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

This section highlights new features, fixes, and enhancements in Oracle Secure Backup for the current release.

Desupported Functionality

The following Oracle Secure Backup functionalities are no longer supported by Oracle. See Deprecated or Desupported Functionality 19.1 for a complete list of desupported functionality in this release.

• The Oracle Secure Backup 19.1 software is not interoperable with Oracle Secure Backup 12.2 and earlier version clients.

• Support for physical tape drives and libraries, including VTLs emulating libraries and tape drives is desupported. Deprecation of tape support was announced in Oracle Secure Backup 19.1 release, May 2024.

• Support for administrative server and media server on non-Linux platforms is desupported. Deprecation of administration server and media server on non-Linux platforms was announced in Oracle Secure Backup 19.1 release, May 2024.

Oracle recommends you to use Cloud Storage such as OCI Object Storage (public cloud) or ZFS (on-premises).

Oracle Secure Backup 19.1 Release 1

The following are the changes in this document for Oracle Secure Backup 19.1.

New Features, Enhancements, and Updates

• Supports immutable buckets feature of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

  This feature enables Oracle Secure Backup to store backups in object storage and archive storage but prevents any modification or deletion of data. You can apply retention rules on these buckets to protect your data.

  See About Backups in Immutable Buckets and Using Immutable Buckets of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

• Upload backups from client host directly to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure object storage.

  Oracle Secure Backup provides a new feature for uploading backups from client hosts to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure object storage. With this feature, a client host can upload backup data directly to object storage without using media servers, thereby improving throughput of backup jobs.

  See About Client Direct to Cloud and Enabling Client Direct to Cloud.

Deprecated Functionality

Support for Oracle Secure Backup client will continue on all platforms, that is, Linux, Solaris, Windows, HP-UX, and AIX.

Desupported Functionality

The Oracle Secure Backup 19.1 software is not interoperable with Oracle Secure Backup 12.2 and earlier version clients.

Other Changes

Minor editorial changes to this section for language and grammar improvements.

• Overview of Hardware-Based Encryption