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 |
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. You can activate Cloud Backup in this region in the console. | 2022-04-29 |
March 2022
Feature | Description | Release date | References |
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 |
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 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 |
December 2021
Feature | Description | Release date | References |
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 |
October 2021
Feature | Description | Release date | References |
Security enhancement | Cloud Backup supports 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 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 | References |
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 |
January 2021
Feature | Description | Release date | References |
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 |