders. They need to make sure to select the Force Restore (replace) option when performing restore operations.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14087

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14091
Backup and restore operations are now working properly for TSM and Amazon S3 locations.

Cluster Environment

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13853
Users can now perform Object Level Recovery and Virtual Database operations to an agent in a clustered environment.

FIPS Compliance

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13847
Users can now perform backup and restore operations when enabling FIPS compliance. They can save Azure Pub Account details in the Web and Desktop Console.

Policies

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13546
Users cannot run backup policies to a snapshot database.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14192
Users can now perform backup policies using subfolders from azure locations.

Restore

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13952
The Restore wizard is now working properly when restoring backed up databases to Amazon S3 locations in a remote instance.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14053
Instant Restore operations to large databases are now working properly when it is restored to a new database or to an existing database using the "Force Restore" option.

Upgrades

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14049
After upgrading from SQL Safe Backup 8.5.2 to 8.6, the registration of the Web Console is now successful.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14123
Users can now upgrade the SQL Safe Agent Components from an old SQL Safe Backup product version to the 8.6 version properly.

8.5.2 New Features

Backup

The SQL Safe Management Console has been improved to allow users to perform backups in native (.bak) format.

IDERA Dashboard

SQL Safe Backup is now integrated with IDERA Dashboard 4.6.0.9.

SQL Safe Web Console

The SQL Safe Web Console includes an additional tab named Advanced for editing the properties of a registered instance.

8.5.2 Fixed Issues

Availability Groups

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13888
Users can now perform Full/Differential backups on the secondary replica and Full/Differential policies on the primary replica.

Backup

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-12892
The verify backup option is now working properly when performing backups to TSM.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13438
Users can now backup large databases to Amazon S3.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13521
Scheduled backup jobs are now working properly in a failover cluster environment.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13938
Users can now perform backups with a remote instance using a non-default port number.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13908
Improved user experience with T-Log backup operations.

Cluster Environment

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13875
Users can now deploy the Backup Agent onto a Cluster Environment from the SQL Safe Management Console.

Desktop Console

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13766
The Last Operation Status section is now updating properly the list of backups that succeeded and failed.

Grooming

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-12842
The repository grooming is now set to 365 days.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13854
The grooming bitesize option is now set to 1000.

Installation

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13984
The recovery model and page verify settings are now set properly when installing SQL Safe Backup.

License

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13652
The license key is now working properly when adding instances in the Web Console.

Management Service

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-12850
Log entries are now working properly.

Policies

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-9560
Restore policies are now working properly when changing the target database name of a restore performed from one server to another.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13406
The Copy Policy feature is now scheduling policies properly.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-14060
When performing a backup policy, the location type is now set properly.

Restore

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13903
Users can now restore backup files that are moved manually to Amazon S3. Once the file is moved to Amazon S3, rename the file, and perform the restore.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13938
Users can now perform restores with a remote instance using a non-default port number.

T-Log Backup

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13908
Improved user experience with T-Log backup operations.

Upgrade

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13976
Users can now upgrade manually SQL Safe Backup from 8.4.2 to 8.5.2 using the agent.

8.5.1 New Features

Amazon

SQL Safe Backup now supports the Amazon AWS GovCloud S3 in the SQL Safe Management Console and SQL Safe Web Console.

Azure

SQL Safe Backup now supports the Azure Government Blob Storage in the SQL Safe Management Console, SQL Safe Web Console, SQL Safe CLI, and SQL Safe XSP.

Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM)

SQL Safe Backup now allows users to create striped files when backing up to TSM through the SQL Safe Management Console.

8.5.1 Fixed Issues

Access Files

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13737
The SQL Safe Web Console will now prompt users for credentials to access the file system when the initial attempt fails.

Backup

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13346
SQL Safe Backup policies automatically perform a full backup operation when a differential backup operation fails due to a lack of a full backup.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-12893
The storage options of the Backup again with different options to Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) are working properly now in the SQL Safe Management Console.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-12894
The High Level and Low Level text boxes of the Backup with different options to Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) are recognizing the data properly in the SQL Safe Web Console.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-9555
SQL Safe Backup displays now properly the progress of backup operations that are being performed without compression.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13892
Backup and restore operations performed in native file format can have timeout values modified through a registry key update.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13225
Percentage values are no longer included in the Result Text of backup and restore operations.

Instant Restore

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-9722
Resolved an issue that would prevent an InstantRestore operation from completing successfully.

Management Console Preferences

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13350
The preferences set on either the SQL Safe Web Console or SQL Safe Management Console are kept the same when performing operations.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13891
Users can now set long passwords for the deployed Backup Agent service account in the Agent Deployment option.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13842
The SQL Safe Management Console is no longer reporting a false failure when deploying the SQL Safe Backup Agent to a remote server.

Object Level Recovery

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13577
Users can now perform Object Level Recovery operations to a large backup file.

Operation History

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13137
The Database name of every operation performed is kept in the Operation History tab.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-12154
The SQL Safe Web Console now displays times in the local time zone.

Policies

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13848
Users can now edit SQL Safe Backup Policies which includes unreachable SQL Server instances and/or SQL Safe Backup Agents.

Repository

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-11932
Improvements to the grooming operation.

Restore

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13489
Optimized the mc_GetRestorableDatabaseBackupsets stored procedure which is used to populate the list of backup sets in the SQL Safe Restore wizard.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13839
SQL Safe Backup can now successfully restore large backup files that are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket.

SQL Safe Backup Service

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13804
Optimized the SQL Safe Backup Agent to prevent crashes in certain scenarios.

SQL Safe Management Console

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13893
The SQL Safe Management Console is now able to connect to the SQL Safe Management Service without any problems.

SQL Safe Scripts

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-12867
Removed the 3200 character limit when performing an operation through SQL Safe Backup.

SQL Safe XSP

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-12465
Users can now perform Object Level Recovery operations using the XSP commands.

8.5 New Features

Grooming

The groom settings for SQL Safe Backup have been improved to allow users to granularly control the amount of operational history that is to be maintained by SQL Safe Backup. This improvement will provide users with more control over maintaining the size of the SQL Safe repository database.

IDERA Dashboard

SQL Safe is now integrated with IDERA Dashboard 3.8.1.9.

New Installer

The installer has been improved to allow the installation of all SQL Safe Backup components and the IDERA Dashboard in one single wizard.

SQL Safe Agents view

The SQL Safe Agents tab now includes SQL Virtual Database properties.

Support

SQL Safe now supports SQL Server 2017 CU4+ on a Windows operating system.

Virtual Database

The Virtual Database page has been updated to allow users to easily manage the virtual databases that have been mounted. Users can quickly and easily identify which virtual databases are mounted on which SQL Server instance.

8.5 Fixed Issues

Administration

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13282
In the SQL Safe Web Console, users are now able to select the account type and specify the session timeout for the account they are adding in the Manage Users option.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13280
In the SQL Safe Web Console, the user list in Manager Users is now viewable when the list spans several pages.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13274
In the SQL Safe Web Console, users are now able to Add Groups in the Manage Users option.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13228
In the SQL Safe Web Console, users can successfully configure the credentials to be used by the SQL Safe Management Service when connecting to the SQL Safe repository database.

Availability Group

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-11993
SQL Safe Backup Policies which include databases in an availability group are now accurately reporting the Backups did not start as scheduled status.

CLI Commands

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13351
Users can now use the CLI commands for "restorelast" and “xp_ss_restorelast” to restore the latest backup without an associated backup policy.

Event Logs

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-1620
The SQL Safe Backup Service, by default, is no longer writing entries into the Windows Application Event log when policies are configured to have jobs created by the SQL Safe Backup Agent.

IDERA Dashboard

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13483
In the SQL Safe Web Console, users are now able to perform backup operations successfully where the target location uses a UNC path.

Object Level Recovery

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13320
The Object Level Recovery functionality is working properly now when the repository is hosted on SQL Server 2014+ instance.

Operation History

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13254
In the SQL Safe Web Console, the instance column is now displaying the full instance name on the Operational History page.

Point in Time

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13560
The point in time functionality is working properly when mounting a virtual database.

Policies

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13366
Users can now add a database to an existing backup policy.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13304
In the SQL Safe Web Console, the filename is now auto-generated when enabling the option to delete backup files in the backup policy wizard.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13194
In the SQL Safe Web Console, the "Access Files As" option is now able to switch to the default state after providing different credentials in the Restore policy.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13191
When creating or editing a policy in the SQL Safe Web Console, the credentials specified for accessing the file system is now properly applied.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13159
In the SQL Safe Web Console, users can run now a policy manually.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-12673
In the SQL Safe Web Console, restore policies are working properly when configured to connect to the SQL instance using SQL Server Authentication.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13513
Users can now supply a UNC path when creating or modifying a policy in the SQL Safe Web Console.

Restore

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13448
In the SQL Safe Web Console, users can now perform the verify operation using the restore wizard.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13372
In the SQL Safe Web Console, the point in time selection is working properly now in the restore wizard.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13173
In the SQL Safe Web Console, users are now able to select multiple files for restore through the File System and Target Server options.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-12860
The restore wizard now correctly selects the SQL Server instance based on the user selection on the Databases tab when the Repository option is selected.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-12049
The restore wizard now displays the list of instances in sorted order on the Databases tab when the Repository option is selected.

SQL Safe installation

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-12858
Users can now successfully install SQL Safe Backup while using quotes (") in their service account passwords.

Upgrade

Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-13243
Upgrading will use the existing installation directory rather than using the default path of C:\Program Files\Idera\SQLsafe.
Status
colour Green
title SQLSAFE-12574
The SQL Safe Agent Components can now be upgraded through the SQL Safe Management Console.

8.4.2 Fixed Issues

Dashboard

...

Updated licensing files that will affect expiring subscription keys (license keys that have an expiration date). If applying for a new subscription license key, you must upgrade prior to applying the new key. Perpetual license keys (non-expiring license keys) are not impacted.

...

Users can mount a virtual database from backup file(s) located on a UNC share, as long as the SQL Safe Backup Service and SQL Safe OLR Service has permissions to the UNC share.
Mount Operations through the SQLvdb CLI Commands now recognizes the default location settings in the Graphical User Interface (GUI) and do does not require the -Move parameter for the database file.

...

Virtual Database (VDB) is integrated to into SQL Safe 8.4.

8.4 Fixed Issues

...

When adding an instance to SQL Safe Backup, users can now validate the entered credentials by running the Test Credentials button.

Backup Policy

...

SQL Safe Backup policies configured with the "Monitor + Automatically create backup jobs using the SQLsafe Backup Agent" action , are now running all operations as scheduled.

...

In the Restore Database wizard, the browse button, located in the Databases option under the File System tab, is now enabled.
In the SQL Safe Restore Wizard, selecting a file path using the Browse feature correctly populates the file path that was chosen.

...

The installer has been improved to allow the installation of all SQL Safe components and the Idera Dashboard in one single wizard.

Policies

Copying policies is now policies is now available from the Policy tab. Users can now copy preexisting policies and modifying modify their settings before copying them.

...

Users do not experience error messages anymore when performing the bulk "Backup Again" operation in the Operation History tab.
Users can now sort the databases list of the backup wizard according to Database Name, Last Backup, or Space Used.
The Restore Wizard now updates the point-in-time date accurately after clicking the Apply option.
"Restore again" and "Restore with different options" are now available for Instant Restore operations in the Operation History tab.
Links from "Databases with failed backups" and "Databases with failed restores" in the "My Environment" section of the Home tab now direct to the correct information in the Operation History tab.
Users can now access a tool tip tooltip that provides the complete name of SQL Server instances and databases displayed in the bar graphs of the Home tab.
SQL Safe now supports TSM (Tivoli Storage Manager) 7.1.1.1.
Users can now use wildcards such as %, _, [ ], [^] to find their information more quickly through the filters.
Users can now perform the "Restore again" operation as a bulk operation in the Operation History tab without experiencing error messages.
When upgrading to a new version, users can now select previous SQL Safe display names or create a new one.

...

SQL Safe currently shows backup operations progress even when the compression option is not selected.
If a policy with a differential backup has a database with no previous full backup, SQL Safe takes first a full backup before executing the policy.
SQL Safe no longer restores logins when the option Include database logins in the backup file is are selected for backup operations.
SQL Safe accurately sends warning notifications for the Verify step of Backup + Verify Policies.
SQL Safe has now improved the logic for calculating policy schedules and sending email notifications.
SQL Safe currently considers the creation date of a new database before sending notifications for missed operations schedules.

...

Home tab - with a general status of the environment through alerts, summary information of SQL Safe operations, managed instances, and other important data.
Policies tab - with information about all SQL Safe policies existing in the users environment.
Operations History tab - with of all SQL Safe operations performed in the users environment the users environment and their current status.
Instances tab - with a general view of all SQL Server instances registered in the users environment.
Databases tab - with general information of the databases that belong to the SQL Server instances registered in the users environment.
SQL Safe Agents tab - provides information of all computers that host registered SQL Server instances and the details of related Safe Agents.

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9.2.2 New Features

9.2.2 Fixed Issues

9.2.1 New Features

9.2.1 Fixed Issues

9.2 New Features

9.2 Fixed Issues

9.1 New Features

9.1 Fixed Issues

9.0 New Features

8.7.2 New Features

8.7.2 Fixed Issues

8.7.1 New Features

8.7.1 Fixed Issues

8.7 New Features

8.6.1 New Features

8.6.1 Fixed Issues

8.6 New Features

8.6 Fixed Issues

8.5.2 New Features

8.5.2 Fixed Issues

8.5.1 New Features

8.5.1 Fixed Issues

8.5 New Features

8.5 Fixed Issues

8.4.2 Fixed Issues

8.4 Fixed Issues