Release overview

x360Recover 10.16.0 is a feature release focused on a major overhaul to migrations and vault recovery. This release also includes internal functionality enhancements, and the elimination of partner-facing bugs

Summary of new features

• Legacy migrations have been completely refactored to use resumable replication mode. [See Migrate a protected system on x360Recover ]
• Vault-to-appliance recovery now offers the option to select a base image/snapshot for recovered data
• A protected system's time zone is used when virtualizing that protected system
• Snapshots ‘In-Use’ by Virtual Office, Cloud AutoVerify, or Recovery Center now are visible in the vault UI [See Recover a protected system on an x360Recover vault back to an appliance ]

Summary of bug fixes

• Legacy Python packages with security vulnerabilities are updated
• Issue with AutoVerify where previous shadowcopy volume might be mounted if the machine reboots while performing chkdsk has been fixed
• Web service threads on Management Portal are optimized  to reduce memory consumption
• Automatic Updates will apply agent updates even if updates are blocked by in use snapshots (Agent updates do not require reboot of the device)
• Issue where ‘Completed’ replication jobs do not show 100% complete in some cases is resolved
• Fixed issue with Cloud AutoVerify continuing to perform testing after a D2C endpoint has been converted to an appliance endpoint
• Issue is resolved with some Unicode characters in protected systems stats causing Management Portal Reporting to crash
• Fixed scoring of local cache verification which had been showing failed after 72 hours if no new backup had occurred

Resumable migration

Starting with release 10.16.0,  appliance-to-appliance and vault-to-vault migrations support direct ingestion of the migrated data. 

This direct ingestion of recovered data allows for resumable recovery of a protected system when migrating from a vault back to an appliance.

These enhancements mean that migration between devices over the network is now performed in a single step. 

• Data is no longer staged on the target device in the aristosbay folder
• Increased storage space (to first store the migration data, and then separately ingest it) is no longer needed, since data is ingested directly to the storage pool in a single pass.  

Other benefits of this enhancement include (a) interrupted transfers can be re-tried and (b) data already sent to the target device will be resumed in place on the next attempt.   

For more details on performing migrations of protected systems between appliances and vaults, see  Migrate from one device to another in x360Recover

Select a base image during vault-to-appliance recovery

You can now specify which snapshot on the vault you wish to use as the base image. (The base image is the oldest snapshot to be retried on the appliance. )

Specifying a base image allows you to recover a smaller subset of the protected system data to the appliance than is present on the vault. (This is particularly helpful when your appliance has limited storage space. )

Like resumable migration (described above), vault-to-appliance recovery data is now directly ingested into the receiving appliance. This eliminates the need to first stage the data and means you no longer need to double the disk space available during the recovery process.

• If you would like more details about vault-to-appliance recovery operations, see How to recover an existing protected system to a different appliance using the vault
• To convert a Direct-to-Cloud (D2C) endpoint to appliance mode by performing a recovery, see How to convert an existing appliance agent to Direct-to-Cloud (D2C) 

Release overview

x360Recover Bare Metal Restore 2.2.0.26 is a maintenance release, updating the Linux kernel for better hardware support and addressing recovery issues and bug fixes.

Summary of new features

• Linux Kernel updated to 5.11
• Added IPMITool utility to ISO
• Added local cache data ‘lazy open’ feature
• Eliminated creation of ‘sparse’ copy-on-write files during local cache recovery

Summary of bug fixes

• Fixed issue where a user was allowed to proceed despite an invalid password entry
• Dynamically calculate local cache size to address unknown alignment of last block
• Show all filesystem types correctly during recovery
• Fixed unexpected block alignment issues found during escalation 

Known issues

Previously, during iSCSI initiation, local cache database tables were fully opened and index tables were imported into memory.  This process could potentially require a long time, resulting in significant delays.  

With this release, local cache database tables are opened in a ‘lazy" manner, so that indexes are only loaded on demand during the recovery process.  This results in the recovery process running relatively slowly at first, but recovery speed accelerates up to normal speeds (over the first fine to ten minutes minutes) as local cache indexes are loaded into memory in the background. 

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Enhancements and bug fixes

x360Recover Replibit and Direct-to-Cloud (D2C)  

• Removed the Max Page content width limit from all RMC pages
• Fixed a bug where the csv file was not displaying all entries for Backup History Report  

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Release overview

x360Recover 10.15.0 is a maintenance release, focused on backend enhancements and eliminating bugs.

Summary of new features

• Removed obsolete agent disconnect alerting feature
• Added new backend API to support authenticating protected system passwords for Recovery Center
• Added backend support for file and folder recovery of Linux protected systems
• Enhanced integration with Virtual Office and Cloud AutoVerify to show snapshots in-use on the vault

Summary of bug fixes 

• Blocked accidental deletion of snapshots in-use by Virtual Office
• Fixed format of snapshot names reported in Cloud AutoVerify statistics

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Enhancements and bug fixes

x360Recover Replibit and Direct-to-Cloud (D2C)  

• Fixed a bug redirecting to the wrong report tab when the View button was clicked
• In x360Recover, it is not possible to render a virtual machine in Virtual Office for a restore point which is currently in use.

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