BRU LE for Mac OS X Release 1.3.1

Tape Access Failure Note for OS X 10.4.10: There is a serious issue with tape support under Mac OS X 10.4.10.  The issue affects all tape backup applications and exhibits issues from backups aborting for no apparent reason that worked fine prior to the update or even the disappearance of the tape drive and library from the system.  The problems affect all tape device types including SCSI, Firewire, USB, Fibre-Channel, SAS, and SATA on both the PowerPC and Intel-based Mac platforms.  TOLIS Group has worked directly with Apple to resolve this issue and it is resolved in the 10.4.11 update on both Intel and PPC platforms.

These issues do not exist in OS X 10.5 (Leopard).

Updates in BRU LE 1.3.1:

This update fixes a number of outstanding and intermittent issues with the BRU LE 1.3.0 release.

  • Redesigned the primary interface for improved workflow.
  • Updated BRU I/O engine to 17.1 on OS X 10.4 and 10.5 systems.  This enables complete and proper processing of Access Control Lists (ACL's) and Extended Attributes (EA's).  The 17.0 engine is still used on 10.3.9 systems.
  • Improved UI control display compatibility with Leopard systems.
  • Dramatically increased the load speed of the restore catalog list on larger archives.
  • Fixed an issue with improper path encoding when dragging and dropping items onto the Backup and Restore selection list boxes.
  • Fixed an issue in the reloading of the job definition's backup level (Full, Incremental, or Differential) and the associated Base Job.
  • We now use the system Console utility for displaying the BRU execution log (bruexeclog).
  • Fixed issue that required you to click twice on an archive entry on the restore panel to actually display the archive info and contents.
  • Fixed issue that caused the catalog files to not be properly re-compressed after access.  This could result in known archives not showing up the next time you run the LE interface.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented proper incremental or differential backups when running from the interface in an interactive mode.  The selected backup definition would always promote itself to a full backup.
  • Fixed a backup hang that could occur if the selection of source files caused an excessively long command line to be generated.
  • Fixed reload issue for job definitions that didn't properly reload the definition level (Full, Incremental, Differential).
  • Fixed an issue with imports if you'd not selected your tape drive as our default backup destination.
  • Fixed schedule save issue under Leopard.
  • Fixed a search issue that could cause the attempt to search to report that you did not have an archive selected.
  • Fixed an issue in the search mechanism that would cause incorrect entries to be added to the restore list box.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause restores from disk-based archives to fail with an indication that the archive was not located.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause multiple segment tape restores to fail after the second segment was positioned and restored.
  • Fixed an issue on backups of files and folders that contained an apostrophe.  The estimate pass would properly process the apostrophe path and then corrupt it when passing it through to the backup process.
  • Added the ability to delete an archive entry on the restore panel.  Select the archive and hit the backspace key.  This will remove the archive from the catalogs list, but will not delete the actual archive from the disk or tape.
  • Changed the schedule deletion to only delete the schedule and not the entire job definition.

BRU now passes the complete "Backup Bouncer" test suite on OS X.  BRU LE users are welcome to download the test suite and see for themselves!

Visit the BRU LE product page for more information.