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 - 09-27-24

Improvements

  • Internal improvements.

Datto Utilities 9.14 - 08-19-24

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 - 07-08-24

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 - 05-27-24

Bug Fixes

  • Resolved an issue when performing a BMR with “Continuous mirroring” option enabled

Datto Utilities 9.2 - 03-28-23

Bugfixes

  • Addressed issues with repartitioning when multiple BMRs are required

Improvements

  • Updated imager defaults for new zfs version

Datto Utilities 9.1 - 01-17-23

Improvements

  • Various backend updates and improvements

Datto Utilities 9.0.1 - 10-27-22

Improvements

  • ZFS upgraded to v2.1.4, providing improved performance and reliability
  • Various backend updates and improvements

Datto Utilities 8.5 - 09-26-22

Improvements

  • Various backend updates and improvements

Datto Utilities 8.4 - 08-16-22

Improvements

  • Various backend updates and improvements

Datto Utilities 8.3 - 05-05-22

Improvements

  • Various backend updates and improvements

Datto Utilities 8.2 - 03-23-22

Improvements

  • Various backend updates and improvements.

Datto Utilities 8.1 - 02-17-22

Improvements

  • Various backend updates and improvements.

Datto Utilities 8.0 - 01-18-22

Improvements

  • Datto Utilities updated to Ubuntu 20.04
  • Various backend updates and improvements.

Datto Utilities 7.5.8 - 11-10-21

Improvements

  • Improved transfer speeds over long distances.
  • Datto Endpoint Backup Bare Metal Restores (BMR) can now resize for drives equal in size or smaller than the original system (same as hardware devices).
  • BMRWiz guided command line interface now available for Cloud based BMRs (same as hardware based devices). This enhancement simplifies BMR troubleshooting by Datto technical support.

Bug Fixes

  • Various backend updates, performance improvements, and bug fixes.

Datto Utilities 7.3.3 - 08-31-21

Improvements

This release features multiple improvements to the Datto Endpoint Backup for PC Bare Metal Restore functionality.

  • You can now resume a Datto Endpoint Backup BMR process that has been interrupted due to a network outage.
  • The Datto Endpoint Backup Restore Utility and standard Bare Metal Restore (BMR), are now a single download from download.datto.com regardless of platform for greater convenience.
  • The BMR for Datto Endpoint Backup UI has been re-designed. You can now manually set drive partitions if required.

Bug Fixes

  • Resolved an issue that caused Datto Endpoint Backup BMRs to return to the wrong screen when started over or canceled.
  • Rapid Rollback is no longer available for Datto Endpoint Backup for PC restores. The functionality remains unchanged for other products.

Datto Utilities 7.2.1 - 02-25-21

Improvements

  • The SIRIS Imaged UI now allows selection of a SLOG drive.
  • The NIC used during SIRIS imaging is now automatically designated eth0 on the new SIRIS, with each additional NIC given a persistent logical name (eth1, eth2, etc).

Bug Fixes

  • Resolved an issue that prevented imaging hardware that had SSD media in the storage pool

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