Changelog
Bug fixes and new features of Uranium Backup
Uranium Backup 9.9.1
03/07/2024
NEW FEATURES
Introduced compatibility with new versions of VDDKs
FIXED BUGS
Fixed issue regarding the trial activation
Fixed issue with Windows XP
Fixed a bug that did not report successful update if Uranium Backup was updated from the Supreme Console
Uranium Backup 9.9.0
03/04/2024
NEW FEATURES
Introduced new autoupdate management system
Introduced compatibility with VDDK 8.0.2
FIXED BUGS
Fixed a bug that prevented Uranium Backup from being updated from the Supremo Console
Fixed some minor bugs
Uranium Backup 9.8.3
20/09/2023
NEW FEATURES
Fixed a bug related to the sending of logs to the Console
Fixed other minor bugs
Uranium Backup 9.8.2
24/08/2023
NEW FEATURES
Fixed an issue that in some cases did not allow sending emails
Fixed an issue with some backup types that did not allow creating folders on paths longer than 250 characters
Fixed numerous minor bugs
Uranium Backup 9.8.1
07/12/2023
NEW FEATURES
Introduced 2FA (Two-factor authentication) feature for Console login
Improved overall speed and stability
FIXED BUGS
Fixed numerous minor bugs
Uranium Backup 9.7.0
19/12/2022
NEW FEATURES
Introduced compatibility with ESXi 8 and VDDK 7.0.3 and 8.0
Improved stability of MySql and Hyper-v backup
Improved communication and connection stability with Console (ref. Uranium Backup Professional)
Improved overall speed and stability
FIXED BUGS
Fixed some minor bugs regarding ESXi and Hyper-v backups
Uranium Backup 9.6.8
23/12/2021
NEW FEATURES
It’s now possible to use the Backup System State also on Win Server 2019
FIXED BUGS
Fixed an issue with file and folders backup on some QNAP destinations
Fixed some minor bugs
Uranium Backup 9.6.7
18/11/2021
NEW FEATURES
Improved management of large backups on Google Drive
Improved FTPS backup in case of TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2
FIXED BUGS
Fixed an issue with trial activation
Fixed issues with Amazon S3 cloud backup
Fixed some minor bugs
Uranium Backup 9.6.6
22/04/2021
NEW FEATURES
Introduced compatibility with VDDK 7.0.2
FIXED BUGS
Fixed issues with Cloud backups
Uranium Backup 9.6.5
26/01/2021
NEW FEATURES
Improved log management
Introduced compatibility to ESXi on machines with hardware version 17 and 18
Introduced compatibility with VDDK 7.0.1
FIXED BUGS
Fixed issues with backups of VMs
Uranium Backup 9.6.4
15/07/2020
NEW FEATURES
Improved speed of restore from ESXi
Improved compatibility with some FTP servers
VDDK updated to version 6.7.3
FIXED BUGS
Fixed rare issue related to the login to USilio
Fixed bugs related to the connection to ESXi
Fixed bugs related to the connection to Cloud services (Azure, Onedrive, GDrive and Dropbox)
Fixed compatibility issue with VSS on Windows Server 2019
Uranium Backup 9.6.3
10/10/2019
NEW FEATURES
Fixed bug preventing installation on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003R2
Fixed bug occurring to backup on VMware ESXi 5.1
Fixed bug that prevented to carry out scheduled backups on Hyper-V
Uranium Backup 9.6.2
03/09/2019
NEW FEATURES
Introduced Drive Image support for Windows 10 version 1809 and 1903
It’s now possible to manage ._ files created by macOS
Introduced compatibility with VDDK 6.7.2
Improved the setup procedure
FIXED BUGS
Fixed bug preventing the full listing of Hyper-V machines on some servers (Windows Server 2016 or later)
Bug fixes and several improvements to backup and replica of VMware ESXi
Fixed issues with incremental backup (e.g error _UraniumBackup.dat)
Uranium Backup 9.6.1
18/09/2018
NEW FEATURES
Drive image: fixed bug generating “Error 87-incorrect parameter” during the backup
Fixed bugs with the exclusion of files and folders in File and Folder and Incremental / Differential backup
Fixed bug generating corrupted zip files as a result of Incremental / Differential backup
Other minor bug fixes
Uranium Backup 9.6.0
05/07/2018
NEW FEATURES
Drive Image: introduced a new backup procedure on a network path that generates VHD / VHDX files, with full support for EXT3 and EXT4 file systems, incremental backups and rotation. (It is required to recreate the backup to take advantage of the new features)
Drive Image: introduced the ability to create a recovery disk from the restore menu, also for backups performed with the previous procedure, by completely removing the need of Windows installation drive for bare metal restore
Introduced support for VMware ESXi 6.7 and Hyper-V 2016
Improved log recording
Improved file management with long path in case of FTP / FTPS / SFTP backup
FIXED BUGS
OneDrive for Business: fixed several relevant bugs and improved stability
Cloud Backup: fixed numerous minor bugs
Other minor bug fixes
Uranium Backup 9.5.2
12/03/2018
NEW FEATURES
It’s now possible to perform the Drive Image on unmounted volumes (without a logical letter)
NTFS attributes copy supports now paths longer than 260 characters
FIXED BUGS
Fixed bug with the backup of Exchange 2010/2013
Fixed bug to NTFS attributes copy (ntmarta.dll error on the log)
Bug fixes to VMware replication
Bug fixes to Dropbox and Onedrive
Uranium Backup 9.5.1
08/02/2018
NEW FEATURES
It’s now possible to perform incremental backup and replica, with “thin provisioning”, of VMware vSphere virtual machines running on not-licensed Free Hypervisor hosts, using VDDK libraries libraries
It’s now possible to perform ESXi replica to the same host of virtual machine
Exchange backup: speed improvements
Added Generate ZIP for technical support button in the Help menu, to create a unique log file for our technical support team
FIXED BUGS
Bug fixes to Host ESXi / vSphere replica
Solved connection issues to OneDrive cloud backup
Other minor bug fix
Uranium Backup 9.5.0
06/12/2017
NEW FEATURES
Introduced support to OneDrive for Business
FIXED BUGS
Improved reliability to Cloud backup service
Minor bug fixes to the FTP backup mode
More SFTP servers supported
Uranium Backup 9.4.2
14/09/2017
NEW FEATURES
USilio 2.0 compatible
FIXED BUGS
Other fixes
Uranium Backup 9.4.1
27/06/2017
NEW FEATURES
Introduced support to Dropbox API v.2
New Czech translation
FIXED BUGS
Cloud backup is much more reliable
Fixed a bug preventing Uranium from backing up Exchange 2016 mailboxes
Other minor fixes
Uranium Backup 9.4.0
27/03/2017
NEW FEATURES
Replica for VMware vSphere is now supported!
It’s now possible to perform an incremental / differential files and folders backup directly to an FTP / SFTP / FTPS destination
Uranium is now able to send email notifications in case of scheduled-but-not-executed backups
Much better performance with cloud backups and improved reliability
FIXED BUGS
Fixed a bug with the backup to Google Drive preventing Uranium to send data for over 90 minutes
Many other bug fixes
Uranium Backup 9.3.1
01/02/2017
NEW FEATURES
Synchronization is far more reliable
It’s now possible to back up all the present and future mailboxes of an Exchange Server
Procedures and triggers of MySQL databases can now be backed up
Improved reliability with the cloud backup
FIXED BUGS
USilio is now reporting the correct size of performed backups
Fixed many bugs of the backup to FTP / SFTP / FTPS functionalities
Other minor bug fixes
Uranium Backup 9.3.0
20/10/2016
NEW FEATURES
It’s now possible to manage the scheduling of a backup set from USilio
Cloud backup completely revised, now supports Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure and OneDrive, Google Drive and Dropbox
FIXED BUGS
Minor bug fixes
Uranium Backup 9.2.2
24/08/2016
NEW FEATURES
Fixed a bug preventing Uranium from accessing network folders with authentication
Uranium Backup 9.2.1
7/6/2016
NEW FEATURES
USilio-related bug fixes
Uranium Backup 9.2.0
26/05/2016
NEW FEATURES
Added support to USilio
FIXED BUGS
Fixed a bug of the incremental / differential backup with the exclusion of subfolders
Fixed a bug with the access credential of network destinations
Fixed a bug preventing the configuration of a Drive Image backup with a network destination
Other minor bug fixes
Uranium Backup 9.1.0
27/04/2016
NEW FEATURES
Uranium Backup Pro DB and Gold can now perform backup and restore operations of MySQL and MariaDB databases
FIXED BUGS
Fixed the FireDAC error bug of the files and folders incremental/differential backup
Minor bug fixes
Uranium Backup 9.0.3
17/02/2016
NEW FEATURES
File and folder exclusions now working when the destination is compressed
Minor bug fixes of the virtual machine backup functionalities (Hyper-V and ESXi)
Uranium Backup 9.0.2
18/01/2016
NEW FEATURES
Uranium can now auto-resume a FTP upload after a disconnection (if supported by the server)
FIXED BUGS
You can now configure authentication credentials of an incremental/differential backup element
Fixed other minor bugs
Uranium Backup 9.0.1
30/12/2015
NEW FEATURES
Fixed a bug with files and folders backup on a compressed destination
Fixed a bug with Microsoft SQL Server backup
Incremental/Differential restore now shows the file list correctly
Fixed other minor bugs
Uranium Backup 9.0.0
23/12/2015
NEW FEATURES
New UI design
New files and folders incremental/differential backup
Better performance (both reactivity of the UI and backup speed)
VM backup for both VMware ESX(i) and Hyper-V far more reliable
It’s now possible to perform full backups of Microsoft Exchange mailboxes (greatly improved performance on Windows SBS 2011)
It’s now possible to back up files and folders encrypted with Windows BitLocker
It’s now possible to compress (ZIP) backups of files and folders in paths longer than 256 characters
It’s now possible to test the service during the trial period
FIXED BUGS
Minor improvements and bug fixes (no more FTP loops, no more folder authentication problems and much more)
Uranium Backup 8.10.2
04/05/2015
NEW FEATURES
Fixed a bug preventing Uranium service from launching backup sets on Windows XP/2003 Server
Minor bug fixes
Uranium Backup 8.10.1
23/04/2015
NEW FEATURES
General performance improvement
Now Uranium can automatically unzip individually compressed files during restore
FIXED BUGS
Fixed a bug preventing VDDK libraries to work with VMware vCenter
Fixed a product version bug causing the backup set configuration files to be saved in the virtualstore folder
Fixed false positive errors with drive image backup
Uranium Backup 8.10.0
19/03/2015
NEW FEATURES
VDDK support: Uranium can now perform thin and incremental backups of ESX(i)/vSphere virtual machines
Much faster ESX(i)/vSphere virtual machine backups even without VDDK support
FIXED BUGS
Fixed minor bugs of the ESX(i)/vSphere and Hyper-V backup functionalities
Uranium Backup 8.9.7
03/02/2015
NEW FEATURES
Uranium can now automatically decompress compressed files during a FTP restore
Improved performance with ESXi VM backup (Uranium is now able to auto-detect and select the best buffer size)
FIXED BUGS
Fixed a bug of the copy attributes option with customized icons
Fixed a bug with DFS drives, Uranium ignored all the files stored on DFS origins during the backup
Fixed minor bugs of Azure and Hyper-V backup modes/li>
Uranium Backup 8.9.6
11/11/2014
NEW FEATURES
Introduced remote (LAN) Hyper-V virtual machine backup
Autoupdate: now available on Uranium Backup Free
Now it’s possible to specify the port range of an active FTP/FTPS/SFTP connection
FIXED BUGS
Fixed a bug with Windows 8 – and higher – data deduplication
Fixed a minor bug of the restore of an Exchange mailbox backup
Fixed many minor bugs of the FTP/FTPS/SFTP backup functionalities
Uranium Backup 8.9.5
23/07/2014
NEW FEATURES
Added native Hyper-V virtual machine backup
Empowered folder exclusion functionalities to the FTP backup
FIXED BUGS
Fixed minor bugs of the ESX/ESXi VM backup
Uranium Backup 8.9.0
25/02/2014
NEW FEATURES
Added cloud manager and new backup to Microsoft Windows Azure storage
FIXED BUGS
Fixed minor bugs of the ESX/ESXi VM backup
Fixed bugs of the Exchange backup
Fixed false-positive error log with Drive Image Backup
Uranium Backup 8.8.1
04/11/2013
NEW FEATURES
Fixed the infinite loop bug of the FTP backup
Fixed the not-detected Exchange 2013 issue
Fixed a minor bug of the FTP backup configurator
Uranium Backup 8.8.0
02/09/2013
NEW FEATURES
Added new Exchange Server backup functionalities (Uranium Backup Pro DB)
Uranium Backup 8.7.3
26/06/2013
NEW FEATURES
Fixed a bug preventing the backup of multiple ESXi-based VMs
Abort button during a VM restore now works correctly
Uranium Backup 8.7.2
18/02/2013
NEW FEATURES
Added Armenian translation
Drive info into the tape options now shows information about the drive and the media cartridge
Tape backup log now shows effective space utilization
FIXED BUGS
Fixed a bug of the System State Backup on Windows 2008/2008R2
System State Backup now works on Windows Server 2012
Fixed a bug with VSS on x64 version of Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2
Uranium Backup 8.7.1
02/01/2013
NEW FEATURES
Added CRC check to compressed VMware ESX/ESXi VM files
FIXED BUGS
Fixed a bug in VMware ESX/ESXi compressed VM files restore
Fixed a bug in Drive Image Backup on Windows 8
Fixed SQL Server permission bug
Uranium Backup 8.7.0
10/12/2012
NEW FEATURES
New ESX/ESXi VM backup compression
Support for ESX/ESXi Free Hypervisor (hot backup)
Support for ESXi 5.1
VM with multiple disks: now you can choose which drives you want to copy
Revisited GUI
FIXED BUGS
Minor bugs fixed
Uranium Backup 8.6.7
01/02/2012
NEW FEATURES
New internal database to manage incremental zip files
Synchronization for incremental zip files has been improved
FTP Upload: new option to compare the files to be uploaded with a local database to speed up the transfer
Some minor graphic improvements
FIXED BUGS
ESX: solved a problem of duplicated .vmdk files reported in the log
Logging: fixed an error in the number of processed items
Logging: fixed an error in detecting the right license type
Fixed an error in getting the number of the week in the year
Incremental zip compression for individual files: in some cases the file extension filter was not considered
Some minor bugs fixed
Uranium Backup 8.6.6
27/12/2011
NEW FEATURES
Some graphic improvements
New option for direct copy, incremental zip compression and FTP transfers, to copy only files that have been modified in the last N days
Help updated
FIXED BUGS
Some minor bugs fixed
Uranium 8.6.5
Update build 4799
05/12/2011
NEW FEATURES
Some graphic improvements
FIXED BUGS
Fixed an error in setting file permissions on Windows 7
Fixed an error in creating Scheduled Tasks on Windows 7
Some minor bugs fixed
Uranium Backup 8.6.4
21/11/2011
NEW FEATURES
Zip compression: now the program shows the total progress of the file zip creation
ESX backup: new parameter “quiescing” to suspend the virtual machine before the backup
FIXED BUGS
ESX backup: fixed a bug in downloading configuration files if a “cluster” architecture was used
ESX backup: fixed a snapshot error caused by “quiescing” mode with some specific configurations
ESX backup: fixed a wrong error message in .vmx file size verification
Uranium Backup 8.6.3
15/11/2011
NEW FEATURES
Some graphic and usability improvements in the main interface
ESX backup: added some new checks in the backup process
The Help file has been updated to the latest version
FIXED BUGS
ESX 3.5 backup: solved a problem in downloading .vmdk files
ESX backup: some minor bugs fixed
Some translations fixes
Uranium Backup 8.6.2
11/07/2011
NEW FEATURES
ESX backup: improved performances and compatibility
Drive image: now you can esclude specific files or folders (only Windows 2008 R2)
Some graphic improvements for buttons in the activity window
FIXED BUGS
ESX backup: fixed the error “file is in use” with some hosts
ESX backup: fixed a backup problem on some systems (errors 500 and 503)
Direct copy: fixed an error in creating the restore folder
Drive image: fixed an error when the backup target contained spaces
Drive image: handled the error caused by the limitation for network shares on Windows 7 Home
Some minor bugs fixed
Uranium Backup 8.6.1
21/10/2011
NEW FEATURES
ESX backup: now the virtual machine download is faster
ESX backup: virtual machines, vSphere servers and hosts are now shown in a tree structure
ESX backup: now the program shows the virtual machine states (on, off, paused) and the host states (connected, disconnected)
ESX backup: now the program shows the progress of the snapshot creation
FIXED BUGS
ESX backup: fixed a blocking error in the download and the error “file is in use” with some Windows XP virtual machines
ESX restore: fixed a blocking error in the recovery of some virtual machines on vCenter 4.1
Some minor bugs fixed
Uranium Backup 8.6.0
05/10/2011
NEW FEATURES
ESXi, ESX and vSphere: Backup, Replication and Recovery
Now the burning functions are available starting from the Base version (the Pro Burn version doesn’t exist anymore)
New wizard interface design for several configuration windows
Added a menu item to add an FTP Download
Added 2 new Special Strings (%LZ%, %ZD%), that can be used after a backup and that represent, respectively, the full path and the date of the last zip file created by Uranium during the backup
New interface design
New graphic layout of the official website
FIXED BUGS
Some minor bugs fixed
Uranium Backup 8.5.0
13/07/2011
NEW FEATURES
SQL Server: improved the visual aspect of the window for backup configuration
Tape: improved the visual aspect and the usability of the restore window
General options: removed some obsolete options
New buttons for the items and destinations list and for the main toolbar
FIXED BUGS
FTP: solved the “read timeout” error when transferring big files with some routers
Now it is possible to see the backups running through the service even if you aren’t in the main user session
SFTP: improved UTF8 compatibility also for protocols version 3 or earlier
SFTP: fixed an upload error with 0 byte files
Some minor bugs fixed