Release notes for Acronis Backup 12.5 Update 3.1

Release date: June 23, 2018

Build: 10330

Overview

We are happy to introduce Acronis Backup 12.5 – world's easiest and fastest backup solution for all your data on-premises, in remote systems, in private and public clouds, and on mobile devices. This amazing solution installs in three clicks, protects 15 platforms, encrypts in four standards, backs up and recovers 2x faster than the closest competitor, and is trusted by 500,000 businesses.

Acronis Backup 12.5 is available in two editions: Acronis Backup 12.5 Standard and Acronis Backup 12.5 Advanced.

What's new in Update 3.1

• The maximum number of physical machines that can be registered on a management server increased from 2000 to 4000.
• The number of virtual machines that Agent for VMware or Agent for Hyper-V backs up simultaneously can be limited via the registry or the agent configuration file. Unlike the similar setting in backup plan options, this parameter limits the total number of virtual machines for all backup plans that the agent runs simultaneously.

What's new in Update 3

New features available in all on-premise deployments

Backup

• The Multi-volume snapshot backup option is available when backing up Linux.
• The data output speed can be specified as a percentage, in addition to kilobytes per second.
• The "File-level security" backup option is discontinued. The NTFS permissions for files are always saved in file-level backups.
• Automatic troubleshooting of VSS-related issues:
  • When backing up disks or volumes with Agent for Windows

    After taking a VSS-based snapshot fails, before retrying, Acronis Backup analyzes the log and performs troubleshooting steps, if appropriate. If three consecutive retries fail, the error message recommends to download and use Acronis VSS Doctor.

  • When backing up Microsoft SQL Server databases

    Prior to taking a snapshot, Acronis Backup checks the SQL Server configuration for issues that may cause a VSS snapshot failure. If issues are found, a warning with recommendations is added to the log.

Recovery

The new recovery option Boot mode determines the boot mode (BIOS or UEFI) for the Windows system being recovered.

Security

New system settings are available to organization administrators:

• Log out users after a configurable period of inactivity
• Show notification about the last login of the current user
• Warn about local or domain password expiration

Applications

Starting with Microsoft Exchange 2010, Exchange Server data can be backed up and recovered by using a less-privileged account than a member of the Organization Management role group:

• For databases, membership in the Server Management role group is enough.
• For mailboxes, membership in the Recipient Management role group and the enabled ApplicationImpersonation role are enough.

Virtualization

• Support for VMware vSphere 6.7 (ESXi configuration backup is not supported)
• Recovery to the original virtual machine from a backup that contains not all disks of this machine.

  Previously, this operation was possible only under bootable media. The backup console allowed the recovery only if the machine's disk layout exactly matched that in the backup.

Acronis Backup appliance

• The 15-second timeout is removed from the Acronis Backup appliance installation menu. The installer waits for the user to review and confirm the settings.
• The CentOS kernel is updated in the Acronis Backup appliance, to address the Meltdown and Spectre threats.

Bootable media

It is possible to use any supported keyboard layout when working under bootable media. The set of layouts is defined in the LAYOUT kernel parameter.

Support for new operating systems

• Linux kernel versions 4.12 - 4.15
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5
• Ubuntu 17.10, 18.04
• Debian 9.3, 9.4
• Oracle Linux 7.4, 7.5

New features available with the Advanced licenses only

Backup

The capability to configure a backup plan to use specific tape devices and tape drives.

Applications

Application-aware backup of Linux machines running Oracle Database.

Administering

The capability to create dynamic groups corresponding to Active Directory organizational units.

What's new in Update 2

New features available in all on-premise deployments

Administering

• Administering user accounts is available on a management server that is installed in Linux

Installation and infrastructure

• Acronis Backup appliance for automatic deployment of Linux, the management server, Agent for Linux, and Agent for VMware (Linux) on a dedicated virtual machine
• When adding a Windows machine in the web interface, it is possible to select the name or IP address that the agent will use to access the management server
• Automatic and manual checks for updates

Security

• The backup console supports the HTTPS protocol out of the box
• The management server can use a certificate issued by a trusted certificate authority, instead of the self-signed certificate
• Non-root users can be added as administrators to a management server that is installed in Linux

Scheduling backups

• New scheduling options:
  • Waking up a machine for backup from the sleep or hibernation mode
  • Prevention of the sleep or hibernation mode during a backup
  • The option to prohibit running missed backups on a machine startup
• New backup start conditions, handy for backing up Windows laptops and tablets:
  • Save battery power
  • Do not start when on metered connection
  • Do not start when connected to the following Wi-Fi networks
  • Check device IP address
• In the Monthly schedule, selection of individual months during which backups will run
• The capability to start a differential backup manually

Backup locations

• Storing each machine's backups in a folder defined by a script (for machines running Windows)
• A locally deployed Acronis Storage can be used as a backup location

Applications

• Recovering Microsoft Office 365 mailboxes and mailbox items to Microsoft Exchange Server and vice versa

Support for new operating systems and virtualization platforms

• macOS High Sierra 10.13
• Debian 9.1 and 9.2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4
• CentOS 7.4
• ALT Linux 7.0
• Red Hat Virtualization 4.1

Usability improvements

• Renaming locations on the Backups tab
• The capability to change the vCenter Server or ESXi that is managed by Agent for VMware in Settings > Agents > agent details

New features available with the Advanced licenses only

Administering

• Creating units is available on a management server that is installed in Linux

Installation and infrastructure

• When adding a managed location, it is possible to select whether the agents will access the storage node by using the server name or IP address

Usability improvements

• Adding a managed location can be initiated from the storage node properties panel

Tape support

• Full support for the LTO-8 technology. See Hardware Compatibility List for the exact names of the tested devices.

What's new in Update 1

• Mass deployment and upgrade utility for unattended agent deployment.

  For information about how to use this utility, refer to the following Acronis Knowledge Base article: https://kb.acronis.com/content/60137

• Detailed managed location statistics are now shown on the location information window.

What's new in Acronis Backup 12.5

• Unique! Acronis Active Protection to proactively detect and protect systems from ransomware attacks.
• Centralized backup policies, static and dynamic groupings, and the ability to manage, delegate, and establish roles for multiple administrators - all to support larger environments and greater volumes of data.
• Customizable dashboards and advanced reporting for quick insights into your entire IT infrastructure.
• Unique! Backup of XenServer, Linux KVM, Red Hat Enterprise, Virtualization, and Oracle VM Server for complete protection of any virtual environment.
• Support for tape drives, autoloaders, and tape libraries for off-site storage to ensure compliance with company regulations.
• Off-host backup management operations, including staging (moving), replication (copying), validation, and retention (cleanup) of backups.
• Unified, web-based, touch-friendly, centralized management console to reduce management complexity.
• Unique! Protection for VMware vSphere ESX(i) and Microsoft Hyper-V hosts and VMs for complete protection of any virtual workload.
• VMware VM replication with WAN optimization for faster disaster recovery
• Unique! Acronis Instant Restore (Run Backup as a VM) and vmFlashback for VMware & Hyper-V to reduce recovery time objectives (RTOs).
• SAN storage snapshots support for VMware backups to reduce ESXi resource utilization.
• Remote and automated bootable media for significant reduction of the RTO of remote systems and data centers.

Issues fixed in Update 3.1

This section describes issues that have been fixed in Update 3.1.

Issues fixed in build 10330

Installation and upgrade

• [ABR-172452] Backup Monitor does not start automatically after an update from Acronis Backup 12.5 Update 2 due to a missing autostart record in the Windows registry.
• [ABR-160804] The License Server service starts consuming ~10% of CPU when there are ~4000 machines registered on the management server.

Common

• [ABR-173911] Backup plans with the Convert to a virtual machine option enabled may fail in some cases with the "The password for the protected backup is incorrect" error if the backup archive is protected with password.
• [ABR-173518] Backup to NFS shares fails if the name of the backed-up machine contains spaces. Applicable to agentless VM backup performed by Agent for VMware or Agent for Hyper-V.
• [ABR-171198] Collecting system information report from Acronis Management Server fails if the remote Microsoft SQL 2014 instance is used as a database for the management server.
• [ABR-170852] CentOS 7 does not boot when restored to a Citrix XenServer 7.0 environment.
• [ABR-170640] Empty .zip is downloaded when restoring a folder which contains " ' " (apostrophe) symbol in its name.
• [ABR-170140] Files/folders backup of OneDrive folder fails with "The file is read-only" error after Windows 10 update to 10.0.17134 build.

Application support

• [ABR-174095] Exchange or Office 365 mailbox backup may occasionally fail with the "Can't connect to the mailbox of user Mailbox database guid" error.

Issues fixed in Update 3

This section describes issues that have been fixed in Update 3.

Issues fixed in build 10130

Installation and upgrade

• [ABR-158404] Remote agent installation fails if the credentials for the target machine are specified in the "IP\username" format.
• [ABR-156822] The management server installation does not show any errors if the default 9877 port is already used by a third-party service on the machine.
• [ABR-156718] The management server installation on machine with "Ь" symbol in the hostname hangs on 99%.
• [ABR-155518] The management server crashes when installed on system if the hostname contains non-standard symbols (for example Chinese hieroglyphs).
• [ABR-152904] Remote update of agents on machines forcibly installs the Backup Monitor component even if it was not installed before.
• [ABR-150690] The "Show details" link in the backup email notifications points to a wrong management server address after updating Acronis Backup 12.5 from build 3869 or 7970.
• [ABR-150293] Windows Registry should be used to resolve the SID of the "Acronis Centralized Admin" Group instead of WMI calls during installation (remove dependency on WMI).
• [ABR-137669] The management server installed on CentOS 7 produces "Error 0x64ffff: Another instance of this application is already started." every minute in /var/log/messages.

Common

• [ABR-163794] Files/folders backup plan that uses the [All Files] policy rule fails when applied to multiple machines.
• [ABR-163233] UEFI system recovered to a machine with UEFI Legacy mode (e.g. BIOS mode) enabled fails to boot with the "NTLDR is missing" error.
• [ABR-162985] Test email notifications cannot be sent if the SMTP server does not respond within the 5 seconds time out (for example if the management server is located behind a firewall).
• [ABR-161579] Empty .zip package is downloaded when recovering folders that contain the "&" symbol in their names.
• [ABR-160870] Adding 20+ new backups into an existing backup replication plan causes the web console UI to fail (infinite loading).
• [ABR-160804] Acronis License Server service consumes ~10% of CPU unexpectedly.
• [ABR-160344] Recovery of files/folders prompts for user interaction in some cases when the "Silent mode" option is enabled.
• [ABR-158297] Refreshing recovery points fails if the agent which performs the operation is managing more than 1000 devices. Example of such agent is Agent for VMware connected to vSphere with huge amount (1000+) of virtual networks.
• [ABR-157146] Linux-based bootable media crashes when booting on a system with a specific 4TB+ external USB drive connected (example of USB drive model: Seagate SRD00F2).
• [ABR-156866] Sorting devices by name in the Devices list is performed separately for names starting with the same letter in upper and lower case.
• [ABR-156469] Copying files from the root folder of the archive while exploring it via Windows Explorer (double-click) causes the "No such interface supported" error.
• [ABR-155614] In some cases, disk/volume recovery fails with the "Cannot copy the disk" error if the source empty disk is larger than the target disk.
• [ABR-155192] The "Universal" licenses cannot be synced between the Acronis account and the management server.
• [ABR-153669] Files/folders backup of huge amount of files with the Version 12 backup format may hang when applying retention rules.
• [ABR-151106] The EN-GB keyboard layout is not available in Acronis Backup bootable media environment.
• [ABR-151077] Acronis system information files (/var/lib/Acronis/sysinfo_***) can be opened by unprivileged user, while it should not be possible.
• [ABR-150772] Backup plan creation fails with "Fail to obtain the lock on resource" in case there are more than 3000 machines registered on the management server.
• [ABR-150601] Renaming a backup plan while editing it from the Plans tab causes the plan to be saved (should stay in editing mode).
• [ABR-150370] Email notifications about successful backups are not sent if the "Activity not responding" alert was triggered during the plan execution.
• [ABR-150048] The Apply LVM/RAID option is not available in bootable media environment during Linux disks/volumes recovery.
• [ABR-150024] The 'service_process' service crashes on CentOS 7.4 in some cases when the backup to a network share is performed using the Version 12 backup format.
• [ABR-149815] Backup using the Version 12 backup format fails if the backup chain contains incomplete (for example canceled) incremental or differential backups.
• [ABR-148911] Acronis services may crash when installed on a Linux system with connected "EMCpower" multipath devices.
• [ABR-148636] Agent appears as offline in the backup console if it is behind a proxy and the connection to the proxy server was temporarily lost.
• [ABR-148390] Incorrect "Backup status unknown" or "Agent being offline at scheduled time" alerts may be shown in some cases.
• [ABR-147976] Backup plan which uses "On the system shutdown" schedule condition (by event) starts the backup even if the system is rebooted.
• [ABR-147814] NTFS permissions are not restored when restoring files from disk/volume backup.
• [ABR-143797] Files/folders backup to the cloud storage fails with "The specified file does not exist" if the first backup was not completed (failed or canceled).
• [ABR-143678] Files/folders backup to the cloud storage may fail with "Internal error in library. The linked position is unknown." error.
• [ABR-142667] There is no "DNS suffix" option in the network configuration settings while creating a bootable media via Acronis Media Builder.
• [ABR-140753] Dashboard loads for more than 30 seconds in the web console interface if the are more than 4000 machines registered on the management server.
• [ABR-140143] Backup plan does not start on schedule when the start by "The backup location's host is available" event option is enabled.
• [ABR-139362] LUKS-encrypted LVM volumes are not backed up during the "Entire Machine" (disk/volume) backup.
• [ABR-130696] The "Files filters" option is not applied to Windows dynamic volumes.
• [ABR-129608] If a backup location was renamed then its name reverts to original after a backup to this location is performed.
• [ABR-117591] Full backup is always created on the first day of each month ignoring the "Weekly full, daily incremental" scheme settings.
• [ABR-108939] Removal of a Hyper-V host from the management server (by deleting Agent for Hyper-V) does not release a previously consumed Virtual Host license.

Roles and units management

• [ABR-158129] The email address of the administrator account is not shown in the web console after the management server is restarted.
• [ABR-156349] Login to the web console as an administrator fails when there are more than 8 units created in "Organization".

Acronis Storage Node, Acronis Storage and data catalog

• [ABR-164419] ManagementServer.exe, zmqgw.exe and StorageServer.exe may crash after backing up a disk with 10 000 000+ files due to extensive cataloging activities.
• [ABR-155526] Exporting a backup with the Version 12 backup format from a managed location via "acrocmd export archive" fails with "The archive is invalid or its type is unsupported." error.
• [ABR-148374] When Acronis Storage Node was upgraded from 11.7 and a new managed location is created on a network share, the credentials for it are stored in plain text within Acronis sqlite database files. The issue is not reproduced on clean installation.
• [ABR-146991] Backup to a location on Acronis Storage fails with "Failed to access the backups" if Acronis Storage along with the backup agent was re-registered on different management server.
• [ABR-135390] Full backups appear as "incremental" ones while browsing the backups in a managed location for a backup with the Version 12 backup format after retention rules were applied.
• [ABR-105287] Replication of files/folders backups between two managed locations based on network shares is slower than expected.

Virtualization

• [ABR-163751] In some cases deletion (unmounting) of a virtual machine running from a backup causes the "Cannot perform this operation with virtual machine '[Machine_name]' twice." alerts to appear every hour.
• [ABR-157608] The sqlite database grows too fast on the agent which manages a huge virtual environment. Example of such agent is Agent for VMware connected to vSphere with huge amount (1000+) of virtual networks.
• [ABR-152647, ABR-160088] The "Files filters" backup option does not work properly when backup is performed by Agent for VMware (Virtual Appliance) and the full path to excluded/included folders is used without a trailing backslash (for example "C:\share").
• [ABR-152472] The list of Agents for VMware (virtual appliances or Windows agents) available for VM binding may become empty in highly loaded environments.
• [ABR-152008] VM recovery on Hyper-V 2016 successfully completes with "Failed to add resource to virtual machine" false warning in some cases.
• [ABR-150456] Hyper-V VM restored from backup of Windows 10/Windows 2012R2 (EFI) physical machine does not boot with the "NTLDR is missing" error.
• [ABR-144733] All policy rules, except for "[Disk #]", do not work for agentless backup of Linux VMs.
• [ABR-143835] A lot of "Reconfigure virtual machine" events are present in vSphere while backing up VMs which contain disks with empty NT signature. Example: AltLinux VMs.
• [ABR-141843] Recovery from a backup of a physical EFI CentOS 7 machine into a Gen2 Hyper-V VM via bootable media produces an unbootable system.
• [ABR-133681] A backup of an ESXi virtual machine fails if all of the following conditions are met: the backup is performed by Agent for VMware (Windows), the agent is installed in a non-English Windows, and Acronis Managed Machine Service is running under a system account whose name is localized. The following error appears: "You do not have access rights to this file."
• [ABR-132587] Backup of a vCenter appliance VM fails with a vCenter connection error when the backup is performed by Agent for VMware connected to this vCenter.
• [ABR-98984] VM backup or replication fails with "GXT: The item provider has skipped the report of an item with key '('995E4B11-5745-1C78-7F1A-B9CD7C9001BE','mms::vm::datastore')'" error when the VM hard disk or a connected ISO image is located on an inactive datastore. This error causes backup failure for all VMs included into backup plan, not only for affected one.

Tape management

• [ABR-150743] "Acronis" managed location on tape appears after the update from Acronis Backup 11.7 and cannot be deleted.
• [ABR-148839] Backup to a standalone tape with the "Eject tapes after each successful backup of each machine" option enabled fails when the tape reaches full capacity. It should prompt to install a new tape instead.
• [ABR-147449] The "Enable file recovery from disk backups stored on tapes" option is ignored and always enabled which causes tape location folder (which contains index of the files) to grow too fast.
• [ABR-130411] The "Eject tapes after each successful backup of each machine" option state is not saved in default backup options.

Application support

• [ABR-164665] Simultaneous backup of multiple Office 365 mailboxes may randomly fail with "URI is empty" error.
• [ABR-162461] Exchange Mailbox backup cannot be enabled when Acronis Backup is installed as "All-In-One" appliance.
• [ABR-150271] Backup of some Office 365 mailboxes fails with ".NET exception 'System.InvalidOperationException' has occurred: There is an error in XML document (1, 6998365)" error.
• [ABR-146976] Service_process.exe occasionally crashes on applying retention rules if the SQL database backup contains more than 60 recovery points.
• [ABR-144148] Recovery and Validation activities fail with the "Failed to resolve item 'Session/Server/' by its reference." error for SQL database backups saved to Acronis Cloud after retention rules are applied.

Issues fixed in Update 2

This section describes issues that have been fixed in Update 2.

Issues fixed in build 9010

Installation and upgrade

• [TTASK-21608] Acronis Management Server service may fail to start after an update from build 7970 or higher.
• [ABR-148800] Acronis Management Server or Agent for Windows are not installed onto a read-only domain controller under Windows.

Common

• [ABR-150369] Acronis Scheduler service occasionally crashes on build 8850.
• [ABR-148883] Browsing an SMB share from Acronis bootable media or via Agent for VMware (Virtual Appliance) fails if credentials are not provided in the [hostname OR domain]\[User name] format. The error message now clearly indicates that credentials must be provided in the [hostname OR domain]\[User name] format.
• [ABR-148528] The Apply RAID/LVM option is missing from the recovery wizard in the Acronis bootable media environment when restoring backup of a Linux machine which contains LVM volumes.

Acronis Storage

• [ABR-145706] Backup to or browsing of a backup location on Acronis Storage fails with the "The agent's credentials are missing" message after an update from build 7970 or older builds.

Virtualization

• [ABR-150456] Conversion of a backup taken from a Windows 10/2012 R2 EFI physical machine into a Hyper-V VM produces a non-bootable VM ("NTLDR is missing" error).
• [ABR-149798] vSphere VM replication activity hangs at 10% and produces the "One or more required subsystems failed to initialize" error in some cases.
• [ABR-149413] Conversion into Hyper-V or ESXi VM fails with the "Cannot copy the disk because the available size of the target disk ({0, size}) is less than the required size ({1, size})" error if the backup contains an EFI machine inside and was taken via Agent for Windows/Linux.

Acronis Notary (ASign)

• [ABR-147778] The "Service is unavailable" error appears when verifying files that were backed up with the notarization enabled.

Issues fixed in build 8850

Installation and upgrade

• [TTASK-21679] After an upgrade, the web backup console occasionally shows "Acronis Backup" on the blue background and loading stops at this stage. 
• [ABR-146591] Acronis upgrade tool may fail when performing upgrade from versions 11.5/11.7 and some older builds of versions 12/12.5, thus causing Acronis Management Server service to crash.
• [ABR-142734] Acronis services running under the NetworkService system account fail to start if this account does not have access to the %temp% folder.
• [ABR-141626] Alerts on the agent are not generated during backup or other activities after updating Agent for VMware (Virtual Appliance) to the recent build.
• [ABR-140394] Acronis Backup Management Server Service fails to start if the management server is configured to use an external Microsoft SQL database and the connection password contains special characters (for example, % or #).
• [ABR-137452] If Acronis Backup Management Server is installed on Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 Core, Acronis Service Manager Service fails to start because of missing files opengl32.dll, glu32.dll, and ddraw.dll (these .dll files are missing on Windows Core installations by default). This leads to the entire product malfunction.
• [ABR-135152] Acronis Backup installer hangs and becomes unresponsive when its window is dragged between two or more monitors on multi-monitor systems.
• [ABR-131248] An attempt to remotely install the agent to a 32-bit Windows machine from the management server running on a 64-bit machine fails with a misleading error message.

Common

• [ABR-142574] Acronis Managed Machine Service checks for the Acronis Centralized Admins group availability even when this check is not required. This may result in mms.exe process crashes on slow systems.
• [ABR-141635] Static IP network settings are not preserved when performing recovery under _bootable media to the original machine, if the bootable media is connected to the management server and recovery is configured from the backup console. The issue is not reproduced when recovery is configured via the embedded user interface of the bootable media.
• [ABR-141235] File-level backup fails on a localized Windows XP SP3 due to localized names of Windows service folders (for example, Application Data) that contain locale-specific characters.
• [ABR-141033] Agents are not automatically moved between dynamic groups defined by the IP address criteria when the agent IP address changes.
• [ABR-139324] In Internet Explorer 11, the Settings > Licenses menu in the backup console may become unresponsive when more than 1000 licenses are added to the management server.
• [ABR-139267] Recovery from a file-level backup stored in the cloud storage to the original location with the Do not overwrite existing files option enabled does not recover files.
• [ABR-137665] The File filters option does not work if the path to a folder to be excluded ends with a slash character (for example, C:\temp\).
• [ABR-137613] Backing up a hidden SMB share fails. The following error appears: "File does not exist".
• [ABR-137385] Custom network settings defined while building a WinPE-based bootable media are not applied.
• [ABR-137148] Acronis Universal Restore is not available under WinPE-based bootable media.
• [ABR-136675] The Started by field in activities details shows an incorrect user for a scheduled plan that was started manually.
• [ABR-135509] On a machine with Agent for Linux, message "Assertion failed:" is written to /var/log/messages every 10 minutes.
• [ABR-135431] Acronis Startup Recovery Manager (ASRM) can start only if the English language is selected in the boot menu.
• [ABR-135267] After recovery of the system volume from a Windows 10 EFI-based machine backup to the original location, two items appear in the boot menu, instead of one as in the original system.
• [ABR-134739] Volumes protected by Bitlocker are not recognized by Acronis Backup Agent for Windows even after unlocking. Acronis Managed Machine Service needs to be restarted.
• [ABR-130709] If Acronis Backup Management Server host name cannot be resolved to IP from the machine where the agent is installed, backup plan execution may fail. The following error appears: "Cannot check the license due to a connection issue with the management server."
• [ABR-129816] File-level backup of an NFS v4 share contains no data.
• [ABR-128477] Backup to a network share by using the Version 12 backup format may fail with the "Input/output error" error message, if the connection to the share is lost and then is restored during the operation.
• [ABR-125700] Enabling an SSL-secured connection to the backup console as described in https://kb.acronis.com/content/58130 does not work.

  Note. Refer to the User Guide for the information about how to change the SSL certificate settings, thus enabling an SSL-secured connection to the backup console.

• [ABR-125422] In CentOS 7, backing up an ext4 partition with file/folder exclusions completes with "File exclusion is not supported" warning. The files are not excluded.
• [ABR-119894] Backing up to an SMB share hosted on a NAS device fails if the following conditions are met: the device also has an NFS server with the root ("/") directory exported; backup is performed under bootable media or by Agent for VMware (Virtual Appliance). An example of such NAS devices is NetApp Altavault.

  Note. While the fix for this bug enables backup to SMB shares, it is still not possible to back up directly to the NFS root export, e.g., to "nfs://[IP]/:/".

• [ABR-117799] Recovery from a backup of a non-initialized disk or a disk with unrecognized structure (from a sector-by-sector backup) fails. The following error appears: "Failed to write data to the disk. Access is denied".
• [ABR-114001] Backup fails if a partition selected for backup was physically removed from the machine. The error similar to the following one appears: "Cannot find item '\local\hd_sign(A63B0C02)\part_sn(62C456D4FC62C496)start(63895552)' selected for backup". It is also not possible to exclude this partition from the backup plan.
• [ABR-104069] The acrocmd list activities command output may show incorrect values in the Elapsed time and Estimated time columns for running activities.

Roles and units management

• [ABR-139735] If a user defined as a unit administrator was deleted from Active Directory or from local users of the machine, it is not possible to remove this user from the management server via Settings > Administrators.

Dashboard, reports, and alerting

• [ABR-140309] Instead of Daily activities and Alerts reports, a full dashboard report is created.
• [ABR-137630] Reports cannot be downloaded from the Dashboard or Reports tab if the management server is installed on Ubuntu.

Acronis Storage Node and data catalog

• [ABR-133661] After Java is updated on the machine running Catalog Service, data cataloging fails. The following error appears: "Couldn't connect to host at 'host_name'".
• [ABR-135566] The mms.exe process may crash during backup to a managed location with deduplication enabled.
• [ABR-129426] Windows User Account Control (UAC) must be disabled on a machine where Acronis Storage Node is running. With UAC enabled, backups to the storage node fail. The following error appears: "Failed to establish connection using the specified credentials. If you are trying to connect to a managed machine, use the credentials of an 'Acronis Remote Users' security group member. To connect to a management server installed locally, use the credentials of an 'Acronis Centralized Admins' security group member. For remote connection to a management server, use the credentials of an account that is a member of both these security groups."
• [ABR-38271] During a validation of backups stored in managed locations, progress is incorrectly shown as 0 %.

Virtualization

• [ABR-141943] Agentless backup of vSphere virtual machines fails if a non-default port is used for connection to the vCenter, instead of the default 443 one.
• [ABR-139974] Backup of a virtual machine running on Microsoft Windows 2008 with Hyper-V role enabled fails if the virtual machine has a static MAC address. The following error appears: "Failed to obtain property 'AllowMacSpoofing'".
• [ABR-138661] Agent for VMware (Virtual Appliance) always tries to connect to the management server by using the server's host name, even if the connection by IP was defined during the appliance deployment.
• [ABR-138478] Backing up ESXi configuration fails if Agent for SQL is installed on the machine with the management server. The following error appears: "POR: Branch 'ProviderId' cannot be found".
• [ABR-132985] Deploying Agent for VMware (Virtual Appliance) from an OVF template via ESXi 6.5 Host Client fails. The following error appears: "postNFCData failed".
• [ABR-129688] An ESXi virtual machine converted from a backup of a Linux machine created by Agent for Linux may not start on an ESXi host due to an incorrect "Guest OS" property set to "Other Linux (32-bit)".
• [ABR-104538] It is not possible to use Agent for VMware (Windows) if Acronis Backup Management Server is installed on a machine running Linux.
• [ABR-81335] Virtual machines are not shown in the device list if an ESXi host included into a vSphere cluster is directly selected in the navigation tree.

Tape management

• [ABR-140985] Recovery of files or folders from a version 11.7 backup stored in a managed tape-based location fails after upgrade to version 12.5.
• [ABR-139651] Parallel backup from multiple machines to a managed tape-based location may fail with an input/output error.
• [ABR-136132] The Overwrite a tape in the stand-alone tape drive when creating a full backup option does not work if the Version 11 backup format is used.
• [ABR-135596] If the Eject tapes after each successful backup of each machine option is enabled, a backup plan fails and the tape is not ejected. The following error appears: "Failed to connect to the storage node". The issue applies to stand-alone tape drives only.

Agent for Mac

• [ABR-108598] When selecting a folder that contains a special control character (\r) in its name, the following error appears: "URI is invalid: Incorrect symbol encountered".

Application support

• [ABR-140290] A single-pass backup of a machine running Agent for SQL to an SMB share completes with warnings if the backup share was specified as smb://server/share (without a slash character in the end). The following warnings appear: "Error occurred while opening the file.", "Failed to set the logon information for the backup location."
• [ABR-137524] An incremental backup of SQL databases may hang while processing huge databases.
• [ABR-121741; ABR-110133] A backup plan applied to multiple Office 365 mailboxes completes with warnings if some of the mailboxes were physically deleted. It is also not possible to exclude these deleted mailboxes from the backup plan.

Issues fixed in Update 1

This section describes issues that have been fixed in Update 1.

Issues fixed in build 7970

Installation and upgrade

• [ABR-138006] Installation of Acronis Backup fails if the root certificate check fails. The following error appears: "Error 0xfff0: A certificate chain could not be built to a trusted root authority."

  Solution: The certificate check can now be skipped during installation.

• [ABR-131248] Links to the 32-bit installer are broken on the instructions page when trying to install Agent for Windows remotely to a 32-bit machine from Acronis Management Server running on a 64-bit machine.

Common

• [ABR-137070] Backup via acrocmd of a remote machine booted under WinPE-based bootable media fails. The following error appears: "Not enough privileges to perform the operation with the disks. The 'Backup files and directories' (SeBackupPrivilege) and 'Restore files and directories' (SeRestorePrivilege) privileges are required."
• [ABR-137061] In some cases, logs of backup replication plans may contain credentials for the source or target backup location in plain text.
• [ABR-135566] Backup to a location managed by Acronis Storage Node fails. The following error appears: "The locations are not initialized yet. Please try again later after the storage node is completely initialized." After that, the mms.exe process crashes.
• [ABR-135267] After an EFI machine running Windows 10 is recovered and booted, an additional second boot option appears unexpectedly.
• [ABR-134448] A hidden network share cannot be saved as a backup source in a backup plan: the Items to back up field remains empty.

Roles and units management

• [ABR-138229] Active Directory user accounts with the Display name value set in a non-English language are shown as "???? ????" in the backup console when adding unit administrators.

Active Protection

• [ABR-136876] In some cases, Active Protection activities are shown with the "UNTRANSLATED" summary in the backup console.
• [ABR-135331] After applying an Active Protection plan, an unexpected "Active Protection service is not running" alert may appear in the backup console.

Issues fixed in build 7641

Installation and upgrade

• [ABR-133606] In some cases after upgrading from Acronis Backup 11.7, backup plans are lost, due to problems with access to the Acronis Backup Management Server database.
• [ABR-133396] In some cases after upgrading from Acronis Backup 12/11.5/11.7, new backup plans cannot be created. The following error appears: "Failed to add account in user profile."
• [ABR-132880] After upgrading from Acronis Backup 11.7, the "Internal server error 100011" message may appear in the backup console.
• [ABR-132756] Upgrading backup plan activities may fail during upgrade from Acronis Backup 11.7 Advanced. The following error appears: "POR: Cannot access property by path '.MachineAddress'."
• [ABR-132350] After upgrading from Acronis Backup 12, e-mail notifications of successful backups are not sent.
• [ABR-131984] In some cases, upgrading from Acronis Backup 11.7 hangs on 90% for a very long time.
• [ABR-131872] Acronis Backup Management Server fails to run on the same machine with VMware vCenter Server due to the 8089 port conflict.
• [ABR-131343] After upgrading from Acronis Backup 11.5/11.7, the user cannot open or mount an archive file in Windows Explorer.
• [ABR-130913] After upgrading from Acronis Backup 11.5/11.7, the default e-mail notification settings are not preserved.
• [ABR-122292] Recovering from Microsoft Exchange CDP archives that were created by Acronis Backup 11.5 / 11.7 fails. The following error appears: "The operation is not supported."

Common

• [ABR-132794] An Active Protection plan cannot be applied to a machine with the Universal license assigned due to improperly applied licensing restrictions.
• [ABR-131006] The update notification indicator (Settings > Agents tab) shows an incorrect number of agents that need to be updated.
• [ABR-130967] The backup deletion fails if the backup is located on a USB flash drive. The following error appears: "An unsupported URI is specified."
• [ABR-130477] Backing up to Acronis Cloud Storage fails and does not re-try properly when the computer loses connection to a selected Wi-Fi network and connects to a different Wi-Fi network.
• [ABR-130115] Conversion of a BIOS-based operating system to UEFI is not performed when using the backup console to recover a machine to dissimilar hardware.
• [ABR-126484] The Capacity column shows incorrect information about the space occupied by backups for managed locations on network shares.
• [ABR-126042] The backup validation activity shows an incorrect progress indicator.
• [ABR-121569] The backup splitting option is not applied when the backup format is set to Version 12.

Roles and units management

• [ABR-131855] The "AccountServer.UserGroupNotFound" error appears when clicking the Administrators tab if there are deleted Windows accounts/groups in the list.
• [ABR-124308] When installing a backup agent or Acronis Storage Node, the list of units is not sorted on the Select unit dialog.

Dashboard, reports and alerting

• [ABR-122810] Alerts generated upon plan execution failure are not displayed on the Alerts tab for plans other than backup plans. The issue affects separate Validation, Backup replication and Conversion to VM plans.

Acronis Notary (ASign)

• [ABR-129554] Files from encrypted backups located in Acronis Cloud Storage cannot be signed with the Sign this file version command.

Virtualization

• [ABR-130030] Conversion of a backup into a Hyper-V virtual machine fails if the backup is created by using direct volumes selection. The following error appears: "No free space."
• [ABR-125939] After Agent for Hyper-V is installed, virtual machines from the Hyper-V host may appear on the Devices tab in the backup console with a 10-minute delay.

Tape management

• [ABR-129951] File recovery from a tape-based location may result in a warning if the following conditions are met: the disk-level backup has the Version 12 format and the Use a disk cache to accelerate the recovery recovery option is enabled. The following message appears: "Internal error: not supported." In fact, the disk cache is not used during the recovery operation.

Application support

• [ABR-133093] Searching for elements within Office 365 backups returns all e-mails instead of the ones that match the search criteria.
• [ABR-133091] Mailbox recovery from backups of Exchange 2016 Cumulative Update 5 does not work.
• [ABR-129938] Acronis Managed Machine service may not stop properly on a machine running Microsoft Exchange.

Issues fixed in Acronis Backup 12.5

This section describes issues that have been fixed in Acronis Backup 12.5, as compared to Acronis Backup 12 Update 3.

Common

• [ABR-108446] After upgrading from Acronis Backup 11.5/11.7, the backup plans that replicate backups to two or more locations fail. The problem does not affect backup plans with one additional backup location defined (second destination).
• [ABR-110899, ABR-108804] Starting a trial is not possible when backing up SQL Server databases.
• [ABR-110713] Low performance when copying files from a .tib file that is opened via the Windows Explorer shell extension.
• [ABR-108066] Recovery of physical machine to virtual (P2V) performed by Agent for VMware or Agent for Hyper-V completes successfully, but the activity contains the warning "Failed to get the object's property 'ManagedHost'."
• [ABR-107545] The message about missing licenses remains on the backup plan creation panel even after adding valid licenses.
• [ABR-88247] Search by device name on the Activities tab is case-sensitive.

Virtualization

• [ABR-111052] Backing up a VMware vSphere 6.5 virtual machine with an NVMe controller fails. The following error appears: "You do not have access rights to this file."
• [ABR-117801] After recovering a virtual machine with the PVRDMA network adapter to a new virtual machine, the recovered virtual machine has the VMXNET3 network adapter.
• [ABR-119508] After replicating to an existing encrypted virtual machine, the replicated virtual machine cannot be powered on. The following error appears: "Module 'Nvman' power on failed."
• [ABR-119529] VMware vSphere 6.5 virtual machines that reside on VMFS 6.0 datastores cannot be backed up by using the SAN transport mode.
• [ABR-104133] Email notification options are missing when creating a VM replication plan.
• [ABR-90170] Backup activities may not be shown when you select a virtual machine and click Activities.

Application support

• [ABR-104004] A contact name is shown twice in "Business address", when browsing Exchange mailbox items in a database backup.
• [ABR-102816] Acronis Management Server consumes excessive amount of RAM during recovery of large number of Exchange mailboxes (200+).

Known issues

This section describes issues that are currently known and provides solutions to avoid the issues where possible.

Installation and upgrade

IMPORTANT:
Acronis Backup 12.5 can upgrade Acronis Backup 11.5, 11.7, and 12. If you start the Acronis Backup 12.5 setup program on a machine running Acronis Backup 12 Beta, you will be prompted to uninstall the Beta product to continue installation. For more information about the upgrade procedure, refer to the following Acronis Knowledge Base article: https://kb.acronis.com/content/59801

• [ABR-144289] Deploying Acronis Backup appliance from an OVF template to ESXi hosts of version 5.1 or lower produces a virtual machine with a wrong guest OS type: "Other (32-bit)". This results in an appliance malfunction.

  Solution: Change the guest OS type of the appliance virtual machine to "Other 3.x or later Linux (64-bit)" via the vSphere client.

• [ABR-143693] Deploying Acronis Backup appliance from an OVF template fails when using vSphere Web Client on vCenter version 6.5 U1 build 5973321. It is because this version of vCenter does not support deployment from OVF templates, only the OVA format is supported.

  Solution: Prepare a virtual machine for Acronis Backup appliance manually, as described in User Guide, and boot it from the Acronis Backup appliance .iso to proceed with the installation.

• [ABR-142841] One cannot boot an EFI machine from the Acronis Backup appliance .iso.

  Solution: Use a BIOS machine.

• [ABR-142560] Deploying Acronis Backup appliance from an OVF template does not work when using vSphere Host Client on ESXi version 6.5. The following error appears: "A