CA ARCserve® Backup for Windows r16.5 Release Summary

1.0 Welcome

2.0 New Features Included with r16.5
2.1 r16.5 Features
2.2 Support for Microsoft Windows 8 Operating System and Microsoft Windows Server 2012
2.3 Support for LTO6 and End to End Logical Block Protection
2.4 Agent for Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Support for Windows Operating Systems
2.5 Agent for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 Support for Windows Operating Systems

3.0 r16.5 Update 2 Features
3.1 Agentless Backup for VMware
3.2 Transport Mode for VMware Virtual Machines
3.3 Reset Changed Block Tracking (CBT) Automatically

4.0 Usability and Functional Enhancements Included with r16.5
4.1 r16.5 Enhancements
  4.1.1 NAS Port Configuration
  4.1.2 Archive Data to Amazon S3 Cloud Storage
  4.1.3 Archive Data to Eucalyptus Private Cloud Storage
  4.1.4 Support for Cloud Vendor Providers
  4.1.5 Support for VMware VDDK 5.1
  4.1.6 Miscellaneous Usability and Functional Enhancements
4.2 r16.5 Update 1 Enhancements
4.3 r16.5 Update 2 Enhancements
  4.3.1 Support for VMware VDDK 5.1.1

5.0 Features Not Supported in r16.5
5.1 Dropped Systems and Platforms Support
5.2 Dropped Support for VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB)
5.3 WinPE Disaster Recovery Images
5.4 Microsoft Exchange Server 2013

6.0 Contact CA

1.0 Welcome

Welcome to the CA ARCserve Backup for Windows r16.5 Release Summary.

This Release Summary describes new features, functional and usability enhancements, and dropped support included with CA ARCserve Backup r16.5 and subsequent update releases.

2.0 New Features Included with r16.5

This section describes the new features included with CA ARCserve Backup r16.5 and r16.5 updates.

2.1 r16.5 Features

The following sections describe the new features added to the r16.5 release.

2.2 Support for Microsoft Windows 8 Operating System and Microsoft Windows Server 2012

In this release, CA ARCserve Backup supports the following Microsoft Windows 8 and Microsoft Windows Server 2012 features:

• Storage Spaces
• Distributed VSS
• NTFS Data Deduplication
• VHDX (new version of VHD, provides larger storage capacity of 64TB)
• 4KB logical sector size
• ReFS (Resilient File System)

2.3 Support for LTO6 and End to End Logical Block Protection

In this release, CA ARCserve Backup now supports backing up data to LTO6 drives. LTO6 drives offer higher capacity and improved performance over previous drives, such as LTO5.

CA ARCserve Backup also supports the functionality of Logical Block Protection (a feature LTO6 supports) offered by manufacturers of stand-alone tape drives, such as IBM and HP. LBP lets CA ARCserve Backup detect read and write errors that occur on library drives.

The CA ARCserve Backup implementation of LBP does not support the following backups:

• LBP on Read operations
• ARCserve Tape RAID backups
• NAS (Network attached storage) backups
• CA ARCserve Backup UNIX/Linux Data Mover backups
• File system device backups

  Example: Data deduplication and staging backups

2.4 Agent for Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Support for Windows Operating Systems

This release of the CA ARCserve Backup Agent for Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 now includes support for the following Windows operating systems:

• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition SP1
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition SP1
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter Edition, RTM and later releases
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Standard Edition
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Datacenter Edition

2.5 Agent for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 Support for Windows Operating Systems

This release of the CA ARCserve Backup Agent for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 now includes support for the following Windows operating systems:

• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition SP1 (x64)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition SP1 (x64)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter Edition SP1 (x64)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Standard Edition (x64)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Datacenter Edition (x64)

3.0 r16.5 Update 2 Features

The following sections describe the new features added to the r16.5 Update 2 release.

3.1 Agentless Backup for VMware

In this release, CA ARCserve Backup no longer requires you to install the agent on the virtual machine for VMware systems when performing raw (full VM) backups with file level restore enabled. However, it is still required to install the agent when performing a restore.

Note: In r16.5, there are two ways to run incremental backups for Mixed mode backups: run it through the agent which is installed on the VM or through the VDDK on the proxy server. With the Update 2 release, it is no longer required to install the agent on the VM, therefore the only option to run incremental backups for Mixed mode backups is through the VDDK on the proxy server.

3.2 Transport Mode for VMware Virtual Machines

In this release, CA ARCserve Backup now includes a new Transport Mode for VMware VM option when selecting a type of backup mode for Agent for Virtual Machines. This new feature can be found in the Global Options dialog for backup and recovering virtual machines.

Note: This feature only applies to VMware systems.

3.3 Reset Changed Block Tracking (CBT) Automatically

In this release, CA ARCserve Backup no longer requires you to reset the Changed Block Tracking feature manually. The CBT can now reset automatically when an issue occurs.

Note: This feature only applies to VMware systems.

4.0 Usability and Functional Enhancements Included with r16.5

This section describes the usability and functional enhancements made to the product in r16.5 and r16.5 Updates such as changes to the user interface, changes to licensing, setup, and deployment, and documentation changes.

4.1 r16.5 Enhancements

The following sections describe the enhancements made to the r16.5 release.

4.1.1 NAS Port Configuration

You can now configure network attached storage (NAS) devices to communicate using a specific port or a range of ports. To define the custom ports you modify the PortsConfig.cfg configuration file manually.

4.1.2 Archive Data to Amazon S3 Cloud Storage

In this release, CA ARCserve Backup lets you archive data to three additional regions of Amazon S3 cloud storage:

• US West (Oregon)
• US West (Northern California)
• AP Tokyo

Currently, we have Bucket Region AP Singapore, EU Ireland, US Standard, and SA East (Sao Paulo).

4.1.3 Archive Data to Eucalyptus Private Cloud Storage

In addition to versions 2.0 and 2.0.2, this release of CA ARCserve Backup now supports the following versions of Eucalyptus:

• Eucalyptus 3.0
• Eucalyptus 3.1, 3.1.1, and 3.1.2
• Eucalyptus 3.2

4.1.4 Support for Cloud Vendor Providers

In this release, the CA ARCserve Backup base product now supports the following cloud providers:

• FGCP/A5 (Fujitsu Global Cloud Platform Service Powered by Microsoft Windows Azure)
• Microsoft Windows Azure

4.1.5 Support for VMware VDDK 5.1

With this release, VMware VDDK 5.1 is automatically installed with CA ARCserve Backup. You can use VDDK 5.1 to back up virtual machines.

4.1.6 Miscellaneous Usability and Functional Enhancements

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

Customization for Pruning the Activity Log

• CA 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

• CA 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 JobEngineGetJobID, JobEngineRenameApp, or both in the following registry key:

  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
  

  • 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

• CA 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

• CA 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

• CA 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

• CA 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

• CA 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

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

AS400 Version 7

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

VHD Backup Performance

• CA 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

CA 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.

CA ARCserve D2D Integration Backups

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

• When you add computers running CA ARCserve D2D to the CA ARCserve D2D Servers object in the Backup Manager, the following conditions are present:

  • At least one full backup of the CA ARCserve D2D node completed successfully when the CA ARCserve D2D service was running.
  • The CA ARCserve D2D backup destination is available.
  • The CA 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 CA ARCserve D2D service is not running.

• When you add computers running CA ARCserve D2D to the CA ARCserve D2D Proxy Servers object in the Backup Manager.

  • At least one full backup via the proxy server of the CA ARCserve D2D server completed successfully when the D2D service was running.
  • The CA 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

• CA 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)

• CA 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).

4.2 r16.5 Update 1 Enhancements

CA ARCserve Backup r16.5 Update 1 introduces enhancements and corrects problems that were discovered with CA ARCserve Backup r16.5. The following behaviors were updated:

• How to improve the throughput on raw disk backups and raw volume backups.

  With this update, you can now modify the following registry key to increase and decrease the size of the buffer read process for all input and output operations:

  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ComputerAssociates\CA ARCServe Backup\ClientAgent\Parameters\ FileBufferSize
  

  Default: 512k

  Range: Up to 2048k (based on the available system resources)

• Backup operations can now read open files that are associated with Windows Server 2012 operating systems.

  With this update, CA ARCserve Backup now no longer skips files that are associated with Windows Server 2012 operating systems. Previously, CA ARCserve Backup could not read and back up various files that reported by system state writers. For example, AppCompat and BranchCache. The Client Agent for Windows now protects files that reside on the Windows system volume using the VSS option.

• Restore operations of the System State now no longer fail when the disk signature of a disk changes after the last backup.

  Previously, the binary coded decimal (BCD) for the system was overwritten by the Client Agent for Windows. To correct this behavior, the client agent for WindowsClient Agent for Windows now does not restore the BCD configuration when you perform standard (not disaster recovery) restore operations.

• Backup operations on folders named boot and bootmgr that reside on UEFI environments now complete successfully.

  Previously, the Client Agent for Windows did not back up folders named boot and bootmgr that reside on the system volume. Folders of this type were backed up as part of the system state. For normal volume backups, the agent added these folders to the exclude files list. In UEFI environments, the agent did not get the system volume and added folders named boot and bootmgr that existed in any volume to the exclude files list. As a result, backups of these folders failed.

  With this update, the agent no longer adds folders named boot and bootmgr that reside in any volume to the exclude files list when the agent cannot get the system volume.

• Backup operations that consist of uncompressed CA ARCserve D2D backup sessions now complete successfully.

  Previously, backups of this type did not complete successfully because of the difference between the block sizes of D2D uncompressed backups and CA ARCserve Backup backups.

  With this update, CA ARCserve Backup now creates a 2MB backup buffer when backing up uncompressed D2D backup sessions. This approach allows backups of this type to complete successfully.

  Note: This behavior was detected when backing up CA ARCserve D2D r16.5 with CA ARCserve Backup r16.5.

• How to improve the overall backup performance when backing up multithreaded CA ARCserve D2D backup sessions.

  With this update, you can control the quantity of threads that are used to read and the quantity of the maximum blocks that can be read at a time. To control the quantities, modify the following registry keys:

  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ComputerAssociates\CA ARCServe Backup\ClientAgent\ParametersD2DreadThreadPoolSize
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ComputerAssociates\CA ARCServe Backup\ClientAgent\MaxConsequetiveD2DBlockReads
  

  As a best practice, match the number of threads with the available CPU cores by changing registry key named ParametersD2DreadThreadPoolSize. You can further optimize the disk IO using the MaxConsequetiveD2DBlockReads registry key.

• With this update, you can now move CA ARCserve D2D backup sessions that were replicated by CA ARCserve Replication and High Availability to CA ARCserve Backup media.

  The Client Agent for Windows uses a flag named ConnectToD2DServer in the CA_Liteintegration.ini file that is located in the agent installation folder.

  Location:

  C:\Program Files\CA\ARCserve Backup Client Agent for Windows. 
  

  The agent uses the CA_Liteintegration.ini file to determine whether to connect to the CA ARCserve D2D server to retrieve the details about the destination or retrieve the details from the cache file (CA_Liteintegration.ini). For RHA scenarios, set the value of the flag to 0 so that agent that is running on the replica server does not connect with the original D2D server for the details about the destination.

  Example:

  C:\Program Files\CA\ARCserve Backup Client Agent for Windows
  [server_name]
  ConnectToD2DServer=0
  Destination=\\devpr01-test2\E\devpr01-2K8sp2
  

4.3 r16.5 Update 2 Enhancements

The following sections describe the enhancements made to the r16.5 Update 2 release.

4.3.1 Support for VMware VDDK 5.1.1

CA ARCserve Backup lets you install VMware VDDK 5.1.1 to back up VMware-based virtual machines. As a best practice, you should install VDDK 5.1.1 in your backup environment.

To enable this capability, you change the VDDKDirectory registry key in the following file on the backup proxy system:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ComputerAssociates\CA ARCServe Backup\ClientAgent\Parameters

Then replace it with the new directory location where VDDK is installed. For example:

C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Virtual Disk Development Kit

Be aware of the following:

• When you install VMware VDDK 5.1.1 on an x64-based computer, the VDDK64.zip file appears in the same directory. You to unzip the file to the same location where VDDK is installed and extract the files to a VDDK64 folder.
• You can implement VDDK 5.1.1 on backup proxy systems servers where CA ARCserve Backup Agent for Virtual Machines r16.5, r16.5 Update 1, or r16.5 Update 2 is installed.

5.0 Features Not Supported in r16.5

The features described in the following sections are not supported at this time by CA ARCserve Backup r16.5.

5.1 Dropped Systems and Platforms Support

CA ARCserve Backup for Windows r16.5 no longer includes support for the following systems and platforms:

• Itanium-based systems
• Tru64 5.1b
• Debian Version 4
• ARCserve 12/12.1 Agents for Backward Compatibility
• Mac OS 10.5x

These changes affect all CA ARCserve Backup r16.5 agents and options.

5.2 Dropped Support for VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB)

CA ARCserve Backup for Windows r16.5 no longer includes support for VMware Consolidated Backups (VCB).

These changes affect all CA ARCserve Backup r16.5 agents and options.

5.3 WinPE Disaster Recovery Images

In this release, the WinPE (Windows Preinstallation Environment) Disaster Recovery CD is no longer integrated with the CA ARCserve Backup Installation DVD. You now need to create the WinPE Disaster Recovery CD manually.

During installation, CA ARCserve Backup provides a link to download the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK) for Windows 8 and Windows Automation Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows 7 from the Microsoft website. With Windows ADK or AIK installed, you can create Windows WinPE disaster recovery images to recover computers running the following operating systems from a disaster:

• Windows Server 2003
• Windows Server 2008
• Windows 7
• Windows Server 2008 R2
• Windows 8
• Windows Server 2012

5.4 Microsoft Exchange Server 2013

This release of CA ARCserve Backup Agent for Microsoft Exchange Server (including the Update 1 and Update 2 releases) does not support document level backups on Microsoft Exchange Server 2013. A patch will be available after the General Availability release of the agent for this capability.

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