User guide

New features and changes
EMC Avamar 7.0 Release Notes 7
Backup clients
Avamar clients and plug-ins were updated in release 7.0 and release 7.0 Service Pack 1 to
include several new features and enhancements.
Details on new and existing platform and environment support is available in the
EMC
Avamar Compatibility and Interoperability Matrix
on EMC Online Support at
https://support.EMC.com.
New features for multiple clients
Multiple clients and plug-ins include 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 new client platform support:
• MAC OS X 10.9 (Maverick)
• Ubuntu 12.04, 12.10, 13.04 and 13.10
•Debian 7
◆ Avamar clients and plug-ins now support installation to a non-default directory.
Note: For the SAP with Oracle plug-in, if you set the setuid or setgid bits on the
brbackup or brarchive executables on UNIX or Linux systems, then you must
install the file system client and plug-in in the default installation directory.
◆ Client logs are now located in the C:\Program Files\avs\var\clientlogs
folder, where
C:\Program Files\avs is the Avamar client installation folder on Windows
computers. On Linux and Mac computers, the logs are in the
/usr/local/avamar/clientlogs folder. This folder allows full access to users
that do not have root or administrator privileges.
◆ Avamar client and plug-in software requires that the client computer have an
additional 2 GB of available permanent hard drive space for each 1 million files that
Avamar backs up.
◆ A new configuration wizard, the Avamar Cluster Configuration Tool, enables you to
configure a cluster client for backup and restore of shared data in a Windows cluster
for all Avamar plug-ins that support Windows clusters.
◆ The IBM DB2, IBM Lotus Domino, Oracle, SAP with Oracle, and Sybase ASE plug-ins
now support multiple concurrent backup and restore operations. You can select a
maximum of six concurrent operations.
IBM DB2
The Avamar Plug-in for DB2 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 support for IBM DB2 10.5.
◆ Support for multiple DB2 versions on a single host.
◆ Multi session backup and recovery.
◆ Data deduplication optimization.