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SQL Safe Backup provides the following new features and fixed issues.

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9.2.2 New Features

SQL Safe 8.2 includes the following features in its web console:

Policies

• Administrators and users can now create 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.  

Cloud Storage

• SQL Safe now includes Amazon S3 Cloud as a storage option for backup and restore operations. 

Enhanced Options in the Alerts section

• Alerts related to connection failures allow administrators and users to:
  • Start/Restart SQL Safe Backup Agents
  • Install/Upgrade the SQL Safe Backup Agents.
• Administrators and users are now able to create backup policies or add databases to existing policies in alerts notifying that databases have not been backed up.

Instances tab

• Administrators and users can now Start/Restart SQL Safe Backup Agents and/or Install/Upgrade the SQL Safe Backup Agents from the instances tab. 

SQL Safe Agents tab

• Administrators and normal users are now able to edit the properties of the servers hosting SQL Safe Backup Agents. 
• Administrators and users can now find the following options:
  • Install/Upgrade the SQL Safe Backup Agents
  • Enable/Disable SQL Safe Instant Restore

General Preferences 

The General Preferences section of the Administration tab now includes the following options:

• The Agent Deployment section allows Administrators to specify the service account to be used for deploying Backup Agents.
• The Policy Data section lets Administrators specify a different path for the policy data files location.
• The Cloud Settings section allows Administrators to set their preferred configuration options for Amazon S3 cloud storage.  

Saving Filtered Views

• Users can now save their preferred filters in the Policies, Operation History, Databases, Instances, and SQL Safe Agents tabs. 

8.2 Fixed Issues

• 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 backup file is 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. 

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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

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  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 identifying and displaying properly 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 for any databases.

• Status
  colour Green title SQLSAFE-14684

  The Mount VDB and Object Level Recovery operations are now 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 of 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.

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