SQL Backup Pro Releases

Released: Dec 8, 2021

Updates in 10.1.15

Fixes

  • Suppress SQL Backup from raising warning 166 when the IgnoreCodes registry value (REG_SZ type) includes 166.

Released: Nov 4, 2021

Updates in 10.1.14

Features

  • Added the ability to create the SQL Backup output log file in UTF-8 format when the LogSaveInUTF8 registry key is present.
  • Added support for uploading backup files to an AWS S3 storage bucket that has object locking enabled.
  • SQL Backup will now raise warning 463 when a TDE-enabled database is not backed up using the SQLCOMPRESSION option.
  • The ForceTDECompression registry setting to use the native Microsoft SQL Server compression is no longer required.
  • Added support for uploading to a...

Released: Aug 18, 2021

Updates in 10.1.13

Fixes

  • The created time in the Log Copy Queue was incorrectly showing in UTC but is now showing in local time.

Released: Aug 12, 2021

Updates in 10.1.12

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue in 10.1.11 whereby the check for the migration of the activity history from SQL Server Compact Edition (SSCE) to SQLite was needlessly occurring every time a query was run by the GUI.
  • Fixed a concurrency issue when accessing the SQB Backup Agent's activity history.

Released: Aug 4, 2021

Updates in 10.1.11

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue in 10.1.10 whereby the migration of the activity history from SQL Server Compact Edition (SSCE) to SQLite failed for versions of SSCE prior to 3.5.

Released: Aug 2, 2021

Updates in 10.1.10

Features

  • SQL Backup now uses a SQLite database to store each server's activity history. Previously a Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition (SSCE) database was used for this purpose, but SSCE is no longer supported by Microsoft. Once the SQL Backup Server Components have been updated on a server, it is safe to uninstall the SSCE runtime from the server.

Released: May 5, 2021

Updates in 10.1.9

Features

  • The amount of backup/restore history retrieved from the SQL Backup database now follows the interval used for the native Microsoft SQL Server process history.
  • New indexes have been created to improve GUI performance in retrieving process history.

Fixes

  • Don't create debug entries unnecessarily when copying files.

Released: Apr 1, 2021

Updates in 10.1.8

Features

  • Added support to import registered servers from SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 18.

Fixes

  • Don't use the COLLATE option in script to retrieve LSN values from SQL Server 2000 instances.

Released: Nov 18, 2020

Updates in 10.1.7

Features

  • Updated copyright text to standard format.

Fixes

  • Cloud copies are no longer displayed as network copies.
  • TLS version 1.2 is now explicitly supported by the Hosted Storage Client's uploads to Microsoft Azure and Amazon S3.

Released: Aug 17, 2020

Updates in 10.1.6

Fixes

  • Removed strong naming from SQL Backup.
  • Replaced the log4net logging library with Serilog. A vulnerability has been reported in log4net (CVE-2018-1285, CVSS 9.8), and although SQL Backup is not subject to the vulnerability, Redgate Software have removed log4net to help avoid false positives in automated security scans.

PLEASE NOTE: If you have ever modified the logging configuration of the Hosted Storage Client (to change the location of the log files, for example), then you will need to...