User guide

10 EMC Avamar 7.0 Release Notes
New features and changes
NDMP Accelerator
The Avamar NDMP Accelerator includes support for the following new features and
enhancements in release 7.0:
◆ NetApp ONTAP 8.1.
◆ VNX 7.1.34.0 and VNXe 2.3.0.
◆ EMC Isilon NAS devices.
◆ Backup from a Celerra replication target.
Oracle
The Avamar Plug-in for Oracle includes the following new features and enhancements in
release 7.0:
◆ Support for incremental backups with Block Change Tracking either enabled or
disabled.
◆ Improved data deduplication performance through the Filesperset option, which
specifies the number of files to include in each backup set.
◆ Support for level 1 cumulative backups, which include database blocks that have
changed since the most recent level 0 backup. This is in addition to support for level 1
differential backups, which include all database blocks that have changed since the
most recent incremental backup or level 0 backup. Level 1 differential backups were
already supported by the Avamar Plug-in for Oracle.
◆ Support for offline backups by using RMAN.
◆ Support for the ability to select whether or not to use reset logs after roll-forward
recovery by using the Open the database with resetlogs after recovery advanced
option in Avamar Administrator.
◆ Support for preprocessing and postprocessing scripts for both backup and restore
operations that you perform in Avamar Administrator. Preprocessing and
postprocessing scripts are user-written shell scripts (.sh) on UNIX or Linux. On
Windows, scripts are batch scripts (.bat), Visual Basic scripts (.vbs), and JScripts
(.js).
◆ Support for Oracle Exadata for the following configurations:
• Oracle Database Machine
• Exadata Storage Server (attached to an external database server)
The Avamar Plug-in for Oracle supports the same environment for Oracle Exadata
(including the Oracle database versions, operating system versions, and Avamar
versions) as the environment that the Avamar Plug-in for Oracle supports for Oracle
RAC. The
EMC Avamar Compatibility and Interoperability Matrix provides more
information about supported environments for the Avamar Plug-in for Oracle.
You must install and configure the Avamar Plug-in for Oracle on the Exadata database
server the same way you install and configure the Avamar Plug-in for Oracle in Oracle
for Real Application Clusters (RAC) configurations. To run backups and restores of
data stored in an Oracle Exadata configuration, follow the same instructions for
Oracle RAC environments. The
EMC Avamar for Oracle User Guide provides more
information.