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

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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

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 GroupBackup

• Status
  colour Green title SQLSAFE-14526

  Backup files are now deleted from the temporary download location while performing a
  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-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 DatabaseCloud Storage

• Status
  colour Green title SQLSAFE-1446014365

  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

• and Azure cloud storage performance has been improved to load large backup
  files.

  Status
  colour Green title SQLSAFE-14264

   

  14621

  Restore operations are performed successfully on Amazon Cloud Storage.

Availability Group

• Status
  colour Green title SQLSAFE-14513

  Restore operations from Amazon and Azure cloud storage through T-SQL
  and CLI commands are now working properly.

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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-14850

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

• Status
  colour Green title SQLSAFE-14132

  Email notifications are sent properly now after the product upgrade.

  14852

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

Azure CloudOperation Status

• Status
  colour Green title SQLSAFE-1454414704

  Queued Restore operations are now displayed correctly in the Operation Status windowworking properly on Azure Blob Storage.

PoliciesBackup

• Status
  colour Green title SQLSAFE-14166

   

  14820

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

• Status
  colour Green title SQLSAFE-1425914866

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

• Status
  colour Green title SQLSAFE-14280

   

  14006

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

• Status
  colour Green title SQLSAFE-14500

   

  14684

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

Policies

• Status
  colour Green title SQLSAFE-14562

  Policies performance has
  been improved.

  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/RestoreVirtual Database and Object Level Recovery

• Status
  colour Green title SQLSAFE-1423214699

  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 Virtual Database and Object Level Recovery operations are now supported in a cluster
  environment after a failover.
  Make sure you setup manually the VDBMetadata directory structure before a Virtual Database operation is
  attempted on an availability group environment.