Changes in This Release for Oracle Secure Backup Administrator's Guide

This preface lists new and changed features in Oracle Secure Backup 18c Release 1 (18.1).

The following are the changes in Oracle Secure Backup Administrator's Guide for Oracle Secure Backup 18.1.

New Features

Oracle Secure Backup enables you to check the validity of backup data by computing and storing a checksum when backup image instances are created. To validate a backup image instance, you recompute its checksum and then compare it with the checksum that was stored when the backup image instance was created.

Device policies can be used to specify that checksums must be computed for all data written to a particular type of device. Or, you can configure a particular device to compute and store checksums.

See About Validating Backups by Computing Checksums and Copying or Moving Backup Image Instances.
Oracle Secure Backup can perform secure backup and restore operations using multipart upload for efficient backup jobs. Managing a large number of objects becomes harder as the number of backups grows. With multipart uploads, backup segments are uploaded in parallel and once the entire backup is uploaded, segments are concatenated to form a single object (segment), lowering the number of objects in the bucket. See Oracle Secure Backup Using Multipart Upload.
Oracle Secure Backup offers a new Cloud storage class option, infrequentaccess.

This storage option is useful for data that the user accesses infrequently, but is made available when needed. The storage costs for the infrequent access option are lower than the standard Object Storage.

See About Backup Containers and About Cloud Storage Devices.