Copyright (C) 1999-2007 Storix, Inc. All rights reserved **************************************************** * STORIX SYSTEM BACKUP ADMINISTRATOR FOR AIX * * -------------------------------------------- * * CHANGE HISTORY * **************************************************** The following details the changes appled to the current version and release (6.2) since its initial availability (09/24/2007). Refer to the RELEASE NOTES for details on changes and enhancements added to this release from prior releases. VERSION MM/DD/YY DESCRIPTION ------- -------- ------------------------------------------------- 6.2.0.0 09/24/07 VERSION 6.2 GENERAL AVAILABILITY NEW FEATURES & OPTIONS: 1. NEW TSM Edition and TSM Support for Network Edition 2. Newly designed web interface 3. Xen virtualization support for Linux 4. New backup job indicator on main screen used to monitor backup jobs queues without havin to display job queues on the main screen 5. Backup Notification display allows job status messages to be displayed on-demand, and messages are retained for jobs run while interface is not available and may be displayed after interface (GUI or Web) is started. 6. USB FlashDrive Boot/Backup Media - may now create a bootable and reinstallable backup to a local USB drive if capacity allows. 6.2.0.1 09/25/07 MINOR FIXES 1. System install menus will not attempt to resolve hostname of server if using TSM server. 2. System install menus would not allow valid TCPWindowsize value when configuring the TSM server. 3. Syntax error in GUI when restoring data from backup if using Workstation Edition. 6.2.0.2 09/26/07 MINOR FIXES 1. Syntax error verifying retention policy for tape and disk backups. 2. Corrected potential problem of using the same retention policy for tape as is set for disk 3. Allow client to be unconfigured as tsm client when tsm server not used in job. 6.2.0.3 10/04/07 REQUIRED FIX 1. System recovery stops with "CONFIGURATION ERROR" when not restoring from TSM server. Installation can continue without problems if user exits from this message. MINOR FIXES 1. Viewing sample stanzas after enabling a client for network boot would fail if client IP was specified. 2. Properly enabling and disabling fields when enabling a client for network boot in GUI. 3. Restoring data from TSM backup by using "Search/Select" from GUI would fail to list data. 4. Syntax error when running a pre-backup program on a TSM server. 5. Not running post-backup program on backup server if server is a TSM server. 6.2.1.0 10/19/07 MAJOR ENHANCEMENT TO TSM EDITION Added ability for all TSM clients to backup to local tape as well as the TSM server. This is primarily needed for system backup of the TSM server itself to alternate media. All options for backup, verify, restore, expiring and rebuilding of tape labels now apply to local (client) tape backups. MINOR FIXES 1. Unscheduling currently configured backup jobs when migrating license to TSM Edition. 2. More verbose error messages when failing to list backups on a TSM server during system recovery. 3. Added ability to use USE_TFTP variable in network boot information files to use tftp instead of strexec to grab boot images from the server (for users that manually configure Windows boot servers). 4. Fixed progress indicator during install so as to show on one line and not scroll lines off the screen. 5. Increased RAM disk size to 60MB when creating CDROM ISO boot media. 6. Corrected inability to select multiple clients when editing or creating backups jobs (Web Interface Only). 7. Fixed Web Interface timout value for accessing devices. 6.2.1.1 10/24/07 MINOR FIXES 1. Unable to list tape devices when configuring a backup job through the GUI and not using TSM Edition. 2. Header of copied backups created incorrectly. 6.2.1.2 11/20/07 MINOR FIXES 1. Excluding logical volumes in logical volume backup if device is a mounted filesystem. 2. Changed storage location of incremental databases on clients. 3. GUI would fail with syntax error when copying backups from disk to tape. The backup ID field was inadvertantly removed. 4. Volume and tape ID information not included on backups copied to tape if multiple volume. 5. Web interface and cmd line now sort jobs alphabetically. 6. When configuring TSM client, include api directory in search for message catalog. 7. When enabling a client for network boot, only allow user to select an API install server if network boot image contains support for the API. 8. Backup expiration report applied number of backups to retain when displaying all backups. 9. Improved name resolution for cloning systems from a TSM server. 10. Added support for rebuilding backup labels from a TSM server. 11. Listing backups on TSM server failed due to change in tail command which required -n flag. 6.2.1.3 01/07/08 MINOR FIXES 1. Sorting client names alphabetically when listing. 2. Non-alpha tape label IDs were being excluded from the list of backup labels (Web Only). 3. System install menus were locked if no volume groups are found on system backup. 4. Unable to perform system recovery of power backup. 5. Failed to include ICC libraries on boot media if DSMI_DIR is set. Only effects TSM clients running 5.4 or later. 6. Install failed when DSMI_DIR was set. 7. Web Interface fixes for Workstation Edition. 8. Increased Web Interface timout for configuring servers. 9. Fixed 0c21 error when network booting an AIX 6.1 client. 10. Corrected AIX boot media creation for kernel debugging. 11. The "stjob" and "stprofile" commands failed if a colon was used in description, datalist, or encryption key ID. 6.2.1.4 01/25/08 MINOR FIXES 1. Fixed inability to add new library profiles (Web Only). 2. Added support for specifying a local disk backup file as the default file to install from when creating boot media or enabling a client for network boot. 3. Updates to support AIX 5300-07-01-0748. 4. Fix to prevent stclient from adding clients without a valid license. 6.2.1.5 02/04/08 IMPORTANT FIX 1. Syntax error in stqueue command which caused jobs configured with exceptions to fail with an internal error. MINOR FIX 1. Corrected syntax error when attempting to list LVs for Linux snapshot backups. 6.2.1.6 03/06/08 MINOR FIX 1. Error displaying label for "data to include" on the backup when editing a backup job. (Web Interface Only) 2. Fixed "argument list too long" error with stinstall. 3. Corrected problem where a long datalist would cause IE to not wrap the lines properly. (Web Inteface Only) 4. Allow sending to multiple email addresses. 5. Updated removal of startup items from inittab. 6. Sort network boot images by name. (Web Interface Only) 7. Adding COMPRESSIon and TCPNodelay options to dsm.sys used by SBAdmin even if set to "no". The default of "no" cannot be assumed. (TSM only) 6.2.1.7 05/01/08 MINOR FIX 1. Unable to select devices when performing tape operations with Desktop and Workstation Edition (Web Interface Only) 2. Syntax error when configuring a system backup disk. (Web Interface Only) 3. Web Interface bug fixes effecting TSM Edition and Workstation Edition. 4. TCL error on stfiletree for files containing tilde 5. Fixed possible error if using "set defaults" on boot media and not selecting the TSM backup before attempting to continue the install. 6. Limit the length of encryption key ID to 19 characters.