The following is a list of features that are no longer supported starting with QoreStor 7.1.
- Microsoft Internet Explorer browser
- QS Menu
Deprecated features
Upgrade notes
This topic contains important information for users who are upgrading from a previous QoreStor release.
- If the existing installation of QoreStor uses the default passwords for the UI admin login, qsservice user, or qsadmin user, then you must update these passwords before upgrading to QoreStor 7.1
- In version 7.1, auto upgrade is not available from the QoreStor Menu.
- AWS Lambda and IAM permissions are required for an archive tier. After you complete an upgrade, to update the IAM roles and permissions, see the Quest QoreStor Release Notes.
- Existing QoreStor installations can not be upgraded to use Object Direct storage. To use QoreStor in Object Direct mode, you must perform a fresh installation.
- During the upgrade, the QoreStor installation script will verify that the Repository and Metadata filesystems are mounted with the noatime and dirsync mount options. If not, the installation script will prompt the user to allow the script to make the necessary changes in /etc/fstab and prompt you to reboot the system and re-run the QoreStor installation process.
NOTE: The above process does not occur when installing QoreStor in Demo mode.
- To ensure proper authentication of network shares, after upgrading to QoreStor 7.1, remove the QoreStor server from the domain and re-add it to the domain.
- The metadata volume storage requirement for Object Direct configuration has been extended to 1.5TB, 8TB, and 18TB for cloud-optimized, standard, and large modes. Although it is not mandatory to extend the metadata volume on existing QoreStor instances before upgrade, Quest recommends you extend the volume when it is reaches 90% full.
- QoreStor 7.1 contains VTL support for RHEL, CentOS, and Oracle Linux versions 8.3 and 8.4. To enable VTL support, see the Quest QoreStor Installation Guide.
When using QoreStor 7.0.1 with VTL on CentOS 8.2, RHEL 8.2, or Oracle Linux 8.2 and want to upgrade to CentOS 8.4, RHEL 8.4, or Oracle Linux 8.4, upgrade QoreStorbefore upgrading the operating system.
Upgrading QoreStor instances on Microsoft Azure
For QoreStor instances running on Microsoft Azure, perform the actions below before upgrading to 7.1.
- At the prompt, run the following commands:
curl -o azureclient.rpm https://rhui-1.microsoft.com/pulp/repos/microsoft-azure-rhel7/rhui-azure-rhel7-2.2-74.noarch.rpm
sudo rpm -U azureclient.rpm
sudo yum clean all
Upgrading a migrated DR Series appliance to QoreStor 7.1.0.248
If you have previously migrated your DR Series system to a version of QoreStor prior to 6.1.0.814, then you must upgrade your QoreStor software to build 6.1.0.814 before upgrading to build 7.1.0.248. The upgrade process in build 6.1.0.814 includes a step that flushes WAM data, and that process must be completed before upgrading to 7.1.0.248.
Upgrading to Rapid CIFS Plug-in 4.0.3.3 with Secure Connect
Secure Connect is comprised of a set of client and server components that create a resilient and secure communication channel for use by WAN-connected clients. The server components are installed and enabled by default during the installation of the QoreStor server. Starting with the Rapid CIFS plug-in version 4.0.3.3, the plug-in installer includes the option to install and enable Secure Connect.
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IMPORTANT: Refer to the Known Issues section of this document for Rapid CIFS issues known to be present at the time of release. |
If you have WAN-connected Rapid CIFS clients and choose to install Secure Connect, you can do so by following the steps below:
- On the media server, map a network share to your CIFS-enabled container.
- Download the plug-in installer from the website, as detailed previously.
- Open a command prompt with the “Run as Administrator” option selected. To do this using the Windows Start menu, click Start → All Programs → Accessories. Right-click Command Prompt and selectRun as Administrator.
This gives all the required privileges to install/copy the driver files to the Windows drivers folder.
- Run
QuestRapidCIFS-4.0.3318.0.exe. - When prompted, select Install a Secure Connection to install Secure Connect.
Secure Connect ensures backups to QoreStor are completed in spite of slow or unreliable WAN connections. When selecting this option, you will be prompted for additional configuration information required to make Secure Connect function correctly.
- At the Configure Secure Connect page, complete the dialog using the IP or fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the QoreStor server and appropriate credentials.
The user account used must have the CIFS role assigned.
NOTE: The Configure Secure Connect operation is not supported for CIFS containers on DR Series appliances. DR Series appliances do not contain the required Secure Connect server component . This operation is available only for QoreStor instances. For CIFS containers on DR Series appliances, connect using the Rapid CIFS plug-in and the DR Series host name.
NOTE: The value entered in the Display Name field must not match the hostname of the QoreStor server.
Upgrading to Rapid NFS Plug-in 4.0.3.3
Secure Connect is comprised of a set of client and server components that create a resilient and secure communication channel for use by WAN-connected clients. The server components are installed and enabled by default during the installation of the QoreStor server. Starting with the Rapid NFS plug-in version 4.0.3.3, the plug-in installation script includes the option to install and enable Secure Connect.
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IMPORTANT: Refer to the Known Issues section of this document for Rapid NFS issues known to be present at the time of release. |
If you have WAN-connected Rapid NFS clients and choose to install Secure Connect, you can do so by following the steps below:
- Download
QuestRapidNFS-4.0.3317.0-x86_64.bin.gzfrom the website. - Unzip the package using the following gunzip command:
gunzip QuestRapidNFS-4.0.3317.0-x86_64.bin.gz - Change the permission of the binary package to allow it to run:
chmod +x QuestRapidNFS-4.0.3317.0-x86_64.bin - Install the Rapid NFS package. Before installing, remove the stale NFS entry.
QuestRapidNFS-4.0.3317.0-x86_64.bin -install - Load the file system in user space (FUSE) module, if not already loaded:
modprobe fuse - Create a directory on the client. For example:
mkdir /mnt/backup - Mount Rapid NFS as a file system type using the mount command. For example:
mount -t rdnfs 10.0.0.1:/containers/backup /mnt/backupTo enable Secure Connect, mount Rapid NFS using the sc flag, as shown below:
mount -t rdnfs 10.0.0.1:/containers/backup /mnt/backup sc,user=backup_user,password=<backup_user password>
If you are using a DMA that supports a marker, set the marker by using -o in the mount command. For example, if you wanted to set the CommVault marker (cv):
mount -t rdnfs 10.0.0.1:/containers/backup /mnt/backup -o marker=cvNOTE: If you want to do a mount on AIX, you must set the nfs_use_reserved_ports and portcheck parameters first. The parameters cannot be set to 0. For example:
root@aixhost1 / # nfso -po portcheck=1 root@aixhost1 / # nfso -po nfs_use_reserved_ports=1
Resolved issues
The following is a list of issues addressed in this release.
Table 1: Resolved issues in build 7.1.0.248
| Issue ID | Resolved Issue |
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| QS-7029 | Fixed an issue where, when using Rapid NFS with Secure Connect, the NFS container must have insecure option set. This must be done via the command line. Refer to Upgrade notesfor more information. |
| QS-9968 | Resolved issue where diagnostics captured errors while trying to collect sbmd bin. |
| QS-10130 | Corrected an issue where the standalone RDS plug-in version 4.1.0.382 installation failed on Windows NetVault 13.0.2.13. |
| QS-10404 | Corrected an issue where QoreStor the SSH login banner showed a list of users allowed to log in. |
| QS-11166 | Provided an option to enable and disable port 80 to redirect. |
| QS-11171 | Corrected an issue where the CLI crashed during disaster recovery from an archive tier. |
| QS-11186 | Corrected an issue where updating an object direct connection string from the UI failed. |
| QS-11374 | Resolved a situation in the QoreStor UI where the archive tier license capacity showed as a 3x on-prem license instead of 10x. |
| QS-11995 | Corrected an issue where the cloud tier passphrase could be changed without the old passphrase. |
| QS-11996 | Corrected an issue where the storage group encryption passphrase could be changed without the old passphrase. |
| QS-12061 | Corrected an issue where the sssd service was blocked during a QoreStor installation or while QoreStor was running. |
| QS-12577 | Corrected the process that caused a crash due to memory corruption on 7.x Linux systems. |
| QS-12640 | Resolved an issue that caused NDMP over RDA backups to fail. |
| QS-12734 | Resolved a corner case issue that could cause corruption of metadata when the filesystem server crashes. |
Open issues
Known issues
The issues below are known to exist in this release.
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QS-437 QS-438 |
When using multiple NetVault Servers to access the same QoreStor Server, use storage group, container, and user names unique to each NetVault server to avoid accidental deletions. |
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QS-1446 |
If the QoreStor partition is not set to automount, and the QoreStor server is rebooted, the system appears to be operational but shows 0 physical capacity. |
| QS-1588 | When running Optimized Duplication jobs in Backup Exec, the container quota is not enforced as it is for backup jobs. |
| QS-1666 |
When NetVault is installed on a Linux server, the RDA Client version is not displayed correctly. Workaround: To view the build number of the plugin, run the command strings /usr/netvault/dynlib/librofsoca.so | grep "(EAR-4.1.0) Build:" |
| QS-1670 | For Linux clients, the full version number of RDA plug-ins is not displayed. |
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QS-1823 |
In some situations, the deduplication savings for a storage group shows as 100% before a backup has occurred. Once a backup has occurred, the deduplication savings will be displayed accurately. |
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QS-2242 |
When installing QoreStor, the filesystem selected for the QoreStor repository should not contain data from other application or users. QoreStor must have exclusive access to the repository filesystem. |
| QS-2604 |
If unregistered clients access QoreStor CIFS shares by mounting the share, the /var/log/messages will contain numerous host name/mismatch errors. Workaround: Unregistered clients need to be updated in DNS server manually. |
| QS-2694 |
When the system time on the QoreStor server is synchronized with the domain time, this may cause the system time to adjust backwards. If this occurs, system statistics (like read/write throughput statistics) will appear to be hung for an amount of time equal to the time adjustment. |
| QS-3779 |
When using Secure Connect with NetVault in a multiple-machine configuration (NetVault server, NetVault client, QoreStor server), Secure Connect can respond to errors only for connections between the NetVault server and QoreStor or the NetVault client and QoreStor. Secure Connect does not address connections between the NetVault server and NetVault client. |
| QS-4169 |
When using the Linux exports http_proxy or https_proxy, no_proxy is also required for the watcher service to function correctly. Refer to "Accessing QoreStor" in the QoreStor User Guide. |
| QS-5072 |
When authenticated to a domain, connecting to CIFS shares with a localhost account is not successful. |
| QS-5105 | Changes to a Cloud Tier Policy for inclusions or exclusions will not take effect until the QoreStor service has been restarted. |
| QS-5438 | After performing a DR to QoreStor migration, network settings are reset to default. |
| QS-5627 | The current error output of "rda --limit" without any argument incorrect suggests limits are enforced via Mbps (megabits per second) when the limit is actually in MBps (megabytes per second). |
| QS-5629 |
When configuring a custom graph, if you select a period for which there is no data, the graph will be blank and display "No Data Available" |
| QS-5826 | When performing a DR to QoreStor migration, bonding modes and MTU settings are not |
| QS-5891 | Rapid CIFS is not supported on Windows Server 2016 with secure boot enabled. |
| QS-6291 |
When using the latest version of the Rapid CIFS plug-in with Veeam Backup and Recovery, the configurations below are required:
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| QS-6653 |
OST MSI plugin reports a new version is already installed when installing an updated driver Workaround: Uninstall the OST driver before installing the newer driver |
| QS-6782 | When installing Rapid CIFS on Windows 2008 R2, the installation deploys driver version 4.0.3207.1 , causing the version displayed by rcifsctl.exe driver -q to be different from the version in the Windows Programs and Features dialog. The functionality of Secure Connect is not changed. |
| QS-6808 |
When configuring Backup Exec with CIFS shares using the display name, the steps below must be followed:
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| QS-6860 | During upgrade, the SMB config file is overwritten. Any manual changes to this file will be lost on upgrade. |
| QS-8945 |
When QoreStor is installed on Linux versions 7.3 - 7.7, configuring an archive tier may result in a memory leak. This is due to an issue with the curl package installed on those versions of Linux. Workaround Either upgrade the Linux version on the QoreStor server to 7.8, or update the curl package to curl 7.29.0-57.el7. DR Series systems migrated to QoreStor which are on Oracle Linux 7.3 should update the curl package to 7.29.0-57.el7 |
| QS-9056 |
On DR Series Systems migrated to QoreStor, the maximum inode limit for an object container is set to 1 million. In some cases, this may result in a "maximum allowable File(s) and Directories limit" error. Workaround: To increase that, the environmental variable MDS_OT_INODES_ALLOWED in /etc/oca/customer.env has to be set to a higher value. Please contact Quest Support for assistance making this change. |
| QS-9021 |
During object direct installation, if the message "Failed to validate object direct connection string! "may be received if the certificate has been changed or is expired on the QoreStor server. Workaround Purge the certificate with the command below cloud_tier --purge-ssl-certificate |
| QS-9177 | When configuring the Rapid NFS client with Secure Connect, You may mount the plug-in with either the IP address or the fully qualified domain name (FQDN). If you use the FQDN, you must also add an entry in the /etct/hosts file on the QoreStor system and verify that the hostname is resolvable. |
| QS-10018 |
When writing to an NFS container on a system with 24GB or less of memory, some customers may receive "out of memory" errors. Workaround: On the QoreStor system, run the command sysctl -a | grep tcp_mem. This will return your tcp memory consumption, like the example value below. The return indicates your minimum, average, and maximum values. net.ipv4.tcp_mem = 285198 380264 570396 Using the command below, set the tcp_mem maximum value to the average value (380264, in the example above). Note that your values will be different. The value in the center is the average. sysctl -w "net.ipv4.tcp_mem=285198 380264 380264" |
| QS-10042 |
When attempting to delete a bucket containing a large amount of data, QoreStor will appear to freeze. This is due to an AWS S3 limitation that requires the objects within a bucket to be deleted before the bucket can be deleted. During the bucket delete operation, the objects are enumerated and deleted one at a time. Workaround: Before deleting the bucket, delete the objects within the bucket using the AWS S3 console. |
| QS-10117 | System stops while upgrading from the user interface terminal. |
| QS-10772 |
Replication update fails with replication between QoreStor 7.1 and the DR appliance. Workaround: For DR-to-QoreStor replication, update replication by way of the QoreStor user interface or command line interface. |
| QS-11329 | During replication, crash may occur on a target if the replication source has archive tier configured. |
| QS-11588 |
When there is not enough space under "/opt" to install or upgrade QoreStor, an error message occurs. Workaround: Free space under the "/opt" partition. |
| QS-11613` |
During replication, QoreStor is unable to locate a specific blockmap entry. Workaround: If a replication source already has archive tier replication, do not configure archive tier replication on the replication target. |
| QS-11668 | Did not receive the event QoreStor Repository Service restarted. |
| QS-11818 |
New backups jobs fail with Backup Exec 20.x after stubbing the existing data. Workaround: Delete the Changer.cfg meta file in the CIFS container, which triggers the start of a new backup job. |
| QS-11819 | Received the following error: RDA SRVR RDA_OPEN_FILE : failed to add open image to hash map for LSU 9 scid 1152921504606847079 (Bad file descriptor). |
| QS-11851 | The directory uploading using AWS CLI to Object Tier may become unresponsive if the directory has large files. |
| QS-11936 | Netvault Backup Jobs may stall if cloud upload on QoreStor is not happening because of cloud provider experiencing high request rate. |
| QS-11972 |
Adding replication between DR 4.0.4 and QoreStor 7.1 fails. Workaround: Run the replication commands on QoreStor. |
| QS-12017 |
QoreStor cannot add replication in a situation when there are two Secure Connect server processes and one is in unknown state after upgrade. Workaround: Stop the old Secure Connect server in the unknown process. |
| QS-12113 | Alert generated for OFSCK scan is still present after QoreStor becomes operational. |
| QS-12117 |
During replication, the error "Failed to set ns txlog csn on scid" occurs. Workaround: You can ignore these messages. Replication eventually succeeds. |
| QS-12140 | NDMP backup over RDA asserting. |
| QS-12154 | QoreStor is not opertional after Disaster Recovery from cloud tier. |
| QS-12228 | Storage group encryption once disabled cannot be enabled. |
| QS-12240 | Replication add from migrated QS between RDA containers may fail. |
| QS-12246 | QoreStor service with cloud replication configured may crash and enter support mode after unlinking files. |
| QS-12256 | Unable to export or import tapes to cloud from QoreStor right after a DR with VTL was migrated to QoreStor. |
| QS-12260 | VTL tape export is successful even without cloud replication configured. |
| QS-12265 | Archive Tier Edit page shows Encryption instead of "Change Passphrase." |