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Miscellaneous Usability and Functional Enhancements

This release of Arcserve Backup includes the following miscellaneous usability and functional enhancements.

Customization for Pruning the Activity Log

• Arcserve Backup was enhanced to let you retain all job logs associated with repeating and rotation jobs. You customize the behavior by creating the keyword DoNotPruneRecentJobLogs (defined as 1) in the following registry:

  x86 Operating Systems:

  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ComputerAssociates\CA ARCServe Backup\Base\Database
  

  x64 Operating Systems:

  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\ComputerAssociates\CA ARCServe Backup\Base\Database
  

Display the Job Number or Job ID with CARUNJOB.exe

• Arcserve Backup was enhanced to let you display the job ID in the Windows Task Manager and in the Windows Command Line. You use this capability when you need to locate a specific job in the Job Queue using Task Manager or the Command Line. You enable this behavior by creating the keyword regdword JobEngineGetJobID, JobEngineRenameApp, or both in the following registry key:

  x86 Operating Systems:

  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ComputerAssociates\CA ARCServe Backup\Base\Task\Common
  

  x64 Operating Systems:

  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\ComputerAssociates\CA ARCServe Backup\Base\Task\Common
  

To display only the job ID in the Command Line:

• Define the value for JobEngineGetJobID as 1.

• To display CARUNJOB.exe and the job ID in Task Manager and the Command Line (carunjob_<job id>.exe):
  • Define the value for JobEngineRenameApp as 1.

Activity Log Reporting for Tape Media

• Arcserve Backup was enhanced to display information in the Activity log that describes the tape name and the tape serial number in alert messages.

Activity Log Reporting for the Agent for Microsoft SharePoint Server

• Arcserve Backup was enhanced to display information in the Activity log that indicates that the Enable Document-Level Restore option was specified for the backup job. You specify the Enable Document-Level Restore option on the Backup Options for Agent for Microsoft SharePoint dialog.

Export Data to Files from the Restore Manager

• Arcserve Backup was enhanced to let you export a list of the files, folders, sessions that display in Restore by Tree and Restore by Session in the Restore Manager.

Merging Data Deduplication Devices

• Arcserve Backup was enhanced to let you merge the sessions from data deduplication devices given that the sessions were reset (cleaned) using the command ca_devmgr with –regenerate argument.

Alert Manager Security

• Arcserve Backup was enhanced such that the Alert Manager no longer creates CheyAlert$ network shares which could pose a security hazard.

Print Trouble Tickets from Servers Running Windows x64 Operating Systems

• Arcserve Backup Alert Manager was enhanced to let you print trouble tickets from Arcserve Backup installations on Windows x64 operating systems.

AS400 Version 7

• Arcserve Backup was enhanced to now include support for the operating system AS400 Version 7 and 7.1.

VHD Backup Performance

• Arcserve Backup was enhanced to improve the overall performance of VHD backups. You will note the improved performance when backing up virtual machines with virtual disks that are not associated with parent disks.

Migration Jobs

Arcserve Backup was enhanced to provide you with more functionality associated with migration jobs.

• The Migration Job Status dialog now displays information about pending, failed, and migration jobs that are on hold. You can only modify migration jobs that have failed or are on hold.
• The Backup Manager and Archive Manager now let you view pending migration jobs associated with a staging location. You access this information using the right-click pop-up menu for Deduplication groups and devices and Disk Staging groups and devices.
• The Job Queue now no longer deletes migration makeup jobs after the master job was deleted. The Job Queue behaves in this manner only before the makeup job starts.
• Deleting migration makeup jobs no longer purges the sessions. The copy time and purge time for the pending migration job can be modified using the Migration Job Status dialog.

Arcserve D2D Integration Backups

Arcserve Backup was enhanced to let you perform Arcserve D2D integration backups under the following conditions when the Arcserve D2D service is not running and when the Arcserve D2D server is unavailable.

• When you add computers running Arcserve D2D to the Arcserve D2D Servers object in the Backup Manager, the following conditions are present:
  • At least one full backup of the Arcserve D2D node completed successfully when the Arcserve D2D service was running.
  • The Arcserve D2D backup destination is available.
  • The Arcserve D2D backup destination resides on a remote location and the computer hosting the remote location is available (running).

    Note: All services that are required to perform backups must be running; only the Arcserve D2D service is not running.

• When you add computers running Arcserve D2D to the Arcserve D2D Proxy Servers object in the Backup Manager.
  • At least one full backup via the proxy server of the Arcserve D2D server completed successfully when the D2D service was running.
  • The Arcserve D2D backup destination is available.
  • The D2D backup destination resides on a remote location and the remote location machine is available (running).
  • When backing up D2D nodes via proxy servers, the proxy server is running but the D2D service or D2D server is not running.

  Note: When you change the login credentials for the remote location, the D2D services must be running then next time a D2D integration backup job runs.

Tapecopy Utility

• The tapecopy utility was enhanced to let you filter the sessions that tapecopy queried from the Arcserve database. This capability lets you specify more limitations on the source tape. For example, tapecopy can now query -s(source group), -t(source tape name), -ids(source random id), and -zs(source tape sequence number). Previously, the tapecopy utility ignored the values specified for these arguments and quit the job immediately. The syntax describes how to use this functionality:

  tapecopy  -d PGRP0 -idr -m TAPECOPY2 -qOnOrAfter 10/16/2012 14:00 -s pgrp2 -qOnOrAfter 10/16/2012 14:00 "-s pgrp2
  

Data Deduplication

• Arcserve Backup Data Deduplication was enhanced to let you reclaim disk space on data deduplication devices immediately after you remove data deduplication sessions from the Arcserve database. In previous releases, when you removed sessions from the database, the data was not removed from the data deduplication device.
• The ca_devmgr utility was enhanced (using the -startreclaim argument) to let you reclaim disk space from data deduplication devices immediately after the purge policy criteria is satisfied. In previous releases, there was a six-hour waiting period before the space was reclaimed after the purge policy criteria was satisfied.

Microsoft SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups (AAG)

• Arcserve Backup now supports backing up and restoring Microsoft SQL Server databases that reside on primary and secondary replica servers and are part of AlwaysOn Availability Groups (AAG).