Changes in This Release for Oracle Secure Backup Reference

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

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, mkdev, chdev, lsdev, lsinstance.
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, mkhost, chhost, lshost, mkdev, chdev, lsdev, .
Oracle Secure Backup has introduced a new policy, msloadbalancer, under Operations Policies. This policy helps schedule jobs across media servers in a round-robin sequence.

See msloadbalancer.
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 obtool Invocation.
The default backup encryption algorithm is now AES256.

See algorithm, backup, mkhost, and mkstage.
Use the commands obctl stop and obctl start to stop and start Service Daemons for Linux and UNIX platforms.

See Startup and Shutdown of Oracle Secure Backup Services.
The Dataset Language section contains information about datasets for ZFS type backups.

See Overview of Dataset Language.
You can cancel a job by using a wildcard (*) character.

See canceljob.
To continue a command on multiple lines, use the hash symbol (#).

See Command Continuation on Multiple Lines in Interactive Mode.

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

Minor editorial changes and fixes to these sections with language and grammar improvements.