Key Features
• SAN-Client
SAN-Client is newly supported, which achieves LAN-Free by transferring data via FC SAN using a SAN-Client. No frequent disk mounting and unmounting is needed, thus achieving higher security.
– SAN-Client is supported for file backups.
– SAN-Client can be enabled together with backup options such as deduplication, encryption, and data compression.
– SAN-Client is supported for distributed storage pools and single-copy storage pools.
• D2O & D2O2O
D2O & D2O2O are newly supported. Data can be backed up directly to object storage and replicated to target object storage.
– Backup servers can be deployed on cloud hosts to implement D2O and D2O2O solutions.
– In cloud scenarios, a single node supports deploying one storage service, multiple storage services for cluster expansion.
– Object storage can be added as third-party storage media, accelerating cloud backups when used with the file system deployed on the backup server for metadata cache acceleration.
– Deduplication, encryption, data compression, and forced data retention are supported for D2O.
– D2O2O is supported for Deduplication jobs.
• AStack Built-in Virtualization Module
Virtual machines can be created on physical servers, used for small-scale instant recovery, disaster recovery drills and takeover.
– Supports instant recovery for entire host backup data to AStack.
– Supports using AStack as a disaster recovery resource for disaster recovery and drill.
– Supports built-in and external deployment.
– Virtual machine lifecycle management: Supports creating, deleting, modifying, powering on/off, restarting, and powering off virtual machines
– Virtual machine console: Supports accessing virtual machines via VNC console mode.
– VM Configurations
n Virtual machine CPU: Supports specifying the total number of CPU cores and the number of cores per socket.
n Virtual machine memory: Supports specifying virtual machine memory resources.
n Virtual machine disk: Supports IDE, SCSI, and Virtio-blk disk bus types.
n Virtual machine network card: Supports setting the model of the virtual machine network card.
n Virtual machine CD-ROM: Supports loading ISO image files and starting the virtual machine via the IOS CD-ROM.
– Virtual machine boot settings: Supports two boot methods: hard disk and CD-ROM; supports setting BIOS modes, including Legacy and UEFI.
– Virtual machine image management: Supports basic lifecycle management such as adding and deleting images; supports two types of images: system images and hard disk images; supports three image formats: qcow2, iso, and raw.
– Data storage management: Supports FileSystem pool, Logical volume pool, Disk pool, and Network filesystem pool as virtual machine storage resource pools to provide storage volumes for virtual machines.
– Supports deploying on x86-based OpenEuler currently, with future support planned for CentOS, C86 and ARM architectures.
• Alternative Database Support
– Operations Center and AnyBackup Server are now compatible with Dameng database, meeting the requirements for domestic database adoption.
• Operations Center
– Supports deploying the backup domain first, followed by the operations center, then connecting the backup domain to the operations center for centralized management.
New Features
Backup and Recovery
• File
– Added filtering capability, supporting filtering target files based on directory name, file name, file modification time, file format, and other rules, improving protection configuration efficiency
– Intelligent directory filtering supports modifying the incremental traversal range to match business needs
– Added single-layer recovery, i.e., only the selected files or directories are recovered, without recovering the upper-layer files or directories, effectively controlling the file or directory layer after recovery
– Supports tenant system for file backups
– Supports D2O and D2O2O
• Entire Host
– Supports instant recovery to AStack
– Supports auto repair, iSCSI and loopback links, and automatically starting the virtual machine after mounting during instant recovery to AStack
– Supports to power on, power off, power cut, restart, edit, and remotely access virtual machines on AnyBackup console After mounting to Astack
– Supports tenant system
• Informix, GBase 8s, SinoDB (backup and recovery reconstructed)
– Supports real-time log backup
– Supports deduplication
– Supports data compression, data encryption, remote replication and recovery in the shortest time
– Supports simultaneous backup of data and logs to avoid log accumulation and full production storage due to long backup time
– Supports resource allocation and revocation of tenant system
• openGauss, VastBase, PanWeiDB, MogDB (backup and recovery reconstructed)
– Supports deduplication
– Supports mount-free synthetic backup, meaning AnyBackup storage does not need to be mounted to the production system during synthetic backup, enhancing the security of the production system
– Supports data compression and data encryption
– Supports simultaneous backup of data and logs to avoid log accumulation and full production storage due to long backup time
– Supports data migration back after instant recovery, meaning migrating new business data online back to the original production system, ensuring business continuity
– Supports resource allocation and revocation of tenant system
• Dameng DSC cluster (new)
– Supports instance-level backup: supports full backup, differential backup, incremental backup, log backup, and synthetic backup
– Supports deduplication, data compression, data encryption, encryption in transit, auto retry, forced data retention, archive log deletion policy, multi-channel backup, custom parameters, and specifying node backup order
– Supports instance-level and table-level browsing recovery; supports recovery in the shortest time, recovery to the latest state, and recovery to a specified time, and recovery to a specified LSN; supports recovery to the original instance on the original machine, recovery to a different instance on the original machine, and recovery to a different machine
– Supports bringing the database online after recovery, auto retry, and custom parameters during browsing recovery
– Supports instance-level instant recovery; supports recovery in the shortest time, recovery to the latest state, and recovery to a specified time, and recovery to a specified LSN; supports recovery to a different instance on the original machine, and recovery to a different machine
– Supports only mounting, bringing the database online after recovery, enabling quick data access and recovery
– Supports resource allocation and revocation of tenant system
• OceanBase V4 (new)
– Supports cluster-level and tenant-level data backup; supports full backup, incremental backup, real-time log backup
– Supports encryption in transit, auto retry, forced data retention, custom parameters, Optional and Mandatory backup modes, log sharding, backup concurrency, and backup password
– Supports simultaneous backup of data and logs to avoid log accumulation and full production storage due to long backup time
– Supports tenant-level and table-level browsing recovery; supports recovery in the shortest time, recovery to the latest state, recovery to a specified time; Tenant-level recovery supports recovery to the original cluster, and recovery to a different cluster; Table-level recovery supports recovery to the original tenant on the original cluster , recovery to a different tenant on the original cluster, and recovery to a different cluster
– Supports backup password, recovery concurrency, scheduling weight, tenant to primary tenant, tenant upgrade, and custom parameters during browsing recovery
– Supports resource allocation and revocation of tenant system
• Kingbase (backup and recovery reconstructed)
– Supports deduplication
– Supports only mounting, and bringing the database online after recovery during instant recovery to achieve fast data access and recovery
– Supports data compression and data encryption
– Supports bringing the database online after recovery, log archiving, custom configuration files, and custom parameters
– Supports simultaneous backup of data and logs to avoid log accumulation and full production storage due to long backup time
– Supports resource allocation and revocation of tenant system
• MySQL
– Supports instance-level instant recovery
– Supports recovery in the shortest time, recovery to the latest state, and recovery to a specified time during instant recovery
– Supports recovery to a different instance on the original machine, and recovery to a different machine during instant recovery
– Supports D2D2T
– Supports D2O and D2O2O
– Supports resource allocation and revocation of tenant system
• Oracle
– Supports Oracle HA backup and recovery
– Supports real-time log backup for Oracle standalone, Oracle HA, and Oracle RAC with logs on shared storage, achieving higher RPO
– Supports automatic switching to healthy nodes after a node backup fails during serial backup for Oracle RAC
– Supports non-synthetic backup for Windows standalones
– Supports resource allocation and revocation for tenant systems
– Supports D2O and D2O2O
• PostgreSQL, HighGo
– Supports instance-level instant recovery
– Supports recovery in the shortest time, recovery to the latest state, and recovery to a specified time
– Supports custom configuration files, mounting only, bringing the database online after recovery, log archiving, and custom parameters
– Supports preferentially backing up data on the slave server, preferentially backing up data on the master server, only backing up data on the slave server, and only backing up data on the master server
– Supports specifying node backup order, optimizing resource allocation
– Supports resource allocation and revocation of tenant systems
– Supports D2O and D2O2O
• GenericAPP
– Supports resource allocation and revocation of tenant systems
– Supports D2D2T
• GBase 8a
– Supports batch backup and batch recovery
– Supports resource allocation and revocation of tenant systems
– Supports D2D2T
• TiDB
– Supports remote replication, satisfying the data synchronization scenarios across data centers
– Supports cross point in time recovery, enabling more continuous data recovery scenarios
– Supports resource allocation and revocation of tenant systems
• TDSQL
– Supports D2D2T
– Supports resource allocation and revocation of tenant systems
– Supports custom log retention time
• GoldenDB
– Supports D2D2T
– Supports resource allocation and revocation of tenant systems
• DB2
– Added compatibility for backup and recovery of lower versions of DB2 (version 10.5.0.7 and below)
– Supports custom log retention time
– Supports resource allocation and revocation of tenant systems
– Supports D2O and D2O2O
• VMware, H3C UIS, OpenStack, CNware, SmartX, InCloud Sphere, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VE, JDStack, TCE, HCS Online, Hyper-V, ETCD, Active Directory
– Supports D2O and D2O2O
• ZStack: supports GenericAPP solution
– Supports agentless backup and recovery
– Supports full backup, incremental forever backup, original configuration recovery, and specified configuration recovery
– Supports encryption in transit, auto retry, and forced data retention during backup
– Supports auto startup after recovery, recovery to a new VM name, encryption in transit, and auto retry during browsing recovery
– Supports D2O and D2O2O
• H3C CAS: supports remote backup and recovery (i.e., agentless backup and recovery)
– Supports full backup, incremental forever backup, and specified configuration recovery
– Supports encryption in transit, auto retry, and forced data retention during backup
– Supports auto startup after recovery, recovery to a new VM name, encryption in transit, and auto retry during browsing recovery
– Supports D2O and D2O2O
• FusionCompute
– Supports backup and recovery by non-operational administrators, enabling backup and recovery with smaller account permissions, improving security
– Supports D2O and D2O2O
• Huawei Cloud Stack
– Supports backup and recovery by non-operational administrators, enabling backup and recovery with smaller account permissions, improving security
– Optimized hcstool resource residue cleanup tool, supporting convenient switching of resource space to clean up backup snapshots, supports cleaning up backup snapshots of specified volumes or cloud hosts, improving flexibility and security
– Supports resource synchronization of specified region
– Supports D2O and D2O2O
• XenServer (backup and recovery reconstructed)
– Supports deduplication, remote replication, forced data retention and replication across multiple storage services within a domain
– Supports D2O and D2O2O
– Supports recognition of virtual machine protection status and execution status
– Supports virtual machine backup statistics and filtering
• QingCloud (backup and recovery reconstructed)
– Supports remote replication, forced data retention and replication across multiple storage services within a domain
– Supports D2O and D2O2O
– Supports recognition of virtual machine protection status and execution status
– Supports virtual machine backup statistics and filtering
– Supports virtual machine groups for flexible management
• Alibaba Cloud Apsara Stack
– Supports backup and recovery of high-performance cloud disks
– Supports D2O and D2O2O
• Sangfor Cloud Platform
– Supports D2O and D2O2O
• MongoDB: supports physical backup
– Supports full backup, incremental backup, and browsing recovery
– Supports encryption in transit, auto retry, and forced data retention
Disaster Recovery and Migration
• File
– Supports heterogeneous replication to object storage
– Supports incremental forever replication
– Supports custom replication frequency, one-time replication, and periodic replication by hour, minute, or second
– Supports default permissions, automatic conversion, custom permission conversion, and other permission conversion capabilities to achieve custom data access permissions, thus enhancing security
– Supports filtering files by start time; supports multi-threaded scanning and multi-threaded read/write; supports custom file chunk size and segmented upload to improve data replication efficiency
• Oracle
– Achieves Oracle database replication through Oracle real-time log backup and log incremental recovery
– Supports one-click takeover by secondary database
DRM
• Disaster Recovery Management
– Supports file availability verification by simulating the file loading scenario to detect structural damage or abnormal encryption, ensuring file availability
– Supports file availability verification in a data sandbox to prevent the spread of files infected by ransomware
– Supports cascading recovery orchestration, which restores the virtual machine first, then the Oracle, MySQL database in the virtual machine
Unified Operations Management
• Operations Center
– Supports dual-stack deployment of IPv4 and IPv6, supports accessing the operations center via IPv4 or IPv6 on the web, and supports connecting backup domains with IPv4 or IPv6
– Supports smooth update from version 8.0.5.0 to version 8.0.6.0
– Supports operations administrators assigning backup domains to operators, and tenant administrators assigning backup domains to tenant operators, increasing the flexibility of permission allocation
– Supports sending events and alarms using SMTP mail servers
– Supports two-way authentication integration based on the OAuth 2.0 protocol:
n As an authentication client: supports connecting third-party user authentication systems through this protocol and enables password-free login to the operations center
n As an authentication server: supports securely connecting third-party systems to the operations center through this protocol
Public
• Storage Pool
– Supports creating storage pools with SAN media aggregated by multipath
– When creating a storage pool, custom selection of primary storage disks, write acceleration disks, and read cache disks is supported to satisfy various scenarios
– When creating a single-copy block storage pool, custom selection of primary storage disks and acceleration disks is supported. You can also create a RAID as an acceleration disk
– When creating a distributed storage pool, custom selection of primary storage disks, read cache disks, and write acceleration disks is supported
• Storage Media: External media high availability supports manual migration back:
– When the storage pool created using NAS or SAN storage is mapped or mounted on multiple nodes but the node continues to fail, the backup software can automatically migrate the media used by the storage pool to a healthy node. After successful migration, the business is available
– After the failed node recovers, it supports migrating resources back to other nodes to ensure load balancing and improve cluster throughput
• Task
– Supports setting task and activity retention periods through policies to control the retention limits of task and activity records; supports retaining by period or custom retention policies
• Alarm
– Supports adding multiple alarm email addresses and alarm emails can be sent through multiple email addresses
– Supports customizing the body of alarm emails
– Supports setting regular emails for alarm notifications
– When alarms generated based on multiple alarm rules are set to be sent at one time, they can be merged into a single email for notification
• Export Execution Output: Supports exporting the execution output of sub-tasks
• Export SLA: Supports exporting SLAs in formats of txt, xlsx, and csv
• Users and Organizations
– Inspectors have permissions to view tasks
• Product Operations and Maintenance
– Provides backend management tools for CoreDump file management and CoreDump operations and maintenance management, including CoreDump starting, stopping, disabling, and status querying to assist issue diagnosis
New Compatibilities
Backup and Recovery
• Entire Host
– Windows Server 2022 x86
– CentOS 6.5/6.8/6.10/7.4/7.8/7.9 x86
– Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4/6.5/6.6/6.9/7.9/8.9 x86
– Kylin Linux Advanced Server release V10 SP2 x86/aarch64
– SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1/11 SP2/12 SP4 x86
– Rocky Linux 9.4 x86
• OceanBase
– OceanBase V4.2.1
– OceanBase V4.2.5
• TiDB
– TiDB V7.1
– TiDB V7.5
– TiDB V8.1
– TiDB V8.5
• TDSQL
– TDSQL-MySQL v10.3.22.6-5
• DB2
– Linux, AIX, SUSE
– DB2 v9.1
– DB2 v9.5
– DB2 v9.7
– DB2 v10.1
• GoldenDB
– GoldenDB V5.2.01P9+Centos7.7 x86-64
• SmartX
– CloudTower 4.5.0
• H3C CAS
– H3C CAS V7.0 (E0760P03)
– H3C CAS V7.0 (E0782)
– H3C CAS V7.0 (E0785)
– H3C UIS E0802P01
– H3C UIS E0886
• Huawei Cloud Stack
– Huawei Cloud Stack 8.5.0
– Huawei Cloud Stack 8.5.1
• ZStack
– ZStack Cloud 4.8 aarch64
• Sangfor Cloud Platform
– Sangfor Cloud Platform 6.10.0 R2
• Kubernetes cluster
– Kubernetes v1.30 (officially released version)
– Kubernetes v1.31 (officially released version)
Disaster Recovery and Migration
• File
– The target end has added compatibility with object storage: Alibaba Public Cloud, Huawei Public Cloud, UniCloud Public Cloud and Ceph
• Platform
– The source end has added compatibility with CentOS 7.9 (kernel: 3.10.0-1160.el7, 3.10.0-1127.36.2el7, 3.10.0-1127.119.1el7)
– The target end has added compatibility with ZStack 4.8.0 x86
DRM
• DRM and Drill
– Compatible with OceanBase data recovery
– Compatible with Oracle data recovery and instant recovery
– Compatible with MySQL data recovery
• Backup Data Integrity Check
– Supports OSS object storage
Unified Operations Management
• Operations Center
– Supports unified operations management of backup domains of AnyBackup 8.0.5.0 and 8.0.6.0
Public
• Server
– OS
n Telecom customized CtyunOS 2.0.1 x86_64
n HCEOS 2.0 ARM64, kernel 5.10.0-182.0.0.95.r2220_156.hce2
n Kylin V10 SP3 x86_64, kernel version: 4.19.90-89.17.v2401.ky10
n Kylin V10 SP3 ARM64, kernel version: 4.19.90-89.17.v2401.ky10
• Immutable Storage Driver Kernel
– Kylin V10 SP3 x86_64: 4.19.90-52.36.v2207.ky10.x86_64
– Kylin V10 SP3 aarch64: 4.19.90-52.36.v2207.ky10.aarch64
– Kylin V10 SP3 x86_64: 4.19.90-52.39.v2207.ky10.x86_64
– Kylin V10 SP3 aarch64: 4.19.90-52.39.v2207.ky10.aarch64
– Kylin V10 SP3 x86_64: 4.19.90-89.17.v2401.ky10.x86_64
– Kylin V10 SP3 aarch64: 4.19.90-89.17.v2401.ky10.aarch64
Enhanced Features
Enhanced User Experience
• Operations Center
– Automatically locates the current page after browser refresh, reducing repetitive operations caused by refresh
• Storage Pool
– The storage pool list is changed from a tiled mode to a cascading mode, allowing users to quickly locate and select the required storage pool based on hierarchical dependencies
– Distributed, single-copy storage pools support displaying capacity usage and status by node; it also supports displaying the usage rate of the entire storage pool, making it easier for users to understand the current usage and status of the storage pool and nodes
• Backup and Recovery Tasks
– Supports displaying "Speed", "Completed Data Volume", "Stored Data Volume", "Transmitted Data Volume", "Deduplication Ratio", "Storage Pool", "Target End" and "Remarks"
– Support filtering based on "Policy", "Client" and "Remarks"
• Protected Object:
– Supports displaying "Backup Parameters", "Backup Speed", "Recovery Speed", "Last Backup Time", "Last Backup Result", "Last Application Snapshot Time", "Last Backup Data Volume", "Last Application Snapshot Result", and "Next Backup Start Time"
• Resource
– Supports displaying "Sync Intervals", "Creation Time", "Last Successful Sync Time" and "Creator"
Enhanced Functions
• Distributed Storage Pool: Supports disk replacement on AnyBackup console:
– When the main disk of a distributed storage pool fails, replace the faulty disk from the backend, select the faulty disk on AnyBackup console and remove it, and the disk replacement is completed.
– After the disk replacement is completed, the storage pool status will return to normal without the need for command operations in the backend
• Product Menu
– The navigation bar will be displayed after the license is added
• Username and Password
– The special characters supported have been expanded to "[]\:;"',<>?/~!@#$%^&*0) -+=0"
• Alarm and Event
– Supports multi-select queries for event types and levels; supports string matching queries for event descriptions
– Supports multi-select queries for alarm types; supports string matching queries for alarm descriptions
– Events integrate storage-related management operations to meet audit requirements. The integration scenarios are as follows:
n Creating, deleting, editing RAID, and canceling hot spare disks
n Adding storage resource paths to immutable storage
n Configuring SAN, NAS gateway
n Operations related to third-party storage such as SAN, NAS, tape libraries, media sets, and object storage
– Alarms integrate storage media resources and node status changes to meet audit requirements. The integration scenarios are as follows:
n SAN, NAS storage pool migration
n RAID, RAID card, RAID card battery status changes
n Status changes of managed SAN and NAS media
Enhanced Performance
• Remote Replication with Deduplication Enabled
– Optimized remote replication performance for tasks with dedupliation enabled: 100% deduplication rate point-in-time replication performance improved from 2GiB/s to 20GiB/s
Tiered Protection for Data CenterData center protection and ensure data availability
Anti-ransomware SolutionMulti-layered approach for comprehensive data protection
Kubernetes Data ProtectionBuilt for Kubernetes, flexible and simple
Enterprise Cloud Disk SolutionSecure content collaboration workspace
Intelligent Operation of Backup & Recovery SystemUnified monitoring and analysis
