User guide

8 EMC Avamar 7.0 Release Notes
New features and changes
◆ Support for the DB2 Command Line Processor (CLP) for backup, restore, recover, and
roll forward operations. The Avamar Plug-in for DB2 supports the db2 backup, db2
restore, db2 recover, and db2 rollforward commands.
◆ Redirected restores of automatic table spaces.
◆ Support for backups of archived transaction logs, which you can later use for
rollforward operations.
IBM Lotus Domino
The Avamar Plug-in for Lotus Domino includes the following new features:
◆ Multiple installations of the Domino server on a single UNIX host in release 7.0.
◆ Multiple backup streams. The use of multiple backup streams enables the Avamar
Plug-in for Lotus Domino to back up the Domino files and the transaction logs in
parallel streams. Multiple backup streams can improve the rate at which the Avamar
Plug-in for Lotus Domino writes data to the Avamar server or the Data Domain system.
Microsoft Exchange VSS
The Avamar Plug-in for Exchange VSS includes the following new features and
enhancements in release 7.0:
◆ Support for Exchange Server 2013.
◆ Support for granular level recovery (GLR) of mailbox items to a different mailbox than
the original mailbox.
◆ New option that enables you to choose whether to back up passive database copies,
active database copies, or a combination of both in a Database Availability Group
(DAG) or cluster environment.
Microsoft Hyper-V VSS
The Avamar Plug-in for Hyper-V VSS includes the following new features and
enhancements in release 7.0 and release 7.0 Service Pack 1:
◆ Avamar release 7.0 Service Pack 1 includes Hyper-V 2012 R2 support and 2-5 times
faster Hyper-V backup using multiple proxies.
◆ Support for Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012 with the following types of virtual
machine storage:
• Local volumes
• Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV)
• Server Message Block (SMB) 3.0 file shares
◆ New option to promote backups from copy to full for the in-guest shadow copy that
occurs during an image-level backup of a Hyper-V server with Windows Server 2012.
◆ Support for excluding virtual machines from both on-demand and scheduled
image-level backups.
◆ New command to control how long the temporary file system for granular level
recovery (GLR) remains mounted.