Summary
Catalogic Software is proud to announce the availability of DPX 4.5.1. This new DPX version adds an enhanced improved job monitor interface, improved simple block-level verification, support for RHEL 6.9, block-level support for Ubuntu 16.04, REFS Filesystem support for Microsoft Exchange and SQL, and many more improvements and fixes.
What's New
Application Backup
Support for SQL 2016 ReFS on Windows 2016 to OSS target.(DPC-28866)
Support for Exchange 2016 ReFS on Windows 2016.(DPSUST-3971)
GUI Navigation
Provide the ability to select the initial landing page. (DPSUST-4172)
Provide the ability to support time window for job monitor. (DPSUST-4074) How to Modify the Time Range for the DPX Job Monitor
Power BI analytics tool is available from a tab in the DPX Management Console.(DPSUST-4082)
Provide the ability of auto-scrolling a running job to the current line (DPSUST-3789)
NDMP Backup/Restore
Support for Affinity feature of NDMP Cluster Aware Backup (CAB) on Cluster Data ONTAP.(DPC-28077)
System Compatibility
Support for SLES 12 SP3.(DPSUST-4048)
Support for RHEL 6.9.(DPC-28702)
Support for Ubuntu 16.04+ LTS. A new installer is available.(DPC-28781)
Support for Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.9.(DPC-28844)
DPX is now qualified with NetApp ONTAP 9.2.(DPC-28856)
Linux GPT support.(DPC-28871)
Support for RHEL 7.4.(DPC-28891)
Support for EMC Isilon OneFS.(DPSUST-3437)
Improvements
Agentless Backup/Restore
Agentless backup using Linux proxy for vSphere 6.5 is now supported. (DPC-28724)
Block Backup/Restore
Users can now browse cluster resources in the restore destination. (DPSUST-1313)
Support for Linux multipath restore for REHL 7 and SLES 12. (DPC-28786)
BMR
BMR restore is supported for Windows 2016 with ReFS volume. (DPC-28634)
File Level Backup/Restore
Tapes marked “offsite” can now have additional backup data appended to them.(DPC-28978)
Automatically switches to correct media pool if an Incremental backup runs as a Base.(DPSUST-3929)
GUI Navigation
Held jobs that have passed their scheduled run time display with status “PASSED”.(DPSUST-4171)
Filtering and display enhancements for job monitor.(DPSUST-4068)
Ability to perform bulk operations for some job monitor tasks.(DPSUST-4078)
Verification
Support for simple and advanced volume verification for block-level backups through DPX User Interface(DPSUST-3965)
Bugs
Agentless Backup/Restore
Fixes an issue with snapshot condense on OSS target for agentless backup.(DPSUST-3940)
Fixes a space issue relating to very large agentless backups(DPSUST-4041)
Block Backup/Restore
Fixes an issue where some Red Hat 7.1 backups failed.(DPSUST-3919)
Fixes an issue where failure due to communication error of a single client caused the whole job to fail. (DPSUST-4006)
Device Control
Fixes an issue where the tape library on the Linux control node failed to open.(DPSUST-3958)
GUI Navigation
Fixes an issue where ineligible destination nodes were selectable from the Management Interface.(DPSUST-3996)
Fixes an issue where some completed jobs were not displaying in the job list.(DPSUST-4055)
Known Issues
Summary
The following are known issues for DPX 4.5.1. Additional issues will be added to this article as they are assessed.
Refer to Knowledge Base Article https://na56.salesforce.com/articles/Release_Note/000005112 for a similar listing for the DPX 4.5.0 installer release.
Linux Backup
DPSUST-3669: DPX Advanced Linux clients compute checksums on source file systems and identify changed blocks. That background process sometimes can cause job progress indicators to change slowly giving false impression of a hang while the backup is actually progressing.
DPC-28383: DPX Linux backups to a CDOT target using iSCSI employ the first available Logical Interface (LIF) of an SVM node, even if other LIFs have iSCSI available on that SVM.
Linux Mapping
DPC-28997: RHEL 6.9 IV-FV may fail with SELinux setting as “enforcing.”
DPC-28994: For RHEL 6.9, IA mapping might fail due to misidentified file system.
Linux UEFI
DPC-29007: For OEL 7.4, verification might not catch a job failure that's due to EFI boot.
DPC-29072: For RHEL 7.3 x64 UEFI client, an IV Restore from 7-mode does not perpetuate the new new static IP and hostname. Workaround is to close the virtual machine's Network Manager and repeat restore.
DPC-29020: For CentOS 7.4 UEFI, Instant Virtualized Machine cannot boot.
DPC-29019: For SLES 11 SP 4 UEFI client, an IV Restore does not perpetuate the new new hostname.
NetApp Restore
DPC-28756: When performing a selective restore of a Linux UEFI backup with File History enabled from a NetApp 7-mode target, the job appears to complete but the restored files might be missing or unusable. The temporary workaround is to use IA-map.
DPSUST-3522: When attempting to IA Map a drive from data protected on a CDOT system an error 23009 might occur. Workaround is described in Knowledge Base article http://kb.catalogicsoftware.com/articles/Technote/47221.
DPC-26577: FV of server with over 2TB disk from CDOT backup is not supported.