abmr, cbmr, cobmr, nbmr and tbmr

BMR Product Suite

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ABMR, CBMR, CoBMR, NBMR and TBMR

Product Release History

For Linux Intel

April 2021

Version 9.2

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Contents

1 BMR Suite (ABMR, CBMR, CoBMR,NBMR and TBMR) Readme 4

................................................................................................................................... 4Version 9.2

......................................................................................................................................................... 5ABMR

......................................................................................................................................................... 5CBMR

......................................................................................................................................................... 5CoBMR

......................................................................................................................................................... 5NBMR

......................................................................................................................................................... 6TBMR

................................................................................................................................... 6Version 9.1

......................................................................................................................................................... 7ABMR

......................................................................................................................................................... 7CBMR

......................................................................................................................................................... 8NBMR

......................................................................................................................................................... 8TBMR

................................................................................................................................... 8Version 8.7

......................................................................................................................................................... 9ABMR

......................................................................................................................................................... 9CBMR

......................................................................................................................................................... 9NBMR

......................................................................................................................................................... 10TBMR

................................................................................................................................... 10Version 8.6.2

......................................................................................................................................................... 10ABMR

......................................................................................................................................................... 11CBMR

......................................................................................................................................................... 11NBMR

......................................................................................................................................................... 11TBMR

................................................................................................................................... 11Version 8.6

......................................................................................................................................................... 12ABMR

......................................................................................................................................................... 12CBMR

......................................................................................................................................................... 12NBMR

......................................................................................................................................................... 13TBMR

................................................................................................................................... 13Version 8.5

......................................................................................................................................................... 13ABMR

......................................................................................................................................................... 13CBMR

......................................................................................................................................................... 14NBMR

......................................................................................................................................................... 14TBMR

................................................................................................................................... 14Version 8.4.R2

................................................................................................................................... 15Version 8.4

......................................................................................................................................................... 15ABMR

......................................................................................................................................................... 16CBMR

......................................................................................................................................................... 16NBMR

......................................................................................................................................................... 16TBMR

4 BMR Product Suite

ABMR, CBMR, CoBMR, NBMR and TBMR Release Notes

1 BMR Suite (ABMR, CBMR, CoBMR, NBMR and TBMR)Readme

Welcome to the BMR Suite software for Linux Intel. This file contains late breaking

information. If it conflicts with any information in other printed documents supplied with

the product, this should be deemed as more accurate.

Release History

Select product version to see what's new:

Version Release Date

9.2 22 April 2021

9.1 21 December 2020

8.7 31 December 2019

8.6.2 23 July 2019

8.6 22 May 2019

8.5 8 April 2019

8.4.R2 15 January 2019

8.4 7 December 2018

Version 9.2

New for all BMR products

i) The XBMR environment now requires a minimum of 5GB RAM to operate normally.

ii) The XBMR environment now uses the 4.19.154 kernel internally.

iii)XFS features are turned off for Linux kernels < 3.16.

iv)The product type (i.e. ABMR, CBMR, CoBMR, NBMR or TBMR) must now be set in a restore

script.

v)A new 'Verbose' verbosity level has been added to the XBMR DR environment.

v i)Added a '--convert_to_mbr' option to a restore script.

v ii)It is now possible to set the recovery verbosity from an answerfile.

v iii)Post recovery network changes in Ubuntu are now supported.

ix)The default boot mode for Custom ISOs is now text mode.

x) A dissmilar hardware check is now run by default during a recovery.

xi)Added new bmrcfg program options '--local_fs' and '--local_disks'. The `--local_fs` option uses

an internal whitelist to exclude filesystems like NFS. The `--local_disks` option prevents iscsi

drives (for example) from being added to the configuration.

xii)It is now possible to run client backups followed by a sync operation on a different target

running the XBMR environment.

xiii)Documentation for all products updated for this release.

5BMR Suite (ABMR, CBMR, CoBMR, NBMR and TBMR) Readme

Copyright © 2013-2021 Cristie Software Ltd.

Common Bug Fixes for all BMR products

i) Centos8 EFI backup fails to boot when recovered to an MBR host. This is now fixed.

1.1.1 ABMR

New

i) Now supports Dell EMC Avamar clients/servers in the range version 18.1.x to 19.4.x

inclusive.

Bug Fixes

i) Dissimilar hardware checks were being run on custom XBMR ISOs for ABMR that didn’t have

that option selected in recovery console when they were created. This is now fixed.

1.1.2 CBMR

New

i) Now supports IBM Spectrum Protect clients in the range version 7.1.1 to 8.1.11.0 inclusive.

Version 8.1.11.0 of the client is now included in the DR environment. Server versions

supported are 7.1.1 to 8.1.11.0.

ii) cbmrcfg runs slowly when there are lots of multipath disks. This is now improved.

iii)All log files are no longer given World read/write access. Permission is now set to 600.

Bug Fixes

None except for those described in the general section.

1.1.3 CoBMR

New


Bug Fixes

i) Centos 8.2 EFI source recovered to a BIOS (MBR) target boots to ‘grub’ prompt. This is now

fixed.

1.1.4 NBMR

New

i) Now supports Dell EMC NetWorker™ client/server version from 18.1.x to 19.4.1.

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ii) To support access to Dell EMC NetWorker™ version 19.4 servers and later, an

authentication database must be prov ided. This is created post backup and used during a

DR sequence.

iii)Added a new client script 'nbmr_save_authdb' to generate a Dell EMC NetWorker™

authentication database.

iv)Added an extra dialogue in the XBMR recovery sequence for NBMR to supply a path to the

previously saved Dell EMC NetWorker™ authentication database.

v)Added a new option '--networker_authdb' to supply a path to the authentication database

for running script based restores.

Bug Fixes


1.1.5 TBMR

New




Bug Fixes

i) Logs contained the TSM Admin password in plain text when browsing nodes/filespaces. This

is now fixed.

ii) Recovery of an encrypted RHEL 8.3 IBM Spectrum Protect backup hangs at the file restore

step if the wrong password is used. This is now fixed.

Version 9.1


i) Introduced our new CoBMR product - for supporting DR from Cohesity DataProtect backups.

ii) The CDS serv ice has been removed from all the Cristie BMR products.

iii) Created a single universal recovery environment XBMR for all Cristie BMR products.

iv) Removed all unnecessary 3rd party dependencies from the installation.

v) Now stores DHCP info for network interfaces in the config.

v i) Post recovery networking has been refactored.

v ii) It 's now possible to set the recovery verbosity from answer file.

v iii) XBMR Recovery - added option for verbose logs.

ix) Added post recovery networking support for Ubuntu.



x) Added a ConvertToMBR function to the restore script.

xi) Added partial recovery support to the restore command line script.

xii)Documentation updated for this release.


i) Fixed rsync lv removexattr security.selinux warning messages.

ii) Partial failures sometimes when btrfs is not root filesystem. This is now fixed.

iii) Fixed EFI boot entries for Linux BMR.

iv) Disrec -c should turn off swap. This is now fixed.

v) ''--fake-super" rsync option causes symlinks to be created as regular files. This is now fixed.

1.2.1 ABMR

New

i) Now supports Dell EMC Avamar clients/servers in the range version 7.2 to 19.3.x inclusive.

Bug Fixes


1.2.2 CBMR

New




ii) Add IBM Spectrum Protect certificate support to the curses DR GUI.

iii) Removed the IBM Spectrum Protect pre-requisite for product install.

Bug Fixes

i) Removing the IBM Spectrum Protect client voids the product license. This is now fixed.

ii) Discovered a CBMR recovery /boot/efi issue. This is now fixed.

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1.2.3 NBMR

New

i) Now supports Dell EMC NetWorker™ client/server version from 19.1.x to 19.3.x.

Bug Fixes


1.2.4 TBMR

New




ii) Now supports Encrypted backups in the Cristie Virtual Appliance (VA).

iii) Add IBM Spectrum Protect certificate support to the curses DR GUI.

Bug Fixes

i) Virtual mountpoints were not handled correctly. This is now fixed.

Version 8.7


i) The rpm, deb and tar.gz installation components are no longer contained within the product

recovery ISO file. These are now separate downloads.

ii) Now supports Centos 8.0, RHEL 8.0 and Oracle 8.0.

iii)The DR wizard has been modified to use more of the available screen.

iv)A drop-down calendar is now provided in the DR wizard to select a point-in-time date.

v)Added the ability to reduce (as well as increase) the verbosity of logging during recovery.

v i)Now supports NVME type disk targets.

v ii)Mpt drivers are not automatically added to dracut when making new initrds.

v iii)It is now possible to set the nameserver and default gateway(s) from the boot command

line.

ix)Documentation updated for this release.




i) ubax prints rubbish to the screen if 'device.ini' file does not exist when doing a device scan.

This is now fixed.

ii) Recovery creates the swap file on /dev/dm devices when using multi-path. This is now fixed.

iii)When using multi-path during recovery the swap device was overwriting a partition. This is

now fixed.

iv)There was a problem with disk rescaling for large disks during recovery. This is now fixed.

v)The CDS program was continually printing '2' to the screen while running. This is now fixed.

1.3.1 ABMR

New

i) Now supports Dell EMC Avamar clients in the range version 7.2 to 19.1.1 inclusive.

Bug Fixes


1.3.2 CBMR

New




Bug Fixes

i) The swapfile on Ubuntu 18 was being incorrectly backed up when running a VTD backup. This

is now fixed.

1.3.3 NBMR

New

i) Now supports Dell EMC NetWorker™ client/server version up to 19.1.1.0/19.1.1 respectively..

Bug Fixes


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1.3.4 TBMR

New




ii) The requirement to add the line "v irtualmountpoint /dev" to the IBM Spectrum Protect dsm.

sys file has been dropped.

Bug Fixes

i) The SetVersion program core dumped during an install of TBMR 8.6 on Oracle 7. This is now

fixed.

Version 8.6.2


i) Documentation updated for this release.

ii) Cristie support for Centos Linux 5.x has been withdrawn. Note RedHat Linux 5.x continues to

be supported.


i) ACLs were not set correctly when recovering a system which included disks formatted with

the ReiserFS file system . This is now fixed.

ii) Recovery failed when more than 64 kernel modules were loaded in the DR environment. This

is now fixed.

iii)There was a problem with disk rescaling for large disks during recovery. This is now fixed.

1.4.1 ABMR

New

No new features except for those described in the general section.

Bug Fixes




1.4.2 CBMR

New


Bug Fixes

i) A Sles15 DR failed when recovered to a KVM hyperv isor and using a VirtIO disk. This is now

fixed.

ii) A RedHat 5 system boots after DR with a custom ISO, but shows multiple errors after root

login. This is now fixed.

1.4.3 NBMR

New


Bug Fixes

i) NBMR fails to install on Ubuntu 14 because of a failure to detect an installed NetWorker

client. This has now been fixed.

1.4.4 TBMR

New


Bug Fixes


Version 8.6


i) Added a new option to the DR environment Manual Recovery to allow Multi-path options

to be set.

ii) iSCSI initiator has been added to the DR environment.

iii)GPT partitions can now be resized through the disk summary.

iv)Documentation updated for this release.




i) UUID is now correctly set for VFAT filesystems.

ii) SLES 15 grub.cfg is not updated during recovery.

iii)RHEL 6 Dissimilar Hardware fails when there are more than 64 modules.

iv)efibootmgr command fails when the boot disk is not /dev/sda.

1.5.1 ABMR

New

i) Now supports Dell EMC Avamar client/server versions from 7.2 to 19.1.

Bug Fixes


1.5.2 CBMR

New

i) Now supports IBM Spectrum Protect clients in the range version 7.1 to 8.1.7.0 inclusive.

Server versions supported are 7.1 to 8.1.7.0.

ii) User Guide now includes instructions on performing incremental backup and restore.

Bug Fixes

i) Gubax fails to discover tape devices on SLES 12.

ii) Incremental restore only restores the base machine.tar.gz file.

1.5.3 NBMR

New

i) Now supports Dell EMC NetWorker™ client/server version from 9.1 to 19.1.0.2.

Bug Fixes




1.5.4 TBMR

New

i) Now supports IBM Spectrum Protect clients in the range version 7.1 to 8.1.7.0 inclusive.

Server versions supported are 7.1 to 8.1.7.0.

Bug Fixes


Version 8.5


i) Added a new option to the DR environment to allow management of all BTRFS sub-volumes.


i) BTRFS options selection was not being remembered and disrec SubvolRestore was not

being set.

ii) SLES 11/15 BTRFS snapshot subvolumes were not mounted on recovery.

iii)BTRFS incorrect snapshot subvolume path was used during recovery.

iv)BTRFS snapshot subvolumes were still created when the /.snashots folder was excluded in

the recovery options.

v)Licensing doesn't recognise RHEV as v irtual.

v i)Running bmrcfg resulted in a multipath error if multipath was installed but not configured.

1.6.1 ABMR

New

i) Now supports Dell EMC Avamar client/server version up to 18.2.100-134/18.2.0.134

respectively.

Bug Fixes

I) User Guide updated to show an example of the Avamar Credentials during recovery.

1.6.2 CBMR

New

i) Now supports IBM Spectrum Protect clients in the range version 6.4.1 to 8.1.6.0 inclusive. This



version of the client is now included in the DR environment. Server versions supported are

6.3.1 to 8.1.6.0.

Bug Fixes

i) Correct ubax example path in User Guide.

1.6.3 NBMR

New

i) Now supports Dell EMC NetWorker™ client/server version up to 18.2.0.0/18.2.0.1

respectively.

Bug Fixes


1.6.4 TBMR

New


Bug Fixes


Version 8.4.R2


i) Include full software build number in disrec.ini AND recovery.log.


i) BTRFS disrec top-level device "@" resolved to UUID - breaks recovery.

ii) BTRFS disrec was incorrectly setting /opt & /tmp path.

iii)BTRFS /.snapshots directory is not created - prevents snapshots being restored due to

directory not existing.

iv)m ount_shares was not mounted with the 'dom ain' option.

v)A run of xbmrcfg on a BTRFS file system could produce a segmentation fault.



Version 8.4


i) A minimum of 4GB RAM is now required to boot the DR environment.

ii) General BTRFS improvements.

iii)General multi-path device handling improvements.

iv)Added support for /dev/nvme SSD devices.

v) Now saves backup client versions to the configuration.

v i) DMI info to the DR log files.

v ii) Now uses bind mounts in chroot.

v iii) No longer uses grub2-install for UEFI systems.

ix)Documentation updated for this release.

x) RHEL 7.6, SLES/SUSE 15 and Ubuntu 18.04.1 are now supported.


i) Fix issues with RAM disk 'out of space' issues in the DR environment when restoring BTRFS file-

systems.

ii) BMRcfg would signal 11with a large number of snapshot subvolumes.

iii) Fixed a bug with multi-path device drag and drop mapping.

iv)Fixed a bug for mirrored logical volumes.

v)Fixed a bug for GPT partition flags.

v i)BTRFS file-system recovery did not resolve cciss devices to sda devices in the DR

environment.

v ii)Multiple GPT partition flags on an uEFI system would prevent recovery from continuing.

1.8.1 ABMR

New

i) Now supports Dell EMC Avamar client/server version up to 18.1.100-33/18.1.0-33

respectively.

ii) Requires the use of 'legacy' and 'non-legacy' DR environments. The 18.1.100-33 version of the

client is now included in the Non-Legacy DR environment and the 7.5.100-183 version of the

client is included in the Legacy DR environment. Please refer to the User Guide for more

information.

Bug Fixes




1.8.2 CBMR

New



6.3.1 to 8.1.6.0.

Bug Fixes

i) Tape support module not communicating with tape device.

1.8.3 NBMR

New

i) Now supports Dell EMC NetWorker™ client/server version up to 18.1.0.1/18.1.0.1

respectively.

ii) Requires the use of 'legacy' and 'non-legacy' DR environments. The 18.1.0.1 version of the

client is now included in the Non-Legacy DR environment and the 8.0.4 version of the client

is included in the Legacy DR environment. Please refer to the User Guide for more

information.

Bug Fixes


1.8.4 TBMR

New



6.3.1 to 8.1.6.0.

Bug Fixes


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