Change report 5.1.0 Apollon V2

Change Report for Apollon V2

Updated: November 22, 2024 | The purpose of this change report is to list the changes, enhancements and fixes in the SEP sesam software.

5.1.0.24 Apollon V2

Change report

GUI client/REST server: 7463c733c5

BUGFIX: (#34004) - Label caption in media pool filter has placeholder !Label.Readonly!
NEW: (#33976) - Creating a schedule using 6:34 - 6:49 does not work -> GUI puts 00:00 in the database
BUGFIX: (#33971) - Race condition during parallel client creation via REST API
BUGFIX: (#33970) - Wrong filter syntax for Proxmox task generation
BUGFIX: (#33966) - vSphere: DIFF/INC backup may change to a FULL
BUGFIX (#33966) - DIFF/INC backups fail if there are special characters in the VM name.
NEW: (#33939) - Support of Proxmox CEPH based disk volumes by UI
BUGFIX: (#33915) - VMware: It is not possible to select a data mover for the restore if the data mover has been deleted.
BUGFIX: (#32934) - Mail attachment via SEP sesam server is malformed when GV is being used for attachment path

Web restore assistant: b84ce8b6

CHANGE: (#33817) - Hide radio button "Restore all items flat in selected target directory" for an OES backup made with the TSA
NEW: (#33829) - Support for overwrite/no overwrite/new version target selection for Proxmox
NEW: (#33769) - Mount of Proxmox LVM backup
BUGFIX: (#33913) - VMware: no datamover can be selected for restore

Web client: d9d57c2c7

Kernel: edd422eef2

BUGFIX: (#33749) Restore fails: E012-RESTORE Restore was not successful. Failed to reinitialize TPM. Problem: not filtered VMs which not support TPM. Solution: added condition to skip reinitialization of TPM for mentioned VMs.
BUGFIX: (#32392) Backup and restore of TPM certificates for Hyper-V. Problem: restored VM was not initialized due to wrong VM Key Protector. Solution: added generation of new Key Protector and reinitialization for TPM.
BUGFIX: (#32392) Backup and restore of TPM certificates for Hyper-V. Problem: VM can't start due to missed certificates. Solution: added logic for disabling of TMP and Secure Boot for first successful start.
BUGFIX: (#32213) Prohibit parallel backup of same Hyper-V VM. Problem: there is no synchronization between two RCT backup processes. Solution: added semaphore for process synchronization
BUGFIX: (#33914) Do not set low water mark to 0 for Si3 NG dedup store during update
BUGFIX: (#33482) Sesam newday event couldn't be add during installation at last day of a month. Use correct time calculation function
BUGFIX: Correct handling of 'DB:media_results.id' containing '_' by 'sm_cross_check'
CHANGE: (#33911) Start FSCK and PURGE action during newday on first drive of datastore only
NEW: (#33603) Add 'SM_VAR_BIN' to '/etc/sesam2000.ini' during Sesam server installation too
NEW: Increase SEP sesam version. Old version is 5.1.0.23, new version is 5.1.0.24.
BUGFIX: (#33707) The rear update was not performed during SEP sesam Server update since it is not supported in the sm_db_update.ini to have two conditional expressions combined. Solution: Move the update of rear to a separate Update section. Insert the missing Update command.

5.1.0.23 Apollon V2

Change report

GUI client/REST server - 353e97add2

CHANGE: (#31748) - RMI service fails to start when locations link to each other
CHANGE: (#23460) - VMware CBT snapshot backup starts with full after VM moved to a different node bcs. of vMotion. Restart CBT calculation in case no change ID can be found for a virtual disk and a FULL backup has to be performed.
BUGFIX: (#33762) - Opening help links with internet access trigger a NullPointerException
CHANGE: (#33755) - javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException is not handled in REST server Netty handler context
CHANGE: (#31921) - Manual resetCBT does not work due to caching problems
CHANGE: (#33658) - Diff backup fails after revert to snapshot
BUGFIX: (#33689) - UNC backup with backslash exclude is not possible for "File Pattern"
BUGFIX: (#32930) - After change/add ACL all existing "allow" ACL are lost
BUGFIX: (#32549) - GUI hides shown entries after some seconds when opening results of a VMware task group
BUGFIX: (#33637) - Filter by date range does not show correct results in Datastore->Savesets
BUGFIX: (#33652) - Automatic poll of RSS feed does not work anymore

Web restore assistant - 402468f6

CHANGE: (#33753) - Offer Proxmox target store connected to target node only

Kernel - fc1780aef7

BUGFIX: (#33824) Set 'SM_VAR_INI' variable in '/etc/sesam2000.ini' correctly
BUGFIX: (#33376) sm_dedup_interface sporadically cores during si3 version check
BUGFIX: (#33774) Fixed Xen CBT backup with alternative excludes used. Removed exclude argument -x from SBC command for backup of XEN config files
BUGFIX: (#33515) Add relocation feature for backup on Windows. Remove extra slash. Relocation for UNC paths. Change: Implement new function iRelocateItem() to perform relocation for Volume, directory and file. If relocation is not performed then item is backed up with origin path. Add summary message: 'sbc-3325: Info: ... path relocations performed'. Note Volume is only relocated if pattern matches exactly, e.g. -R .*/localhost/C\$==::==/file_srv1/home
BUGFIX: (#33757) Adjust counting of Unit license if higher tiers are available. Problem: Since commit 492731e (#23477) the sort order of Unit T1/T2/T3 calculation and output was reversed and broke calculation of remaining higher licenses. Solution: Improve calculation of remaining UNIT_T3/T2 units and use them for lower units
BUGFIX: (#33706) Since update SESAM_BACKUP failed with: Backup source could not be found. Exiting.. Solution: Since commit 7952d37 sbc_proxy doesn't take care about changes to o.opts therefore o.sbcargs must be modified. Additional: Remove saveset directory after unmount.
BUGFIX: (#33756): OVirt: Restore of VM with ISCSI attached Volumes fails: add initial_size parameter during disk creation
BUGFIX: (#33747) resolve azure dependencies issue; add content to tmp validation file on Azure connect to handle issue with null range exception
NEW: (#33702) Merged changes for Proxmox ZFS restore to release branch
CHANGE: (#33743) create CHUNK logger for the specific log so it will be NOT included in backup log file; delete INFO_APPENDER
BUGFIX: (#33724) File restore from a tape ends with 'no valid MTF Stream ID was found'. Problem: Since recent commit the Linux ACL and ExtendedAttributes restore failed (CI: test24BackupACLEALinux). Solution: Add padding to file len if blk_size is set
BUGFIX: (#33724) File restore from a tape ends with 'no valid MTF Stream ID was found'. Solution: If MTF stream block ends with '4-byte Stream Alignment' then no further SPAD stream follows
NEW: (#27612) Incremental backup for Proxmox using thin LVM volumes
NEW: (#33690) Proxmox LVM backup using BDA saves additional empty item. Skip empty item with no Warn
BUGFIX: (#32907) sm_sms_watch log shows 'ERROR: qm_lib_close_answer() returned with -1 != 0, state from STATUS=... 0'. Solution: Asynchron ReadFile() may return unhandled ERROR_IO_PENDING (997): Overlapped I/O operation is in progress.
BUGFIX: (#29530) Exchange Server Backup - Avoid possible risk of accidental Log truncation. Problem: An issue could be overlooked when copying metafiles from RDS.
BUGFIX: (#33683) Error in the daily log when executing a remote command. Solution: If processing is interrupted due to search pattern (here PID) then do not write to daily log. Write result to daily log after final processing.
BUGFIX: (#33636) Update regular expression in 'DB:task.exclude' from BRE to ERE
NEW: (#33638) Incremental backup for Proxmox using LVM storage backend
NEW: (#33618) Recreation of LIS file from saveset using LISv2 for default. Use LISv1 if 'int=sidf' is found in saveset info
BUGFIX: (#30544) SEP sesam BSR Pro must be terminated with a distinct message if it is not installed on the client. End with 'SEP sesam BSR Pro for Windows is not installed on the client.'. Additional: Remove obsolete code lines. Restart service always. Keep log files until next backup.
BUGFIX: (#33632) Start of saved MySQL restore task doesn't set recover options
BUGFIX: (#32987) QM starts job in queue with weight '0'. Solution: Only jobs that have been requested for this resource queue are started in this case.
CHANGE: (#33528) Use 'localhost:11000' and 'http://localhost:11000' STPD http port for source side deduplication on clients with Sesam version >= 5.1.0.18. Set it for external backups
NEW: (#24717) Enable deduplication in 'sm.ini' during drive configuration all the time
BUGFIX: (#33675) Tape initialization during EOM continues, even if label from following tape couldn't be read
BUGFIX: (#33603) Execute programs stored in 'gv_rw_bin' before from 'gv_ro_bin'
BUGFIX: (#31504) fix paths to logback related files on Windows
BUGFIX: (#33662) GUI filter may show same sesam day twice at media actions because media init writes DB:media_results.sesam_date' without trailing '00:00:00'
CHANGE: (#32318) Set 'gv_rw_bin' directory to '<SESAM_VAR>/var/bin' instead of '<SESAM_VAR>/bin'. (/var/opt/sesam/var/bin)
BUGFIX: (#31932) DB:restore_results are not purged during 'sm_newday' anymore. Problem: Since the fix with commit 40bdff3 the message 'W014-BASICS [...]: CLEANUP error catching date from DB:results' is printed into daily log
NEW: (#31976) Add new BSR Pro version 19.1.147 to SEP sesam package
BUGFIX: (#33652) Automatic poll of RSS feed does not work. Set URL protocol to 'https://' during Sesam server update
BUGFIX: (#33661) 'sm_client drop' accidentally removes empty directories younger than threshold
NEW: (#33338) Support for HCL Domino 14. New: Enhanced error handling: Check error cases Status 0x1F3 and 0x110
BUGFIX: (#33425) remove redundant thread blocking synchronization for TrieMap in PagesFilesTracker. Fix LoggerContext usage so change logback.xml in runtime will not switch off logging to /events/current.log and si3 server will not hang. Add "neverBlock"=true for AsyncAppender. Add log to see logback configuration file is changed on startup;
BUGFIX: (#33660) Restore fails from backup where drive from 'DB:results.drive_num' doesn't exist any more
BUGFIX: (#33659) sbc reports error even '-o ignore_finderr' option set. Problem: smfind does not check ignore_finderr value. Solution: If ignore_finderr is set print info not error message
BUGFIX: (#33547) SEP sesam Unit License - do not count clients with inactive L2 tasks or no execution (permit). Use hard coded list of hypervisors in Apollon V2.
BUGFIX: (#33645) Generation restore restores oldest file instead of newest. Solution: The saveset sort order in SG.lis file was reverted since commit 3197b34. Use explicite setting of next saveset.

5.1.0.18 Apollon V2

Change report

GUI Bugfixes - 3678b74

NEW: (#33623) - Sub backup type selection for Proxmox
BUGFIX: (#33608) - eDirectory backup fails with "Invalid argument [EXCL=REGEXP_SPLIT] for switch -"
BUGFIX: (#33610) - Flag "HPE StoreOnce Bandwidth Optimized Data Transfer" is not set in task event for HPE data stores
BUGFIX: (#33581) - Restart of all Backups is not possible, only one (the first backup in the row) backup starts again.
BUGFIX: (#33578) - Exception is thrown when using 'cancel all activities' in the GUI
BUGFIX: (#30894) - The GUI must recognize the files correctly when downloading the log archive
BUGFIX: (#33508) - Immediate Start of Task Group only shows COPY as backup level
BUGFIX: (#33505) - Cannot accept or deny the SCE notification anymore from within the Java UI
BUGFIX: (#33402) - NPE when adding a new Si3NG
BUGFIX: (#33398) - XEN VM tags not shown by 'dir' command
CHANGE: (#33394) - Disable action "Uninstall SEP sesam" for sesam server in GUI
CHANGE: (#32952) - Remove creation of SEP Si3 (V1) deduplication store from UI.
BUGFIX: (#33361) - The NTFS reparse point RSS feed is shown over and over again
BUGIFX: (#33319) - Change of source interface for migration using mouse
BUGFIX: (#33327) - Exception occurs when creating a schedule monthly with "one first..." setting

Web-UI Bugfixes - 512676b

BUGFIX: (#33089) - Incorrect display of virtual disks to restore in Web Restore Assistant

Web-UI NG Bugfixes - 6886e38

CHANGE: (#33372) - Write correct Sesam date into DB during start of migration/replication via WebUI

Kernel/SBC Bugfixes - 874a836

BUGFIX: (#33661) 'sm_client drop' accidentally removes empty directories younger than threshold
NEW: (#33338) Support for HCL Domino 14. New: Enhanced error handling: Check error cases Status 0x1F3 and 0x110
BUGFIX: (#33660) Restore fails from backup where drive from 'DB:results.drive_num' doesn't exist any more
bugfix: (#33547) SEP sesam Unit License. Do not add enabled features to line with mailboxes, e.g. '- Automatic Media Read Check is enabled'
BUGFIX: (#33659) sbc reports error even '-o ignore_finderr' option set. Problem: smfind does not check ignore_finderr value. Solution: If ignore_finderr is set print info not error message.
BUGFIX: (#33547) SEP sesam Unit License - do not count clients with inactive L2 tasks or no execution (permit)
BUGFIX: (#33645) Generation restore restores oldest file instead of newest.
BUGFIX: (#33293) EOM state isn't left, if data connection between sbc and stpd handling EOM is lost. Solution: Close device handle if EOM handling was aborted.
BUGFIX: (#33281) KVM restore fails with "str object has no attribute decode": fall back to regular string if used xml is not bytes object
BUGFIX: (#33644) Scheduled restore doesn't work with media pool filter set. Use pool from 'DB:result_lbls' instead of (old) 'DB:results'
BUGFIX: (#33648) Restore opens and closes VMDK for every CBT block, if VM name includes space. Problem: URI encoded disk name compared to decoded name. Solution: Compare disk name in decoded format only
CHANGE: (#33604) Remove community license file from Sesam packages
bugfix: (#31537) Adapt Java memory parameter and Si3 index size automatically on SIS store. Increase default Si3 index size during SiS configuration. Remove duplicated 'maxPages' entry from INI files
NEW: (#33538) Update DB:clients by additional call of alive test, if Sesam version number is 'NULL' or '0'. This is done before before DB:tasks select, which uses Sesam version
NEW: Add LTO-9 to list of known tape devices in SLU
NEW: Increase SEP sesam version. Old version is 5.1.0.17, new version is 5.1.0.18.
WIP: (#27612) Restore of Proxmox LVM backup
CHANGE: Use URI source prefix for Proxmox LVM backup
CHANGE: (#33425) adjust template file: add <neverBlock>=true, change <discardingThreshold> to 20% in logback.xml to avoid blocking threads when blockingQueue is full
CHANGE: (#33604) Remove community license file from Sesam packages
BUGFIX: (#33632) Start of saved MySQL restore task doesn't set recover options
BUGFIX: (#33597) SMS does not recognize disk devices correctly anymore. Reduce log output
BUGFIX: (#33643) Fixed Nutanix Inc/Diff backup to save only changed disk regions. CBT file of all disk regions was used to write BDA file instead of CBT file of changed regions
BUGFIX: (#33645) Generation restore restores oldest file instead of newest. Solution: The saveset sort order in SG.lis file was reverted since commit 3197b34: '(#33023) Hyper-V RCT/vSphere CBT mount of FI and FDI backups ...'
BUGFIX: (#33625) SBC core dump during SFR of a mounted VMware backup. Problem: while string copy source is longer then destination. Solution: Truncate source string if it longer then destination one
BUGFIX: (#33596) To ensure that the sm_stop is done completely before the sm_main start is executed after switching sqlite to postgresql a sleep of 30 seconds is introduced.
BUGFIX: (#33465) ReaR backup on SEP sesam RDS failed due to missing java libraries: exlude java symlink from REAR image by default
BUGFIX: (#33565) SQL error in Sesam main log 'column stop_time of relation cal_sheets does not exist'. Use correct DB:cal_sheets.end_time column name. Issue has no influence on proper Sesam execution
BUGFIX: (#31474) Backup with many sources should not fail if one of the sources does not exist. Problem: In the case of a UNC source, the option '-o ignore_missing_source' was ignored.
BUGFIX: (#33548) Remove update statements with ::timestamp from sqlite sesam_insert_start.sql
BUGFIX: (33466) Selective Path restore requesting data from first tape failed: 553 RETR Failed. Data Synchronization lost - Restore terminating. Problem: SGM file without 'Total' line in version < 5.0.
BUGFIX: (#33533) Syntax error in Sesam Oracle backup script on UNIX
BUGFIX: (#33426) In case of several Exchange server databases, only the number of mailboxes in a single database is counted. Solution: Sum up all mailboxes, count DAG databases only once. Add detail information to license report.
BUGFIX: (#33524) Prevent sm_dedup_interface "disk_used" when SI3-NG is offline
CHANGE: (#33467) Check if 'sm_sdslog2.xml' exists before copy
BUGFIX: (#33467) Do not exit update routine if copy of sm_sdslog2.xml fails, since sm_sdslog2.xml is not present on client and therefore cannot be copied.
BUGFIX: (#33514) Replication uses wrong source drive because of a race condition between DB update and DB select. Add DB:migration_results.state='W' and set it to 'Q' during update to correct source drive
BIGFIX: (#31493) Suppress event with higher prio: Do not use default start time window of 3 days to set 'DB:cal_sheets.end_time_set', which is used for priority calculation, but set it to 'NULL'. So Sesam day will be used.
CHANGE: Do not allow update of Sesam client/RDS from version < 4.4.3.84 to 5.1.0.x
BUGFIX: (#33381) Reduce number of 'Empty Trash' entries in 'DB:media_results'. Do not write DB entry if no data has been purged
NEW: (#33499) Do not allow Sesam startup in 'sm_main' as user 'root' on SiS server
CHANGE: (#33497) Re-work update part in SiS creation script
BUGFIX: (#33497) SiS Si3 service doesn't start after first configuration.Initialize SiS Si3 after Si3 INI file has been created, so custom UUID will be used
BUGFIX: (#33464) Update Sesam REAR during Sesam server update too
BUGFIX: (#33467) Windows update does not update sm_sdslog2.xml. Execute copy from 'templates' to 'ini' directory during Sesam update on Windows too
CHANGE: (#33395) Do not use '+' for space in URL encoding as default. This fix Xen restore with relocation if VM name contains spaces and 'umlaut'
BUGFIX: (#33483) Removed logout from ISCSI target if no new ISCSI device is found after SAN volume snapshot
BUGFIX: (#33421) The sm_sms_watch log file of a remote device contains many log lines about non-existent processes33421 - The sm_sms_watch log file of a remote device contains many log lines about non-existent processes. Solution: Remember that the reading performance process/thread is already finished.
CHANGE: (#33381) Reduce number of 'Empty Trash' entries in 'DB:media_results'. Do not create DB entry, if less than 1 MiB has been removed
CHANGE: Allow Java 11 for 5.1 release branch again
NEW: (#33438) Avoid unnecessary buffering of written data to DataStore on Linux. Solution: Call posix_fadvise64(..., 0, %llu, POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED) after 1024 written blocks
BUGFIX: (#33418) CBT backup not possible for newer OVIRT/OLVM Releases: check supported versions by real major number instead of string compare
BUGFIX: (#33416) Increased length of MAX_LIS_ENTRY_PATH to 4094
BUGFIX: (#33417) Immediate deletion after successful migration of an already migrated saveset uses the wrong saveset. Problem: sm_remove_saveset purge is called with backup saveset. Solution: Use source saveset. Additional: Trace list of valid savesets based on result_lbls.backup_id
CHANGE: (#32118) Correct dependency for Java 17 on SLES 15: Add 'jre >= 17 or java-17-openjdk'
BUGFIX: (#33406) Exclude savesets from migration where migration job already tries to occupy destination drive. Add DB:migration_results.state='A'
BUGFIX: (#33229) Kopano backup ends with TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'. Solution: Python3 requires to decode byte to string
BUGFIX: (#33458) DB:media_results entries for datastore 'readcheck' are created using same session id and shown as group entries in UI. Reset session id before new DB entry is created
BUGFIX: (#33462) Linux exclude with ending \.+ does not exclude content of directory
BUGFIX: (#33463) SBC Windows include file saved with unicode encoding reads BOM as part of pattern
NEW: (#33216) Write additional heap dump file in case of Si3 OOM error
NEW: (#33070) Replication jobs marked as failed due to access errors using 'sm_ssh'. Add retry for get savesets from target store function
BUGFIX: (#33469) sm_replicate ends with 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'
BUGFIX: (#33459) - Maximum capacity check at DataStore properties must be adjusted when using binary format output
BUGFIX: (#33434) sbc on Windows cores when using include filter. Solution: Support of multiple include expressions and correct handling of first character in regular expression.

5.1.0.15 Apollon V2

Change report

BUGFIX: opennebula snapshot timeout not applied: increment retry counter accordingly
BUGFIX: (#32971) Selective Windows path restore fails with 'Next item or ESET is expected' using LISv2.
BUGFIX: (#33259) Restore from tape must check the given label.
BUGFIX: (#33097) Temporary migration tasks are not deleted for multi saveset backups. Delete task by last sub task, which has finished
NEW: (#33148) Exclude '.vswp.<PID>' files from vSphere configuration backup
NEW: (#30728) Do not start data store housekeeping, if data store is not reachable
BUGFIX: (#33181) Cannot read from tape device. Reason: Input/output error: Failed to read 524288 byte block with 65536 byte transfer.
CHANGE: (#33136) Start Java based daemons without console output option. Use 'javaw.exe' instead of 'java.exe' on Windows
BUGFIX: (#33276) Migration fails if EOM handling for target drive needs longer than 900 sec. Increase timeout to 1 day
BUGFIX: (#33111) Fixed error handling for iscsiadm not installed on the data mover
BUGFIX: (#33126) Selective restore from imported backup fails. Set 'DB:result_lbls.saveset_count>=1', so restore will not check label read from LIS file
NEW: (#33123) Pending VMware SFR restore task has to execute 'umount', if canceled
CHANGE: (#33112) Selective restore from linux backup on disk fails with .... change: Always trace STPD message 'go to segment number ...' and SMS message 'restore_operation: requested segment number ...'
CHANGE: (#31260) Backup to tape using block size up to 1 MB. Increase from 512KB to 1MB
BUGFIX: (#33201) During installation the SEPsesam\bin folder in ProgramData was not created. Now the script directory is also created during installation, not just at update.
NEW: (#31079) Sesam installation fails on RHEL 8.5/9 and SLES12 because Java not completely configured. Add '/usr/lib64/jvm/jre-11-openjdk' to search path
NEW: (#33228) Support PostgreSQL 16 for Sesam DB. Use 'postgres' instead of 'postmaster' as executable name for Postgresql server
BUGFIX: (#33218) Avoid string truncation during restore for update of 'DB:cal_sheets'. (Error vsnprintf truncated 558 >= 512 during)
NEW: add ini entry for maximum session inactive time config
NEW: (#33284) Backup failed with not supported reparse tag REPARSE_TAG_DROPBOX_HSM (0x00000044L). Add support for Dropbox HSM reparse tag.
BUGFIX: (#33279) After update, SESAM_BACKUP fails with 'invalid backup source'. Change incorrect source part 'gv_ro:skel/templatessesam/' by 'gv_ro:skel/template'
NEW: (#33216) Abort Si3 server in case of Out-of-Memory errors and write JVM crash dump file into '..log/sms' directory. Adapt log file path on Windows
NEW: (#33328) Add 'sm_vfs' to Sesam Linux client kit
BUGFIX: (#33185) sm_break2 could not terminate active task group result entries. Do not check for active task group entries during Sesam shutdown
CHANGE: (#33332) Reduce heap memory allocated by Si3 server, because index file is read using memory mapped IO instead of loading it into heap space
NEW: Si3-NG propose serverconfig show for what RAM is reserved (-v 2)
NEW: (#33360) Sesam server installation on Ubuntu 24.04
BUGFIX: (#33350) Citrix COPY level backup sporadically fails with "Curl: OpenSSL SSL_read: error:0A000126:SSL routines::unexpected eof while reading, errno 0"
BUGFIX: (#33353) Umount of saveset fails when backup is migrated on DataStore of another RDS
BUGFIX: (#33366) Proxmox backup of VM on ZFS fails with "SBC logging without final state message"
BUGFIX: (#33383) Abort of Hyper-V backup does set reference point files for DIFF and INC backups

5.1.0.14 Apollon V2 SP2

Change report

BUGFIX: VFS log was flooded and VHD mount hanged on Windows when log level was set to 2
BUGFIX: (#33143) Mismatch in UNIT license count between 'sm_info' and CE report. Problem: VIRTUAL clients may be counted twice. Solution: Do not count clients with access_mode 'VIRTUAL'.
BUGFIX: Reparse point is saved as directory by Windows path backup without 'VSS'. Bugfix: Avoid that after delayed directory processing a reparse point (e.g. Microsoft Windows Data Deduplication IO_REPARSE_TAG_DEDUP) could be saved as directory.
BUGFIX: Allow setting of 'pgdump'/'mysqldump' options by 'DB:tasks.backup_options'
BUGFIX: Proxmox backup fails with error Unhandled exception occurred [too many values to unpack (expected 2)]
NEW: Support of Java 21 for Sesam on Linux - support for SLES15 SP6
BUGFIX: MaxDB backup fails with 'Invalid backup source [2>&1]', because started without 'cmd.exe'. Remove redirect, because 'sm_Popen_buf()' already returns STDOUT and STDERR
BUGFIX: Follow up jobs are not being started anymore when cancel option of newday is set. Solution: Call 'sm_qm set option follow_up 0' only for caller 'maintenance' or 'shutdown'

vSphere:

BUGFIX: Incorrect disc size when calculating the changed blocks

GUI/WebUI:

BUGFIX: Creating a schedule with execution time every Friday will be executed every day from Friday in the future

Solution: Limit the maximum end time to 23:59h for weekly schedules.

CHANGE: Change message, if the VSS option for a Windows path backup is switched off
BUGFIX: correct link to custom calendar description
BUGFIX: CLI writes 'null' to data base when invoking "add replicationtask" with -B parameter
CHANGE: Update generic report and adjust report header in all reports.
BUGFIX: WebRA wrongly sets -a resourcepool for a vApp instead of -a vapp

5.1.0.14 Apollon V2 SP1

Change report

Kernel/Backup Modules:

BUGFIX: After update to 5.1.0.14 the access to XEN hypervisor doesn't work sometimes
Hyper-V

BUGFIX: Backup of dynamic disks with DIFF/INCR backup level
BUGFIX: Single File Restore (SFR) of Hyper-V INC/DIFF backup from dynamic disks
BUGFIX: OpenNebula - Restore with skip_net option failed with "Error initiating VM creation"

BUGFIX: BSR Windows

BSR Restore selection: The selection of the save set and the disk to be restored was very slow
BSR Recovery did not work due to an internal error

BUGFIX: Single item restore using VM mount on Windows does not work, except in case of backup type vSphere.
BUGFIX: Si3 replication: Massive logging during replication could lead to poor performance and even shutdown of Si3 service
vSphere

BUGFIX: After update to Apollon V2 (5.1.0.14), the first INCR vSphere virtual machine backup fails

GUI/WebUI:

BUGFIX: Server seems to require a client certificate from the browser for SSL handshake
BUGFIX: Splash Screen is badly ordered
BUGFIX: Exclude of VMDK in WebUI during vSphere restore does not work
CHANGE: WebUI must offer either a folder or a vApp as destination at vSphere restore, not both - Reject next step if both are set.
BUGFIX: SFR target path must accept UNC notation - Do not remove leading '//'.

5.1.0.14 Apollon V2

Change report

GUI Bugfixes: 5c41c64d90

Web-UI Bugfixes: ce72b537

Web-UI NG Bugfixes: b8cad2285

Kernel Bugfixes:

4fb94869b4
BUGFIX: (#33174) Selective restore from CPIO backup on further tape fails with 'Skipping tapemarks on tape failed.'.
BUGFIX: (#33132) Info meta file backup to SMS when tape is idle and after migration
BUGFIX: (#32069) vSphere restore of backup made with 'single saveset' option fails
BUGFIX: (#33155) New LISv2 for most backup types except NSS (SIDF) or encrypted saveset (BF64 or AES)
BUGFIX: (#33104) DB2 Backup failed. Problem
BUGFIX: (#33139) Selective restore of a replicated backup fails. Solution
BUGFIX: (#33110) SAP ASE backup failed with Error
BUGFIX: License report for SEP Unit shows FrontSide Storage with B instead of GB
BUGFIX: (#33069) Si3 do not check the page that still writing on backup
BUGFIX: (#31712) optimize incr PCCK iterator by using pages index
BUGFIX: extend page deep check condition using max allowed uploading time parameter
BUGFIX: (#33069) flush page body file after each chunk append
BUGFIX: (#33081) Successful status set to warning by restore 'POST' interface
BUGFIX: (#33062) Windows backup with Reparse Point to folder under root fails with 'Error while processing standard attributes', e.g. 'C
BUGFIX: (#33068) Update 'sm_rescan.sh' to recent version to avoid crash of VM during attach
BUGFIX: (#32920) vSphere mount/attach using savesets made with Sesam version < 5.0
BUGFIX: (#32970) Mount of vSphere saveset using URL encoded path names doesn't work. Do not URL encode '[' and ']' in vSphere data store names for LISv1
BUGFIX: (#32603) return status with error if sbc_proxy cant import libguestfs-tools
BUGFIX: Replace non UTF-8 characters in Dovecot mail subject lines
BUGFIX: (#33038) Do not report directories as processed during 'plain' restore on Linux
BUGFIX: (#33056) Many 'Curl
BUGFIX: (#32710) Print Sesam backup modules included in 'sbc_proxy' in one line and with own sbc message number
BUGFIX: (#32882) sbc_rhev
BUGFIX: (#33052) fixed Citrix Restore on Windows. Restore target returned from XEN sbc_pre was not double qouted. Check for double quotes in sbc_proxy and add them to target returned from a module if not already double quoted
BUGFIX: (#31255) Write a 'tar' archive with saveset META of complete media after backup has been done.
BUGFIX: (#33044) OpenNebula restore to different datastore. Add new datastore to relocation parameter of 'sbc_proxy'
BUGFIX: (#33039) Extended Linux file attributes not saved. Correct cast for getting EA buffer size
BUGFIX: (#32181) Complete LIS v2 for MTF savesets. Problem
BUGFIX: (#32971) Selective Windows path restore fails with 'Next item or ESET is expected' using LISv2. Problem
BUGFIX: (#32971) Selective Windows path restore fails with 'Next item or ESET is expected' using LISv2. Problem
BUGFIX: (#33023) Hyper-V RCT/vSphere CBT mount of FI and FDI backup fails. Problem
BUGFIX: (#25968) Check also for empty variable when checking checkbox for hide servicepack dialog.
BUGFIX: (#32950) Cancel of Hyper-V backup must remove VM snapshot
BUGFIX: (#32971) Selective Windows path restore fails with 'Next item or ESET is expected' using LISv2. Problem
BUGFIX: (#32603) Print traceback in case of exception in sm_mount arguments
BUGFIX: (#32761) add exponential retry on s3 requests; do not add page to corruption store if PCCK fails because of s3 connection issues
BUGFIX: (#33023) Hyper-V RCT/ vSphere CBT mount of FI and FDI backups fail sporadically. Add sm_sort to SEP sesam binaries on Linux
BUGFIX: (#33023) Hyper-V RCT/ vSphere CBT mount of FI and FDI backups fail sporadically. Problem
BUGFIX: (#33025) Fixed volume prefix in Pure storage dir
BUGFIX: (#32181) Complete LIS v2 for MTF savesets. Problem
BUGFIX: (#32181) Complete LIS v2 for MTF savesets. Problem
BUGFIX: (#33020) Selective restore of CPIO saveset including ACL and EA in case of LisV2. Solution
BUGFIX: Ignore encoding errors by read of LIS file during saveset mount
BUGFIX: (#32983) Remove protocol prefix like 'http
BUGFIX: (#33000) Use correct BAT entries when mounting Microsoft Hyper-V backup.
BUGFIX: (#25968) the checkbox responsible for hiding dialog asking the user if servicepack installation should be executed was not hidden in the next update.
BUGFIX: (#32960) Call 'sm_mount umount -s ALL' during shutdown of Sesam server only
BUGFIX: (#33010) sbc pipe communication blocks itself by semaphore if VDDK is missing on system. Problem
BUGFIX: (#33004) If existing VFS mount exists, skip adding the same info again to vfs_mounts.json
BUGFIX: (#32761) add setRetentionPeriod requests to queue; extend s3 retry strategy; regulate logs level in PageFilesTracker
BUGFIX: (#25176) Enlarge size of 'sm_sbc_pre' command string to hold handle backup source
BUGFIX: (#32905) MSSQL restore with lisv2 is successful, but does not restore any data. Solution
BUGFIX: (#32985) If disks cannot be unmounted, write warning log and continue with VFS stop
BUGFIX: Start 'guestmount' in own process group to avoid killing it by 'sm_sshd' if 'sbc_proxy ' terminates
BUGFIX: (#32985) bat script to detach virtual disks from Windows is kept after mount and is deleted during unmount. diskpart_umount is called during unmount so that all attached drives are detached
BUGFIX: (#32984) Fixed XEN Copy restore.
BUGFIX: (#32620) Hyper-V RCT snapshot name not unique. Problem
BUGFIX: (#32982) Fixed VHDX path for mount. Always set location for VHDX to MAPPER/merge_result
BUGFIX: (#22150) sm_break doesn't work with a task-group. Problem
BUGFIX: (#29404) Changed semaphore to global for SAN backups. Changed rescan back to scsiadm -m node to rescan only relevant target for new devices. Lowered rescan iterations to max 2
BUGFIX:(#30917) Fixed removal of Huawei snapshots. Improved code in sbc_oceanstor by implementing new function validate_response() to check for errors in response after API calls to Oceanstor
BUGFIX: (#32721) Do not write invalid time string into DB
BUGFIX: Remove segment file on RDS instead of Sesam server after migration has finished
BUGFIX: (#31936) Use default ISO date format for 'DB
BUGFIX: (#29404) Changed iscsiadm command for rescan target to what is more correct according to documentation
BUGFIX: (#29404) Fixed check for backup type VSPHERE CONFIG
BUGFIX: (#32950) Cancel of Hyper-V backup must remove VM snapshot. Problem
BUGFIX: (#32956) Adjust Hyper-V reference point files for DIFF and INC backups. Problem
BUGFIX: (#32970) Mount of vSphere saveset using URL encoded path names doesn't work. Do not URL encode '[' and ']' in vSphere data store names
BUGFIX: (#29404) Fixed unhandled exception if ISCSI client cannot be started
BUGFIX: (#32956) Adjust Hyper-V reference point files for DIFF and INC backups. Problem
BUGFIX: (#32970) Mount of vSphere saveset using URL encoded path names doesn't work
BUGFIX: (#32925) sm_restore calls sm_mount with wrong -c parameter. Set saveset parameter correctly again
BUGFIX: (#32954) Hyper-V RCT must be called with max defined virtual disk size. Problem
BUGFIX: (#32948) Create snapshot before reading RCT information of a Hyper-V VM. Problem
BUGFIX: (#32711) do not delete object if it currently checked by OCCK
BUGFIX: (#29404) Lock semaphore during snapshot creation and scan for new devices and during snapshot deletion. Restore and backup of config files was executed 2 times for VSphere due to copy paste error in sbc_pre function of sbc_proxy module VADP
BUGFIX: (#32945) Hyper-V DIFF backup cores due to extra ordinary RCT block range. Problem
BUGFIX: (#31877) All aborted restore tasks should have a corresponding message. Bugfix
BUGFIX: (#31877) All aborted restore tasks should have a corresponding message. If sub restore task could not be started then set state to 'X' and msg to reason
BUGFIX: (#29404) Fixed VMware backup using hardware snapshots for backup type vsphere+config
BUGFIX: (#32688) Fixed Incremental NDMP backup for Netapp 7. Incremental level was set higher than maximum level 9 for Netapp 7. Some instances of Netapp 7 have empty string for host_os_vers but this one has value set, so condition had to be fixed.
BUGFIX: (#4787) Better analyze of errors during backup. Bugfix
BUGFIX: (#32925) sm_restore calls sm_mount with wrong -c parameter
BUGFIX: (#32924) Backup of encrypted files does not backup ACL. Add NACL stream to backup
BUGFIX: (#32833) Make DB
BUGFIX: (#31866) do not start incr fsck from scratch in case of previous corruption state
BUGFIX: (#31866) change fsck check date counting
BUGFIX: (#32903) vSphere restore with high ascii characters fails with
BUGFIX: (#32906) vSphere backup fails, if the VM name contains string 'IMAP'
BUGFIX: (#31877) All aborted restore tasks should have a corresponding message. If drive_handler info/getlabel was aborted then state was set to 'X'. Now use TapeState = ST_INTERRUPTED to set correct state 'c'
BUGFIX: (#32694) Port SAP modules using Python3. Replace multiprocessing.Queue with queue.Queue
BUGFIX: (#32880) Unit license
BUGFIX: (#17310) New LIS file format to store extended file information. Add major minor os_specific info to Shared hardlink data file.
BUGFIX: (#25420) Purge info from vfs_mount.json if VFS has been already stopped or saveset ID not found in DB
BUGFIX: (#32866) Do not set '-a <recover>' parameter, if 'restore as path' option is set
BUGFIX: (#31463) Restore of a single file overwrites the parent directory. Windows
BUGFIX: (#32843) Use 'DB
BUGFIX: (#32705) Follow up event and saveset migration for external backups. Do not start migration by 'sm_copy' a 2nd time
BUGFIX: (#32858) Mount of Exchange DAG rpex fails with STATUS=ERROR MSG=name 'sm_Popen2' is not defined. Problem
BUGFIX: (#32842) Restore verify failed for cpio saveset
BUGFIX: Restore of MySQL 'all' backup
BUGFIX: Restore of MySQL backup into dump file
BUGFIX: (#31866) do not start incr fsck from scratch in case of previous corruption state
BUGFIX: (#31866) change fsck check date counting
BUGFIX: (#32903) vSphere restore with high ascii characters fails with
BUGFIX: (#32906) vSphere backup fails, if the VM name contains string 'IMAP'
BUGFIX: (#32694) Adapt 'SAP DB' backint for Python 3. Set loglevel as 'int'
BUGFIX: (#32860) restrict count of GC, FSCK workers for cloud connectors; extend FSCK description in Fsck.md documentation; print count of workers on PCCK and OCCK start; minor s3 log changes
BUGFIX: (#31877) All aborted restore tasks should have a corresponding message. If drive_handler info/getlabel was aborted then state was set to 'X'. Now use TapeState = ST_INTERRUPTED to set correct state 'c'
BUGFIX: (#32694) Adapt 'SAP DB' backint for Python 3. Shorten 'ssid', because PY3 'time.time()' function return longer string than with PY2
BUGFIX: (#17310) New LIS file format to store extended file information. The MTF SFMB, SSET, ESET, TAPE, VOLB, PNAM and DIRB do not contain data so set size as offset_to_data and data=0
BUGFIX: sm_Popen functions expect trace function as param but not sbctrace struct
BUGFIX: (#30917) Fixed API call to list snapshots. Removed wrong argument from GET request
BUGFIX: sm_Popen functions expect trace function as param but not sbctrace struct
BUGFIX: python2 modules have to copy libpython2.7.so.1.0
BUGFIX: copy sbc_find_imap sbc_imap_subject to bin dir
BUGFIX: python SCC modules rebuild each time
BUGFIX: SLX modules have to copy libpython2.7.so.1.0 to bin dir
BUGFIX: (#32694) Port SAP modules using Python3. Replace multiprocessing.Queue with queue.Queue
BUGFIX: (#32880) Unit license
BUGFIX: fix variable name
BUGFIX: (#17310) New LIS file format to store extended file information. Add major minor os_specific info to Shared hardlink data file.
BUGFIX: (#32860) restrict count of GC, FSCK workers for cloud connectors; extend FSCK description in Fsck.md documentation; print count of workers on PCCK and OCCK start; minor s3 log changes
BUGFIX: (#17310) New LIS file format to store extended file information. Add Windows major minor numbers for hardlinked files. Bugfix
BUGFIX: (#25420) Purge info from vfs_mouns.json if VFS has been alread stopped or saveset ID not found in DB
BUGFIX: SQL syntax errors in sesam_db_pg.sql
BUGFIX: (#32866) Do not set '-a <recover>' parameter, if 'restore as path' option is set
BUGFIX: (#31463) Restore of a single file overwrites the parent directory. Windows
BUGFIX: (#32843) Use 'DB
BUGFIX: (#32844) STPD processes are not terminated when read finished before end of data. Solution
BUGFIX: (#32841) FTP log file during backup contains misleading message according checksum calculation
BUGFIX: (#32847) Return OK when mounting to an alread existing mount
BUGFIX: (#32831) Update of SEP sesam on Windows could stuck in endless loop when Windows Event Log is opened during update. Solution
BUGFIX: (#32839) During remote update also move python311.dll to sesam_update folder to make sure that Windows Installer does not have files in use left in bin\sesam folder.
BUGFIX: (#32835) Only adjust access rights for installation type server and only adjust access rights of subfolder var\db_pg neither Program Files\SEPsesam\bin nor ProgramData\SEPsesam\var.
BUGFIX: (#32838) Fixed mount error if mount path set with option -M ends with '\'. Removed ending '\' during meta preparation process
BUGFIX: (#32381) Sesam using PostgreSQL DB on Windows doesn't start anymore, if Sesam service account has been changed. Problem
BUGFIX: (#32370) Search for 'sm_ui.jar' in process list instead of old 'sm_gui.jar'
BUGFIX: (#32819) Update to Apollon V2 failed with 'sm_setup.exe update -o dailog=... sm_setup.exe returned -1'. Solution
BUGFIX: (#29591) Common abort handling. Problem
BUGFIX: (#32370) Set timeout for hard kill by 'systemd' for Sesam service to 720 sec, because internal timout in 'sm_break' is 600 sec
BUGFIX: (#32563) SIR doesn't work because of dangling symbolic link. Problem
BUGFIX: (#29591) Common abort handling. Problem
BUGFIX: (#32807) sm_sms_watch process for drive 0 just checks free space when watch process is started. Problem
BUGFIX: (#32805) Role backup cannot be added to sm_java.policy via sm_setup. Added new permission de.sep.sesam.gui.server.BackupPermission in sm_java.policy
BUGFIX: Some localized messages with tags for sesam daily log did not start at position 14.
BUGFIX: (#32467) Windows backup fails with 'Not supported Microsoft reparse tag 0x00000036' (IO_REPARSE_TAG_CITRIX_PM). Add logic to GetStandardAttr4MTF().
BUGFIX: (#32758) Windows SBC skips first directory if nosbc file is in backup source
BUGFIX: (#32713) Migration of FDI chain with savesets on different mediapools and not sufficient EOL will repeat and never delete saveset on origin side. Solution
BUGFIX: (#32793) No incremental MS-SQL backup possible, if umlaut in DB name. Solution
BUGFIX: (#32781) Do not unmount saveset if guestmount returns error
BUGFIX: (#32568) Windows
BUGFIX: (#32776) First media initialization for a deduplication data store fails, if not performed on the first drive. Use first drive of data store for 'sm_dedup_interface init' call
BUGFIX: (#32690) Hyper-V DIFF/INC restore may not restore all data in case of dynamic disks.
BUGFIX: sbc_vmware core on nvram upload if error happen and get in retry loop
BUGFIX: Do not try to delete migration tasks, if still referenced by DB
BUGFIX: (#32688) NDMP backup switched to level 0 after every 2 due to missing {} in condition
BUGFIX: (#32495) sm_java forward SIGINT to java process in case of Si3-NG. Change Si3/Si3-NG detection to original one
BUGFIX: (#31908) fix pages-index loading of zero page files
BUGFIX: (#32495) sm_java forward SIGINT to java process in case of Si3-NG
BUGFIX: (#32559) If VHD fails to be unmounted on Windows, continue with stop VFS because it causes no problems on Windows. After VFS is stopped, attached VHD drives automatically disappears from Windows list of disks
BUGFIX: (#32736) "sm_client drop" remove lis/<date> dir newer then 7 days
BUGFIX: (#31977) set GC threshold using start command; stop GC if no space available
BUGFIX: (#32495) add event listener on Windows for graceful server termination
BUGFIX: (#32220) Added signal handler to sbc_proxy RHEV module
BUGFIX: (#32730) Insert a retry of sm_main status after the complete update is done to make sure that sm_main status did not happen during stpd or sms restart. Also replace all & with && and all | with || if they are logical operators.
BUGFIX: (#32728) RHEV CBT backup ends with unhandled exception
BUGFIX: (#32702) Fixed mount of IMG vSphere backup. The issue was caused by fix for mount of a VM on DS with spaces in name
BUGFIX: (#32717) Wrong error message is displayed, if Sesam server is not allowed to connect to client
BUGFIX: (#26506) EOL adoption for external backups. In case of 'SAP ASE' the 'INCR' specifies an incremental backup since the last backup of any kind
BUGFIX: (#32706) Recover of LIS file from saveset fails because Sesam date based LIS directory doesn't exist. Create directory before calling 'COPY_REFORMAT_LIS()'
BUGFIX: (#32702) vSphere mount of a VM on DS with spaces in name fixed for IMG backup. Replaced spaces with underscores in LSL and MAP file.
BUGFIX: (#32702) vSphere mount of a VM on DS with spaces in name fixed for CBT backup. Replaced spaces with underscores in LSL and MAP file.
BUGFIX: (#30890) add missing license files.
BUGFIX: (#32701 Restore with Exchange Recovery Pro (mount) does not work for Exchange Server DAG
BUGFIX: (#32703) Removed option n from sm_mount help, not used
BUGFIX: (#32668) Error during VMware verify with follow up for Windows MTF saveset. Solution
BUGFIX: (#32685) Sesam server installation takes longer because SSH keys are tried to be downloaded, even if STPD isn't started yet. Solution
BUGFIX: (#32596) SAP IQ backup and restore via libsepsybase.so library. Problem
BUGFIX: (#32596) SAP IQ backup and restore via libsepsybase.so library. Problem
BUGFIX: (#32596) SAP IQ backup and restore via libsepsybase.so library. Problem
BUGFIX: (#16513) Archive adjustment with media introduction over barcode only. Problem
BUGFIX: (#31704) fix null pointer exception on PCCK when page meta is missing
BUGFIX: (#27672) Mount of BSR Pro image backups automatically as raw saveset
BUGFIX: (#32603) sm_mount returns successfully mounted drives in the returned status MSG in case of guest_mount returns with warning
BUGFIX: (#32644) - Citrix TLS CERT verification for sbc_xen build is set to CERT_REQUIRED, check_hostname and chippers are not set to ALL when there is a custom certificate set with "-a cert". Default certificate available in Citrix server does not meet security requirements of newer SSL library used in with Python 3.11 and change in NBD client code was made to disable certain requirements in order for backup to function with the new library. with this change, custom user certificate still must meet higher security standards
BUGFIX: (#32326) Correct handling of abort flag '-d -2' set by QM in 'sm_remote'
BUGFIX: (#31704) fix race condition when chunk was linked on swept page; fix bug when deep PCCK check for local pages was skipped
BUGFIX: (#31250) Current backup tape isn't used, if another one without tape trailer is loaded into drive. Do not call new tape initialization, but try to load requested tape
BUGFIX: (#26506) EOL adoption for external backups. Starting with backup 'SAP ASE' the level Full/Diff/Incr are now treated as backup chain. Diff will look for previous Full, Incr for previous Incr with same based_on_full
BUGFIX: (#32381) Sesam using PostgreSQL DB on Windows doesn't start anymore, if Sesam service account has been changed. Also during a new installation Sesam service does not start using a given user. Solution
BUGFIX: (#32672) Fixed mount of existing NDMP mount. Do not check for mounted partitions via sbc_proxy guest mount
BUGFIX: (#32667) NSS volumes are not select able in UI during restore using VMDK attach. Return "/mnt" for NSS volumes. Execute sbc_vadp_nss_post.sh during detach. Removed cleanup on non existing meta files to avoid unnecessary error log
BUGFIX: (#32605) Hyper-V RCT backup accidentally destroys all user snapshots.
BUGFIX: (#32256) Show all MS-SQL databases on one server by one 'dir' command. Problem
BUGFIX: (#31781) SEP sesam Unit License. Problem
BUGFIX: (#32652) Aborted tasks have no DB
BUGFIX: (#32524) Handling of the follow up events in case of an abort. Problem
BUGFIX: (#32657) Option to avoid starting follow up event by QM. New command 'sm_qm set option follow_up' to display follow up setting
BUGFIX: (#30358) RHEV backup cannot be cancelled. Terminate VHD data backup first
BUGFIX: (#32648) MSP license must not add BSR licenses to Level 1
BUGFIX: (#32654) Do not search for restore_id in vfs_mounts.json during mount or attach. Log restore_id only if it was found in json during umount or detach
BUGFIX: (#29199) To ensure that a pending reboot of Windows does not affect the SEP sesam update the function CheckRebootRequired() will be executed before the actual update starts informing the user as early as possible about a pending reboot.
BUGFIX: (#32626) SAP IQ
BUGFIX: (#32645) Excute "readlink -f" during guest umount on Linux. Replace mount dir with its symlink during check for mounted partition, if symlink exists
BUGFIX: (#32601) A large Log LSN number (>64Bit) leads to a wrong result when comparing the Log first LSN with the Full last LSN
BUGFIX: (#32381) Sesam using PostgreSQL DB on Windows doesn't start anymore, if Sesam service account has been changed. Solution
BUGFIX: (#32615) enable RCT backup with configuration version 10
BUGFIX: (#26809) Validate of ORACLE multichannel backup. Linux
BUGFIX: (#32629) vSphere SFR via cross mount fails with server on Windows and RDS on Linux. Fixed path separator'
BUGFIX: Submit 'sm_sshd' by sm_main with start time 'now'
BUGFIX: (#32619) Nutanix snap_del variable was checked too early, before it was set by the main sbc_proxy function
BUGFIX: (#32617) Proxmox restore fails, because 'sm_restore' tries to restore virtual disk saveset. Add PROXMOX_VE and OpenNebula to list of backup types, where no FDI chain will be fetched
BUGFIX: (#32565) Fixed mount from Linux to Windows client. Mount path send to sbc_proxy must be formatted with separator "/"
BUGFIX: (#25420) Check if disk partitions is mounted during umount, if it is not mounted, continue with stopping VFS
BUGFIX: (#32609) sbc_rhev
BUGFIX: (#25420) Fixed setting of -K binary in sm_qm. Binary path is determined by reading of gv_ro_bin value on the mount client if client is set in QM
BUGFIX: (#25420) Do not set stop executable during QM submit, if no end time is given
BUGFIX: (#32596) SAP IQ backup and restore via libsepsybase.so library. Solution
BUGFIX: (#32619) Nutanix snap_del variable was checked too early, before it was set by the main sbc_proxy function
BUGFIX: (#32270) Hyper-V RCT INC/DIFF backup is much slower than FULL. Problem
BUGFIX: (#32596) SAP IQ backup and restore via libsepsybase.so library. Problem
BUGFIX: (#32609) sbc_rhev
BUGFIX: (#25420) Fixed check for VFS mount client to determine if sm_mount or sbc_proxy is to be set as sm_qm -K argument
BUGFIX: (#30977) Set DB
BUGFIX: (#32542) All replication jobs are set to 'failed', if one saveset cannot be found on source media pool
BUGFIX: (#32591) added "-n node.startup -v manual" to iscsi Linux client login command
BUGFIX: (#32597) Migration does not work for savesets with DB
BUGFIX: (#32589) Update 'DB
BUGFIX: (#32592) Forward error message to Sesam server for external backups using XBSA. Solution
BUGFIX: (#31869) Break during SEP sesam BSR Pro (BSR) Windows backup. Check for STPD abort message '520 Operation aborted by Sesam Server'
BUGFIX: (#32553) Abort of external backups. If STPD message '520 Operation aborted by Sesam Server' appear in LIS then set state to '3' aborted
BUGFIX: (#32456) Canceled Microsoft Exchange backup before data transfer started could fail with 'Subprocess sm_sms_backup undefined broken'. Solution
BUGFIX: (#32522) gc stuck if unexpected exception throws during page content loading
BUGFIX: (#8554) Execute hard termination not during first loop
BUGFIX: (#30613) Restore does not work, because sesam does not find the volume/directory in the lis file. Problem
BUGFIX: (#32209) Race condition reading 'sm.ini' on Windows. Problem
BUGFIX: (#32432) Restore of big sparse file ~ 3GB will fail. Code revised. Even in case MTF_NO_SPAD the PDS_I_PROCESSED_FILE must be signalized.
BUGFIX: (#32408) Backup of open sparse files without vss will not process all data. Open with GENERIC_READ, FILE_SHARE_READ/WRITE to allow accessing a file which is opened by another process. Additional
BUGFIX: (#30241) The original error message is overwritten by 'No segment file {...}.dat found'. Solution
BUGFIX: (#32528) Update date in 'sm.ini' not set correctly during Linux Sesam server update. Fix parsing of token in parser
BUGFIX: (#32577) Do not remove DB entry and meta files of saveset, if delete of saveset file fails. Scan for 'SUCCESS' message instead of 'ERROR'
BUGFIX: (#32348) Verify saveset with VMware backup does not work. Solution
BUGFIX: (#32573) Abort of restores. Problem
BUGFIX: (#32565) Fixed setting of mount path when -M is not set and gv_rw_mnt is not set. Mount path in that case is set at gv_rw_tmp/mnt
BUGFIX: (#32578) Sesam service doesn't start, if STPD INI files couldn't be read by Python config parser. Ignore exception and continue with next file
BUGFIX: (#32565) Added processing of -M argument for sbc_proxy mount/umount actions. sm_mount sets -M for sbc_proxy. if -M is not set during umount, sm_mount reads it from mounts.json file. arg.mntdir is set only in ARG at one place. removed function get_mnt_dir() from sm_vfs.py, it was redundant functionality
BUGFIX: (#32557) Fix setting of image transfer timeout via parameter
BUGFIX: (#32557) OLVM/RHEV backup fails due to imageservice timeout
BUGFIX: (#32557) VM is locked in backup state if transfer ticket expired
BUGFIX: (#32570) sbc cores during restore to a different Nutanix cluster. Init variable
BUGFIX: (#32545) sm_alarm interface couldn't be executed, if backup has been aborted.
BUGFIX: (#32568) sm_alarm interface could not be executed if the attached file has a path delimiter '\'
BUGFIX: (#31872) Set abort status when the corresponding restore task is completely finished. Solution
BUGFIX: (#32559) Check return from umount command in sbc_proxy diskpart for Windows and do not stop VFS process in sm_mount if sbc_proxy returns error
BUGFIX: (#31856) Selective generation restore ends with warnings due to existing directories. Problem
BUGFIX: (#32557) VM is locked in backup state if transfer ticket expired
BUGFIX: (#32557) Fix setting of image transfer timeout via parameter
BUGFIX: (#32557) OLVM/RHEV backup fails due to imageservice timeout
BUGFIX: (#32325) Disconnect VDDK connections correctly during termination of vSphere backup. Problem
BUGFIX: (#32262) Break of hanging backups using 'sbc_smdr' fails. Extend search pattern to find 'sbc_smdr' processes too
BUGFIX: (#32543) Upload of vSphere '.nvram' fails, if datacenter contains UTF-8 character. URL encode datacenter name set by UI too
BUGFIX: (#31636) Abort of vSphere restores doesn't find processes to send signal to them. Use DB
BUGFIX: (#30696) Break of Nutanix backup/restore doesn't kill STPD/SBC of VHD saveset
BUGFIX: (#29404) open/close pvim connection for every virtual disk to fix consolidation issue
BUGFIX: (#32512) Restored VMs with new name have the same GUID as the original VM
BUGFIX: (#32141) Abort of SAP Hana backup does not work as expected. Warning resolved
BUGFIX: (#32488) Alarm interface fails with NPE up from 5.1 when sending mail also in case the start time frame expired since no attachment is available. Solution
BUGFIX: (#32141) Abort of SAP Hana backup does not work as expected. Remove of orphaned 'sm_sbc_com_ext' job
BUGFIX: (#25229) sbc must not print "operation was OK" when error occurs during data transfer
BUGFIX: (#32491) If arguments are no valid, exit with error "Invalid arguments". If backup_type is not valid, exit with error "%s is not a valid backup type"
BUGFIX: (#32534) Wrong relocation parameter for VMDK restore set. Problem
CHANGE: (#17310) Use new LIS file format (LISv2) as default
CHANGE: (#30633) Implement logic for changing logs retention time exactly in places where server sanity status is changed (FSCK, page&obj corruptions stores); delete previous logic with invoking changing on "status" command
CHANGE: (#32482) Migrate a saveset to same media pool one time only as default
CHANGE: GLBV gv_conf_pattern_lis_v1/gv_conf_pattern_convert_lis_v2_to_v1
CHANGE: (#31800) Update backup source of Sesam backup after migration of Sesam DB from Sqlite to PostgreSQL has been done
CHANGE: 'sbc-3223' message for 'Filename changed to..'
CHANGE: sbc_rhev
CHANGE: Log information about saveset read in VFS with default log level
CHANGE: (#33034) Log rename of system libraries during Linux file restore to log loglevel 2
CHANGE: (#33021) trace logs with level 1 in VFS in case of errors and exceptions
CHANGE: (#32464) Migrate a saveset only once to same target pool
CHANGE: Allow chained Sesam events on Windows too. Fix quoting of command execution
CHANGE: (#33009) Added trace include and use in VFS RCT
CHANGE: Warning
CHANGE: (#32983) Changed snapshot names for HW snapshot backups
CHANGE: (#32999) Avoid NACL streams in Hyper-V RCT range files
CHANGE: Simpler building of SQL statement for creation of SESAM_BACKUP
CHANGE: (#31800) Improve Sesam backup task handling. Save 'gv_rw_ini
CHANGE: (#31800) Improve Sesam backup task handling. Save 'gv_rw_ini
CHANGE: (#31800) Improve Sesam backup task handling. Do not resolve Sesam 'glbv' in 'sm_backup', but forward them to 'sbc'
CHANGE: (#31800) Execute Sesam backup as 'DIFF' instead of 'INCR' to allow complete Sesam restore by 2 backups
CHANGE: (#32992) Add new 'gv_rw_bin' directory used store custom script files to Sesam backup source
CHANGE: (#31936) Use default ISO date format for DB
CHANGE: (#31936) Use default ISO date format for DB
CHANGE: (#17013) Set 'DB
CHANGE: (#32980) Use ENV variable 'SM_INI' instead of 'SESAM_INI' to change path of default '/etc/sesam2000.ini', because 'SM_INI' is used already in many Sesam modules for a longer time
CHANGE: (#32983) Changed snapshot names for Nutanix and fixed delete of snapshots on XEN
CHANGE: Write import of saveset message correctly to Sesam status file
CHANGE: Set 'fsck' status to OK for read only data stores
CHANGE: (#32983) Common naming convention for Sesam snapshots in XEN module
CHANGE: (#29404) changed log prefix for Pure and Nimble to sos
CHANGE: Log sbc 'since' time in ISO timestamp format
CHANGE: (#31936) Use default ISO date format for DB
CHANGE: Use 'psz_now_iso()' function to get current time
CHANGE: (#29404) Added log about lvid of the new device we search for after snapshot
CHANGE: (#31681) SIR doesn't work if 'guestmount' will be started by 'sm_sshd'. Solution
CHANGE: (#17013) Start vSphere backups with URL encoded source as default
CHANGE: (#32500) change documentation related to custom logback file and XML variables
CHANGE: (#32500) Disable colourized log output for Si3NG. Add user defined XML file so switch colorized logs again
CHANGE: (#32970) Added option -o uridecode=0|1 If set to 1, vmdk file names are uri decoded. Default value is uridecode=0
CHANGE: (#32970) Replace %20 in VMDK names with _
CHANGE: (#32970) Replace of VMDK names for LIS mapping done in one place, added new list vmdk_list to hold vmdk names with spaces and ()][/\ chars replaced.
CHANGE: (#29404) snapshot list prints all attributes of Nimble snapshots
CHANGE: Revise cm hal pipe logging (it should be possible to filter out read messages)
CHANGE: (#32875) Simplified sbc_proxy backup sbc_pre functions for all modules
CHANGE: Set 'DB
CHANGE: Put 'sm_sms_tapeutil' into 'bin/sesam' to avoid including 'python3' folder 2 times in Sesam kits
CHANGE: (#32694) Remove sbc_mysql and sbc_pgsql executables from Sesam build. Function has been moved into sbc_proxy
CHANGE: (#32694) Remove sbc_mysql and sbc_pgsql executables from Sesam build. Remove sbc_zarafa
CHANGE: Remove backup types 'Open-Exchange Server', 'OpenLDAP' and 'Scalix' from Sesam
CHANGE: (#32863) Build vSphere module using VDDK 8.0.2 as default
CHANGE: (#31950) Changed prefix for Oceanstor API logs
CHANGE: (#32823) Use DB
CHANGE: (#32807) sm_sms_watch process for drive 0 just checks free space when watch process is started. Change
CHANGE: Disable 'get_cpu_info()' function call, until core dump on Debian has been fixed
CHANGE: (#32807) sm_sms_watch process for drive 0 just checks free space when watch process is started. Change
CHANGE: (#32694) Remove Scalix, OpenXchange and LDAP modules
CHANGE: (#30917) Modified sbctrace to automatically skip 4000 logs from printing if loglevel is less than 4. Set loglevel and tested in sbc_proxy OCEANSTOR
CHANGE: (#32823) Use DB
CHANGE: Remove backup types 'Open-Exchange Server', 'OpenLDAP' and 'Scalix' from Sesam
CHANGE: remove outdated code
CHANGE: (#32863) Build vSphere module using VDDK 8.0.2 as default
CHANGE: use own functions to detect CPU info
CHANGE: (#31950) Changed prefix for Oceanstor API logs
CHANGE: Python 3.11.4 -> 3.11.6
CHANGE: remove api-ms-win-core-*.dll again from build. It is not needed anymore.
CHANGE: (#32823) Use DB
CHANGE: (#32807) sm_sms_watch process for drive 0 just checks free space when watch process is started. Change
CHANGE: Disable 'get_cpu_info()' function call, until core dump on Debian has been fixed
CHANGE: (#32876) Sesam 'dev' using OpenSSL 3. Build Linux PPC kits with SSL 111, because of OpenSSL 3 doesn't work correctly
CHANGE: Disable 'get_cpu_info()' function call, until core dump on Debian has been fixed
CHANGE: (#32807) sm_sms_watch process for drive 0 just checks free space when watch process is started. Change
CHANGE: (#32694) Migrate sbc_vadp modules to Python 3
CHANGE: (#32876) Build Sesam using OpenSSL 3
CHANGE: Use Sesam 'pathes' from 'sm_common3.py'
CHANGE: (#32694) Port SAP modules using Python3
CHANGE: build using OpenSSL 3.2.0 (/usr/local/sesam-ssl-320-develop)
CHANGE: set correct cx_freeze command for all sesamdev versions different then 102
CHANGE: Remove some unused code
CHANGE:check of target DB for all PostgreSQL backup during restore
CHANGE: (#30917) Modified sbctrace to automatically skip 4000 logs from printing if loglevel is less than 4. Set loglevel and tested in sbc_proxy OCEANSTOR
CHANGE: remove trailing whitespace
CHANGE: (#32823) Use DB
CHANGE: (#32840) Use LISv1 for savesets written with SIDF format
CHANGE: (#23784) Saveset migration without 'DB
CHANGE: (#31049) Enhance backup chain check for MSSQL log backup. Change
CHANGE: (#23477) New license for MSP. Change
CHANGE: (#32769) vSphere restore fails with new VM name and white space in VMDK name
CHANGE: (#23477) New license for MSP. Change
CHANGE: (#4787) Better analyze of errors during backup. Treat message 'sbc-2010 Unable to access item ...' as error message. Otherwise this message is overwritten by 'Error from sbc find proccess'.
CHANGE: (#32603) fixed guest mount so that search for new attached volumes is not repeated more times than needed
CHANGE: Start Si3-NG server by 'sm_java ... start sds2'
CHANGE: (#24200) sbc_proxy checks for correct format of Sesam gv_rw_tmp directory, it must end with "/var/tmp/" and if it is not the case, sbc_proxy exits with error
CHANGE: (#32603) Simplifed code to set VFS mount client. Use arg.mount_client in sm_vfs.py
CHANGE: (#32710) Support for 'arm64' CPU architecture
CHANGE: (#27781) Write number of removed saveset to DB
CHANGE: (#32727) Write main media initialization log file into 'gv_rw_prot_media
CHANGE: sbc_rhev
CHANGE: (#26506) EOL adoption for external backups. Starting with backup 'SAP ASE' the level Full/Diff/Incr are now treated as backup chain. Change
CHANGE: (#32495) Graceful shutdown of Si3-NG server. Minor changes in sm_java
CHANGE: (#30890) - Review and update Java part 3rd party licenses
CHANGE: (#32318) Save 'sbc_pre/post' scripts in 'gv_rw_bin' for clients with version >= 5.1.0.9. If script already exists in 'gv_ro_bin' it will stay in this directory
CHANGE: (#29346) Correct error message, if processiing of LIS or SGM files failes for external backups
CHANGE: (#32618) Backup fails with misleading error message if segment file missing. Use 'E019_BACKUP_ERROR_PARSE_SGM' in case of no SGM file found too
CHANGE: (#32618) Backup fails with misleading error message if segment file missing. Do not compare backup size and items processed between SBC and LIS, if copy of SGM or LIS file has already failed
CHANGE: (#17318) Set the checkbox for the http link for first steps active only during installation not during update.
CHANGE: (#32627) SAP IQ INCREMENTAL backup. SAP IQ uses command_type 3 (UNKNOWN) in case of BACKUP DATABASE INCREMENTAL
CHANGE: (#32524) Handling of the follow up events in case of an abort. Enable follow up execution again, if not called for complete Sesam shutdown
CHANGE: (#25420) Add info about sbc_proxy mount client as -C argument to sm_vfs
CHANGE: (#32657) Option to avoid starting follow up event by QM. Change CLI to 'sm_qm option follow_up <0|1>'
CHANGE: Added missing info to sm_mount help
CHANGE: (#17318) In the last MSI installer windows set the checkbox for the http link for first steps active. Until now the user had to check the checkbox himself.
CHANGE: (#32621) Make sure that leftover unneeded files are removed explicitely during update process
CHANGE: (#32642) mount path for all modules VM disk partitions and for PATH is set to <VFS mount path>/fs/<saveset ID>
CHANGE: (#32589) Abort of restores using saveset mount. Add saveset id in pipe name used to copy files over STPD instead of restore task, so 'sm_kill_stpd' will find the correct process
CHANGE: (#32573) Set DB
CHANGE: Use 'DB
CHANGE: Allow DB
CHANGE: (#32573) Abort of restores. Set status to '3' instead of 'c', if sbc has already been started before abort action
CHANGE: (#28353) Continue selective restore when ESET is missing. Restore should be marked as "successful with warnings"
CHANGE: (#32537) Change Java dependency for Sesam server on SLES12 from 'jre >= 11' to 'java-11-openjdk', because recent Java RPMs from SuSE doesn't provide 'jre >= 11' tag any more
CHANGE: (#32348) Verify saveset with VMware backup does not work. Solution
CHANGE: (#29591) Changed log in sbc_proxy when termination signal is received to sbc-1028
CHANGE: (#28009) Adjust sm.ini including logical block size if a GUI with a client is installed. Only for a pure GUI installation these adjustement are skipped.
CHANGE: (#32370) Improve logic of sm_break2 when active jobs are found. Change
CHANGE: (#32188) Do not use TR() function in signal handler. Use "safe" i_cm_signal function by default where "action" is wrapped with thread.
CHANGE: (#25420) Added quotes to all optional arguments in QM submit and to VFS arguments in sm_mount
CHANGE: (#25420) Addopted sm_qm.py and submit sm_vfs with kill_wait_time=600, stop_proc="sm_stop"
CHANGE: (#29840) added help output to main sbc_proxy
CHANGE: (#32370) Improve logic of sm_break2 when active jobs are found. Change
CHANGE: (#32370) Improve logic of sm_break2 when active jobs are found. Change
NEW: Update default VDDK version 7.0.0 to 8.0.2
NEW: Switch to OpenSSL 3.2.0
NEW: Sesam release 5.1.0.14
NEW: (#32562) Do not allow use of SEP SiS Immutable Storage data stores with SEP Sesam essential license
NEW: (#33053) Support Windows Server 2025. Add oper_systems and syntaxes entries for 'Windows Server 2025'
NEW: add sbc-3277 with sbc submodule versions used in case of -o shortlog specified
NEW:(#33043) opennebula
NEW: (#17310) New LIS file format LIS 2.0 to store extended file information. New
NEW: (#30633) Increase server logs retention time when server sanity status becomes NOT OK; set back (with delay in 24 hours) original retention time when server sanity status becomes OK again.
NEW: (#28448) run sm_rexec directly over smssh if available without calling to sm_rexec. Use direct ssh calls only if DS configured with options 'use_direct_ssh=yes|y|1'
NEW: Do not purge logfiles, DB entries and Si3 trash, if 'gv_conf_no_purge_all=1' is set
NEW: (#33022) Show processing of ACL/EA items during restore
NEW: (#28448) run sm_rexec directly over smssh if available without calling to sm_rexec.
NEW: Add PPID to 'sm_client' log
NEW: (#31933) Set custom pattern for detecting Sesam backup task by 'gv_conf_sesam_backup_pattern=<regex>'
NEW: (#21538) Check if PostgreSQL DB runs in archive mode before starting incr. backup
NEW: Support backup/restore of files with \n and/or \r in path (-o encode_source=0|1)
NEW: (#25176) Adapt backup source of Sesam backup during update. Try to update full path names used in older Sesam installations too
NEW: (#25176) Adapt backup source of Sesam backup during update. Detect source from older Sesam installations
NEW: (#25176) Adapt backup source of Sesam backup during update
NEW: (#32980) Installation of Sesam client as non root user
NEW: (#28448) run sm_rexec directly over smssh if available without calling to sm_rexec. Use direct sm_ssh calls for DI
NEW: (#32944) Write output from PRE/POST scripts into backup or restore log directly
NEW: (#27274) Set of source side deduplication drive for 'sbc -b -o com'. Add example in documentation
NEW: (#19569) Set backup data mover by task group (DB
NEW: (#30267) Set datamover in DB
NEW: (#32500) add implementation for logback XML variables, and it's merging with custom file
NEW: (#24208) Mount BTRFS root volume on mount point <mnt>/disk<disk num>/root and all subvolumes on <mnt>/disk<disk num>/subvolumes. Moved code to execute guest_mount to a separate function
NEW: (#31504) Do not overwrite (changed) sm_sdslog.xml / sm_sdslog2.xml during sm_config_drives. Problem
NEW: (#32639) Source side deduplication for HPE Catalyst
NEW: (#20346) Source side de-duplication for external backups
NEW: Use operating system user 'postgres' as default for 'PostgreSQL' backup, because most servers are installed using it. Can be overwritten by '-a osuser=<user>' option
NEW: (#32705) Follow up and migration event for Oracle backup
NEW: (#26482) Support of 'SESAM_TASKEVENT' parameter in Oracle backup module
NEW: insert restore pre and post files for powershell.
NEW: (#32863) Add VDDK VMware-vix-disklib-8.0.2.x86_64.zip to installer skel directory.
NEW: Detect running 'MariaDB' server, which is started as 'mariadbd' instead of 'mysqld'
NEW: (#21538) PostgreSQL FULL/DIFF/INCR backup. Restore backups as 'Path'
NEW: (#31950) Implemented VMWare backup using Huawei OceanStor hardware snapshots
NEW: (#30917) after snapshot is created, move it to the same LUN group as the source LUN is in. If the client has configured access for that LUN group, snapshot becomes automatically visible as a new ISCSI disk
NEW: (#32833) Make DB
NEW: (#21538) PostgreSQL
NEW: (#30917) Implemented deleting of Oceanstor snapshots and some code optimizations
NEW: (#32863) Use correct sbc for vSphere backup using VDDK >= 8.0.1
NEW: (#30917) fixed dir snapshots to print snapshots of LUNs instead of FS snapshots
NEW: (#30917) Added function to create Oceanstor snapshots and fixed dir snapshots to print snapshots of LUNs instead of FS snapshots
NEW: (#30917) Implemented dir function to print Oceanstor FS snapshots
NEW: (#27064) Clarify information which block size is used during write/read to tape in sms loggings. Now with read operation trace
NEW: (#32852) Remove SQLite '\var\db' directory after migration of Sesam DB to PostgreSQL
NEW: add site.conf template for BSR Linux on multipath systems
NEW: (#30917) implemnted DIR function to print Oceanstor file systems
NEW: (#31463) Restore of a single file overwrites the parent directory. Since SEPsesam version 5.1.0.10 the SBC option '-o over=file' is used to avoid overwriting directories.
NEW: (#32718) Use Python 'clicks' library as replacement for 'getopt/args'
NEW: (#32705) Follow up event and saveset migration for external backups
NEW: (#21538) PostgreSQL FULL/DIFF/INCR backup. Restore backups as 'Path'
NEW: (#32833) Make DB
NEW: (#31950) Implemented VMWare backup using Huawei OceanStor hardware snapshots
NEW: (#30917) after snapshot is created, move it to the same LUN group as the source LUN is in. If the client has configured access for that LUN group, snapshot becomes automatically visible as a new ISCSI disk
NEW: (#32833) Make DB
NEW: port SAP modules from python2 to python3. Add new dll needed to VS2019 section. api_ms_win_core_console_l1_2_0.dll.
NEW: port SAP modules from python2 to python3. Add new dll needed. api_ms_win_core_console_l1_2_0.dll.
NEW: (#30917) Implemented deleting of Oceanstor snapshots and some code optimizations
NEW: (#32863) Use correct sbc for vSphere backup using VDDK >= 8.0.1
NEW: (#30917) fixed dir snapshots to print snapshots of LUNs instead of FS snapshots
NEW: (#30917) Added function to create Oceanstor snapshots and fixed dir snapshots to print snapshots of LUNs instead of FS snapshots
NEW: (#30917) Implemented dir function to print Oceanstor FS snapshots
NEW: (#27064) Clarify information which block size is used during write/read to tape in sms loggings. Now with read operation trace: 'serv_get_tape_label:: label = %s, blocksize %lld, date %s, info [%s]' Change check of target DB for all PostgreSQL backup during restore
NEW: (#32852) Remove SQLite '\var\db' directory after migration of Sesam DB to PostgreSQL
NEW: add site.conf template for BSR Linux on multipath systems
NEW: (#32833) Make DB
NEW: (#30917) implemnted DIR function to print Oceanstor file systems
NEW: (#31463) Restore of a single file overwrites the parent directory. Since SEPsesam version 5.1.0.10 the SBC option '-o over=file' is used to avoid overwriting directories.
NEW: Increase SEP sesam version. Old version is 5.1.0.11, new version is 5.1.0.12.
NEW: (#30917) sbc_proxy login to HUAWEI REST API, gets system info and logout
NEW: (#31025) sbc_proxy guest mount on Windows mounts volumes of mounted virtual disks to sub folder instead of adding new drive letters to the system. Mount directory has format
NEW: Use https for Desktop links to WebUI and Restore Assistant created by installation.
NEW: (#31950) Implemented login to OceanStor REST API
NEW: (#32796) Support for Ubuntu 23.10
NEW: Reduce number of SQL statements executed by 'sm_pur_status' to remove DB
NEW: (#32782) Use common message format definition for all modules writing to backup log. New function 'trkv(msgnr,key,value)' to print out aligned message
NEW: (#13406) Enhance backup speed of DIFF/INC backup by checking modification time by 'smfind'
NEW: (#32779) Call 'sm_alarm/sm_notify' after execution of command event. Added into templates for Windows sm_alarm.cmd/ps1
NEW: (#32779) Call 'sm_alarm/sm_notify' after execution of command event. Added into templates for Windows sm_notify.cmd/ps1
NEW: (#32779) Call 'sm_alarm/sm_notify' after execution of command event
NEW: Restart Si3 server, if it exit with exit code '1'
NEW: (#32688) If FDI chain file is not found during NDMP incremental backup, switch to FULL backup
NEW: (#32688) Set NDMP backup max level to 31 for Netapp 9 or higher, 10 for EMC unity and to 9 for all others
NEW: Add maximum size liit during creation of Si3 deduplication of 40 TiB
NEW: (#32688) Check for sbc-2988 message, if NDMP backup has been switched from INCR to FULL by sbc
NEW: (#32688) NDMP backup switched to level FULL if there are 8 incremental backups already in the chain. Added new warning message 2988 to sbc_msg.c
NEW: (#32745) No throughput values are written to DB after replication to SIS appliance has finished. Read value by 'sm_dedup_interface' instead of log file
NEW: (#32736) Replace GNU findutils in sbc UNIX
NEW: (#32755) add additional storage information during browse of rhev storage volumes
NEW: (#32710) sbc_proxy prints CPU details and starts every network log with a key word Network
NEW: (#32720) Copy LIS and STPD/SMS/SI3 logfiles from RDS by STPD, "sbc -h INFO
NEW: (#27781) Remove old log files from 'prot/media'. Add new action 'sm_cross_check cleanup_media_log'
NEW: (#32710) sbc_proxy print all network info. Fixed formatting of memory info
NEW: (#32710) Added sbc_proxy print info for memory, CPU and network
NEW: (#32721) Remove media log files for deleted data stores
NEW: (#31950) HTTP client session for OceanStor connect to server
NEW: (#32710) Added AV info on Windows
NEW: (#32586) Set number of parallel processes used during data store purge
NEW: Support '-u <username>' option in 'sm_remove_saveset'
NEW: (#32318) Store custom Sesam scripts in extra directory
NEW: (#32586) Set number of parallel processes used during data store purge
NEW: (#32318) Add 'gv_rw_bin' to PATH variable in Sesam profile
NEW: (#30821) Support of LTO9 first time media initialization. Write to sm_slu_{day}.log if SM_SLU_LOGFILE is set in the process environment.
NEW: (#29307) Prevent expansion of GroupWise objects in client browser
NEW: (#32318) Allow execution of command events in path 'gv_rw_bin' too
NEW: (#32318) Search scripts like 'sm_notify, sbc_pre...' in 'gv_rw_bin' before 'gv_ro_bin'
NEW: Exit 'sm_break2' with 'STATUS= MSG=' line
NEW: (#32680) Exit Huawei NDMP backup with error for level COPY. Added logs with info about transferred backup data size
NEW: (#32618) New localized error message for problems during LIS file parsing. Do not use backup status '2' (no LIS), because even FULL restore might not work correctly
NEW: (#32680) Add OS 'Huawei OceanStor' with platform 'NDMP'
NEW: (#30890) Add MIT license authors and years for Kernel modules.
NEW: (#30890) Add WebUI specific third party licenses to git and to file _list_third_party_licenses.txt.
NEW: (#32746) Check validity of Sesam server certificate by client. sm_cmd using Url
NEW: (#32688) NDMP backup writes incremental level to a file in times for every backup task. For every full backup, value is set to 0 and for 1st INC backup it is set to 2. For every next INC backup, value is increased by 1 until max value of 9 is reached. If value is 9 and INC backup is started, it exits with error. The same value is set to NDMP ENV variable level, for INC backup
NEW: (#26678) Add information about media and media pools on a data store to a META file in JSON formt
NEW: (#32667) Added -o show_parent_mnt to sm_mount help
NEW: Allow use of '-c' option for action specific arguments in 'sm_event'
NEW: (#32348) Execute 'sbc' for verify saveset on data mover for clients with access mode 'PROXY'
NEW: (#25420) when PATH mount on RDS and qm_stop action executes sbc_proxy, _mounts file dooes not exist and sbc_proxy executes stop_vfs. Information about this is added to a file log/lgc/sm_mount-<ssid>.log
NEW: (#32524) Handling of the follow up events in case of an abort. Enable follow up execution again, if not called for complete Sesam shutdown
NEW: (#32524) Handling of the follow up events in case of an abort. Do not execute any follow up event, in case of Sesam server shutdown
NEW: (#32657) Option to avoid starting follow up event by QM. New command 'sm_qm set option follow_up=0/1' allows to switch off/on the follow up processing
NEW: (#27376) Purge old SMS/STPD logfiles recursively from remote device server
NEW: (#27376) Put STPD logs into date based subdirectories. Problem
NEW: (#31560) Add all missing third party licenses used by Sesam to 'skel' folder and adjust some of the exiting ones.
NEW: (#32631) sbctrace prints time with milliseconds if "gv_log_milliseconds=YES" is set in sm.ini
NEW: (#26680) Enhance message when active/queued job is canceled for any reasons
NEW: (#32585) Added option -o no_lisv1=1 to sm_mount to stop mounting if no LISv2 file found
NEW: (#32611) If more than one VMs with the same name exist during backup, backup exits with error. If more than one proxy VMs with the same name exist during hotadd backup or restore, operation exists with error
NEW: (#32573) Set default wait timeout for hard kill to 10 min
NEW: (#15302) Execute abort action in 'sm_break_task' directly again and do not call 'sm_stop' for it. By calling sm_stop control is lost by caller
NEW: (#28862) Cleanup savesets on data store, which have zero data size in DB
NEW: (#25420) Added functionality to execute detach during sm_mount QM stop. mounts.json file is searched for the command based on given SSID and action is determined from the command found there
NEW: (#32611) If more than one VMs with the same name exist during backup, backup exits with error. If more than one proxy VMs with the same name exist during hotadd backup or restore, operation exists with error
NEW: (#32573) Set default wait timeout for hard kill to 10 min
NEW: (#15302) Execute abort action in 'sm_break_task' directly again and do not call 'sm_stop' for it. By calling sm_stop control is lost by caller
NEW: (#31832) Break during SAP Hana backup. Set status '3' instead of 'X' if SAP Hana backup is aborted
NEW: (#31832) Break during SAP Hana restore. Set status '3' instead of 'X' if SAP Hana restore is aborted
NEW: (#32599) Add Sesam server name to VDI interface name
NEW: (#29591) Write warning message to Sesam main log, if graceful abort fails
NEW: (#32593) Added function -A cleanup. For Nutanix module, it executes delete_sesam_volume_groups if -a delete_vg is set
NEW: (#32591) implemented "-a delete_vg" for Nutanix to delete Sesam volume groups older than days set by the argument
NEW: Log final DB
NEW: (#29591) Use same basic abort message for backups and restores
NEW: (#32488) Set correct backup log path (NOT log) for backups, which terminate in pending queue
NEW: (#27166) Fast and graceful job termination by 'sm_break'. Enable core termination after long timeout (15 min for VM based backups) again
NEW: (#32573) Abort of restore
NEW: (#24714) Set original migration task and follow up event, if single failed backup is restarted
NEW: (#32132) Write data store properties as JSON file into DS root directory
NEW: (#31928) pass arguments to powershell parameters, escape path to executed script
NEW: Add DB
NEW: (#31928) call powershell scripts with -file parameter instead of -c
NEW: (#25420) For client mount, sm_qm -K sbc_proxy is set for starting sm_vfs job. sbc_proxy parses for -p <number> and to identify qm_stop action and executes umount for a saveset ID parsed from -j <job name>
NEW: (#29737) Create new process group on Linux if 'iRCMD()' is called for local command execution
NEW: (#25420) sm_mount parses for argument -p and if set, it parses for ssid from -j argument. It then executes "sm_mount umount <ssid>"
NEW: (#32488) Set correct backup log path (NOT log) for backups, which terminate in pending queue
NEW: (#32548) Add 'exec_state' flag to DB result tables
NEW: (#31928) sbc get backup source from ps1 script (sbc -b -s @NUL -f @sbc_gen.ps1 -o shortlog c
NEW: (#8554) Print 'sbc-1028 Error
NEW: sbc kill option to wait process finish before any activity performed (-w [<preaction_wait>
NEW: (#32141) Abort of external backup does not work as expected. Do not remove 'sm_sbc_com_ext' job from queue before caller can execute regular 'sbc_com closejob' function, which will do cleanup correctly
NEW: (#28169) Wait for for complete Sesam startup. Add desription for 'gv_conf_drive_config_timeout=<sec.>'
NEW: (#32498) sbc_proxy -A umount works with "ALL
NEW: (#32120) Added "prepare" to the list of actions to execute "sm_mount umount -s ALL"
WIP: (#31463) Restore of a single file overwrites the parent directory. Windows
WIP: (#31463) Restore of a single file overwrites the parent directory. Linux
WIP: (#30821) Support of LTO9 first time media initialization. In case of library MSL2024 (along with the 1/8 G2) loading a not-calibrated LTO-9 media is not possible. SLU now shows these media with 'tape=2' to indicate the non accesibility. SM_ROBOT writes message 'I038-MEDIA Media ... in slot ## must be calibrated before first use.'

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