This topic describes the release notes for Cloud Backup and provides links to the relevant references.
2025
September 2025
Feature | Description | Release date | References |
ECS File Backup Essential Edition | The ECS File Backup Essential Edition is a simple cloud backup feature for ECS instances that requires no setup. Activation occurs with a single click, and daily automatic backups are performed. Files deleted within the last 30 days can be recovered. Billing is based on the total capacity of Block Storage attached to the backed-up ECS instances, with each account receiving a permanent free quota of 100 GiB. This feature is ideal for small to medium-sized businesses and developers, helping to prevent data loss and business interruptions. | 2025-09-17 |
August 2025
Feature | Description | Release date | References |
EBS async replication is commercially available | EBS async replication includes a new billable item: Fee for using backup and disaster recovery software.
| 2025-08-19 |
April 2025
Feature | Description | Release date | References |
Enhanced report and audit capabilities | Cloud Backup has released new audit reports. These reports cover the status of backup jobs across multiple data sources. The reports provide multiple filtering options, such as by data source, time period, and job status. View the reports online or download them for offline use. This makes it easy to get product usage information for statistics and reporting. | 2025-04-30 | |
Console overview interface upgrade | Cloud Backup has introduced a new console overview page focused on backup data sources. It displays the backup status for each source, the execution status of backup and recovery tasks, and trends in backup storage capacity. This offers a clear view of data protection status and enhances the product experience. | 2025-04-16 |
2024
October 2024
Feature | Description | Release date | References |
ECS instance backup supports immutable backup | After the immutable backup feature is enabled, ECS instance backup data cannot be manually modified or deleted before the retention period ends. The backup data is automatically deleted when the retention period ends. This guarantees backup data security and meets compliance requirements of enterprises. | 2024-10-28 | |
Tag-based automatic resource association and backup | After you configure tags for resources to be backed up in a backup policy, Cloud Backup automatically backs up resources with the tags based on the policy and automatically adds or removes resources based on the updated tags without manual intervention. This prevents incorrect or missing backup of core data and reduces your O&M costs. This feature supports various tags and allows you to back up Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances, ECS files, Object Storage Service (OSS) buckets, File Storage NAS (NAS) file systems, and Tablestore resources. | 2024-10-24 |
August 2024
Feature | Description | Release date | References |
CPFS for Lingjun backup |
| 2024-08-16 |
June 2024
Feature | Description | Release date | References |
Backup point virus detection |
| 2024-06-30 |
2023
October 2023
Feature | Description | Release date | References |
ECS Backup Essential Edition | ECS Backup Essential Edition is a subscription service provided by Cloud Backup to protect ECS data. ECS Backup Essential Edition supports basic backup for ECS files, ECS-hosted databases including MySQL, Oracle, and SQL Server databases, and ECS instances. ECS Backup Essential Edition is suitable for small and medium-sized customers or developers who need to back up and restore ECS data and meet compliance requirements. | 2023-10-31 |
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 tier to the Archive tier, reducing data protection costs. | 2023-03-06 |
2022
November 2022
Feature | Description | Release date | References |
Tablestore backup | Tablestore instances can be backed up and restored in the Cloud Backup console. | 2022-11-25 |
August 2022
Feature | Description | Release date | References |
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 |
April 2022
Feature | Description | Release date | References |
New region | Cloud Backup is available in the Philippines (Manila) region. Cloud Backup can be activated in this region in the console. | 2022-04-29 |
March 2022
Feature | Description | Release date | References |
Zone-redundant storage | 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 |
February 2022
Feature | Description | Release date | References |
Tablestore backup | Cloud Backup uses Tunnel Service of Tablestore to back up data with high performance. You do not need to install a 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 |
2021
December 2021
Feature | Description | Release date | References |
ECS instance backup | Cloud Backup provides the 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 |
October 2021
Feature | Description | Release date | References |
Security enhancement | Cloud Backup supports Key Management Service (KMS)-based encryption, immutable backup, and isolation of backup permissions and recovery permissions. | 2021-10-08 |
September 2021
Feature | Description | Release date | References |
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
Feature | Description | Release date | References |
OSS inventory | The 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 | Back up a large amount of OSS objects by using the OSS inventory feature |
May 2021
Feature | Description | Release date | References |
Data archiving | Cloud Backup provides the data archiving feature. 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 |
January 2021
Feature | Description | Release date | References |
ECS database backup | Cloud Backup supports backup of ECS-hosted databases including MySQL, Oracle, and SQL Server databases. | 2021-01-31 |