Release Note

Revised on April 18, 2021

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Updates in Version 5.1.11.6632 (April 9, 2021)

Updates in Version 5.1.11.6250 (July 3, 2020)

Updates in Version 5.1.9.5983 (December 16, 2019)

Updates in Version 5.1.4.5640 (May 30, 2019)

Updates in Version 5.0.4.4667 (April 16, 2019)

Updates in Version 5.0.3.4646 (May 9, 2018)

Updates in Version 5.0.3.4644 (April 2, 2018)

Updates in Version 5.0.2.4531 (January 31, 2018)

Updates in Version 5.0.1.4408 (December 8, 2017)

Updates in Version 5.0.0.4352

Updates in Version 5.1.11.6632

• Released as "Update 8" for ActiveImage Protector 2018 Linux Edition.

Added /Updated Features

• Replication
• Proxy settings can be configured for Replication as well as for Preferences.
• Installer
• Actiphy Authentication Service (AAS) is supported.
  * Open the port for the connection to the AAS.
  * The software license activation via ActiveVisor is disabled. Please install Actiphy Authentication Service for the software license activation.
• Others
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 and 8.3 are officially supported.
• CentOS 7.9 and 8.3 are officially supported.
• AlmaLinux 8.3 is officially supported.
• MIRACLE LINUX 7 / 8 are officially supported.
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 and Desktop 15 are officially supported.
• OpenSUSE Leap 15 is officially supported.
• Oracle Linux 6 - 8 are officially supported.
• CentOS-based BE version of ISO image is updated from "7.7" to "8.3".
• Renewed the script for automatically creating a package and driver.
• The support information file is created in "zip" format instead of "tgz".
• Script provided that runs a backup task while Oracle is up and running.
• Script provided that runs a backup task while KVM virtual machines are up and running.

Fixed Issues

• Backup
• (11227) Upon completion of backup process, aipcopy process in Monitoring remains.
• Takes a long time for a scheduled backup task to move from 99% to a completed state.
• Made adjustment to the computing logic for Smart Sector backup of XFS file systems.
• Restore
• (11251) When restoring a volume that is 1024KB or less, the size is not correctly displayed.
• Restoring a hot volume in basic partition displays a message for LV.
• Bare metal recovery of a hot volume in basic partition returned a message in small size.
• Bare metal recovery of a basic partition volume on CentBE failed with Exit:-427.
• Replication
• While configuring the replication target setting and selecting Amazon S3, creating a new folder under a bucket cannot be performed.
• Installer
• When installing the product to a minimum configuration system, the Japanese EULA gets garbled.
• When installing the ActiveImage Protector agent only on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.x or CentOS 8.x, the ActiveImage Protector installation fails since the required packages have not been installed.
• Others
• (11202) When selecting [About] in [Help] menu, Activation Date and Expiration Date are displayed.
• (11228) Network communication failed in an SMB1.0 unsupported environment.
• Some information of the final result is not displayed in email notifications.
• When a multiple number of interim files exist, the virtualization option script fails.

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Updates in Version 5.1.11.6250

• Released as "Update 7" for ActiveImage Protector 2018 Linux Edition.

Added / Updated Features

• Console
• Eliminated [Check for Update] from Help menu.
• Others
• The backup image file version has been updated to [210] except for the image file of Linux LVM.
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8 and 8.0 - 8.2 are officially supported.
• CentOS 7.8, 8.1 and 8.2 are officially supported
• CentOS-based BE version of ISO image is updated from "7.4" to "7.7".
• Linux script is partly expanded for RDX.
• Renewed the script for automatically creating a package and driver.
• Enhanced E-Mail Notification not to display the text message (ex. {IDS_STRING3013}, etc.)

Fixed Issues

• Backup
• When a backup task was scheduled to start, if a disk was recognized as uninitialized, the disk was initialized.
• When enabling Encryption option (AES128/256), if the defined password was not long enough, an unknown error occurred.
• Upon starting, a task might fail in Error -571.
• When the comment exceeding the specified length was entered, the comment was not configured for the image.
• Upon completion of a task, the subsequently scheduled task might be suspended.
• An error occurs when entering the correct authentication information in the MySQL configuration.
• Restore
• When starting Restore wizard, if a disk was recognized as uninitialized, the disk was initialized.
• Due to misrecognition of hypervisor host name, the number of hypervisor hosts exceeded validly licensed number.
• ISO image of CentOS-based BE is enhanced as follows:
• When restoring 10TB or larger backup image file, you encounter out of memory error and the recovery environment hangs up.
• When restoring 10TB or larger backup image file, the restore task fails in Error -405.
• The problem of SMB protocol version

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Updates in Version 5.1.9.5983

• Released as "Update 5" for ActiveImage Protector 2018 for Linux Edition.

Added /Updated Features

• Backup
• Scheduled Backup feature provides the following post-backup process options.
• Verify Image
• Consolidation
• Replication
  * Backup Now does not provide Offsite Replication option.
• The following off-site replication targets can be selected.
• Local folders
• Network shared folder
• SFTP
• FTP
• WebDAV-https
• WebDAV-http
• Amazon S3
• Azure
• OneDrive
• Dropbox
• Google Drive
• Replication feature, a post-backup process, is enhanced as follows:
• Replication to Amazon S3 without using AWS CLI is allowed.
• Replication target setting is improved. You are now allowed to access the specified server or cloud service and browse the path for the replication target. You can create a new folder when you configure the setting for the replication target.
• Console
• You can specify the time-out and the maximum time to wait for a backup task to complete the backup process.
• [Create a virtual machine compatible image] functionality is now provided for online backup by default.
• When [Auto run if a scheduled task is missed] option is enabled and if both base and incremental backup images are skipped, you are provided with an option for prioritizing the execution of the base backup task.
• For Volume Recovery, you are additionally provided with an option for ignoring a checksum error occurred with a backup image and continuing the process.
• Others
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS 7.7 are now supported.
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS 5.5 - 5.11 are not supported.
• (10686) 64 bit installer is provided.
• Backup image file version of LVM system is [208].
• Activation will successfully complete, even if there is substantial time-lag between the system clock of the local computer and the activation server at the moment of activation.
• When a backup task using Deduplication Compression feature fails, debugging output is available.
• CentOS-based boot environment ISO is changed from 7.6 to 7.4.
• CentOS-based boot environment ISO is enhanced as follows:
• 64-bit boot environment
• Only the NTFS volume of the local disk is automatically mounted.
• The keyboard layout is presented the same as your language selected for GUI.
• The time zone feature is optimized to the environment.
  * The environment has to use NTP to keep computer clocks accurate by synchronizing them over the internet.

Fixed Issues

• Backup
• Kernel Panic occurred during backup process when mounting an invalid backup image.
• Due to a discrepancy in the computed number of used blocks, a full-sector backup was taken instead of incremental. However, because the created full-sector backup was invalid, when the image was restored, the file system was corrupted.
• [Designate Specific Days] scheduling feature did not work correctly.
• (10888) There was no warning message even when you specified the password by using unsupported character set.
• Replication
• (10485) Some Offsite Replication tasks failed.
• Others
• Failed to access samba4.x shared folder.
• (10484) The language information of offline key was not correctly indicated.

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Updates in Version 5.1.4.5640

• Released as "Update" for ActiveImage Protector 2018 for Linux Edition.

Added /Updated Features

• Backup
• (9326) The default image file format is changed to "MD format" for the created backup file when multiple disks are specified as the backup source.
• You can schedule a backup task on a specific day of a week in a specific month.
• ImageIsolate technology is implemented.
  This feature reduces potential malware or ransomware attacks by disconnecting access to backup image storage drives after backups complete.
• Backup options are additionally provided when RDX is specified for the destination storage to save backup images.
  * These backup options are available with the dedicated license only.
• Others
• Image File Version is [209].
• (9399) Network is hidden in Explorer for browsing a file / folder other than backup files.
• (10334) Linux BE (Ubuntu) Builder is eliminated.

Fixed Issues

• Backup
• (10278) In the event of LVM system backup of 4K sector disk in 2TB size or larger, datto file was not excluded.
• (10340) In the event of mounting VG volume in the disk image of LVM backup, the application crashed.
• Recovery
• (10279) File Recovery failed on 4K sector system.
• Others
• Since the credentials information configured in the schedule settings included unwanted information, even when you changed the password to access the destination, log-in failed.
• (9341) Some task log information was not correctly displayed in German OS environment.

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Updates in Version 5.0.4.4667

• Released as ActiveImage Protector 2018 SP2 for Linux Edition.

Added /Updated Features

• Backup
• Improved the process of ext3 file system tracking and volume bitmap.
• Console
• Improved disk map to indicate a disk recognized as "uninitialized".
• (9342) [Refresh] button is implemented on file/folder browser explorer.
• Others
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS 7.6 are officially supported.
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS 6.10 are officially supported.
• ISO of CentOS based boot environment is upgraded from 7.4 to 7.6.
• Does not initialize the disk recognized as uninitialized.

Fixed Issues

• Backup
• (10208) Backup of 4k sector HDD crashed at 99%.
• Recovery
• (10132) Restore task failed when "-" (hyphen) is included in volume group (VG) name or logical group (LV) name.
• (10205) Unmount process did not complete when restoring ext4 file.
• Remote Connection
• (10071) File Recovery is not displayed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS 7.x
• Image Management
• (10207) Image Mount indicated 4k sector xfs file system partition to be empty.

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Updates in Version 5.0.3.4646

• Released as "Update" for ActiveImage Protector 2018 SP1 for Linux Edition.

Added /Updated Features

• Installer
• Made some changes to the types of installable product keys.

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Updates in Version 5.0.3.4644

• Released as ActiveImage Protector 2018 SP1 for Linux Edition.

Added /Updated Features

• Enhanced the activation method for business offline key.
• ISO of CentOS-based boot environment is updated as follows:
• Implemented rsync command in boot environment.
• Local disk is automatically mounted.
• Unnecessary mount point is disabled.
• Auto-mount of CD/DVD in GNOME desktop environment is disabled.

Fixed Issues

• ActiveImage Console
• Some French words were not correctly displayed.
• Backup
• Due to incorrect numbering of snapshots in sequential order, full backup failed with Exit -312.
• Others
• (8984) E-Mail notification on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS 5.x/6.x failed in Japanese.

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Updates in Version 5.0.2.4531

• Released as ActiveImage Protector 2018 M3 for Linux Edition.

Added /Updated Features

• Console
• (9274) The maximum number of scans can be specified for the connected disk.
• Others
• ISO of CentOS based boot environment is upgraded from 7.3 to 7.4.
• Improved Mount Image feature.
• (7903) Mount Image and Restore File supports images of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS 7.x.

Fixed Issues

• Backup
• (9253) Subsequently executed backup task for a different volume failed.
• Replication
• (9258) Replication task log appeared blank.
• Others
• (9251) Task summary log appeared blank.

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Updates in Version 5.0.1.4408

• Released as ActiveImage Protector 2018 M2 for Linux Edition.

Fixed Issues

• Installer
• (9239) User authentication failed when the checkbox for Firewall Exception option is unchecked and installed the product.
• Backup
• If you specified unmounted volume as the backup source, auto-mount volume while running backup task continued to be enabled even after the backup process completed.
• (9197) Differential backup via RFE created full backup.
• (9205) Smart sector backup of xfs volume failed to run.
• (9222) Backup image file included temporary working file for snapshot.
• Connect to Remote Host
• (9187) When connected to Version 2016 agent, you got "Invalid Parameter".

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Version 5.0.0.4352

• Released as ActiveImage Protector 2018 for Linux Edition.

Added /Updated Features

• Backup
• The snapshot driver is modified.
• Only temporary change tracking (file base) is supported for the tracking method.
• Recovery
• You need to select a recovery point to execute Volume Recovery.
• File Recovery feature is provided.
• Others
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS 7.3 - 7.4 are supported.
• Installation media was also used as boot media, but each media is now provided separately.
• ISO image of CentOS-based boot environment comes with the product package.

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