BackupEDGE 3.0 New Features
Additions in BackupEDGE 03.00.03
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 support (03.00.03 build 3 and later).
- SharpDrive™ Support. Sharpdrive is is our terminology for a best-in-class method of preparing and using USB flash drives and hard drives, USB and SATA RDX and GoVault cartridge drives as archive devices.
- LTO5 Tape Drive Support.
- Support for Linux Kernels compressed via newer lzma/bzip.
Additions in BackupEDGE 3.x
- MySQL™ Hot Backups. MySQL databases can now be dumped directly to the archive during a backup, without shutting down MySQL. No intermediate files need to be created.
- Blu-ray Disc drives and BD-RE 25GB and 50GB media are now supported.
- Tapes, Blu-ray Disc, DVD-RAM, DVD+RW and REV media now support multiple archives per medium. Full support for Instant File Restore, Fast File Restore (tape), and Bare Metal Disaster Recovery is maintained.
- Time-To-Live (retention time) settable per archive. Archives won't be over-written until TTL expires. This makes 2 week, 3 week, and a wide variety of other archive retentions available.
- Disk-to-Anything-to-Anything (D-to-*-to-*) Scheduling. Perform a quick backup to disk, FTP, or other fast Resource, then copy to a slower Resource as time permits.
Major Changes Since 2.x...
- The Scheduler has been replaced by one with far more features, which will be explained in detail. However, the default behavior remains the same; a weekly backup rotation with Monday through Friday enabled.
- All CD and DVD Resource Names have been changed to "optical" and combined with Blu-ray Disc support.
- The Web Services Interface has been improved. It is no longer necessary to copy files to the desktop system. Simply browse to "https://hostname:3946" and the user interface will download. Web Services still needs to be enabled manually.
- There are no more "Slotnames" used in AWS, FTP and FSP backups. Archive rotation is now controlled by Time-To-Live.
- EDGEMENU has been reorganized. Infrequently used setup menus are now consolidated in the Setup -> Configure BackupEDGE sub-menu.
Links Currently Available
| Link | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| SharpDrive Support | Best available removable disk / cartridge support | |
| MySQL Notes | Release notes on MySQL Backups | |
| New Scheduler | Release notes on the new Backup Scheduler | |
| Data Retention | Release notes on Time-To-Live, or Archive Retention | |
| Multiple Backups to Tape | More information on Multiple Backups Per Tape | |
| Multiple Backups to Optical / REV | More information on Multiple Backups per Optical and REV Medium | DVD-RAM, DVD+RW, REV and Blu-ray Disc re-writable |
| D-to-*-to-* Backups | How to shorten backup windows | |
| Updated Web Services Interface | No download files: just enable and begin using it | |
| Updated License Manager | Allows free updates and upgrades for all releases shipped up to 1 year from activation date. |
Last Updates - May 15, 2010