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

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2.2 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 properties of a registered instance.

Restore

• For Restore operations, you can now Prioritize the Operation.

9.2.

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2 Fixed Issues

Availability GroupsGroup

• Status
  colour Green title SQLSAFE-1388815109

   Users can now perform Full/Differential backups on the secondary replica and Full/Differential policies on the primary replica. You can change the Database Owner for restored databases in Availability Groups.

InstanceBackup

• Status
  colour Green title SQLSAFE-12892

   The verify bakcup option is now working properly when performing backups to TSM. StatuscolourGreentitleSQLSAFE-13438 Users can now backup large databases to Amazon S3.

  14031

  Instances are listed in alphabetical order now StatuscolourGreentitleSQLSAFE-13521 Scheduled backup jobs are now working properly in a failover cluster environment.

• Status
  colour Green title SQLSAFE-1393813993

   Users can now perform backups with a remote instance using a non-default port number. StatuscolourGreentitleSQLSAFE-13908 Improved user experience with T-Log backup operations.

Cluster Environment

• You can register instances with the same name in different domains.

Policy

• Status
  colour Green title SQLSAFE-13875

   Users can now deploy the Backup Agent onto a Cluster Environment from the SQL Safe Management Console.

  14910

  The selected options in the wizard are retained when you click back on the wizard.

RestoreDesktop Console

• Status
  colour Green title SQLSAFE-1376614676

   The Last Operation Status section is now updating properly the list of backups succeeded and failed. The restore file list provides support for Cloud Storage.

SQL Safe AgentGrooming

• Status
  colour Green title SQLSAFE-1284214931

   The repository grooming is now set to 365 days. StatuscolourGreentitleSQLSAFE-13854 The grooming bitesize option is now set to 1000.

Installation

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• The panel Upgrade Status displays now information properly when upgrading the SQL Safe Backup Agent.

SQL Safe Management ConsoleLicense

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  colour Green title SQLSAFE-1365215056

  The license key instance status is now working properly when adding instances displaying the information properly in the Web SQL Safe Management Console.

Management Service

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Policies

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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

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Restore

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T-Log Backup

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Upgrade

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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

• 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-13346

   SQL Safe Backup policies automatically performs 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

  14976

  The Mass Agent Upgrade option works properly using AG Listener and AG Cluster nodes.

• Status
  colour Green title SQLSAFE-9555

   SQL Safe Backup displays now properly the progress of a backup operations that are being performed without compression.

  14906

  Users can now apply changes to policies involved with Failover Cluster Instances.

Virtual Database

• 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 Agents 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.

• 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 CloudRestore

• 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.

• 14621

  Restore operations are performed successfully on Amazon Cloud Storage.

Availability GroupSQL 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.

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• 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-12867

   Removed the 3200 character limit when performing an operation through SQL Safe Backup.

SQL Safe XSP

• 14850

  There are no delays when performing simultaneous Backup operations on Availability Group instances.

• 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 on 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

• 14852

  The SQL Safe Agent is running properly on the Availability Group listener.

Azure Cloud

• 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.

  14704

  Restore operations are working properly on Azure Blob Storage.

Backup

• Status
  colour Green title SQLSAFE-13274

   In the SQL Safe Web Console, users are now able to Add Groups in the Manage Users option. StatuscolourGreentitleSQLSAFE-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

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• 14820

  The Backup time and compression on TDE-enabled databases are working properly.

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• 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

• 14866

  Information about Pre/Post Backup commands is displayed now in the Option section of the Summary tab.

• 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

• 14006

  There is no FileStream error message for any Backup operations performed for any databases.

• 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

• 14684

  The Mount VDB and Object Level Recovery operations are now working properly for Differential Backups

  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 default state after providing different credentials in Restore policy.

• 14328

  The Location Path is not altered when changing a Policy compression type.

  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.

• 14840

  Users can now edit successfully existing policies.

SQL Safe Backup/Restore

• Status
  colour Green title SQLSAFE-

  13448

  14699

  Users can now perform Backup and Restore operations of more than one backup file from multiple locations 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 a 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

• 13044

  Backup and Restore operations are successful with SQL Server Multi-Subnet Clustering

• 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.