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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

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• 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

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• Status
  colour Green title SQLSAFE-13766

   The Last Operation Status section is now updating properly the list of backups that succeeded and failed.

Grooming

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• Status
  colour Green title SQLSAFE-13652

   The license key is now working properly when adding instances in the Web Console.

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• 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  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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Administrators and users can now create a backup, restore, and log shipping policies with the same capabilities as in the desktop console. The options for launching the Policy Wizards are available from the Home, Policies, Instances, and Databases tabs.
• SQL Safe now allows you to access and edit any policy from the Policies tab.  

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• 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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