inSync Release Updates

Please download the latest updates from here- http://www.druva.com/download/insync

Update: inSync server/client 4.5 Build r6986

Enterprise & Professional Edition – November 30, 2011

New features

  • Advanced Data Insights –
    1. Real-time data analysis & federated search across all user data.
    2. Results in real-time or by email.
    3. Advanced search options.
    4. Actionable results (restore file to client or server).
  • Improved Reporting -
    1. Slice & dice inSync reports with inSync’s CSV & HTML exports.
    2. Get better reporting on data access, restores, syncs, etc.
  • Alert Notifications -
    1. Manage your inSync installation easily by configuring alert notifications.
    2. Choose to notify users involved for alerts being generated.
  • Improved Usability – Get to your actions faster with UI enhancements to menu and user lists.
  • German language support for the inSync client – The inSync 4.5 client also supports a German interface for Windows & Mac users.
  • Additional browser support – inSync 4.5 also supports IE 9 & Firefox 8.

Fixed issues

  1. Issue with multi-threaded sockets for Web Restore has been fixed
  2. MAPI Restore issue has been fixed
  3. Client erroneously prompts for auth-key. This has been fixed.

Known Issues

  1. We do not support Firefox 4.x Beta for inSync server Web console.

Upgrade : Upgrades are supported only from 4.x versions to inSync 4.5

 

Update: inSync server/client 4.5 Build r6986

Enterprise & Professional Edition – November 30, 2011

New features

  • Advanced Data Insights –
    1. Real-time data analysis & federated search across all user data.
    2. Results in real-time or by email.
    3. Advanced search options.
    4. Actionable results (restore file to client or server).
  • Improved Reporting -
    1. Slice & dice inSync reports with inSync’s CSV & HTML exports.
    2. Get better reporting on data access, restores, syncs, etc.
  • Alert Notifications -
    1. Manage your inSync installation easily by configuring alert notifications.
    2. Choose to notify users involved for alerts being generated.
  • Improved Usability – Get to your actions faster with UI enhancements to menu and user lists.
  • German language support for the inSync client – The inSync 4.5 client also supports a German interface for Windows & Mac users.
  • Additional browser support – inSync 4.5 also supports IE 9 & Firefox 8.

Fixed issues

  1. Issue with multi-threaded sockets for Web Restore has been fixed
  2. MAPI Restore issue has been fixed
  3. Client erroneously prompts for auth-key. This has been fixed.

Known Issues

  1. We do not support Firefox 4.x Beta for inSync server Web console.

Upgrade : Upgrades are supported only from 4.x versions to inSync 4.5

 

Update: inSync server/client 4.2.2 Build r6322

Enterprise & Professional Edition – September 26, 2011

New features

  1. Auto Installation of Clients
  2. Ability to duplicate policies, or create a policy based on and existing user profiles policies
  3. Administrator can configure one more environment variable %appdata% from server side
  4. There is a “View Restore Points” button on the Manage User Detail Page
  5. Exclude $Recycle.Bin from regular and pst file syncs
  6. Dashboard: Device Status shows the number of devices traced and the number of devices managed
  7. Support for Outlook 2010 64 bit for MAPI based backup
  8. search for a user on restore page
  9. Page size selection on users page is cached
  10. Storage Status report’s more information about storage compaction
  11. Removed analyze link from dashboard
  12. Enhancements to import from AD page to make it more responsive
  13. GUI enhancements to user list page and restore page


Fixed issues

  1. All port are checked for availability
  2. Fixed the discrepancy when user has not synced for more than 5 days, report shows the status as ‘synced, all ok’. But generated alerts as ‘not synced for a while’ for the same user.
  3. Suggested fixes for active tasks list, Task which are not started when storage is not ready will not displayed in Active Task List.
  4. Avoid unnecessary full MFT scans when of All drives are configutred.
  5. Dashboard user backup statistics now acknowledges Failed Syncs
  6. Fixes for MAPI restore failures

Known Issues

  1. We do not support IE 9, Firefox 4.x Beta for inSync server Web console.

Upgrade : Upgrades are supported only from 4.x versions to inSync 4.2.2

 

Update: inSync server/client 4.2.1 Build r5786

Enterprise & Professional Edition – July 22, 2011

New features

  1. Quick setup from server for backing up templates
  2. Search for a file in user’s backed up data with admin Web-GUI
  3. Support for secure connection between AD and inSync server
  4. Stats for composition of backed-up data available on server dashboard
  5. HTTPS support for server Web-GUI
  6. Ability to back up PST files not attached to Outlook during MAPI sync
  7. Email-signatures backed up during MAPI sync
  8. Auto-decommission as an addition to SafePoint
  9. Enhanced data shredding as an addition to SafePoint
  10. SafePoint evaluation available by default for all the existing and new customers
  11. Usability enhancements to restore page on Web-GUI
  12. Restored folders dropped during MAPI sync


Fixed issues

  1. Performance enhancements for resync of large files (typically PST files)
  2. Bug fix for storage cache allocation
  3. Incorrect reporting of encryption status on client GUI
  4. Client “Backup completed today” while backup was completed the previous day
  5. Errors “Backup failed. Error: (5, ‘CreateFileW’, ‘Access is denied.’)” during Bare Metal Sync
  6. Fix server UI to correctly restore files containing special characters (e.g. ‘) in names
  7. Mac Users using Mail.app were unable to retrieve inSync Authentication Key sent from inSync server, its fixed now
  8. SafePoint device trace fails for certain users under a profile – Issue with Skyhook – “ExpatError: not well-formed (invalid token)” error while accessing the SafePoint option in the UI

Known Issues

  1. We do not support IE 9, Firefox 4.x Beta for inSync server Web console.

Upgrade : Upgrades are supported only from 4.x versions to inSync 4.2.1

 

Update: inSync server/client 4.2 Build r5358(784)

Enterprise & Professional Edition – June 02, 2011

New features

  1. inSync SafePoint, an add-on module for data loss prevention. Features include file-level encryption, remote data delete, and device geo-location. SafePoint is licensed separately and is available for both Enterprise and Professional editions.
  2. A new user profile configuration setting, server-side restore, now enables an administrator to identify profiles of users and grant them an option to control data restore by the administrator to the server.
  3. The inSync client UI has been modified with many new UI enhancements.
  4. Users on the user page can be sorted on the basis of name, backup status, usage or client version.
  5. Client logs, server machine configuration details, and storage information are all now added in Server Diagnostics.

Known Issues

  1. BMR for windows 7 breaks if ‘Hidden boot partition’ (which is generally 100MB in size) and OS drive (generally C: drive) is on two different hard disks.
  2. We do not support IE 9, Firefox 4.x Beta for inSync server Web console.

Note:  Non mandatory folders are treated like user configured folders. While configuring folders for SafePoint encryption, only server configured, mandatory folders will be shown in the encryption list.

Upgrade : Upgrades are supported only from 4.x versions to inSync 4.2

 

Update:inSync server/client 4.1.1 (Build 5034(729))

Enterprise and Professional Edition – May 6th, 2011

New features

  1. Organizational Unit based filtering in AD
  2. Users sorting by Name and Last backup Status
  3. Client uninterrupted Auto-Upgrade
  4. Server Diagnostics improvements
  5. BMR support for Win7

Fixed issues

  1. Issue Fixed for User quota update after profile transfers.
  2. Scheduled user imports from Active Directory can fail if the name of Active Directory group contains non-ascii characters

Known Issues

  1. BMR of win7 with Mutiple HDD on same machine is broken.
  2. We do not support IE 9, Firefox 4.x Beta

Upgrade Instructions : Upgrades are supported only from 4.x versions to inSync 4.1.1r5034(729)

 

Update: inSync 4.1.0 (Build 4550 (580))

Enterprise and Professional Edition – March 7th, 2011

New features

  • inSync 4.1 comes in two editions: Professional (<250 users, 2TB data) and Enterprise (up to 2000 users, 16TB data, 200 parallel connections).
  • inSync 4.1 comes with a HyperCache capability that boosts performance (4x in Professional and up to 12x in Enterprise compared to inSync 4.0). Hypercache size is fixed in Professional and configurable in Enterprise. Hypercache is an in-memory cache of the most optimal subset of the dedupe index. It’s recommended that you allocate 4GB of hypercache for every 1TB of data.
  • inSync 4.1 Enterprise edition supports SSD to store your deduce index for enhanced performance. 4.1 Enterprise with SSD and Hypercache configured gives you a 12x performance compared to 4.0.
  • inSync 4.1 Enterprise edition now supports a new administrative role in addition to a Server Administrator. A Profile Administrator role grants permissions to manage one or more user profiles in order to edit profile settings, add users, and manage data restore for those profiles. This is a great way to scale the administration tasks across your organization between server and profile administration. In light of the new role, weÕve enhanced our dashboard and reporting, so an administrator can get a customized view of their reports depending on their role.
  • inSync 4.1 Enterprise edition offers an advanced, periodic integration with Active Directory (AD) in addition to a basic, one-time import of users. You can automate the import of users to inSync by attaching a user profile to one or more AD groups.
  • inSync 4.1 offers a search capability in AD users/ CSV users listing screen for faster access to users.
  • inSync 4.1 now uses email ID’s for admins to login to the Web console.8. inSync 4.1 offers mobile access of your data from iPads and iPhones. Download the newest Apple app at http://itunes.apple.com/app/insync/id420380654?mt=8#
  • inSync client is now available in French (French client console).
  • An inSync user can now choose to Optimize for Network Bandwidth or Optimize for Backup speed.

Known Issues

  • When profile for multiple users is changed as a single operation, user quotas don’t get updated.
  • Scheduled user imports from Active Directory can fail if the name of Active Directory group contains non-ascii characters.

Upgrade : Upgrades are supported only from 4.x versions to inSync 4.1r4550(580).

 

Update: inSync 4.0.1 rev3951

January 21st, 2011

Critical Fixes

  • Fixed bug in exclude filter
  • Better and more frequent cache flushing to avoid occasional freeze on Windows 2008 R2

How to Update

  • To upgrade the server and client simply install the new binaries on top of the existing installation. Please make sure to upgrade the server first.
  • Please do not use this package to upgrade from v3.x. Contact support@druva.com to get details on upgrade program.

Update: inSync 4.0.1 rev3757

November 2nd, 2010

Enhancements

  • New Client for Mac OS
  • Compact Now button has been added to the Storage section
  • VSS backups without stopping services
  • Change profile of multiple users at a time
  • Enable auto-upgrade of users from 4.0 to 4.0.1
  • SSL signed installer
  • Performance improvements for backup

Critical Fixes

  • BMS issues with Windows Vista/ Windows 7
  • Handle Active Directory user authentication gracefully
  • Maximum bandwidth is being restricted to 1KBps when configured as 0%, it should be unlimited
  • Send notification issues with unicode strings
  • Better handling for data base recovery
  • RPC over flow fixed
  • Graceful handling of orphan files and folders
  • Now able to startup inSync server if environment variable “NUMBER _OF_PROCESS” is not set
  • Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) synchronizes successfully with French and Spanish Operating Systems
  • The test email can be sent successfully with the French and Spanish operating systems
  • Able to detect Hotmail shares configured via Outlook MSN connectors (which appear with protocol type as ‘MAPI’ in accounts list). These are similar to IMAP/ cached Exchange shares and can be skipped from MAPI syncs
  • An authentication key can be sent thru email using French operating system
  • Alert emails are now being sent with the Email Now option

How to Update

  • To upgrade the server and client simply install the new binaries on top of the existing installation. Please make sure to upgrade the server first.
  • Please do not use this package to upgrade from v3.x. Contact support@druva.com to get details on upgrade program.

Update: inSync 4.0 rev3455

August 30th, 2010

Enhancements

  • WEB Control Panel
  • Synchronization of Outlook via MAPI
  • Storage Scalability
  • Oracle DBD based “Backbird” storage engine
  • Hierarchical Restore Points
  • Dashboard
  • VSS Writer for inSync Server
  • Web restore using AD Password
  • Network Troubleshooting

Features missed in v4.0 (planned for v4.0.1)

  • Moving users across storages
  • Improved VSS logging for LFO shares
  • VSS backups without stopping services
  • Create SSL signed Installer
  • Add “Compact Now” button
  • Better tuning for bandwidth/ rtt estimation from clients
  • Headless backup agent, make agent invisible to user
  • Log last IP of clients

How to Update

  • Note: This is NOT an upgrade release. Please DO NOT use this package to upgrade from v3.x. Upgrade for v3.x is expected by Oct 2010. Please contact support@druva.com for more information.

Update: inSync 3.1.3 rev2536

May 17th, 2010

Enhancements

  • Improved compaction performance
  • Improved restore search performance by 300%

Critical Fixes

  • Disk thrashing issue has been fixed
  • Improved VSS logging for LFO shares
  • inSync client now shows time as per regional settings
  • Files are missed from restore point in the sync that follows a VSS error in case of LFO share. This issue has been fixed.
  • While configuring folders from the server side, the user can now configure %userprofile%
  • When a folder is searched for, in the Search Results, the end user can click on them to expand them
  • If the end-user account is removed, the client now shows appropriate message and shows exclamation mark
  • Scheduled email reports are delivered on time
  • The Druva inSync PC Backup icon in the system tray shows a balloon message “Sorry, but this version only supports 100 named groups.” This has now been fixed.

How to Update

  • To upgrade the server and client simply install the new binaries on top of the existing installation. Please make sure to upgrade the server first.
  • Please do not use this package to upgrade from v2.x. Contact support@druva.com to get details on upgrade program.

Update: inSync 3.1.2 rev2317

Feb 25th, 2010

Enhancements

  • Native password policy enforced for web-restore passwords
  • Web-restore for a user gets disabled after 3 failed login attempts
  • Debug console to help Druva support engineers troubleshoot faster
  • User activity section in insync complete report is displayed according to user profile
  • The BMR boot image allows providing feedback to Druva support when unsupported hardware is encountered

Critical Fixes

  • Blackberry backup file (.ipd) is synced
  • Profile name and Storage name can be edited
  • For plain file store, inSync server shows correct storage statistics for – space used for data
  • Performance improvements for BMR media creation and some bug fixes in BMR code
  • Provision to disable SSL v2.0 in inSync server, and allow only SSL v3.0 to enhance security
  • Clear and informative error messages especially for sync failures resulting from volume snapshot service (VSS) and file permission issues
  • Quicker reconnect attempts if sync fails to start due to network issues
  • Client GUI launches automatically after auto-upgrade
  • Complete report groups users based on their profiles, and lists them in alphabetical order
  • Authentication key gets loaded when users are imported through the active directory feature or CSV file
  • Active directory group filter works as expected
  • Admin created files are backed up irrespective of their access rights
  • Enhanced logging
  • Fixes in UI freeze on the server and client side

How to Update

  • To upgrade the server and client simply install the new binaries on top of the existing installation. Please make sure to upgrade the server first.
  • Please do not use this package to upgrade from v2.x. Contact support@druva.com to get details on upgrade program.

Update: inSync 3.1.1 rev2171

Dec 2nd, 2009

Enhancements

  • Better Reporting for managed updates
  • Sever console performance improvements
  • Put compaction schedule details in the storage report
  • Option to load the client key silently
  • Minor usability improvements

Critical Fixes

  • Allow Outlook folders with special characters
  • User backup statistics and version displayed incorrectly
  • Misc fixes for managed client updates

How to Update

  • To upgrade the server and client simply install the new binaries on top of the existing installation. Please make sure to upgrade the server first.
  • Please do not use this package to upgrade from v2.x. Contact support@druva.com to get details on upgrade program.

Update: inSync 3.1.0 rev2048

Oct 26th, 2009

Enhancements

  • Managed client updates
  • Better bandwidth control
  • Centralized CPU and bandwidth throttling
  • 100% performance improvements for first backups

How to Update

  • To upgrade the server and client simply install the new binaries on top of the existing installation. Please make sure to upgrade the server first.
  • Please do not use this package to upgrade from v2.x. Contact support@druva.com to get details on upgrade program.

Update: inSync 3.0.4 rev1937

Sep 4th, 2009

Critical Fixes

  • Wrong file size listed in restore window after upgrade to v3.0.4
  • Fixed some cases where Bare Metal Restore failed

How to Update

  • Please download the new release from – www.druva.com/download/insync/laptop-backup
  • The above mentioned critical fixes are in inSync server software only and its recommended to upgrade just the server. To upgrade simply install the new binaries on top of the existing ones.

Update: inSync 3.0.4 rev1927

Aug 28th, 2009

Enhancements

  • Automatically pick up MyDocument & Desktop for non-english PCs
  • Performance improvements for management console and client-restores GUI
  • Restore time, ACL and permissions when restoring to original location

Critical Fixes

  • Unable to restore long paths (>256 char) to its orginal location
  • “Integer out of range” error for “Plain File Store”
  • (critical) Incomplete backup of files if read from snapshot fails

How to Update

  • Please download the new release from – www.druva.com/download/insync
  • To upgrade simply install the new binaries on top of the existing ones. Please make sure that the server is upgraded before the clients.

Update: inSync 3.0.3 rev1866

July 3rd, 2009

Enhancements

  • Use cached credentials for logged on AD user when AD not reachable

Critical Fixes

  • Synchronization complete status not updated at the server
  • (critical) Compaction removes empty user base directory
  • (critical) Synchronizing inaccessible folders reveals directory structure
  • Thunderbird backup fixes for Linux and Windows
  • Outllok 2003/2007 path corrections when using Linux Server

How to Update

  • Please download the new release from – www.druva.com/download/insync
  • To upgrade simply install the new binaries on top of the existing ones. Please make sure that the server is upgraded before the clients.

Update: inSync 3.0.3 rev1831

June 1st, 2009

Critical Fixes

  • Fragmentation in PostgreSQL database tables (v3) causing performance degradation
  • Performance issues in v3.0.2 with large file (esp. Outlook PST) backup
  • Missing inSync system tray client icon especially for remote users
  • Auto-resize the USN journal when too small (XP Home edition)

How to Update

  • Download and Install the new binaries on top of the existing ones
  • Run a full vaccum on PostgreSQL database as explained in KB article here.

Note: Please note that after applying the update, the first incremental backup will be slow, but the following incremental backups will be much faster.