Release Notes

A part of <BRAND> Cyber Cloud 9.0 Update 2

What's new

Branding mode selection for the <BRAND> Cyber Protection agent

It is now possible to select in the Branding options whether your customers will be using the <BRAND>-branded or white-labeled Cyber Protection agent.

Available in all Cyber Backup and Cyber Protect editions.

For more details, refer to “Configuring branding” in the <BRAND> Cyber Cloud Partner Guide.

Zoom, WebEx, and Microsoft Teams protection enhancements

A more informative protection status of Zoom, WebEx, and Microsoft Teams is now available in <BRAND> Cyber Protection Monitor.

Available in all Cyber Protect editions.

Requires the most recent version of agent to be installed. The Antivirus & Antimalware protection module in a protection plan should be enabled.

Fixed issues

Cyber Protection

• [ADP-8309] The alert "Cyber Protection (or Active Protection) service is not responding" is generated for the agent for Linux.
• [ADP-8245] The Update Cyber Protection definitions activity failed while the machine was not connected to the Internet.
• [ADP-8169] Patch management failed with the message "MediaTypeFromString: unknown `InstallationMediaType`: exe_msp" when installing an update for a certain version of Adobe Reader.
• [ADP-8101] False cancelation of alert that the Cyber Protection (or Active Protection) service is not responding after the reboot.
• [ADP-8047] The vulnerability assessment failed with the error "database disk image is malformed".
• [ADP-7885] The "Patch management" task starts two activities if a user posted these tasks simultaneously by accident.
• [ADP-7875] The vulnerability assessment failed after 1 hour of execution with the 'Task timeout expired' error if patch management, vulnerability assessment, and the Fix now mode were initiated simultaneously.
• [ADP-7811] The vulnerability assessment failed due to a conflict with Windows Update Agent.
• [ADP-7742][KERNEL-9308] Google Drive File Stream is blocked.
• [ABR-266621] The Cyber Protection service does not auto-restart after crash.
• [ABR-266544] The Updating Cyber Protection definitions activity failed.

Installation

• [ABR-266779] Uninstallation lasts for too long time. The Cyber Protection service is not uninstalled after the reboot.
• [ABLOC-12539] An incorrect translation for the registration code expiration time in the Linux installer.
• [ABR-268767] The installer removes <BRAND> True Image RPM without a user confirmation.
• [ABR-265753] The agent is not registered if Managed Machine Service starts for too long time.
• [ABR-270056] Failed to register the agent with the error "Cannot launch child process due to platform API error".
• [PLTFRM-21577] "Duplicate entry" errors when registering the agent.

Backup and recovery

• [ABR-269500] The backup completed with the Windows warning error: (0x8007018B).
• [ABR-268591] The CDP slice is not created if encryption is enabled in the Cyber Protection Monitor.
• [ABR-268196] Big temp files in the "Program Data" <BRAND> folder during backup.
• [ABR-268077] The protection plan fails with the error message "Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers".

macOS

• [ABR-270555] macOS kernel panic occurred on the agent live update from the build 12.5.22410 to 12.5.22530.
• [ABR-268818] The window for registration does not appear after the agent was installed.
• [ABR-268576] The agent registration does not start on macOS Catalina 10.15.5 beta2.

A part of Acronis Cyber Cloud 9.0 Update 1 Hotfix 1

What's new

The <BRAND> Cyber Protection Monitor was extended to display the real-time antivirus protection status.

Fixed issues

Various performance and stability improvements and fixes.

A part of Acronis Cyber Cloud 9.0 Update 1

Fixed issues

• [ABR-268084] The "Open management console" button is inactive in Acronis Cyber Protection Monitor for the agent 12.5.22210 for macOS.
• [ABR-267974] The buttons on the agent registration error message window are cropped if the message text is too long.
• [ABR-267178] An unclear error message when a backup failed due to an unplanned system restart.
• [ABR-267109] The web installer downloads files slowly in certain circumstances.
• [ABR-266784] The wrong message and link to the knowledge base are displayed when trying to install the Acronis Cyber Protection agent on a machine where Acronis True Image is installed.
• [ABR-266573] The agent registration failed because the previous registration traces were not removed completely.
• [ABR-266562] The "Back" button is disabled in the Acronis Cyber Protection agent web installer if Acronis True Image is installed on the same machine.
• [ABR-262486] The incorrect name of the Acronis Cyber Protection web installer is shown in the User Account Control (UAC) dialog during the installation.

A part of Acronis Cyber Cloud 9.0

What's new

The Cyber Protection Agent for Windows now offers comprehensive self-defense for Zoom, Webex, and Microsoft Teams.

Automatic installation of Zoom, Webex, Microsoft Teams client updates

Protection of Zoom, Webex, Microsoft Teams processes from code injections

Prevention of suspicious operations by Zoom, Webex, Microsoft Teams processes

Protection of the "hosts" file from adding the domains related to Zoom, Webex, Microsoft Teams

To enable the self-defense functionality, update the agent and ensure that the "Active Protection" feature is enabled in your protection plan.

Fixed issues

Various performance and stability improvements and fixes.

A part of Acronis Cyber Cloud 9.0

What's new

The Cyber Protection Agent for Windows now supports live update without necessity to preliminarily install Microsoft Visual C++ runtime manually and reboot.

Fixed issues

Common

• [ABR-139316] Validation of a backup that was created in the v11 format and includes Microsoft Windows Storage Space partition fails with the error "No current partition".
• [AAP-3602] The installer repair fails if Active Protection is enabled and the agent was updated via live update.

Backup and Recovery

• [ABR-239739] In some cases, the "Entire machine" backup may not include all Linux volumes/partitions
• [ABR-235902] Recovery of files or folders via acrocmd from a backup in the v11 format fails when using "--file=c:\[folder]\" or "--file=c:\[folder]" syntax, when the [folder] path doesn't exist.
• [ABR-243823] Machine goes into sleep/hibernate mode during backup, even if the "Prevent the sleep or hibernate mode during backup" option is enabled.
• [ABR-239576] Recovery of files or folders does not skip existing files when the "Overwrite existing file if it is older" option is enabled.
• [ABR-260477] After changing the backup format from v11 to v12 in the protection plan settings, backup replication to a cloud storage fails with the error "The archive is invalid or its type is unsupported."
• [ABR-253768] Editing of an old Exchange DB backup plan may fail with the error "The backup file name does not contain required variables: 'database name'".
• [ABR-254782] Users cannot change their credentials for the network shares selected as source for files or folders backup.
• [ABR-216182] Recovery of disks/volumes fails when the target location for recovery is a removable drive – for example, an external USB drive.
• [ABR-234882] The backup of a single SQL database takes too long if the SQL instance contains many databases (100+).
• [ABR-249704] When changing Daylight Saving Time (DST), scheduled backups may fail with the error "Backup with creation date in future was detected".
• [ABR-238339] EFI boot entries are restored in non-original order if the restored backup contains non-standard EFI boot entries – for example, "Dell OEM partition".
• [ABR-239941] A target folder is not created automatically during backup to the location of the "Defined by script" type on a network share.
• [ABR-251790] Backup of an SQL instance fails if it contains a database that is located on unavailable storage (disconnected drive).
• [ABR-216936] Backup to specific NAS device models using the backup format v12 may fail with the warning "Access is denied". This is caused by bad handling of file locks on specific NAS devices.
• [ABR-218410] Files/folders backup from a network share selected as source tries to access this network share without credentials if the "File-level backup snapshot" option is enabled. In some cases, this may result in failures and show the error "Access is denied".

MacOS

• [ABR-220325] Backup does not run on schedule if the scheduling option "Do not start when connected to the following Wi-Fi networks" is enabled, regardless of whether this condition is met or not.

Virtualization

• [ABR-260431] Backup of Hyper-V virtual machine may fail with the error "Cannot access a released resource." if the backup option "Multi-volume snapshot" is disabled. Disabling this option is not supported for backups of Hyper-V virtual machines.
• [ABR-260173] No warning or alert is generated if a Hyper-V virtual machine backup automatically fails over to a crash-consistent checkpoint due to VSS failure inside the guest OS of the virtual machine – for example when an application-consistent VSS snapshot is not possible.
• [ABR-258334] Recovery of a Hyper-V virtual machine to SMB3 share on Hyper-V Cluster fails if the path is resolved in the 'smb://server/share' format instead of '\\server\share'.
• [ABR-248218] VirtIO drivers are disabled after recovery (restore with reboot) of a KVM-based Windows virtual machine to another virtual machine. Recovery via bootable media is not affected by this issue.
• [ABR-231376] In some cases, recovery to a new virtual machine on VMware ESXi fails with the message "Invalid configuration for device '0'".