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.

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:
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.