New Features for Databases in Commvault Platform Release 2023E

Enhancements to Support of Azure Database for MySQL and PostgreSQL

Commvault support of the following enhancements to Azure database for MySQL and PostgreSQL:

Support to back up and restore Azure database for MySQL Flexible Server and PostgreSQL Flexible Server.
Support for Active Directory (AD) to authenticate the database user for Azure database for MySQL and PostgreSQL.

For more information, see the following:

Enhancements to PostgreSQL Database in Azure, Amazon RDS, Alibaba, and Google Cloud

The following enhancements are made to the PostgreSQL database in Azure, Amazon RDS, Alibaba, and Google Cloud:

Support for version 15.x
Back up and restore DumpBased backupsets using parallel jobs.
Back up global objects in DumpBased backupsets.

Application-Integrated Protection for Amazon RDS Custom Databases

You can protect and recover your Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle and RDS Custom for SQL Server databases with Amazon RDS native snapshots and application-integrated streaming backups. The kinds of protection you can use depend on whether the Commvault agent is installed on the Amazon RDS compute instance or on the access node.

For more information, see the following:

Back Up and Recover Amazon Aurora, Amazon RDS, and Salesforce by Using AWS Graviton

Commvault software has expanded its AWS Graviton-powered data management to include Amazon Aurora, Amazon RDS, and Salesforce protection. Amazon Aurora, Amazon RDS, and Salesforce service-independent backup and recovery can now be performed with AWS Graviton-based Amazon EC2 instances.

For more information, see the following:

Forever Incremental Backups for Large Oracle Databases Hosted on AWS or Azure

For smaller to medium-sized databases, RMAN streaming backups normally complete in the backup window, which allows weekly full backups to take place. For large databases that are several terabytes in size, getting a full backup to complete within the backup window becomes a challenge. This feature allows you to schedule just incremental jobs every day and provides for creation of synthetic full backups on media on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. The incremental backups use snapshots and complete more quickly because they only need to read a list of snapshot changed blocks provided by AWS and Azure APIs.

If you have previously downloaded and used the amazon_DB_FS_permissions.json file and want to use the this feature, you need to download and apply the Commvault Platform Release 2023E version or a later version of this file, since it has the ebs:ListSnapshotBlocks permission defined.

For more information, see the following:

Automated Oracle Encrypted Database Backup and Restore

If an Oracle database is encrypted, the Oracle Wallet files are automatically backed up and restored.

For more information, see Oracle Wallet Backup and Restore.

Restore an Oracle or Oracle RAC Database to Disk

You can restore the archive files (backup sets) for a specific backup job or multiple backup jobs directly to a location on a disk, at the same time.

For more information, see the following:

Protect Amazon DynamoDB Standard-Infrequent Access Tables

You can now protect both DynamoDB Standard and DynamoDB Standard Infrequent Access (DynamoDB Standard-IA) table classes.

For more information, see the following: