Release date:August, 2021
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Table of contents

Overview

With this update release, the Acronis flagship cloud product offers enhancements and addresses issues found in previous releases.

What's new

Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud

Ability to set paths for reverted files and folders separately for Windows and macOS within the same protection plan

Administrators who want to protect both Windows and macOS workloads with a single plan can now specify a "Restore folder" path for both Windows and macOS separately (as part of the Network folder protection functionality).

File Sync & Share: share link management for Notarization and eSignature

  • Allows managing links for eSigned documents and files: view, edit, and revoke.
  • Allows viewing the history link shares, link type, revision, and expiration.

Management Portal and Platform Core

Sections management in Executive summary report

The Executive summary report allows partners to show the business and technical value delivered to their end-customers, thus providing partners with an opportunity to grow and to reduce the end-customer churn.

Sections management allows fine-tuning the report view for individual MSP needs:

  • Add, Edit, and Delete sections
  • Change the order of sections in the report
  • Add a widget to a certain section
  • Move widgets inside a section or from one section to another

New branding color schemes

Two new color schemes (pink and magenta) are available in the Branding settings of Management Portal.

ConnectWise Manage PSA integration

Support for offering items with "included features"

Advanced licensing introduced "included features" offering items in Acronis Cyber Cloud 21.03. These new offering items depend on regular offering items and cannot be enabled or disabled separately, but their usage is reported separately. Now, a partner can optionally map "included features" offering items to products in the interface of the ConnectWise Manage integration solution. This feature will become available in other PSA integrations as soon as the pay-as-you-go billing and the product mapping are supported.

Updated Components

Acronis Cyber Protection agent

  • Acronis Cyber Protection Agent for Windows (v. 15.0.27493)
  • Acronis Cyber Protection Agent for Mac (v. 15.0.27493)
  • Acronis Cyber Protection Agent for Linux (v. 15.0.27493)

See the release history of Acronis Cyber Protection agent here.

Changes in Acronis Cyber Cloud API

You can find the history of changes in Acronis Cyber Cloud API in the dedicated API change log document.

Fixed issues

This section describes issues that have been fixed in this release.

Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud

Common

  • [ADP-13272] Alert generated after backup scanning failure contains non-informative backup ID in the description.
  • [ABR-320512] The "Started by" field in "Removing machine" activity is showing incorrect user details.
  • [ABR-317539][ABR-318112] Protection plan may have "Critical" or "Warning" statuses in the list of plans in even if it runs without issues.
  • [ABR-313862] Unclear error "Operating system error: Class not registered" appears when backup of Microsoft SQL or Microsoft Exchange fails.
  • [ABR-318298] Unclear error "SSL Protocol Error" appears when backup fails due to Fortinet firewall.
  • [ABR-313428] Alert "Machine is offline for more than 20 days" is not generated properly.
  • [ABR-312081] Consent window displays more service quotas than needed when only "Backup" module was enabled in the protection plan.
  • [ABR-316781] Activity "Removing vault from the agent" misses information about the device and the backup location which was deleted.
  • [ABR-315649] Tenant switcher is not displayed for a user with "Read-only management" role.
  • [ABR-317978] Agents for virtualization hosts are available for download only if "Workstations" offering item is enabled for customer tenant.

Cyber Protection Agent

  • [ABR-317545] Unclear "Agent is not accessible" error appears when Cyber Protection agent is offline.
  • [ADP-16216] Auto-update of agent is not happening on schedule due to download failure.
  • [ABR-313321] Cyber Protection agent's "Activity" folder may use up to 8+ GB of space on file system.

Dashboards and reports

  • [ABR-321332] The "Backup status" widget is not loaded and times out with error 504.
  • [ADP-16238] Customer selection is not available in operation reports at folder tenant level.
  • [ADP-16339] Settings of "Devices" widget got reset after modifying and saving schedule settings of the report.
  • [ADP-14538] "Disk Health Overview" widget misses block of "Other" category.
  • [DRAAS-23764] Duplicated alerts types "Storage quota exceeded" and "Storage quota is exceeded" are shown in the "Alerts" history widget.

Disaster Recovery

  • [DRAAS-23671] Local disk (non-system one) may become inaccessible after test failover in some cases.
  • [DRAAS-23374] Test failover may fail with "Partition size mismatch" error while creation of delta disks.
  • [DRAAS-23615] Creation of cloud server may fail with the "Internal error" in rare cases.
  • [DRAAS-23021] VPN: P2P connection fails if "Login control" functionality is enabled.

Linux protection

  • [ABR-316530] Linux-based bootable media is unable to connect to iSCSI target.

Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and other applications protection

  • [DF-2691] Backup of Google Drive failed with "The Shared Drive with ID 'XXX' is not found" error.
  • [DF-2830][ABR-320404] Backup of Microsoft Teams fails on catalog indexing stage with "An internal error. Please contact the support team" error for non-existent mailbox.
  • [ABR-321425] Backup of Microsoft SharePoint online site may rarely fail with "agent was crashed" or "Timeout error" errors.
  • [ABR-320161] Backup of Microsoft 365 mailbox fails with "Cannot back up the primary mailbox of an Microsoft 365 user: 'item or folder not found'" error.
  • [ABR-320344] Browse of root Microsoft SharePoint online site may fail with "An internal error".
  • [ABR-319844] Recovery of Microsoft SharePoint online site fails with the "[Archive Server]: item not found" error.
  • [ABR-319553] False-positive alerts about missed backups are generated if protection plan was applied to all Microsoft Exchange mailboxes.

Notarization

  • [AN-3065] Ethereum transaction got stuck (one time occurrence).

Security and management

  • [ADP-16506] "Running smart recommended actions" activity is shown as running when machine is offline.
  • [ADP-16357] Threat feed shows only number of active threats, without additional details.
  • [ADP-15176] Installation of patches for Microsoft Teams (1.4.00.8872) and Foxit Reader (10.1.3.37598) fails due to timeout.
  • [AMP-6737] Cyber Protect definitions update fails with error 'Failed to apply NGMP definitions'.
  • [AMP-6708] Inventory management system software runs slowly when URL Filtering is enabled.

Virtualization protection

  • [ABR-320394] Recovery to a new VMware virtual machine on vSAN 7.0 datastore may fail with "Failed to obtain the virtual machine storage list" error.
  • [ABR-320095] Backup of Virtuozzo containers/virtual machines fails with "Failed to extract the Parallels/Virtuozzo server version from file '/etc/parallels-release' with content 'Virtuozzo release 7.5.1 (10.vz7)" error if Virtuozzo Hybrid Server host was installed using local repositories.
  • [ABR-291807] Recovery of Virtuozzo Hybrid Server 7 virtual machines which don't have network adapters, fails with "Failed to set the numeric value. [The object to be processed has been already removed from the parent composite object.]" error .

Management Portal and Platform Core

  • [PLTFRM-29669] Partner administrator cannot change "Agent auto-update" settings in Management portal after switching to it from Cyber Protection console.
  • [PLTFRM-28278] Disaster recovery offering items got de-provisioned during edition switch.

Autotask PSA integration

  • [CI-11403] Error "Offering item is currently disabled" while mapping doesn't specify exact disabled offering item.

ConnectWise Manage integration

  • [CI-12097] "Local storage" usage is reported as zero for "Per workload" edition.

Known issues and limitations

This section describes issues that are currently known and provides solutions to avoid the issues where possible.

Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud

Common

  • [ABR-240431] It is possible to apply an existing protection plan with the "Cloud" backup destination, even if the cloud storage quota was exceeded for a tenant. The plan will fail upon execution.
  • [ABR-228827] If some backup is removed via the Data Recovery (Web Restore) console, this change is not reflected in the service console while browsing the backup location, until the service console is refreshed.
  • [ABR-196710] The backup location on the network share usage is duplicated in the case when there is a different network share with the same name registered as a backup location (shares rotation scenario).
  • [ABR-189620] The "Activities summary" widget shows activities out of the defined date "Range" scope (excessive activities may be shown).
  • [ABR-184900] Local backup usage is not reported for backups stored on a network share with enabled deduplication.
  • [ABR-183764] Local backup usage is not updated for all virtual machine backups after deleting and re-adding a network location.
  • [ABR-182313] Local backup usage size is duplicated after reconnecting a locally attached storage (LAS) to a new Agent for VMware (Virtual Appliance).
  • [ABR-178648] The installer does not remove/update old libraries if the previous update was interrupted.
  • [ABR-154655] The protection plan may have the "Backup succeeded" status, even if this plan is completed with warnings. Alerts and activities still show the proper status of the plan.
  • [ABR-113452] If a machine was re-registered under a different account without revoking the existing protection plan from it, this plan may still continue to run unexpectedly.
  • [ABR-190404] It is not possible to recover from the Large Scale Recovery backup produced by the "LSR" tool if the backup is split into multiple separate files (multi-volume).
  • [ABR-158677] "Intel(R) 82574L Gigabit Network Connection" NIC is not properly recognized by Windows 10 after recovery of an image to a VMware Workstation virtual machine by using the bootable media.

  • [ABR-129075] When browsing a folder in a backup during the file-level recovery via the Cyber Protection console, some child folders may not appear in the list after sorting by type if the folder contains many elements.

    Solution: To show all items of the folders, you need to scroll down in order to load the entire content of a parent folder and perform sorting only after that.

  • [ABR-127666] Files/folders may still be available for a recovery from backups saved in the cloud, even if these files/folders were removed from a source device and the backups that contain these files were already cleaned up during retention.

Cyber Protection Agent

  • [ABR-87244] File-level recovery from a disk/volume backup of NTFS volumes with the enabled native deduplication does not work.

macOS protection

  • [ABR-207057] The Bulgarian language is missing in the "Recovery HD" menu (bootable media for Mac), due to a lack of support of the Bulgarian language in macOS.
  • [ABR-141823] There are incorrect backup items in a protection plan after updating Mac OS X to 10.13 High Sierra with conversion from HFS+ to APFS (some backup items are missing).
  • [ABR-137886] Backing up Mac with Apple RAID configured fails with the "No volumes were found when processing the 'Fixed Volumes' template" error. Apple RAIDs are not supported.
  • [ABR-115270] The "[All Profiles Folder]" template in a file level backup does not support a custom profile path.

Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and other applications protection

  • [ABR-162925] Application items (databases and/or mailboxes) cannot be recovered from the application-aware entire machine backup if the databases are located on mount points (the database path is redirected to another location).
  • [ABR-74984] The "Next backup" time is not displayed for a machine that has only application-level protection plans applied to it.
  • [PLTFRM-18969] It is not possible to protect Microsoft SQL on a machine with a workstation operating system, in the case Agent for Hyper-V is also installed among local agents.
  • [ABR-255521] The number of total runs and successful runs is zero for the Microsoft Office 365 resources.

Virtualization protection

  • [ABR-308679] Installation of Red Hat Virtualization guest tools fails inside the VM restored from a physical (other platform) backup

    Solution: during installation of RHV guest tools, uncheck the following drivers: Vioscsi, Vioserial, Viostor

  • [ABR-296485] Agent for Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure (virtual appliance) may crash when performing VM recovery from backup captured from another platform (for example from physical machine or VMware VM), if there is 1GB RAM available on the appliance.

    Solution: Increase the RAM of the virtual appliance to 4GB.

  • [ABR-242166] An application-aware backup of a Hyper-V virtual machine may fail when executing the WMI query, with the "WMI 'ExecQuery' failed executing query." or "Failed to create a new process via WMI" errors, when the backup is performed on a host under a high load, due to no response from WMI.
  • [ABR-235983] A protection plan using policy rules such as "/dev/sdaX" or "/sdaX" applied to a VMware or Hyper-V virtual machine fails with the "Nothing to back up. The operation has been terminated." error, when performed by Agent for VMware/Hyper-V.
  • [ABR-234935] There are duplicated activities in the Activities summary, after the backup of a virtual machine running on a Hyper-V cluster.
  • [ABR-234935] An incorrect number of Total runs/Number of successful runs for a Hyper-V cluster is shown on the Operations tab.
  • [ABR-234935] The number of email notifications is equal to the number of Hyper-V cluster nodes for one VM backup activity.
  • [ABR-192213] VMware virtual machines with an empty "vc.uuid" (InstanceUUID) vSphere property are not listed in the service console.
  • [ABR-189882] Backup of a Hyper-V virtual machine fails if it contains an ampersand symbol in the names of its virtual disks.

  • [ABR-173002] Run VM from a backup on a Hyper-V host fails, if the backup is located on the same volume as the path selected for the mounted VM disks.

    Solution: Select a different volume for the mounted VM disks path. The space will be consumed only for changes generated inside the mounted VM and it will not occupy the entire size of the virtual disk.

  • [ABR-137564] Cross-platform recoveries (when the backup was created not by Agent for Hyper-V) into a new Hyper-V virtual machine by Agent for Hyper-V always produces the Gen 1 version of virtual machine.
  • [ABR-115430] A "backup is missing for X days" alert is activated even if the backup plan is not scheduled, but has this alert option enabled in its settings.
  • [ABR-104081] A VM replication plan may fail due to network disconnects between source and target ESXi hosts even if the "Error handling" option is enabled.
  • [ABR-95961] A backup task periodically fails on snapshot creation for some Virtuozzo containers after some time on a host with a high load.
  • [ABR-85645] Backup of a virtual machine with Active Directory may complete with warning "MFT bitmap is corrupted."
  • [ABR-183082] Recovery of a Linux machine having some volumes with the XFS file system completes with the "Failed to process the boot loader configuration." warning. The machine is bootable despite the warning.

Management Portal and Platform Core

  • The read-only role is available for selection while customer tenant is in Cyber Backup - Standard and Cyber Protect - Standard editions, yet it should not be due to licensing limitations.
  • [ABR-138058] Sending backup notifications is turned off after disabling and then returning back the Cyber Protection role to a user.
  • [ABR-136810] An unclear error is shown if a destination tenant was not found while moving a tenant.
  • [ABR-136694] The "Bad request" message appears if a large number is specified for the Storage quota.
  • [ABR-203902] The error message "The number of registered and deleted storage registrations exceeds 50" is shown during storage re-registration.
  • [ABR-203243] Logout is done correctly while a user is logged in via a branded URL; however, logout is not done for a non-branded URL.
  • [ABR-173628] Active Directory Connector - mapping is not saved when one or more Distinguished Names (DNs) are invalid.
  • [ABR-131711] Lack of salutation text in the "Quota exceeded" email notification.
  • [PLTFRM-20333] A Hyper-V host may consume two "Server" licenses, in cases when it is backed up as a physical machine and there are also VMs or Microsoft applications running on this host and which are backed up by other types of backup agents.
  • [PLTFRM-20414] Compute points usage from the original edition is not displayed for a customer in the report after the edition switch and tenant move, for example, when the edition is switched from Standard to Disaster Recovery.
  • [PLTFRM-2340] The "Tenant was moved" audit event description shows tenant IDs instead of names.
  • [PLTFRM-18229] Improve the error message for the RPC GetRedirect method, in case a customer has no storage.