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Changes in This Release for Oracle Secure Backup Reference

This preface contains information about new and changed features for Oracle Secure Backup 18.1.

Changes in Oracle Secure Backup 18.1

The following are the changes in Oracle Secure Backup Reference for Oracle Secure Backup 18.1.

New Features

  • Oracle Secure Backup now supports backups to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage.

    Oracle Cloud storage is accessed and managed using Oracle Secure Backup cloud storage devices in a manner similar to other Oracle Secure Backup devices. All backup data is securely written to cloud storage devices by encrypting the backup data at the client host, with encryption keys being managed by the Oracle Secure Backup administrative server.

    See chauth, mkauth, lsauth, rmauth, and renauth.

  • Integrity of backups can be verified without actually restoring the backups.

    While creating or copying backup image instances, Oracle Secure Backup computes a checksum and then stores this value as part of the backup metadata. To test the validity of a backup image instance, the checksum is recomputed and then compared with the stored checksum. Checksum computation can be set at the administrative domain level or the device level.

    See validatechecksum, mkdev, chdev, enablecloudchecksum, enablediskchecksum, and enabletapechecksum.

  • The process of creating Cloud wallets is simplified.

    See obcm.

  • A new option usecloudenc is introduced in cpinstance command to allow copy of legacy unencrypted or hardware encrypted data to Oracle Cloud storage.

    See cpinstance.

  • 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 mkdev and lsdev.

  • Oracle Secure Backup provides a new utility, obsum, to generate summary reports seamlessly without affecting the Oracle Secure Backup job scheduler. The obsum utility runs independently which prevents overloading of the scheduler.

    See obsum.