Datto Utilities Release notes
Topic
This article contains release notes for the Datto Utilities environment, available at download.datto.com. The Datto Utilities application includes the Bare Metal Restore (BMR), Rapid Rollback, SIRIS Imaged, and Datto Endpoint Backup restoration environments.
For Datto Utility environment release notes prior to 2021, refer to the Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery IRIS release notes.
Environment
- Datto Utilities
Description
- Datto updates Datto Utilities on a regular basis. You should always ensure that your USB stick has the latest version available from download.datto.com before use.
- Datto Utilities is only compatible with writable USB media. Datto Utilities is incompatible with read-only media, such as CDs or DVDs.
- The Datto Utilities version of the Bare Metal Restore (BMR) environment is only available for Datto appliances running the latest Datto IRIS 4 (Ubuntu 20.04) OS.
- Before using the SIRIS Imager utility to image new hardware for use as a SIRIS device, it is critical to review all prerequisites in the Getting started with SIRIS Imaged article.
- For instructions on creating a Datto Utilities USB stick see Imaging a USB Drive with Datto Utilities.
Datto Utilities 9.15 - September 27, 2024
Improvements
- Internal improvements.
Datto Utilities 9.14 - August 19, 2024
Improvements
- Possibility to progress with BMR process when there is NTFS corruption within selected backup.
- Improved reliability of BMR process.
New features
- Compatibility with latest generation of SIRIS devices.
Datto Utilities 9.13 - July 8, 2024
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where system restored to bigger storage would not allocate additional storage.
Improvements
- Improved reliability of restores.
New features
- BMR introduction for Endpoint Backup product.
Datto Utilities 9.12 - May 27, 2024
Bug Fixes
- Resolved an issue when performing a BMR with “Continuous mirroring” option enabled

Datto Utilities 9.2 - March 28, 2023
Bugfixes
- Addressed issues with repartitioning when multiple BMRs are required
Improvements
- Updated imager defaults for new zfs version
Datto Utilities 9.1 - January 17, 2023
Improvements
- Various backend updates and improvements

Datto Utilities 9.0.1 - October 27, 2022
Improvements
- ZFS upgraded to v2.1.4, providing improved performance and reliability
- Various backend updates and improvements
Datto Utilities 8.5 - September 26, 2022
Improvements
- Various backend updates and improvements
Datto Utilities 8.4 - August 16, 2022
Improvements
- Various backend updates and improvements
Datto Utilities 8.3 - May 5, 2022
Improvements
- Various backend updates and improvements
Datto Utilities 8.2 - March 23, 2022
Improvements
- Various backend updates and improvements.
Datto Utilities 8.1 - February 17, 2022
Improvements
- Various backend updates and improvements.
Datto Utilities 8.0 - January 18, 2022
Improvements
- Datto Utilities updated to Ubuntu 20.04
- Various backend updates and improvements.