Site Manager 8 Release Notes

8.0.5934 - 2021-05-26

Added

• Update Agent backup engine to Macrium Reflect 8 and CBT release level (8.0.5928). See here for details
• Show clock and time zone information on the Site Manager header
  • All times shown in the UI should now be in the Site Manager server's time zone, not browser time zone.
• Intra-daily backups available in Schedules page
  • Intra-daily stealth mode (backup logs are not produced for successful intra-daily backups, a daily table of results is available in the Logs page instead)
  • Additional notification options for intra-daily backups
• New computers page
  • User-creatable tags
  • Automatic tagging for Agents with problems, Active directory information and backup definition membership
  • Sorting and grouping by tags
  • New detailed information for each computer
  • Backup by tag option in Backup Definitions
• Update wizard for adding new computers
  • Full Active Directory browsing to locate new computers
• Added Universal Rescue Media (a single rescue media with multiple PE versions to allow for a single USB which can restore any computer)
• Added USB creation tool to Rescue Media page - this allows a USB boot device to be created from an ISO image without third-party software
• Added option to Remote Sync repositories to S3 compatible stores, including Amazon, Wasabi, Backblaze and any other manually configured S3 compatible server
• Added daily data export option to export CSV data from computers, licenses, backups, repositories (content and space usage) for audit and third-party integration purposes
• Dashboard updated to make status tiles clickable
• Added option to not show backup start/end notifications on Agents for scheduled backups
• Added option to use Wake-on-LAN in Run Now backups
• Added discovery and configuration of Domains in the same forest as the server's domain as login providers

Changed

• Added code to detect SHA2 driver hash capability
  • Computers which cannot support SHA2 driver hashing will not have the CBT driver installed. If installed from an older Agent install, it will be removed on upgrade
  • The Site Manager server now required SHA2 driver hashing. Installing or upgrading a Site Manager server install will fail on these platforms
  • Microsoft hotfixes are available for platforms with these issues (Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2)
• More compact forecast display
• Computers page shows more detail on backups in progress
• Support upload (ctrl-shift-s) now allows download of support information in the browser
• Support upload (ctrl-shift-s) can now collect data from Agents directly
• Passphrase protected private keys can now be used for HTTPS certificates in the Site Manager server
• Changed Site Manager XML file names to look better in Backup Logs
• Updated repository connection code to show repository connection errors directly in Backup Logs
• Site Manager now sends IP addresses of Repositories on backup so that Agents which can't DNS resolve Repository names can use the IPs
• Added MAC and IP address columns to Computers page (hidden by default)
• Added Backup Comment column to Repository browsing, verification and remote restore pages
• Update columns in computers CSV export

Fixed

• Fixed case where an IP address change was not synced to the Site Manager server from an Agent with multiple NICs
• Improve handling if a repository goes offline during a remote sync
• Repository browser now lists all computers with backup image files, even if they have since been removed from Site Manager
• Remote Syncs that end with a warning now show correct yellow status and icons in notifications
• Remote Sync in the dashboard progress widget will now say which Repository is syncing
• Site Manager UI can show timestamps in a mix of Site Manager server time zone and Web Browser time zone - all times are now in the server's time zone

Older Releases

For release notes for version 7.3 and earlier, see the Archived Release Notes