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<main> <article class="userContent"> <h2 data-id="description"><strong>DESCRIPTION</strong></h2> <p>This document describes new features introduced in the 10.3 release. For complete upgrade instructions and considerations, see the Upgrade Guide for Recovery Series and Unitrends Backup.<br><br><br>Unitrends 10.3 builds on the success of Unitrends 10.2.1 with the following enhancements:<br> </p> <h2 data-id="windows-image-level-protection">Windows image-level protection</h2> You now have the option to protect Windows assets at the disk and volume level with image-level backups. This option delivers lightning fast backup performance of Windows servers. For details, see <a rel="nofollow" href="/home/leaving?allowTrusted=1&target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.unitrends.com%2Fdocuments%2Frs-ueb-admin-guide%2FDefault.htm%23cshid%3D1437">Windows Image-level Protection Overview</a> in the <a rel="nofollow" href="/home/leaving?allowTrusted=1&target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.unitrends.com%2Fdocuments%2Frs-ueb-admin-guide%2FDefault.htm%23cshid%3D1437">Administrator Guide for Recovery Series and Unitrends Backup</a>.<br> <h2 data-id="long-term-data-management">Long-Term Data Management</h2> 10.3 appliances manage retention with the new long-term data management feature. Use this feature to create a customized inventory of weekly, monthly, and yearly retention points for your protected assets. For details, see Managing retention with long-term data management in the Administrator Guide for Recovery Series and Unitrends Backup.<br> <table border="1"><tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"><b>CAUTION!</b></td> <td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Before attempting to use this feature, ensure that you have reviewed the requirements and considerations<br> in <a rel="nofollow" href="/home/leaving?allowTrusted=1&target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.unitrends.com%2Fdocuments%2Frs-ueb-admin-guide%2FDefault.htm%23cshid%3D1289">Managing retention with long-term data management</a> and understand how your assets may be<br> impacted.</td> </tr></tbody></table><h2 data-id="vsphere-6-7-support"> <br>vSphere 6.7 Support</h2> This release adds host-level support for vSphere 6.7 environments.<br> <h2 data-id="xenserver-7-3-support">XenServer 7.3 Support</h2> This release adds host-level support for XenServer 7.3 environments.<br> <h2 data-id="performance-enhancements">Performance Enhancements</h2> This release introduces a performance optimization that may reduce the duration of inline deduplicated backup jobs - particularly those containing large numbers of small files. You may also notice a slight improvement in backup copy performance.<br> <table border="1"><tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"><b>Note:</b></td> <td colspan="1" rowspan="1">The above enhancement is only available on Unitrends Backup virtual appliances and Generation 8 Recovery<br> Series appliances.</td> </tr></tbody></table> <h2 data-id="user-interface-enhancements">User Interface Enhancements</h2> Release 10.3 includes the following usability enhancements: <ul><li>This release enhances Backup Catalog capability with a new Backup Browser feature. The Backup Browser provides advanced search and filter options to quickly search for, filter, and sort the backups stored on the appliance.</li> <li>Click ? in the upper-right corner of a dialog to view related procedures in the <a rel="nofollow" href="/home/leaving?allowTrusted=1&target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.unitrends.com%2Fdocuments%2Frs-ueb-admin-guide%2FDefault.htm%23cshid%3D1281">Administrator Guide for Recovery Series and Unitrends Backup</a>. This enhancement is a work in progress. We will continue to add help to dialogs in upcoming releases.</li> <li>Multiple jobs can now be simultaneously canceled.</li> <li>The column "Database Name" has been renamed "DB/VM Name" in the Backup History and Backup Failures reports.</li> <li>The Legal Hold Backups report has been relocated to the Retention report category.</li> </ul><h2 data-id="customer-found-defects"> <br>Customer-Found Defects</h2> The table below lists customer-discovered issues that were promptly resolved in this release. For details on each defect, see the <a rel="nofollow" href="/home/leaving?allowTrusted=1&target=https%3A%2F%2Funitrends-support.zendesk.com%2Fhc%2Fen-us%2Farticles%2F360013273838">Customer-Found Defects</a> KB article.<br> <table border="1"><tbody><tr><th colspan="1" rowspan="1"><b>Component</b></th> <th colspan="1" rowspan="1"><b>Defect</b></th> </tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Backup</td> <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"> <ul><li>Resolved an issue where Hyper-V backups failed with volsnap errors.</li> <li>Resolved an issue where NAS backup storage devices misleadingly appeared to lack the required free space.</li> <li>Resolved an issue where AHV disks with capacities other than multiples of 1024 bytes could not be backed up.</li> <li>Resolved an issue where NAS shares with mount names containing spaces could not be backed up.</li> <li>Resolved an issue where assets with names longer than 31 characters experienced backup failures.</li> <li>Resolved an issue where appliances using bonded NIC configurations could not back up AHV assets.</li> <li>Resolved an issue where appliance hostnames longer than 31 characters were not restricted.</li> </ul></td> </tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Backup Copy (Cold)</td> <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"> <ul><li>Corrected cold copy job to NAS target failures.</li> <li>Resolved an issue where the cloudadm repair function did not work properly for docker.</li> <li>Fixed cold backup copy imports from tape that failed with input/output errors.</li> <li>Resolved an issue where NAS, FC, and iSCSI cold copy targets did not automatically mount/unmount as required by cold copy jobs.</li> <li>Corrected format 2 cold backup copy failures that occurred when a format 1 backup was included in the job.</li> <li>Resolved an issue caused by RDX devices that report a dock serial number rather than a disk serial number.</li> <li>Resolved an issue where AWS GovCloud was not available as a backup copy target.</li> <li>Resolved an issue where the CloudBlkSize general configuration (master.ini) setting did not restrict excessively large values.</li> <li>Resolved unsuccessful attempts to add Google Nearline buckets as cold backup copy targets.</li> <li>Resolved an issue where, in the case of a disk rotation scheme, fulls were not being imported from the same media as the rest of the backup group.</li> </ul></td> </tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Backup Copy (Hot)</td> <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"> <div>Fixed hot backup copy failures that were observed with the error message — "Fail to approve pending copy request - Query to add."</div> </td> </tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">DedupNT Migration</td> <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"> <div>Resolved an issue where the migration script could fail on a stateless Unitrends Backup appliance using iSCSI primary storage.</div> </td> </tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Disaster Recovery</td> <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"> <ul><li>Resolved an issue where stateless appliance recovery failed for Unitrends Backup appliances on XenServer.</li> <li>Resolved an issue where DR system state recovery could fail with vague database errors.</li> </ul></td> </tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Hardware</td> <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"> <div>Resolved an issue where attempts to re-image Recovery Series appliances from USB media were unsuccessful.</div> </td> </tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">PSA</td> <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"> <div>Resolved an issue where the default ConnectWise WSDL was incorrect.</div> </td> </tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Recovery</td> <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"> <ul><li>Resolved an issue where Hyper-V file-level recovery failed with fusectar errors when random access mode was enabled.</li> <li>Resolved an issue where Mac and Windows recovery jobs failed to queue when the target directory contained spaces.</li> </ul></td> </tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Replicas</td> <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"> <ul><li>Resolved an issue where the WinPE environment could hang, resulting in Windows replica failures.</li> <li>Resolved an issue where clean teardowns were not enforced for VM replicas created from backup copies.</li> </ul></td> </tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Reports</td> <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"> <ul><li>Resolved an issue where compliance reports were being sent despite a complete absence of data copy access jobs on the appliance.</li> <li>Resolved an issue where the Backup Copy Job Notifications report depended on internet access to load certain image files.</li> </ul></td> </tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Unitrends Cloud</td> <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"> <ul><li>Resolved an issue where source appliances were permitted to upgrade to newer versions than their associated cloud targets, leading to hot backup copy job failures.</li> <li>Fixed slow or unresponsive cloud target active directory login attempts.</li> </ul></td> </tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Upgrade</td> <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"> <div>Resolved an issue where kernel updates of Unitrends appliances deployed as installable software were causing driver compatibility problems.</div> </td> </tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">User Interface</td> <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"> <ul><li>Corrected cold backup copy filters that were producing counterintuitive results.</li> <li>Resolved an issue where the appliance column sorted itself in the opposite order indicated by the UI.</li> <li>Resolved an issue where the release features pop-up displayed after every login with active directory credentials.</li> <li>Resolved an issue where VMs did not display in the UI for Hyper-V clusters with greater than 16 nodes.</li> </ul></td> </tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">VM Instant Recovery</td> <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"> <div>Resolved a VMotion issue that could cause instant recovery failures.</div> </td> </tr></tbody></table><h2 data-id="n-a"> </h2> </article> </main>