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

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9.2.

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2 New

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Support for SQL Server 2014

Idera SQL Safe 7.4 now supports SQL Server 2014

Support for SQL Server Express

Idera SQL Safe now supports SQL Server Express in all its editions and versions. 

Availability to use the SQL Safe Backup Agent to schedule policies

Users can now choose between using the SQL Safe Backup Agent for scheduling backup, restore, and log shipping policies or the SQL Server Agent as another option for scheduling these policies. Previous versions only allowed to use the SQL Server Agent to schedule policy jobs but now the user can choose the SQL Safe Backup Agent as a scheduler for these jobs too.

Centralized license management in the Management Service

License Management has now been centralized in the SQLsafe the Management Service which is in charge of keeping track of those SQL Server instances that are licensed for backup operations. The user specifies which instances they want to license through the License Management view in the Management Console and the Management Service will contact the respective Backup Agents for licensing. 

The new License Management view allows users to add multi-instance license keys with no expiration date. On this view users can see which instances are licensed and which ones are only registered but not licensed yet. Users can manage licenses on this view and select those instances that they need to be licensed.

New Upgrade Installer

Users can now access upgrade production installers from our Customer Support Portal. These installers are different from the trial installer, which now generates a trial license for unlimited instances with a 14-day expiration key on a fresh install.

Support on Always On Availability Groups

SQLsafe now supports SQL Server Availability Groups and allows you to perform backup and recovery strategies on your primary and secondary replicas.

7.4 Fixed issues

You no longer need to restart the InstantRestore service when adding a new drive to a server.

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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 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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