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

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6 New Features

BackupAzure / Amazon S3 Cloud

• 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.

8.5.2 Fixed Issues

• SQL Safe Backup 8.6 version now supports Azure and Amazon S3 subfolders.

Cloud Environment

• Redesigned cloud backup and restore operations for Azure and Amazon S3 storage.

Support for Microsoft Windows 2019

• IDERA SQL Safe Backup 8.6 version now supports Microsoft Windows 2019.

8.6 Fixed Issues

Availability GroupAvailability Groups

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  colour Green title SQLSAFE-13888

   Users can now perform Full/Differential backups on the secondary replica and Full/Differential policies on the primary replica.

Backup

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   SQL Safe Backup operations StatuscolourGreentitleSQLSAFE-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. StatuscolourGreentitleSQLSAFE-13521 Scheduled backup jobs are now working properly in a failover cluster environmentavailability groups.

Backup

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  colour Green title SQLSAFE-1393814206

   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

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• backup operations to an Azure location specifying the container name as "Page blob". 

Backup / RestoreDesktop Console

• Status
  colour Green title SQLSAFE-1376611856

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

  Grooming

  Status
  colour Green title SQLSAFE-1284213585

   The repository grooming is now set to 365 days.

  Status
  colour Green title SQLSAFE-1385413890

   The grooming bitesize option is now set to 1000.

  Installation

  Status
  colour Green title SQLSAFE-1398413924

   The recovery model and page verify settings are now set properly when installing SQL Safe Backup.

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• Status
  colour Green title SQLSAFE-13652

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

Management Service

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• Status
  colour Green title SQLSAFE-956014161

   Restore policies are now working properly when changing the target database name of a restore performed from one server to anotherUsers can now backup and restore large databases to/from Azure and Amazon S3 locations.

• Status
  colour Green title SQLSAFE-1340613539

   The Copy Policy feature is now scheduling policies properly.

  Status
  colour Green title SQLSAFE-14060

   When performing a backup policy, the location type is now set properly.

Restore

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    StatuscolourGreentitleSQLSAFE-13903 Users can now restore backup files that are moved manually to Amazon S3. Once the file is moved to Amazon S3, rename the file, and perform the restorebackup and restore to/from Azure and Amazon S3 cloud base storage using subfolders.

• Status
  colour Green title SQLSAFE-1393814193

   Users can now perform restores with a remote instance using a non-default port number.

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• Status
  colour Green title SQLSAFE-13908

   Improved user experience with T-Log backup operations.

Upgrade

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  StatuscolourGreentitleSQLSAFE-13976 Users can now upgrade manually SQL Safe Backup from 8.4.2 to 8.5.2 using the agent. 

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

• 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 Consoleperform AdHoc backup and AdHoc restore operations to Amazon S3 and Azure cloud storage using subfolders. They need to make sure to select the Force Restore (replace) option when performing restore operations.

• 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.

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  Status
  colour Green title SQLSAFE-955514091

   SQL Safe Backup displays now properly the progress of a 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.

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

•  Backup and restore operations are now working properly for TSM and Amazon S3 locations.

Cluster Environment

• Status
  colour Green title SQLSAFE-1357713853

   Users  Users can now perform Object Level Recovery and Virtual Database operations to a large backup filean agent in a clustered environment.

Operation HistoryFIPS Compliance

• 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.

Restore

• 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.

SQL 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.

SQL Safe Scripts

• Status
  colour Green title SQLSAFE-12867

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

SQL Safe XSP

• 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

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Availability Group

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• 13847

   Users can now perform backup and restore operations when enabling FIPS compliance. They can save Azure Pub Account details in the Web and Desktop Console.

Policies

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CLI Commands

• Status
  colour Green title SQLSAFE-1335113546

   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

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IDERA Dashboard

•  Users can now run backup policies to a snapshot database.

• 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.

  14192

   Users can now perform backup policies using subfolders from azure locations.

RestoreObject Level Recovery

• Status
  colour Green title SQLSAFE-13320

   The Object Level Recovery functionality is

  13952

   The Restore wizard is now working properly now when the repository is hosted on SQL Server 2014+ instance.

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• when restoring backed up databases to Amazon S3 locations in a remote instance.

• 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

• Status
  colour Green title SQLSAFE-13560

   The point in time functionality is working properly when mounting a virtual database.

Policies

• 14053

   Instant Restore operations to large databases are now working properly when it is restored to a new database or to an existing database using the "Force Restore" option.

Upgrades

• 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.

• 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.

Restore

• 14049

   After upgrading from SQL Safe Backup 8.5.2 to 8.6, the registration of the Web Console is now successful

• Status
  colour Green title SQLSAFE-13448

   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

• 14123

   Users can now upgrade the SQL Safe Agent Components from an old SQL Safe Backup product version to 8.6 version properly

• 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.