Backup for SharePoint 6.8 - Release Notes

Description

Work Item

Resolved issue where user is unable to mount differential backups or transactional logs using the “Browse Directly to Backup files” option using long backup file names.

216076

Resolved issue where SharePoint Backup cannot retrieve Farm components when using language other than English for the Operating System.

218234

Resolved issue where farm restore out of place operation hangs and then backup service restarted service when the backup set folder over TSM does not have the required SharePoint components when using a fully qualified domain name.

220168

Resolved issue where VSS writer failed at time to retrieve Nintex database components.

220409

Resolved issue where Scheduled Backup of just SharePoint databases cannot be edited because of validation in the wizard preventing it from saving.

220835

Resolved issue where unhandled exception causes the backup service to restart and backup process fails.

220836

Resolved issue where no list items are showing in a mounted content database on SharePoint 2010 Foundation or SharePoint Search Service Express Edition 2010.

220962

Resolved issue where items cannot be restored if file was deleted by user other than the backup service account, but the item is still on 'Deleted from end user Recycle Bin'.

222673

Resolved issue where mounted content database displays same content twice when the lists and document library have same name/letters but one has punctuation at the end.

222983

Description

Work Item

Resolved issue where the presence of special characters in the environment variable for a SharePoint root component was causing the backing up of its Filesystem directory structure to fail.

124920

Resolved issue where restore wizard was unable to validate the site collection administrator account from a trusted domain.

182799

Resolved issue where the Application Services folder created as part of a backup operation for the Application Service components over TEMP does not delete upon completion of the backup, causing the folder to remain without an owner, which in turn causes further backups to fail.

210695

Resolved issue where users were unable to delete a backup set as a result of the backup service not containing the required permissions.

211212

Resolved issue where the Management Console displays a timeout message during the deletion of a backup sets, expanding of granular content, or during the mount and link content database wizard.

212540, 215578, 216731

Resolved issue where backup operation fails over TSM backup set location because there is an error with TSM API internals.

212681

Resolved issue where user was unable to delete mounted content databases.

212694

Resolved issue where the document item of a document library is restored to a default location when the document library is inside of a custom folder.

206427

Description

Work Item

Resolved issue where SharePoint Backup was unable to mount multiple files using the “Browse Directly to Backup Files” option when mounting a content database from a BAK source.

188407

Resolved issue where SharePoint servers were not able to get correct Backup Service status if they were listed with FQDN as their name in SharePoint Central Administration.

203297

Resolved issue where Backup Content does not display any Site Collections content inside the site collection in the granular restore view.

204569, 204591

Resolved issue where Management Console was not able load and was instead displaying the Configuration Wizard after restarting the management service.

204585

Resolved issue where SharePoint Backup was unable to search SQL Backups for non-US date/time formats.

197991

Resolved issue where SharePoint Backup was unable to mount content databases that were upgraded from a previous version.

204674

Resolved issue where Differential Backups were not being sent to the Queue.

205668

Resolved issue where Differential backups were failing with an error, stating that the primary backup server could not communicate with SQL Server using the server name.

205532

Resolved issue where the Farm Backup operations were being canceled because the writer metadata for the SharePoint VSS writer was not being retrieved.

203309

Resolved issue of false alert in the Backup Console which stated that the console is "unable to check disk space".

205045

Description

Work Item

Implemented the capability to not escalate a differential backup operation if the LSN value of one or all content database were changed between full and deferential backup.

116100

Implemented an option to auto include newly created databases in scheduled backups if the schedule job is to backup all content databases.

116455

Implemented ability to store backup sets in Azure and Amazon.

115858

Implemented new pre-installation checks for the installation wizards.

117051

Implemented the ability to backup and restore service applications.

118549

Implemented the ability for several farms to be handled by one management service.

115909

Improved the Granular Restore view by adding a list view to the tree view of the backup content, as well as the ability to see and access the corresponding URL of each element.

118625

Improved the performance of the Management Console, including load time, as well as the time it takes changes to take effect between views.

122872

Implemented complete Nintex support, including the Nintex configuration database.

116664

Resolved issue where Backup was restoring elements with their metadata columns empty or was unable to restore granular elements that contained multiple versions of a list or document library with Metadata columns.

163094, 182808

Resolved issue where user was receiving an error message when mounting from a Metalogix Full Farm Backup set, when the primary Backup Set Location was a TSM location.

124311

Resolved issue where Managed metadata was not being restored to the managed metadata column.

182808

Resolved issue where the local administrator check was failing on the Farm Configuration Wizard.

190692