Ability to reconnect during indexing if connection is broken
Define which volumes need to be snapshotted together (snapshot groups)
Image backup mounting, browsing and archival on Windows, Linux and FreeBSD (does not work in FreeBSD jails and with VHD/VHDZ on FreeBSD)
Major changes with client 2.1.x beta
Ability to reconnect during indexing if connection is broken
Improved image backup performance
Windows Backup API support (tested backup and restore with Microsoft SQL, tested backup with Microsoft Exchange and Hyper V)
File backups and restores use the change block data from the change block tracking driver now (you can install the beta client over a CBT client and this will work)
Define which volumes need to be snapshotted together (snapshot groups)
Changes with server 2.1.6 beta
Use full year if year is in front in dates and use dash as separator if present for date format
Delete empty sub-volumes in remove-unknown
Fixup: Delete symlink before creating it if it wasn’t deleted previously
Fix service stopping before server installation on Windows
Flush file index during deletion and more file index integrity checking
Simplified file settings reader
Add client access key to Windows client download
Update client access key if not present (needs to be released client > 2.1.5 in order to work)
Fix setting IO priority with IOPRIO_CLASS_NONE in Linux threads
Fix throttling to percentage of maximum bandwidth
File entry index consistency fixes
Do not double-free file when creating ZIP on Linux/FreeBSD
Improve error message when hash thread cannot open temp file
Fix memory leak during ZIP download
Fix rare issue with out-of-band block transfer during block-diff file transfer
Image backup browsing and archival
Image backup mounting on Windows, Linux and FreeBSD
Show error about on-access virus scanner being active
Upgrade process
As always: Replace the executables (via the installers) and the database of the server/client will be updated on first running it.
Place the files from the update directory into C:\Program Files\UrBackupServer\urbackup or /var/urbackup to auto-update clients. Disable Download client from update server in the server settings to prevent the server from downloading the current version.
Stop the UrBackup server, restore C:\Program Files\UrBackupServer\urbackup or /var/urbackup from a backup before upgrade and then install the previous version over the beta release.
Image backup mounting on Linux
The server uses libguestfs-tools to mount image backups on Linux. This isolates the image backup file system reading by running it in a separate VM via Linux KVM. Linux KVM needs the Intel VT-x/AMD-V CPU extension in order to work. If you run UrBackup Server in a VM it needs nested virtualization.
Thanks a lot for this @Uroni !!!
I’ve just update my test server (Debian 8 with BTRFS storage), browsing image backups works but browsing the image content doesn’t, is this normal at this time ?
root@urbackup-3:~# urbackup_mount_helper test
TEST FAILED: guestmount is missing (libguestfs-tools)
root@urbackup-3:~# apt-get install libguestfs-tools
[...]
root@urbackup-3:~# urbackup_mount_helper test
MOUNT TEST OK
root@urbackup-3:~#
libguestfs-tools was missing, but still not work :
Setting /bin/bash instead of /bin/false in /etc/passwd and :
root@urbackup-3:~# su urbackup
urbackup@urbackup-3:/root$ cd ~
urbackup@urbackup-3:~$ urbackup_mount_helper test
Cannot become root user
urbackup@urbackup-3:~$
root@urbackup-3:~# su urbackup -c "urbackup_mount_helper mount SVIMPORT /media/aaaf8b05-4c27-4948-802b-acce40b9a67e/backups/SVIMPORT/161209-1119_Image_C/Image_C_161209-1119.raw"
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::logic_error'
what(): basic_string::_M_construct null not valid
root@urbackup-3:~#
root@urbackup-3:~# su urbackup -c "export LANG=en_EN.UTF8 ; gdb --args urbackup_mount_helper mount SVIMPORT /media/aaaf8b05-4c27-4948-802b-acce40b9a67e/backups/SVIMPORT/161209-1119_Image_C/Image_C_161209-1119.raw"
GNU gdb (Debian 7.7.1+dfsg-5) 7.7.1
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Reading symbols from urbackup_mount_helper...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/urbackup_mount_helper mount SVIMPORT /media/aaaf8b05-4c27-4948-802b-acce40b9a67e/backups/SVIMPORT/161209-1119_Image_C/Image_C_161209-1119.raw
[tcsetpgrp failed in terminal_inferior: Inappropriate ioctl for device]
[tcsetpgrp failed in terminal_inferior: Inappropriate ioctl for device]
Error while mapping shared library sections:
linux-vdso.so.1: Permission denied.
[tcsetpgrp failed in terminal_inferior: Inappropriate ioctl for device]
[tcsetpgrp failed in terminal_inferior: Inappropriate ioctl for device]
Cannot become root user
[Inferior 1 (process 2224) exited with code 01]
(gdb) bt
No stack.
(gdb)
root@urbackup-3:~# export LANG=en_EN.UTF8 ; gdb --args urbackup_mount_helper mount SVIMPORT /media/aaaf8b05-4c27-4948-802b-acce40b9a67e/backups/SVIMPORT/161209-1119_Image_C/Image_C_161209-1119.raw
GNU gdb (Debian 7.7.1+dfsg-5) 7.7.1
Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
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This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu".
Type "show configuration" for configuration details.
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Reading symbols from urbackup_mount_helper...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/urbackup_mount_helper mount SVIMPORT /media/aaaf8b05-4c27-4948-802b-acce40b9a67e/backups/SVIMPORT/161209-1119_Image_C/Image_C_161209-1119.raw
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::logic_error'
what(): basic_string::_M_construct null not valid
Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
0x00007f51b9648067 in raise () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00007f51b9648067 in raise () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#1 0x00007f51b9649448 in abort () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#2 0x0000000000492b8d in ?? ()
#3 0x0000000000411506 in ?? ()
#4 0x0000000000411551 in ?? ()
#5 0x0000000000411499 in ?? ()
#6 0x000000000048fcdf in ?? ()
#7 0x0000000000404024 in ?? ()
#8 0x00000000004030cc in ?? ()
#9 0x00007f51b9634b45 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#10 0x0000000000403f19 in ?? ()
(gdb)
