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Cloud Backup:Release notes

Last Updated:Sep 20, 2023

This topic describes the release notes for Cloud Backup and provides links to the relevant references.

March 2023

Feature

Description

Release date

References

Automatic archiving of backup data based on lifecycles

Cloud Backup provides the automatic archiving feature to store backup data for a long period of time at a low cost. This feature helps transfer backup and recovery points from the standard layer to the archive layer, reducing data protection costs.

2023-03-06

Automatic archiving

November 2022

Feature

Description

Release date

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Tablestore backup

Tablestore instances can be backed up and restored in the Cloud Backup console.

2022-11-25

Tablestore Backup

August 2022

Feature

Description

Release date

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Cross-account backup

The cross-account backup feature is available. The data of multiple accounts can be backed up and managed by using one account. This allows enterprises with multiple branches to implement unified data protection policies, control the permissions to back up and restore data, and reduce O&M investment.

2022-08-11

Back up data sources across Alibaba Cloud accounts

April 2022

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Description

Release date

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New region

Cloud Backup is available in the Philippines (Manila) region. You can activate Cloud Backup in this region in the console.

2022-04-29

Supported regions

March 2022

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Description

Release date

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Zone-redundant storage (ZRS)

Cloud Backup supports zone-redundant storage (ZRS) in addition to locally redundant storage (LRS). The ZRS feature improves the security of data stored in backup vaults. If ZRS is enabled for a backup vault, Cloud Backup distributes data across three zones within the same region. If a zone fails, the data that is stored in the other two zones is still accessible.

2022-03-09

Storage vault types

February 2022

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Description

Release date

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Tablestore backup

Cloud Backup uses Tunnel Service of Tablestore to back up data with high performance. You do not need to install an Cloud Backup client. Cloud Backup provides out-of-the-box full backup and incremental backup capabilities and supports data recovery at any point in time.

2022-02-25

Tablestore Backup

December 2021

Feature

Description

Release date

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ECS instance backup

Cloud Backup provides the Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instance backup feature to protect the data on ECS instances based on disk snapshots. Cloud Backup provides automatic backup policies for ECS instances. In the Cloud Backup console, backup and restoration parameters can be configured. Restore, clone, and disaster recovery operations can be performed. Backup files of ECS instances can be efficiently managed.

2021-12-06

ECS instance backup

October 2021

Feature

Description

Release date

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Security enhancement

Cloud Backup supports KMS-based encryption, immutable backup, and isolation of backup permissions and recovery permissions.

2021-10-08

Isolate backup permissions and recovery permissions

September 2021

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Cloud backup of on-premises databases

On-premises MySQL, Oracle, and SQL Server databases can be backed up to backup vaults on the cloud.

2021-09-10

July 2021

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Description

Release date

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OSS inventory

The Object Storage Service (OSS) inventory feature of Cloud Backup can be used to back up a large amount of data from an OSS bucket. This way, the performance of incremental backup is improved.

2021-07-15

Use an OSS inventory list to create a backup plan for a large amount of OSS data

May 2021

Feature

Description

Release date

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Data archiving

Large amounts of data can be archived from on-premises file systems to the cloud without the need to analyze billions of files, select the files to be archived, or run a large number of scripts. Archived files can be restored as needed.

2021-05-03

Archive data

January 2021

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Description

Release date

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ECS database backup

Self-managed databases that are deployed on ECS instances can be backed up. The following database types are supported: MySQL, Oracle, and SQL Server.

2021-01-31