***CAUTION STATEMENT***
IMPORTANT NOTE - PLEASE READ!

• Upgrading your server: NovaNet-WEB v7.1 will successfully upgrade a v6.x and 7.x NovaNet-WEB Server. If you are running v4.x or v4.x of NovaNet-WEB Server, you cannot perform a direct upgrade. You will be required to upgrade the server to v5.x first, and then perform another upgrade to v6.x
• Clients running v5.x or v6.x of NovaNet-WEB Client can connect to a v7.1 NovaNet-WEB Server and successfully upgrade assuming you are not using Backup Account Authentication, which was just added in v7.0 of the server software.
• If you upgrade to v7.1 of NovaNet-WEB Server/Client you cannot roll back the server or client to a previous version of the software.
• Clients running v7.1 cannot connect to lower server versions.
• Make sure you make a backup of your database before upgrading.
• If you are using customized ACS clients please make sure to take out the NovaStor upgrade .pat file and rebuild your .pat file on the ACS website and put it in the upgrade folder.

Instructions on installing/upgrading your current NovaNet-WEB

• In order to install or upgrade your backup server to v7.1, you MUST already have SQL 2000/SQL 2005 installed on an available network or local system. (NOTE: If you are using SQL 2005 Express, you must enter .\SQLEXPRESS as the server name when installing the NovaNet-WEB Backup Server software if the SQL server is on that machine)
• This release includes support for Open File Backup using Microsoft's Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS). However, In order to utilize Open File Backup, the NovaNet-Web Client must be run on either Windows XP or 2003.

NovaNet-WEB v7.1.31.0
Client:  http://www.novastor.com/pub/demos/NOVANETWEB/Version7/7.1.31.0/NovaNet-WEBBackupClient.exe
Server: http://www.novastor.com/pub/demos/NOVANETWEB/Version7/7.1.31.0/NovaNet-WEBBackupServer.exe

Release Notes - What's New/Fixed/Known Issues

Fixes/Updates in NovaNet-WEB (Client/Server) Version 7.1.31.0
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Server
- Backup thread initiated rollup aborts last up to 3 seconds.
- Server checks for empty account name passed from client.
- Rollups are server shutdown safe; should not corrupt storage.
- Server waits for volumes that were backed up to be saved.
- Sending a 0 byte file multiple times would cause the storage for that file to be said to be corrupt.
- If the first full backup of a file failed because of an IO error during file create or seek, the backup server produced a storage file with a storage header only and marked it as corrupt.


Client
- Full code review was done to prevent *any* popup from occurring if an error occurs while a schedule is running.
- Add code to make it so upgrades from 6.x while running from local system would not have the traycontrol.exe running as localsystem account causing crashes.
- Client was ignoring setting to use a different port besides 25 for SMTP email notifications.
- Refresh issue on desktop and start menu icon was not putting the customized icon there.
- An automatic upgrade on some windows 2000 machines would decrease all icon sizes to 0 on the system.

Known Issues in NovaNet-WEB (Client/Server) Version 7.1.31.0
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- When adding a filter to a folder and the user has no data on the backup server the client can become non responsive.
- Choosing a smart select item on the home page and then immediately clicking save can unselect whatever else is in the backup set.
- Backup history dates of a file when backing up an older file than the last backup shows incorrectly.
- Open File Backup does not work on Vista 64bit.
- There are still certain cases where a customized icon will not be updated on a scheduled backup that does an automatic upgrade.

Other Important Items

Please make sure that when you are doing an upgrade that you are on the latest service pack of SQL, as we have had some issues, especially with early versions of SQL Express.

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