Release Notes: NovaBACKUP v16.5 R2
NovaBACKUP 16.5 R2 (December, 2014)
Backup for the Rest of Us
What’s new in NovaBACKUP 16.5 R2 (16.5.1215)?
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New Features – NovaBACKUP and NovaBACKUP Central Management Console
o Supports backing up to popular file sharing applications:
 Dropbox
 OneDrive
 OneDrive for Business
 SkyDrive
 Google Drive
 Sync
 SafeSync
o NovaBACKUP Support Tab – Support portal included directly within the application for fast
troubleshooting and notifications
o Ability to set a Holiday Schedule (disable backups on a particular date)
o Ability to recover NovaBACKUP Virtual Dashboard VMware or Hyper-V backups from an alternate
NovaBACKUP installation (16.1+)
o Restoring Legacy Hyper-V / VMware / SQL / Exchange files to an alternate location no longer
requires a VDF extraction
o Single Mailbox Restore trial now available for all Business Essentials users at time of installation.
o Ability to delete individual backup logs from the NovaBACKUP Virtual Dashboard
o Ability to encrypt disaster recovery backups from the Central Management Console
o User interface now remembers internal window sizing
o Double clicking a NovaBACKUP Backup File (.NBD) will now open the NovaBACKUP client to the
restore tab or import tool
o The Central Management Console's pie chart is now clickable to filter the recent job log history to a
specific result type (Success / Warning / Errors / In Progress)
o Ability to back up to international Amazon S3 buckets
o Introduction of the NovaBACKUP Customer Experience Program
New Features – NovaBACKUP Storage Server
o Ability to increase the minimum number of retained versions from within the Backup Server
Configuration Utility
o Ability to remove individual machines (and data) from an existing Storage Server account
o “One-Button” import of user’s data from within the Backup Server Configuration Utility (“One-Button”
APF Migrate)
Fixed issues / bugs (R2)
o Resolved issue relating to trusted sites on Server operating systems
o sFTP functionality fully restored
o Excessively verbose logging has been resolved
o Reduced excessive log retention when client is connected to a Central Management Console
(agentsvc.log)
o Resolved potential application issues relating to retention in NovaBACKUP
o URLs in German client now direct to German pages as expected
o Disaster Recovery fixes
 NovaBACKUP will no longer prompt to close Disaster Recovery during uninstall / upgrade
 NovaBACKUP will now install proper Disaster Recovery driver versions during upgrade /
install
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Resolved issue that required Windows Install discs in order to create basic boot media
(Windows 8.1)
 Resolved issue with converting Disaster Recovery images to VHD
 Resolved issue with scheduled Disaster Recovery jobs and pre-configured NovaBACKUP
Network Devices
Fixed issues / bugs (R1)
o FTP, sFTP and FTP(s) now significantly more stable for large file transfers
o NovaBACKUP no longer requires a reboot after installation
o S3 backups now report their appropriate size within the restore tab
o Installing the Central Management Console into a WSUS, OWA, or other 64-bit IIS configuration will
no longer break the other application pools
o Ability to restore Active Directory from 2012 / 2012 R2 installations
o Ability to back up and restore Active Directory System Volume information from a non-default
location
o Removed legacy references to "Need to restore additional incrementals" from within the
NovaBACKUP client and the Central Management Console
o Now able to back up any length SQL or Exchange database
o Now able to back up any length Hyper-V backups from the NovaBACKUP Virtual Dashboard
o "Single Mailbox Restore" now immediately shows within the client after entering the appropriate
license key
o Corrupted values within NovaBACKUP XML logs will no longer cause the entire log to be unable to
open
o Deleting a Hyper-V Replication job no longer crashes NovaBACKUP Virtual Dashboard
o Central Management Console environmental variables function again
o Central Management Console is now able to restore to an alternative location again
o NovaBACKUP Storage Server no longer retains unusable partially uploaded files
o NovaBACKUP Virtual Dashboard now displays Hyper-V Virtual Machines in non-English Hyper-V
installations
o Fixed issues with SAS and USB tape drives on modern operating systems (Windows 8 and above)
o Fixed / enhanced multiple issues relating to Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy service
o Resolved multiple underlying NovaBACKUP Engine exceptions
Installation Notes
NovaBACKUP Professional
System Requirements:
• Pentium 4 or better
• 1 GB of RAM minimum
• 3 GB free hard drive available space on OS drive (Full installation size is approximately 300MB)
• Internet Explorer 8.0 or higher
• TCP/IP network
Supported Operating Systems (32 and 64 Bit for all versions)*:
• Windows 8.1
• Windows 8
• Windows 7 SP1
• Windows Vista SP2
• Windows XP SP3
NovaBACKUP Server
System Requirements:
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• Pentium 4 or better
• 1 GB of RAM minimum
• 3 GB free hard drive available space on OS drive (Full installation size is approximately 300MB)
• Internet Explorer 8.0 or higher
• TCP/IP network
Supported Operating Systems (32 and 64 Bit for all versions)*:
• Windows 8.1
• Windows 8
• Windows 7 SP1
• Windows Vista SP2
• Windows XP SP3
• Windows Server 2012 R2
• Windows Server 2012
• Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
• Windows Server 2008 SP2
• Windows Server 2003 SP2
• Windows Small Business Server 2011
• Windows Small Business Server 2008 SP2
• Windows Small Business Server 2003
NovaBACKUP Business Essentials
System Requirements:
• Pentium 4 or better
• 1 GB of RAM minimum
• 3 GB free hard drive available space on OS drive (Full installation size is approximately 300MB)
• Internet Explorer 8.0 or higher
• TCP/IP network
Supported Operating Systems (32 and 64 Bit for all versions)*:
• Windows 8.1
• Windows 8
• Windows 7 SP1
• Windows Vista SP2
• Windows XP SP3
• Windows Server 2012 R2
• Windows Server 2012
• Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
• Windows Server 2008 SP2
• Windows Server 2003 SP2
• Windows Small Business Server 2011
• Windows Small Business Server 2008 SP2
• Windows Small Business Server 2003
NovaBACKUP Virtual Dashboard Requirements
NovaBACKUP Virtual Dashboard, Backing up and Restoring Virtual Machines with the ability to restore
individual files, and Replication have separate system requirements than other parts of the product.
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Supported Applications (Dashboard)
• Windows 7 SP1
• Windows 8
• Windows 8.1
• Windows Server 2008 R2
• Windows Server 2012
• Windows Server 2012 R2
Supported Hypervisors (Virtual Dashboard)
• Windows Hyper-V 2012
• Windows Hyper-V 2012 R2
• VMware vSphere ESXi (w/vStorage API)
• VMware vSphere 4.1 (w/vStorage API)
• VMware vSphere 5 (w/vStorage API)
• VMware vSphere 5.1 (w/vStorage API)
• VMware vSphere 5.5 (w/vStorage API)
NovaBACKUP Single Mailbox Restore
Single Mailbox Restore for NovaBACKUP is handled by the Ontrack PowerControls application. Below
are basic system requirements but you can find more by checking with our support website:
http://bit.ly/otpcinstall
• To restore Microsoft Exchange Server 2007:
o Microsoft Outlook 2003, 2007, 2010, or 2013 installed and configured (32-bit).
• To restore Microsoft Exchange Server 2010:
o Microsoft Outlook 2003, 2007, 2010, or 2013 installed and configured (32-bit).
• To restore Microsoft Exchange Server 2013:
o Microsoft Outlook 2007, 2010, or 2013 installed and configured (32-bit).
Supported Applications (Business Essentials):
Microsoft SQL
• Microsoft SQL 2014
• Microsoft SQL 2012 SP1
• Microsoft SQL 2008 R2 SP2
• Microsoft SQL 2008 SP3
• Microsoft SQL 2005 SP4
Microsoft Exchange
• Microsoft Exchange 2013 SP1
• Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP3
• Microsoft Exchange 2007 SP3
• Microsoft Exchange 2003 SP2
Microsoft Hyper-V
• Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2
• Microsoft Hyper-V 2012
• Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 R2
VMware (with vStorage API)
• VMware vSphere ESXi
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VMware vSphere 4.1
VMware vSphere 5
VMware vSphere 5.1
VMware vSphere 5.5
Supported Backup Device and Media:
Local Devices:
• SCSI, IDE (Parallel-ATA), SATA, and SAS Hard Drives
• External Hard Drives – USB 1.1 / 2.0 / 3.0, FireWire
• Network Storage (SAN or NAS / Network Share with CIFS or SMB Support)
• CD-R/W, DVD-R/W, DVD+R/W, Blu-Ray Disc (BD-R/BD-RE)
• Single Tape Drives
• Flash Storage (USB)
Offsite:
• NovaStor Service Provider
• FTP (FTP, SFTP, FTPS)
• Amazon S3
Disaster Recovery:
• Bootable CD/DVD Recorder and CD/DVD Media is required
• Local / Removable Hard Drive
• NAS Devices
Backing up Virtual Machines (Microsoft Hyper-V)
Backing up Microsoft Hyper-V is supported only on Microsoft Server operating systems (not Windows 8 / 8.1). In
order to back up Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines, you will need to have NovaBACKUP Business Essentials
installed on the Hyper-V Host Operating System.
Backing up Virtual Machines (VMware vSphere)
You will need NovaBACKUP installed on a machine (Physical or Virtual) with a supported operating system and your
VMware vSphere installation requires the vStorage API. The machine that NovaBACKUP is installed on to needs to
have network connectivity to your VMware vSphere server. NovaBACKUP may be installed on a Virtual Machine but
will not be able to directly back up its own Virtual Machine.
*Disaster Recovery backups and images do not support any Tablet-based devices.
NovaBACKUP Central Management Console:
System Requirements:
• Pentium 4 or better
• 512 MB of RAM minimum
• 3 GB free hard drive available space on OS drive
• Internet Explorer 8.0 or higher
• TCP/IP network
• .NET 3.5 SP1
• .NET 4
• Windows PowerShell 1.0
Supported Operating Systems:
• Windows Server 2008 SP2,
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Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1,
Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012 R2
Note: All installations require an Administrator Account and cannot be installed under a Limited User
Account
CONTACT US
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