Backup Release Notes

Alena

Updated November 16, 2023 08:26

Find out what's new in the latest version of CloudM Backup.

1.3.1 Release Notes (November 15th 2023)

Enhancements	Description	Links to article(s) in Knowledge Base
Backup into AWS	Option to configure Amazon S3 as a storage destination for Backup.	Set up your Backup storage bucket in Amazon S3 Connect your Amazon S3 bucket
'Purge Backup' step in offboarding	A new ‘Purge Backup’ step in CloudM Offboarding that triggers backup purge after x days. By default the number of days we wait before backup is purged is set to 30 days but the timeframe is customisable. If a customer also has an Archive step we will make sure Archive happens first before the Purge Backup step.	How to purge backups Offboarding Policy and Process for Google Workspace
Paused delta backups	When a delta backup fails 5 times in a row we will: put further delta backups on hold trigger a notification to let users know what happened set backup status as 'Requires Action' have the ability to filter backups by Status display information why the backup was paused give an option to Resume backups	N/A
Audit logs	An audit log entry is added when a user views a backed up user or Shared Drive in the 'Item restoration' section. An audit log entry is added when a user downloads any backed up item(s) - Mail, Drive or Shared Drive.	N/A
Backup stats	New stats added to the Home page within CloudM Automate. When clicked, the first two in the list will open a slide out bar which will show a list of users/Shared Drives with policy, the rest will link to the Backup Status section for more detail. The Backup Status section will only be visible if the user has the 'View backup status of user' permission.	N/A

Improvements/Bug Fixes:

Added Deletion Prevention on our Datastores
Updated development platform to latest version .NET 8
Updated NuGet package versions in Backup APIs
Enhanced unit tests
Increased the Retry Backoff for reading Shared Drive permissions to prevent quota issues in the Drive API

1.2 Release Notes (September 27th 2023)

Enhancements	Description	Links to article(s) in Knowledge Base
Default shared drives policy	Ability for users to: Set a default Shared Drive policy to be assigned to all newly created Shared Drives Assign a Shared Drive policy to all existing Shared Drives Assign a Shared Drive policy to existing Shared Drives that don’t have a policy assigned yet	All impacted KB articles have been updated: How to create a backup policy How to assign a backup policy
Ability to view and restore own backups	Users can view and restore their own backups of mail and drive data.	How to view and restore your own backups
Manual purge	Allows manual purging of backed up data of users and Shared Drives that no longer have an active backup policy and the data is within retention period.	How to purge backups
Ability to see who has Backup enabled within CloudM Automate	Any user with a completed initial backup will have the 'Has Backup' flag set to Yes in the Directory within CloudM Automate (indicated by a tickbox).	How to see who has backup enabled

Improvements/Bug Fixes:

Performance of backend services
Failure handling for initial backups - introduced automated retries for items that fail to back up.