CrashPlan PRO Server Release 4.24.2008

Overview
Arriving only 7 weeks after our previous release, it's a significant step forward for PRO Server. We've added new OS support, several key enterprise features, and numerous nice to haves including:

• Run PRO Server natively on Linux (Any modern distro on intel) or Windows (2000, XP, and Vista). This brings PRO Server to 4 distinct platforms. If you're looking for another platform, let us know!
• PRO Clients can act as backup destinations for other PRO Clients in addition to PRO Server. This means you can collect data on-site and move it off-site to your PRO Server. It also means you can keep both destinations active and in sync 24x7 providing redundant backups.
• Detailed mount point management screen - easily see who is using a mount point. You may also take a mount point off line for maintenance.
• PRO Clients can back up to multiple destinations. You can easily set up default destinations for any organization or do broad sweeping destination changes for existing client installs.
• Full regular expression support for backup file paths, backup file excludes, and file suffix exclusion
• 448 bit encryption keys used for data may be locked with a private password by the end user if sysadmin allows it. (E.g. HIPAA clients may now privately secure their data in such a way as to prevent the PRO Server admin from seeing it)

PRO Server Changes
• Account password security upgrades - passwords are hashed using SHA-1 and salted at PRO Client before being sent to PRO Server. There is never a time PRO Server knows a user's password.
• Account names are now unique now across all organizational groups. We did this to help avoid confusion for sys admins. Existing accounts that violate this rule will be renamed to avoid conflict during upgrades
• Password recover reworked to support new hashing scheme and new features
• Server:Mount Point - You can now disable a mount point. This is handy if you need to perform system maintenance and want the server to continue servicing clients on other mount points.
• Server:Restore - Fixed a timing issue for older servers and restoring large archives that could cause manifest to appear not ready

PRO Server Monitor
• Only one instance of our monitor UI is allowed to run at a time

PRO Client Backup Engine
• Backup:Destination - When a new destination is selected, it is now run through a battery of tests before allowing backup data to be stored there
• Backup:Excludes - Improved regex patterns to better exclude CrashPlan files
• Restore:Files - When restoring to another volume, that volume is used as the temporary holding point as data is received to avoid copying the file later
• Networking - Clients now automatically try 4282 and 443 when trying to reach an authority if no port is specified
• Backup:Process - Identified rare stalling point that was non-fatal but could affect performance, a few computers may notice increased speed while backing up
• Backup:Archive Format - Enhanced the way we store data blocks during backup and restore. This will allow us to more easily add features down the road. Also added some additional information to help in disaster recovery.
• Backup:Archive - Better recovery from archives that have been severely damaged
• Backup:Compression - If for some reason compression fails to truly compress data, throw away results and store data in original state to avoid decompression on restore

PRO Client Desktop
• Settings:Advanced- You may now use regular expressions to define excludes
• Settings:Advanced - You can now specify how often to verify incoming backups from other clients
• Settings:Network - You can now disable incoming backup listener on a client in settings/network
• Settings:General - No practical limits on retention policies. You can now retain from 1 day to 90 years or if you prefer, forever.
• Login - More descriptive login failure messages to help users who forget their password
• Backup:Source - you may now manage various aspects of an incoming backup to a PRO Client by selecting the computer name in the incoming backup portlet
• Backup:Destination - shows detailed information about the status of the destination
• Backup:Selection - Fixed minor display issue with backup file selection
• Restore - It is now easier to restore to original location
• Restore - Duplicate directories removed when browsing
• Restore - One the job is complete, you can now jump directory to where it was restored using our link
• Restore - Fixed an ambiguous date / time message in restore panel to clear up possible confusion
• History - License limit exceeded is now logged in client history

PRO Server Web Admin
• User:Computer - Computers may be renamed. New names are pushed out to clients in real time.
• Servers:Logs - Now remembers line count preference between sessions
• Servers:Mount Point - New submenu with various features to help manage mount points
• Home - Active computers connected stats are displayed for those organizations you have management over
• Computer:Destinations - Removed a false warning when adding destinations
• Computer:Restore - Fixed situation where files at / not displaying correctly
• Computer:Excludes - You may now edit admin excludes for a computer
• Organizations - Address info now optional and hidden by default
• Organizations:Show all Users - New feature to view all users across all organizations
• Organizations:Email Backup Report - Currently connected computers now display "connected" for the last connect date.
• Organizations:Default Destinations - Easily add new destinations for new computers or existing ones
• Org:Backup Report - Reports are now sent even when there are no computers
• Org:Users - e-mail links are no longer includes in text decoration for alert status. This means you can see if you've been to a specific user via browser history
• Org:Users - display bug related to pagination fixed
• Computer:Settings - Numerous new remote settings in support of new features. Regular expressions, system excludes, cpu utilization, etc. Also fixed away and present bandwidth settings - they were swapped.
• Passwords - Fixed rare situation where passwords would fail to reset correctly
• Email Accounts - Accounts are now allowed to have "+" in their e-mail address. (i.e. gmail)

PRO Server Alerts
• Low disk alerts now include name of mount point and free space in the e-mail for better "field support" via pagers.

PRO Client Installer
• New installer policy added which allows sysadmin to disable private key encryption for those situations where corporate policy is ownership of all data
• When using automated installers, $USERNAME now uses logged in username instead of installer username
• Better notification of version conflicts & upgrade messages to help support end users

Windows
• New native version for Windows! Runs on 2000, XP and vista. Includes nice PRO Server monitor dashboard as well
• Fixed situation where system tray status would not know name of computer during restore job

Linux
• Folder shortcuts in restore panel now work
• Spacing adjusted on new account screen
• Many Installer improvements
• Installer now fetches from our new download server

Mac OS X
• Folder locations for PRO Client are more in keeping with Mac standards
• Filevault support under 10.5 (Install as user instead of admin)