Backup Agent Changelog

Backup Agent 6.8.9.1030

Released with Ops Manager 4.0.20 on 2020-11-05

Backup Agent 6.8.8.1027

Released with Ops Manager 4.0.16 on 2019-11-07

• Adds support for the businessCategory field in extended validation TLS certificates.

• The Backup Agent is now built using Go 1.13.

Backup Agent 6.8.7.1024

Released with Ops Manager 4.0.13 on 2019-07-04

• Fix: Improve the ability of the Backup Agent to stop the balancer when preparing to take a snapshot for a sharded cluster.

• Fix: Set a TLS timeout for connections between the Backup Agent and Ops Manager services.

Backup Agent 6.8.6.1013

Released with Ops Manager 4.0.7 on 2019-01-10

• Fix: Improve Backup Agent handling when stopping the balancer in preparation for marking a point in time to take a snapshot for a sharded cluster. Prior handling could result in the balancer being left in a stopped state for MongoDB 3.4+. This has been resolved.

Backup Agent 6.8.4.1009

Released with Ops Manager 4.0.1 on 2018-08-02

Backup Agent 6.8.3.1002

Released with Ops Manager 4.0.0 on 2018-06-27

• Added support for MongoDB 4.0.

• Added support for SCRAM-SHA-256

• Added platform support for:

  • zLinux on RHEL 6

  • Debian 9

  • Amazon Linux 2

Backup Agent 6.0.10.976

Released with Ops Manager 3.6.8 on 2018-08-02

Backup Agent 6.0.10.972-1

Released with Ops Manager 3.6.7 on 2018-06-06

• Improved recovery after transient backup failures.

• Improve retry behavior for aborted network operations during PIT restores.

• Fix: Automated PIT restore fails when target does not accept SSL.

• Fix: Disable session cache refresh during standalone phase of a restore.

• Fix: Queryable Restore Daemon file descriptor leak when using a FileSystem Snapshot Store.

Backup Agent 6.0.9.969

Released with Ops Manager 3.6.6 on 2018-05-03

• Provide option for Backup Agent to use persistent HTTPS connections.

Backup Agent 6.0.8.960

Released with Ops Manager 3.6.5 on 2018-04-05

• Build system improvements

Backup Agent 6.0.8.752

Released with Ops Manager 3.6.4

• Fix: Backup Agent should produce an error message and not crash when erroneous authentication credentials are provided for a source cluster.

Backup Agent 6.0.6.724

Released with Ops Manager 3.6.3

• Fix: For MongoDB 3.6 deployments, the initial sync of a backup could fail creating an index on a collection with a collation specified.

Backup Agent 6.0.5.716

Released with Ops Manager 3.6.2 on 2018-01-11

Backup Agent 6.0.3.689

Released with Ops Manager 3.6.0 on 2017-12-05

• Support for MongoDB 3.6.

• Performance optimizations.

• Support for new Agent API Key model.

Backup Agent 5.0.12.840

Released with Ops Manager 3.4.13 on 2018-04-05

• Build system improvements.

Backup Agent 5.0.12.725

Released with Ops Manager 3.4.12 on 2018-02-01

• Fix: For MongoDB 3.6 deployments, the initial sync of a backup could fail creating an index on a collection with a collation specified.

Backup Agent 5.0.11.663

Released with Ops Manager 3.4.9 on 2017-10-05

Backup Agent 5.0.10.634

Released with Ops Manager 3.4.7 on 2017-08-03

• Improve state management when executing an administrative error retrieval task.

Backup Agent 5.0.8.601

Released with Ops Manager 3.4.6 on 2017-07-06

• Performance enhancement: Use bson.Raw for initial sync.

Backup Agent 5.0.7.494

Released with Ops Manager 3.4.5 on 2017-05-18

• Fix: High Memory Usage during Initial Sync with Large Numbers of Small Documents.

Backup Agent 5.0.6.486

Released with Ops Manager 3.4.4 on 2017-03-30

• Performance optimization for initial data collection in the initial sync phase.

Backup Agent 5.0.6.477

Released with Ops Manager 3.4.3 on 2017-02-17

• Built with Go 1.7.

• Support for MacOS Sierra.

Backup Agent 5.0.5.472

Released with Ops Manager 3.4.2 on 2017-01-19

• Fixed Backup Agent logs not getting sent to server on Windows.

Backup Agent 5.0.4.469

Released with Ops Manager 3.4.1 on 2016-12-27

• Fix initial sync failures in MongoDB 3.4.0 and later.

• Fix crash causes by initial sync of a large capped collection.

• Added support for MongoDB 3.4 feature compatibility version and views.

Backup Agent 5.0.3.465

Released with Ops Manager 3.4.0 on 2016-11-29

• Added support for uncompressed WiredTiger snapshots on the filesystem.

• Added support for storing snapshots in S3.

• Added support for WiredTiger encryption at rest.

• Added ability to control the reference time for the snapshot schedule.

  Example

  Can now specify that snapshots are taken every 6 hours, starting at 12:00:00 AM.

• Added support for all data-format affecting MongoDB configuration options: directoryPerDB, smallfiles, etc.

Backup Agent 3.9.1.382

Released with Ops Manager 2.0.9 on 2017-05-23

• Fix: Add a flush method to DigestOutputStream to avoid timeouts.

• Fix: Some deleteIndex oplog entries not supported during initial sync.

• Fix: FileSystemStorejobRunner thread gets killed if exception is thrown while getting the Job.

• Fix: Failure to create collection if the mongod being backed up is configured with encryption.

Backup Agent 3.9.1.382

Released with Ops Manager 2.0.4 on 2016-05-20

• Fix: If a collection was deleted during an initial sync, no crash results.

Backup Agent 3.9.0.336

Released with Ops Manager 2.0.0 on 2015-12-08

• Added support for streaming initial syncs.

• Added support for MongoDB 3.2.0 config servers as replica sets.

• Added the ability to only backup selected namespaces (whitelist).

• Fixed issue with initial sync failing due to collections being deleted during the sync.

• Fixed issue with collection names with trailing spaces.

Backup Agent 3.4.2.314

Released with Ops Manager 1.8.2 on 2015-10-20

• Fix: Initial syncs do not fail if a namespace was deleted during the sync.

Backup Agent 3.4.1.283

Released with Ops Manager 1.8 on 2015-06-23

• Added support for x.509 Client Certificate authentication.

• The Kerberos credentials cache now uses a fixed name.

• Fix: Race condition which could result in inconsistent cluster snapshots for MongoDB 3.0+ sharded clusters using the backup role.

Backup Agent 3.1.2.274

Released 2015-04-28

• Added an explicit timeout for SSL connections to MongoDB instances.

• Added an optimization for syncs of collections with lots of small documents.

Backup Agent 3.1.1.263

Released 2015-03-02

• Adds support for non-default Kerberos service names.

• Adds support for authentication using MongoDB 2.4-style client certificates.

• The Backup Agent now identifies itself to the Ops Manager servers using the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the server on which it is running.

• The Backup Agent now captures a checkpoint even if it is unable to stop the balancer. These checkpoints are not guaranteed to be consistent, because of in-progress chunk migrations. The user interface identifies these checkpoints.

Backup Agent 2.3.3.209-1

Released with OnPrem 1.5.2

Use no-timeout cursors to work around MGO-53.

Backup Agent 2.3.1.160

Released with |mms| OnPrem 1.5.0

• Backup Agent now sends oplog slices in batches.

• Improved stability around oplog tokens for environments with unstable networks.

• Support for a new API that allows Ops Manager to ingest oplog entries before the entire payload has reached the Ops Manager servers.

• Upgraded agent to use to Go 1.3.

• Added support for version and -version command line options.

• Added support for connecting to hosts using LDAP authentication.

• Agent now provides additional logging information when the Backup Agent manipulates the balancer.

• Agent now supports configuring HTTP proxies with the config file.

Backup Agent 1.5.1.83-1

Released with OnPrem 1.4.2

• Critical update for users running the MongoDB 2.6 series that use authorization.

• Backup Agent now includes system.version and system.role collections from the admin database in the initial sync.

Backup Agent 1.5.0.57-1

Released with OnPrem 1.4.1

Support for backing up Kerberos-authenticated replica sets and clusters

Backup Agent 1.4.6.42-1

Released with OnPrem 1.4.0

• Major stability update.

• Prevent a file descriptor leak.

• Correct handling of timeouts for connections hung in the SSL handshaking phase.