The following is a list of issues addressed in release 8.9
| Resolved Issue | Issue ID |
|---|---|
| Log Shipping restore job now fails in case of the first tlog backup was not found. | LS-1401 |
| The AG-related SELECT statement now runs only once. | LS-1033 |
| The updating license key procedure described in the help file. | LS-1232 |
| Fast Compression now takes into account Sql Server native differential backups. | LS-1416 |
| A cluster uninstall script now deletes empty Quest Software folder in Program Files. | LS-1450 |
| Automated restore now takes into account t-log backups created during a full backup. | LS-1452 |
| Maintenance plans now correctly apply the "Order selected databases" option. | LS-1522 |
| Automated restore now correctly sorts backup files | LS-1533 |
| Maintenance plans do not fail now with "session expired" | LS-1569 |
| TDE compressed backups now supports starting SQL Server 2016 SP2 CU8, SQL Server 2017 CU16 and SQL Server 2019 RTM versions | LS-1584, LS-1585 |
| Log reader now does not hang on large backups. | LS-1592 |
| LiteSpeed now works with Amazon Web Services IAM Roles as expected. | LS-1603 |
| LiteSpeed now correctly calculates the cloud automatic stripping option. | LS-1628 |
| LiteSpeed now supports the pound symbol in Sql Server passwords where allowed. | LS-1630 |
| LiteSpeed now supports the creation of subfolders for encrypted objects in the Amazon Web Services cloud. | LS-1651 |
The following is a list of issues addressed in release 8.8
| Resolved Issue | Issue ID |
|---|---|
|
Corrected a problem on restoring on old backup to source database. Automated restore used to incorrectly choose older backups with a higher LSN number that newer backups created after the restore. |
LS-514 |
| Corrected a problem where DCR backup files larger than 4GB with Verify option turned on failed. | LS-924 |
| Corrected a problem behind error on upgrade of server during upgrade of LiteSpeed Local 'Latin1_General_100_CS_AS_KS_WS_SC' | LS-982 |
| Cloud browsing performance has been improved in maintenance plans. This is specifically related to the time taken to complete backup jobs when cleanup is enabled. | LS-1000 |
| Corrected a display problem, when a backup or restore verify ran for a longer period of time it showed up in the console as failed but was still running in the background.. The central repository is now updated in real time with progress percentage of restore. | LS-1027 |
| Corrected a problem where OLR failed to start when processing more than 200 TLOG backups. | LS-1030 |
| TSM Issue "Error in conversion TSMEstimatedSize" has been fixed. | LS-1035 |
| Issue related to TSM server generates too many TSM database transactions has been fixed. | LS-1036 |
| Issue "Template was not deployed. Installed LiteSpeed version (8.6.1.36) does not support Azure Blob Storage." when deploying the template has been fixed. | LS-1037 |
| The help files have been updated to include always on group support in SQL Server 2014 and SQL Server 2016. | LS-1123 |
| Log shipping jobs do not check contiguous memory before executing any more. | LS-1127 |
| The option to "Force a full backup if one has not been created" is now applied in the case where a database name does not match the logical name of the MDF file. | LS-1150 |
| xp_restore_verifyonly now reports compression level or adaptive compression mode | LS-1187 |
| Overlapped write has been disabled by default for network storage since it generates too many issues with non-compatible windows storage. | LS-1197 |
| The ability to add / hide copy-only full backups from a selection has been added to Intellirestore | LS-1207 |
| Fast compression template job now records failed backups to Litespeed activity. | LS-1220 |
| Fast compression maintenance plans now support variable “%TYPE%". | LS-1246 |
| Litepseed now sets maximum striping/CloudPartSize values for backups to cloud databases that cannot be read. | LS-1262 |
| Improve stability of a backup transfer process to Amazon cloud. | LS-1289 |
| Disable OLRMAP option for TLOGS in Backup Templates. | LS-1296 |
| Backup wizard no longer ignores "Use SSL" setting for Microsoft Azure. | LS-1340 |
The following is a list of issues addressed in release 8.7.1
Table 3: Core issues
| Resolved Issue | Issue ID |
|---|---|
| Corrected a problem where Log shipping calls to check memory should not crash server or consume up server resources. | LS-1127 |
| Corrected a problem behind a Delete File error on backup to Google Storage for files containing special symbols, slashes or spaces including files in subfolders. | LS-1320 |
| With tlog backups, changed the default setting for the option "Optimize Object Level Recovery speed" to off as in some cases there is more difficulty with its usage than profit. | LS-1222 |
| Corrected a display problem, when a backup or restore verify ran for a longer period of time it showed up in the console as failed but was still running in the background. | LS-1027 |
| Litepseed now sets maximum striping/CloudPartSize values for backups to cloud databases that cannot be read. | LS-1262 |
| The LiteSpeed activity page now records successful and failed fast compression backups. | LS-1220 |
| Fast Compression now shows all messages in the logs, not just messages from the last database. | LS-1218 |
| Fast Compression backups no longer backup databases in STANDBY mode. | LS-1236 |
| OLR is now able to execute requests to process more than 200 TLOG bakcups. | LS-1030 CSR 4369943 |
| LiteSpeed now locks backup files during regular backup full / differential / TLOG / fast compression. | LS-1194 |
| LiteSpeed now includes logging and retries into the CloudProxy where it checks for bucket existence and requests a bucket's region | LS-1161 |
The following is a list of issues addressed in release 8.7
Table 4: Core issues
| Resolved Issue | Issue ID |
|---|---|
| The Instance configuration wizard now allows you to edit the instance name at the SQL Instances step. Ctrl+Left Click on an empty place near the "use the same login ..." check box. |
LS-552 |
| When the console is setup to use "central" view, refresh now correctly updates the list of registered SQL Servers. | LS-570 |
| Automated restore now reports the correct message for a dropped database.. | LS-576 |
| The Database tab at the instance level now shows the last backup for all databases. | LS-580 |
| LiteSpeed Core is now able to correctly read files with non-standard sector sizes from storage. | LS-643 |
| LiteSpeed now handles license information from old license types (License types used by LiteSpeed versions prior to 8.6). |
LS-646 LS-647 LS-649 LS-780 |
| Instance configuration now allows the SQL name to include a port number. |
LS-656 |
| Multi-database Fast Compression now correctly works with the %DATABASENAME% parameter. | LS-708 |
| Maintenance Plans can now run backups without an additional call to xp_restore_headeronly | LS-721 |
| On upgrade LiteSpeed is now able to correctly handle the old license type (License types used by LiteSpeed versions prior to 8.6). | LS-780 |
|
Corrected an issue where Automated Restore ran with no results. |
LS-819 |
| Symbol "]" is now allowed in the database name in backup Maintenance Plans. | LS-823 |
| Symbol "{" is now allowed in OLR scripts.. | LS-845 |
| “Always on availability group” options are now disabled when "System Databases" is selected in Maintenance Plans. | LS-854 |
| Remote Deploy now supports TLS 1.2 automated provider selection. | LS-855 |
| Backup Template jobs now produce an error when the backup path option is selected and not used. | LS-871 |
| LiteSpeed Core now works correctly on receipt of unexpected errors from the SQL Server. | LS-890 |
| Browsing for a backup location on windows 2016 no longer results the error "Arithmetic operation resulted in an overflow." | LS-904 |
| The LiteSpeed Console now reports the server as registered when the native Log Shipping plan includes a server port number in "name". | LS-186 |
| The Log Shipping wizard now uses the port number of a registered SQL Server instance. | LS-897 |
| Fast Compression smart cleanup tasks are now able to delete files in the case of locked files. |
LS-903 LS-820 |
The following is a list of issues addressed in release 8.6.1.
Table 5: Core issues
| Resolved Issue | Issue ID |
|---|---|
|
Handling of the error “The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process” in maintenance plans has been improved. |
LS-721 |
| Fast Compression backup for multiple databases now supports the %DATABASENAME% variable. | LS-708 |
| LiteSpeed core work with different drive sector sizes has been improved. | LS-643, LS-649 |
| Smart cleanup is able to work with a larger number of files now. | LS-644 |
|
License verification is now optimized for old format keys (prior to version 8.6). |
LS-646, LS-647 |
| The Instance Configuration Wizard now allows you to set a port number for SQL Server instances on non-standard ports. | LS-656 |
The following is a list of issues addressed in release 8.6.0.
Table 6: Core issues
| Resolved Issue | Issue ID |
|---|---|
| Errors "Database 'name' is invalid: not found" may occur during smart cleanup process on fast computers | LS-293 |
| Cloud buckets browsing may fail with error "List of Objects in cloud exception: The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found" in case of a lot of cloud objects | LS-369 |
| Automated restore does not show error in case of drop database operation fail | LS-207 |
| Automated restore may fail drop database if the database in use by other connection | LS-214 |
| Backups executed with depreciating @LSECompatible=1 parameter can't be restored. | LS-323 |
| Backup performance slow due to the running of unneeded T SQL statement. | LS-384 |
| Automated restore changes file names and extension for secondary data files | LS-483 |
| Backup of AG secondary replica fails if the replica is not set to be readable. | LS-498 |
Table 7: Log Reader issues
| Resolved Issue | Issue ID |
|---|---|
| Log reader may fail when reading large log files because it could not use all available RAM on the machine | LS-6 |
Table 8: OLR issues
| Resolved Issue | Issue ID |
|---|---|
| OLR should support sparse columns | LS-258 |
Table 9: Job Manager issues
| Resolved Issue | Issue ID |
|---|---|
| Job Manager may raise an error in case of adding job step to a job. | LS-446 |
Table 10: Backup Template issues
| Resolved Issue | Issue ID |
|---|---|
| Template deployment may move registered instances to the "unregistered instances" category | LS-448 |
Table 11: Console issues
| Resolved Issue | Issue ID |
|---|---|
| The user interface console displays an incorrect message if the central repository instance is setup with a port number | LS-503 |
Table 12: Maintenance Plan issues
| Resolved Issue | Issue ID |
|---|---|
| Maintenance plans create but do not drop temp tables. | LS-516 |
| Maintenance plans may fail with error "Access violation at address 00511475 in module 'slssqlmaint.exe'. Read of address 7FFD5DF6" during fast compression with smart cleanup plan execution in some cases. | LS-521 |
The following is a list of issues addressed in release 8.5.
Table 13: Backup and Restore resolved issues
| Resolved Issue | Issue ID |
|---|---|
| Performance issue related to mirrored backups resolved | 115926 |
| Issue with hanging backups on high load systems resolved | 119546 119800 |
| LiteSpeed install on windows 2012/2016 servers does not need NET 3.5 any more | 119868 |
| “Provider” parameter added to LS Core ini file | 119658 |
Table 14: Fast Compression resolved issues
| Resolved Issue | Issue ID |
|---|---|
| Number of threads from LiteSpeed defaults correctly applied in Fast Compression | 119711 |
| Escalation events do not raise error status for backup | 119780 |
| Fast Compression can figure out special cases caused by SmartCleanup | 119735 |
Table 15: Remote Deploy resolved issues
| Resolved Issue | Issue ID |
|---|---|
| Remote deploy wizard opens normally on all systems | 119799 |
Table 16: OLR resolved issues
| Resolved Issue | Issue ID |
|---|---|
| Filtered Index is supported | 119598 |
| NTEXT,TEXT, IMAGE types can be restored via Direct Mode | 119724 |
Table 17: Maintenance plans resolved issues
| Resolved Issue | Issue ID |
|---|---|
| Maintenance plan reports can be emailed in all cases | 119476 |
| Striped backups can be deleted from cloud with “delete files older then” option | 119689 |
Table 18: Instance Configuration Wizard resolved issues
| Resolved Issue | Issue ID |
|---|---|
| AlwaysOn Group listener can be used for the central repository connection | 119600 119596 |
The following is a list of issues, including those attributed to third-party products, known to exist at the time of release.
Table 19: Version compatibility known issues
| Known Issue | Issue ID |
|---|---|
| Database backups created with LiteSpeed Version 8.x cannot be restored using older versions of LiteSpeed. However, backups created with previous versions of LiteSpeed can be restored with LiteSpeed 8.2. | N/A |
Table 20: Console known issues
| Known Issue | Issue ID |
|---|---|
|
On Windows 8.1, console logging cannot be enabled when UAC is enabled. The workaround is to run LiteSpeed with the “Run as Administrator” option to enable console logging. |
113540 |
Table 21: Backup and restore known issues
| Known Issue | Issue ID |
|---|---|
| Mirroring is not supported for TSM backups. | 49305 |
| LiteSpeed incorrectly writes successful backup details to the SQL Server error log or event viewer if DBCC TRACEON (3226) is run with the backup. These details are not written for a native backup. | 38972 |
|
On using LiteSpeed Automated Restore to restore an old backup to the source database, automated restore chooses older backups with a higher LSN number in preference to newer backups created after the restore. Workaround: Remove all the backups from old the database (created before the restore) from the backup folders scanned by Automated Restore. |
LS-514 |
Table 22: Activity logging known issues
| Known Issue | Issue ID |
|---|---|
|
NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM account must be added to the sysadmin server role on the local instances of SQL Server 2012 or higher in this very rare scenario:
Otherwise, the local instance will not report to the central repository. Workaround: Instead of adding NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM account to the sysadmin server role, you can either provide a Windows domain account on the Service Account wizard page or use SQL Server Authentication for the local and central repositories. |
104669 |
Table 23: Backup Analyzer known issues
| Known Issue | Issue ID |
|---|---|
|
The LiteSpeed Backup Analyzer backs up the requested amount of data for analysis and then automatically aborts the backup process. This generates VDI error messages in the LiteSpeed SQL Server error log. Please ignore them. |
79697 |
Table 24: Log shipping known issues
| Known Issue | Issue ID |
|---|---|
| The publisher and subscriber servers must have the same version of LiteSpeed. | 52230 |
| In the native SQL Server 2000 log shipping plans, if the monitoring server is not the same as the subscriber server, information about the restore time is based on the restore job history and may be different from the actual restore time. | 98644 |
|
On uninstall of LiteSpeed 8.1 followed by install of a modern LiteSpeed, logshipping jobs do not point to the new executable path. Workaround: At the logshipping module, select the plan and right-click on its name. Click convert to LiteSpeed plan. |
LS-1286 |
Table 25: Maintenance plans known issues
| Known Issue | Issue ID |
|---|---|
| Legacy native plans on SQL Server 2008 may fail due to Microsoft backward compatibility issue. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955626. | 60281 |
|
LiteSpeed does not support regular expressions with the IgnoreCase option. To ignore case, use ([Aa][Bb][Cc]) instead of (?i:abc. |
94513 |
Table 26: Log Reader known issues
| Known Issue | Issue ID |
|---|---|
| User information displays only for operations in sessions that are currently active. The online log and backups do not contain user information and only contain the SPID for the transaction. | 37112 |
| Log Reader does not support row-level and page-level compression. | N/A |
Table 27: Object Level Recovery known issues
| Known Issue | Issue ID |
|---|---|
| Restore of a table with default values after adding a NOT NULL column to the existing table will result in an error in the case of using Direct Mode (the issue is related to SQL Server 2012 and higher). Workaround: use Bulk Insert recovery mode. | 119733 |
| If there is data of variant type with size > 7991 in the table data, recovery using Bulk Insert will result in a BCP internal error: " The column is too long in the data file for...". Workaround: use Direct Mode for data recovery. | 119732 |
Before installing LiteSpeed 8.9, ensure that your system meets the following minimum hardware and software requirements.
Table 28: List of hardware requirements
| Requirements | Details |
|---|---|
| Processor | Follow the recommendations for the SQL Server version used. |
| Disk Space |
500 MB of disk space for installation NOTE: The disk space required may vary based on options selected during installation. |
| Memory |
Follow the recommendations for the SQL Server version used. NOTE: The memory required may vary based on the following:
|
| Monitor | Monitor with a minimum resolution of 1600 x 1024 |
Table 29: List of software requirements
| Requirements | Details |
|---|---|
|
Operating |
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 32-bit and 64-bit (x64) (All Service Packs) Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit (x64) (All Service Packs) Microsoft Windows Server Core 2008 R2 Microsoft Windows Server 2012 64-bit (x64) (All Service Packs) Microsoft Windows Server Core 2012 Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 64-bit (x64) (All Service Packs) Microsoft Windows Server Core 2012 R2 Microsoft Windows Server 2016 64-bit (x64) (All Service Packs) Microsoft Windows Server Core 2016 Microsoft Windows Server 2019 64-bit (x64) (All Service Packs) Microsoft Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit (x64) (All Service Packs) Microsoft Windows 8 32-bit and 64-bit (x64) (All Service Packs) Microsoft Windows 8.1 32-bit and 64-bit (x64) (All Service Packs) Microsoft Windows 10 32-bit and 64-bit (x64) (All Service Packs) |
|
Database |
SQL Server 2005 32-bit and 64-bit (x64) (All Service Packs) SQL Server 2008 32-bit and 64-bit (x64) (All Service Packs) SQL Server 2008 R2 32-bit and 64-bit (x64) (All Service Packs) SQL Server 2012 32-bit and 64-bit (x64) (All Service Packs) SQL Server 2014 32-bit and 64-bit (x64) (All Service Packs) SQL Server 2016 64-bit (x64) (All Service Packs) SQL Server 2017 64-bit (x64) (All Service Packs) when hosted on a Windows operating system. SQL Server 2019 64-bit (x64) (All Service Packs) when hosted on a Windows operating system. NOTE: Compressed backups for TDE databases supported starting following versions: SQL Server 2016 SP2 CU8, SQL Server 2017 CU16, SQL Server 2019 |
| Additional Software |
.Net Framework 4.5 installed before you install the LiteSpeed UI Console and LiteSpeed Core Cloud Components. .Net Framework 3.5 required with SQL Server 2005, 2008 and 2008R2. If using IBM Spectrum Protect™ (Tivoli Storage Manager - TSM), the TSM API and Backup/Archive Client version 5.3 or later should be installed. Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later. Adobe Reader 8 or later to view PDF guides. |
LiteSpeed has been tested on Dell DR, EMC Data Domain, and ExaGrid storage appliances.
LiteSpeed has been tested and is certified to work under VMware and Hyper-V environments.
For information about registering LiteSpeed and for upgrade instructions, please see the LiteSpeed Installation Guide.
Note that from LiteSpeed 8.5 the default install file path has changed. On upgrade the install file path will not change automatically. You can change the file path during the upgrade process: Browse "Folder name".
If receiving the message "The version of the <RepositoryDatabaseName> on server <ServerName> is greater than the version of this release of LiteSpeed for SQL Server", please see the online Help topic "Upgrade Repositories". The message is an indication that the statistics agent on the older server does not match the newer version of LiteSpeed and must be upgraded.
In addition, there are special considerations if you are upgrading from LiteSpeed 4.x. Review the following before upgrading from LiteSpeed 4.x to LiteSpeed 5.0 or later.
LiteSpeed 5.x and later do not support SSMS plug-in functionality. However, the LiteSpeed UI Console allows you to read SSMS plug-in maintenance plans and upgrade them to SSIS LiteSpeed maintenance plans.
The SQL Server versions supported for log shipping depend upon the LiteSpeed release:
| SQL Server | 7.x | 8.0–8.6.0 | 8.6.1-8.8 | 8.9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | • | • | • | • |
| 2008 / R2 | • | • | • | • |
| 2012 | • | • | • | • |
| 2014 | • | • | • | • |
| 2016 | • | • | • | |
| 2017 | • | • | ||
| 2019 | • |
For existing customers:
For trial customers:
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