To install this update please follow these steps:
In the administration interface go to "System -> System Operation -> Software -> System Update" and then press "Get Package List". This will then downloads the listed update packages. The successful update of the package list is indicated by the message "Done!" .
Click on Get Packages to download the available update packages.
Important: If you download the packages over a slow connection (ISDN, analog, etc.), the browser may drop the connection to the administration interface. However, the download will continue in the background. Continue with the next step. If you get an error message, wait a few minutes and try again.
Click "Install" . This action installs the update. The end of this process is indicated by the message "Done!" .
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Problems Fixed in this Release
Known Issues
The huge number of the backup targets became supplementedby a Virtual Tape Library. From partitioned storage media, like USB, eSATA-, iSCSI-to disk drives or logical volume the functions of a tape autoloader or tape library can be emulated.
Up to now the Recovery information was sent to the administrator by e-mail. From this update it is possible to save this information additionally on determined backup targets, like SMB/CIFS or NFS shares, USB, eSATA, or iSCSI disk drives.
Normally the decision, wether a file must be backuped within a incremental backup depends of the date of last modification. Thereby it cannot be ascertained which files were deleted since the last backup, or which have been added with an older modification date. With this new option such files are also backuped, while they are compared to a list of all files of the last backup.
From this update it is possible to compress the backup data This happens on file base. These are compression strengths between 1 and 9 eligible. Settings are made in the form Settings → System Operation → Backup → Basic Settings
From this update it is possible, to encrypt the backup data with a certificate. Thus the data is made unreadable by third parties. Will the certificate be lost, data can be restored with a master certificate.
Now the option is available for post office boxes, to fetch all e-mails at the provider's server. This regards also e-mails, which are already marked with the seen-flag by another e-mail client (MUA) like Outlook.
With this update new software clients Mac OS X and 64-bit Windows are available. The download link can be found in the form Settings → System Operation → Backup → Clients .
On the basis of contents lists the backup system knows, which files or directories on the client are to be backuped. From this update on scripts, which run on clients either before or after a backup job, can be defined in every contents list. Such scripts can be used in addition to stop a service before a backup and start the service after the backup again.
Extended attributes describe meta data, for example the author or the encoding of files. Now in the configuration of contents lists it can be checkmarked, whether extended attributes should be backuped also. Extended attributes are supported prevailing by Linux- and Unix-based operating systems, like Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Max OS X or Solaris.
From this software update on Microsoft Exchange 2003/2007 can be backuped with certain Storage Groups. On this occasion, it is possible, to execute incremental or differential backup instead of only full backups Microsoft Exchange. Exact instructions to the setup you will find at
Before the backup of a client is launched, the accessibility of the client is now examined. If the client is not reachable on port 9102, the related backup job will be skipped and the administrator will be informed by e-mail.
L'interfaccia per ricerca è adesso disponibile in lingua Italiana. Grazie a Paolo Vecchi from Omnis Systems. Inoltre la lingua italiana deve essere scelta nel Collax Web Access.
With this Collax software update the new version 6.40.4 of Zarafa Groupware is available. This version mainly includes improvements for Outlook and for the Zarafa Webaccess. Please find details here:
The Zarafa multi-server feature gives the possibility to distribute Zarafa Groupware over multiple servers. In this situation the Zarafa user stores are divided over several servers, but still acting as one central system. The multi-server mode can also be used to support larger number of users or to spread mailboxes over different geographical locations. With this Collax software update the Multi-Server Mode can be easily setup via Collax web administration GUI. Please find a short how-to here:
Since the version 5.0.20 the option Spooling activate had not been used any more. This is repaired with this software update. The option combined with tape drives it is correctly used again.
In the version 5.0.20 a new version of the data backup was installed. With that version it was not possible to import the catalogue files BackupCatalog.bsr from versions before 5.0.20. This is corrected with this update, catalogue files by all previous versions can be imported.
The e-mail archive does distinguish between the active archive volume, the inactive archive volume and the ISO files. Up to now all these data was backuped together within one backup job. Under circumstances this led to big storage requirements on the backup target. With this update the archive elements can be separated for backups. Now it is possible to backup just the active archive volume, instead of saving the complete archive inkluding all ISO files.
For the e-mail archive the search index is updated daily. If e-mails are edited, on this occasion, the index process states that a wrong encoding or another error is given. The e-mail is still taken up into the search index. Up to now these error messages had been sent daily to the administrator. From this update on they will be written in the system log file.
This update offers also some more improvements which are listes here:
VPN tunnels can connect several networks securely. Under circumstances using dynamic DNS can lead to unfuntional VPN tunnel. The service for updating the DynDNS name is then crashed.
The active monitoring tests the functionality of the email filter chain via the SMTP protocol. If the Kaspersky virus scanner is activated in the filter chain a warning is responded, because the Kaspersky email scanner replies with status code 250 even it is working correctly. The e-mail traffic and the virus scanner function perfectly. Error message: "Disabled SMTP response received from host on port 10029: 250 filters KAV4LMS"