Changes in This Release for Oracle Secure Backup Installation and Configuration Guide

This section provides announcements and updates in Oracle Secure Backup for the current release.

Desupport Announcements

Oracle Secure Backup Product Desupport

• Oracle Secure Backup (OSB) 19.1 desupport was announced on May 1, 2026 with premier support end date on September 30, 2027. See My Oracle Support note PNEWS3035 for more information.

  Please refer to Lifetime Support Policy: Oracle Technology Products for updated support timeframes.

• Oracle recommends that database backups to cloud take advantage of Oracle Database Zero Data Loss Cloud Protect, which uses Oracle Zero Data Loss Autonomous Recovery Service in OCI. Cloud Protect offers an efficient incremental forever backup strategy, real-time transaction protection, logically air-gapped immutable backups, and fast, point-in-time recovery.

• For customers who require database backups to Amazon S3, Oracle Database Cloud Backup for Amazon S3 may be used. This offering is similar to Oracle Secure Backup Cloud Module in that it is fully integrated with Recovery Manager (RMAN) and enables you to back up your Oracle database to Amazon S3. You can exchange your Oracle Secure Backup license for an Oracle Database Cloud Backup for Amazon S3 license on a 1:1 basis.

  See Oracle Database Cloud Backup for Amazon S3 for more information.

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

• Support for non-English backup directory paths.

  Windows hosts using older backup can now use --charencoding option while using the obtool to fix the garbled text that shows up in the directory paths.

  See Configure Character Encoding (Windows).

• Check the updated screenshot and image description for Web Tool Configure Page and updated image description for the screenshot Oracle Secure Backup Setup Window in Interactive Installation on Windows.

Additional options while installing Oracle Secure Backup

See Options for Installing on Linux or UNIX and Options for Installing on Windows.

• Configure customized port number for NDMP during installation on client hosts.

  You can now specify an NDMP port number other than the default port 10000 while installing Oracle Secure Backup on client hosts.

  See:

  • Interactive Installation on Linux or UNIX
  • Noninteractive or Unattended Installation on Linux or UNIX
  • Interactive Installation on Windows
  • Noninteractive or Unattended Installation on Windows

• Install Oracle Secure Backup administrative server with the web server disabled.

  See Installing Administrative Server on Linux or UNIX and Installing Administrative Server on Windows.

• View updated information regarding the Prerequisites for Installing on Linux or UNIX.

• Check the new section for Noninteractive or Unattended Installation on Windows.

Oracle Secure Backup Client Backward Compatibility

Oracle Secure Backup client supports backward compatibility and interoperability with the earlier versions. For more information, see Support for Client Backward Compatibility and Upgrading Oracle Secure Backup.

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

Major revamp and editorial changes to these sections with language and grammar improvements.

• Support for Client Backward Compatibility
• Types of Installation
• Prerequisites for Installing on Linux or UNIX
• Options for Installing on Linux or UNIX
• Interactive Installation on Linux or UNIX
• Installing Administrative Server on Linux or UNIX
• Installing Client Role on Linux or UNIX
• Noninteractive or Unattended Installation on Linux or UNIX
• Prerequisites for Installing on Windows
• Options for Installing on Windows
• Interactive Installation on Windows
• Installing Administrative Server on Windows
• Installing Client Role on Windows
• Enabling Installer Logging on Windows
• Configuring Advanced Settings for Windows
• Preparing for Upgrade Installation
• Upgrade Installation on Linux or UNIX
• Upgrade Installation on Windows
• Administrative Server Files and Directories
• Media Server Files and Directories
• Client Host Files and Directories