We are pleased to announce the general availability of SQL Safe Backup 8.6.
IDERA SQL Safe Backup provides a mission-critical backup and recovery solution for Microsoft SQL Server deployments in environments ranging from small business and departmental to large scale enterprise. For all of these environments, SQL Safe Backup drastically lowers the cost of ownership for managing ongoing SQL Server backup/restore and verify operations.
SQL Safe Highlights:
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For restore operations, SQL Safe Instant Restore brings SQL Server databases back online faster than any solution in the market.
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Directly mount backup files as Virtual Databases allowing almost instant access for Object Level Restore, Point-in-time selection and full native SQL Server and third-party application access with no need for lengthy restore operations.
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SQL Safe provides flexible backup, restore or verify data target support across any combination of data center, AWS, Azure and select Enterprise Storage products.
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Deploy, manage and operate in the data center, AWS or Azure.
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The SQL Safe policy engine makes it easy to design, manage and edit automation policies to implement both simple and complex, automated data protection schemes.
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Provides reductions in database backup times by up to 50% over native backups and reduces backup disk space requirements by up to 95%.
What’s New in SQL Safe Backup 8.6
This release focused on adding performance and scale improvements to our cloud target support as well as extending our mission-critical capabilities with full SQL Always-On integration.
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Significantly improved capabilities, performance, and scale for backup/restore operations to the cloud for large databases targeting either Amazon S3, Azure or both.
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Full, transparent integration with SQL Server Always On Clusters
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SQL Safe repository will support transparent failover with continued operations
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Greatly streamlined file and connection management for AWS S3 and Azure cloud backups and restores.
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Enhanced resilience mechanisms to recover from connection failures and to continue to make progress in the face of intermittent network connectivity.
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Enhancements to Instant Restore and Virtual Database functions
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Improved diagnostics for backup and restore operations.
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Continued optimizations in cloud targets and Enterprise Storage Systems support:
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Subfolder target support for both AWS S3 and Azure
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Native format backup to AWS S3
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Native format backup to Tivoli Storage Manager
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Windows 2019 Support
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Preliminary SQL Server 2019 Support
This release also includes a number of defect resolutions. For a detailed list of defects addressed in this release, please review the release notes.
Product Links for this release
- Existing users may upgrade to this version through the IDERA Customer Portal.
- New customers can access the trial version via the IDERA website.
- Product Release Notes
- Product Known Issues
- Product Webpage
- Community Forum