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

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

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 physical tape drives and libraries, including VTLs emulating libraries and tape drives is deprecated. These may not be supported in future releases of Oracle Secure Backup.

• Support for administrative server and media server on non-Linux platforms is deprecated. Future releases of Oracle Secure Backup will support administrative server and media server only on Linux platform.

• 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