This update introduces a new software-as-a-service solution – Acronis Backup & Recovery Online, provides a number of new features to the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 product line and addresses issues found in previous releases.
To update Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components while preserving all previous settings, tasks, policies and vaults, it is recommended to install the update build without uninstalling the previous build.
Components can be updated in any order as the product provides version compatibility between components.
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 update is available for all editions. For a complete list of editions visit: http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/support/updates/.
New features
ATIE-18967: New Linux kernel
A new Linux kernel 2635 has been added.
Fixed issues and enhancements
This section lists the issues found in previous releases of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 that were fixed in the current update.
Installation
ATIE-18996: Fixed the installation failure when an existing account for Acronis Management Server, Acronis Storage Node and Acronis Managed Machine Service with user@domain format is used.
ATIE-18995: An installation algorithm has been improved to check a user's group membership.
ATIE-18965: Fixed the issue with Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 installation when ti_monitor component is not started.
ATIE-18396: Fixed the issue with the first machine name being deleted from the list in the remote installation wizard.
Backup
ATIE-19014: Fixed the malfunction of the Ignore bad sectors option.
ATIE-18964: Fixed the incorrect date displaying for incremental and differential backups in a report.
ATIE-18941: Fixed the issue of machines going into sleep mode while Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 task is still running.
ATIE-18824: Fixed the failure of a file backup if the When there is insufficient space while backing up cleanup option is enabled.
ATIE-18562: Fixed the failure of accessing a network share.
ATIE-18457: Fixed the issue of the Owner Name and Computer Name fields being empty in a personal vault if a backup was created using command line mode.
ATIE-18438: Fixed the issue of recreating archives with autogenerated names.
ATIE-18362: Fixed the issue of a progress bar starting at 50% level if Echo-style naming is used for a backup.
ATIE-18339: Echo-style naming has been disabled for archives with names ending in a number.
ATIE-18205: Fixed the issue of the Create snapshots using VSS option not being preserved in the default backup and recovery options.
ATIE-16521: Fixed the issue of a limited number of symbols in the comments for a backup plan or an archive.
Acronis Online Backup
ATIE-19039: Fixed the issue of network connection by adding a Retry option.
ATIE-19002: A warning about required validation of an IS backup has been added.
ATIE-19000: Fixed archives becoming corrupted when creating image backups every hour (a daily schedule set as Every 1 hour) for a long time.
ATIE-18946: Fixed the issue with creating an IS to the wrong machine if the Next button was clicked before browsing for available locations had been completed.
ATIE-18945: A filter that allows viewing only subaccount's archives has been added to improve browsing on an Online Storage.
ATIE-18939: A possibility of unused accounts search for a user's Online Storage has been added.
ATIE-18875: A Change user option has been disabled for Online Vaults.
ATIE-18729: A validation of Online Vaults has been forbidden.
ATIE-18865: Fixed the failure of a cleanup task when a GPT disk is used as a source.
ATIE-18714: Fixed the incorrect displaying of a subscription period.
ATIE-18625: Fixed the unnecessary warning message about subscription activation in case a backup subscription has been already activated on the current machine.
ATIE-18356: Fixed the connection issues with Storage Server.
Validation
ATIE-18770: Fixed the issue of an archive validation, if there was a disconnection during a backup operation.
Acronis Management Server
ATIE-18866: Eliminated irrelevant information about a task completion.
ATIE-18843: Fixed random Managed Machine Service crashes on startup.
ATIE-18837: Acronis Management Server performance in case of a large number of Agents has been improved.
ATIE-18727: Fixed the failure of Managed Machine Service start on a WinPE 3 that was created using a customized WIM file.
ATIE-18679: Acronis Management Server is now able to send test e-mails, even if an Agent is not installed.
ATIE-18605: Storage Server error handling when reaching the Acronis Storage Node connection limit has been improved.
ATIE-16375: Fixed the issue of not displaying any tasks by Acronis Management Server when Scheduled filter is used.
ATIE-18197: The compacting task performance for Acronis Storage Node has been improved: reading from data_store file (in blocks of 4 MB) on a deduplicating vault is optimized.
Notifications
ATIE-18657: Fixed the issue of e-mail notifications being sent with the errors in SMTP commands.
ATIE-18459: Fixed the issue of occasionally non-working e-mail notifications for backup operation failure.
Linux
ATIE-19003: Fixed the failure of Acronis Agent for Linux installation, when Linux libs are located in non-standard locations.
ATIE-18977: The Linux SnapAPI module has been updated.
ATIE-18702: Fixed the issue of mounting backup archives in Linux.
Virtualization
ATIE-18726: Fixed the issue of virtual machine freezing on startup if a volume of Windows 2008 ESX virtual machine was restored to the original location.
ATIE-18504: Fixed the issue of Windows 2008 R2 image having a Windows 7 64-bit guest operating system type after restoring to a new ESX virtual machine.
Bootable media
ATIE-18980, ATIE-18975: Fixed the issue of applying RAID/LVM when restoring a LVM volume.
ATIE-18973: Fixed the issue of working via certain SFTP servers from the bootable media.
ATIE-18447: Fixed the issue of automatic SCSI devices detection by bootable components.
ATIE-18341: Fixed the failure of booting in a bootable media created on a WDS server.
Documentation
Help and User Guides have been updated according to changes in Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Update 5.
Known issues
This section describes an issue that is currently known and provides workarounds or advice on how to avoid the issue.
ATIE-18951: Backup mounting in Linux fails. It is recommended to use a command-line mode for the mounting operation. Also, you can patch and compile SELinux base rules to solve this issue.