User guide

Product description
EMC Avamar 7.0 Release Notes 3
Product description
EMC
®
Avamar
®
is backup and recovery software with integrated data deduplication
technology. Avamar solves the challenges associated with traditional backup, enabling
fast, reliable backup and recovery for remote offices, VMware
®
environments, and data
center LANs. Unlike traditional solutions, Avamar reduces the size of backup data at the
source — before it transfers across the network and stores to disk. As a result, Avamar
delivers fast, efficient daily full backups despite slow or congested infrastructure, and
data encryption for added security. Avamar uses patented RAIN technology for high
availability, and a scalable grid architecture enables you to upgrade capacity and
performance when necessary.
New features and changes
The following topics provide details on the new features and changes in Avamar 7.0 and
Avamar 7.0 Service Pack 1 for each product component.
IMPORTANT
If you are upgrading to Avamar 7.0 or Avamar 7.0 Service Pack 1from an earlier release to
take advantage of new features and changes, review the information in “Upgrade
requirements for Avamar 7.0 and Avamar 7.0 Service Pack 1” on page 70 before the
upgrade.
02 October 11, 2013 • Updated “Known problems and limitations” on page 36 to
remove bugs 52484 and 50875, which were fixed.
• Added the section “Fixed problems for the Avamar 7.0 GA
release” on page 29.
• Updated “Technical notes” on page 60 to add information
about support for removable media in Avamar
Desktop/Laptop.
• Updated “Oracle database plug-in” on page 50 to include
workarounds for bugs 50021 and 46892.
• Updated “Documentation errata” on page 68 to add
corrections for the Port and Network Requirements appendix
of the
EMC Avamar Product Security Guide .
• Updated “Documentation errata” on page 68 to add
corrections to the
EMC Avamar Operational Best Practices ,
EMC Avamar Backup Clients User Guide , and EMC Avamar for
Oracle User Guide
.
• Added support for Oracle Exadata configurations in “Oracle”
on page 10.
01 July 10, 2013 Initial release of Avamar 7.0.
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