Announcing SQL Safe Backup 8.5.1 General Availability

by Sep 28, 2018

We are pleased to announce the general availability of SQL Safe Backup 8.5.1. Existing users may upgrade to this version through the IDERA Customer Portal. New users may download the trial version from the IDERA website.

IDERA SQL Safe Backup provides a high-performance backup and recovery solution for Microsoft SQL Server. SQL Safe Backup saves money by reducing database backup times by up to 50% over native backups and reducing backup disk space requirements by up to 95%. SQL Safe Backup also enables complete "hands-free" automated backups of your entire SQL Server infrastructure and ensures compliance with your organization's backup and recovery policies. From implementations with tens of SQL Servers to enterprises with hundreds of instances spread around the globe, SQL Safe Backup is the only SQL Server backup and recovery solution that scales to meet the challenge.

What's New in SQL Safe Backup 8.5.1?

  • Support for Government Cloud Storage
    With this release of SQL Safe Backup, we’ve added support for the government sectors of Amazon S3 and Microsoft Azure Blob Storage. This addition will allow users to comply with stricter regulatory and compliance requirements and increase the number of government entities that can use the product.
  • TSM Striped Files
    In prior releases of SQL Safe Backup, the option to write striped backup files to the TSM Server was only available in the SQL Safe Web Console. This option has now been added to the SQL Safe Windows Management Console, which will provide additional flexibility to our end users.

This release also includes several bug fixes. For a detailed list of bug fixes, please review the release notes.

You may learn more about this release from the following resources: