Project:Zmanda Cloud Backup 4.1 > Zmanda Cloud Backup 4.1 Release notes > Upgrading from ZCB 3.0.x or older releases
Table of contents
- 1.1. Functionality
- 1.2. Usability
- 1.3. Performance
- 1.4. Localization
- 2. Upgrading from ZCB 3.0.x or older release
ZCB 4.1 has significant changes in functionality and in user interface since ZCB 3.0.x. We strongly recommend upgrading to ZCB 4.1 as we will soon stop supporting release 3.0.x releases and older releases.
The major changes in ZCB 4.1 are
Functionality
- Selective backup of MS-SQL and MS Exchange Server
- Differential backup of MS SharePoint
- Backup and Recovery of MySQL databases
- Backup and Recovery of Oracle databases
- Backup to cloud now backs up to cloud directly, without using any local disk storage. The earlier functionality (of backing up to local disk as well as cloud) is still available under the name Backup to both disk and cloud.
- Pause/Resume of a Backup to cloud operation
- Support for custom Pre-Restore and Post-Restore actions
- Improved retention policy implementation to allow better backup data protection
- Support for Amazon S3 – Tokyo, US West (Oregon) and Brazil
- Time based bandwidth throttling
- Different retention policy for each backup schedule
- Bulk deployment of Zmanda Cloud Backup to multiple machines
Usability
- A new GUI with usability improvements
- Backup set configuration in one page
- Parallel uploads and downloads within a backup set
- Configure number of threads for upload/download
- Flexible scheduling options
- User friendly email notification functionality
- Monitoring and Reporting across backup sets
Performance
- Significantly faster downloads and uploads (upto 3 times faster) allowing user to better utilize available server network bandwidth and internet bandwidth
- Parallel backup, restore, validate and estimate operations across backup sets
- Faster downloads in case of selective recovery
Localization
- Japanese support
- German support
- Traditional and Simplified Chinese support
- Korean support
Upgrading from ZCB 3.0.x or older release
- [Not required for upgrades from ZCB 3.0.2] First, you need to un-install ZCB 3.0.1 or older release, though you can retain your existing configuration/data. To do so, during the un-install process, please select yes to preserving configuration and data if you wish to do so.
- Download the Zmanda Cloud Backup 4.1 software from Zmanda Network (Zmanda Network credentials are required).
- Please make sure system requirements such as Java JRE 6 Update 20 or later or JRE 7 are installed. You need to install 32bit version if you are using 32bit Windows and 64bit version of Java if you are using 64bit Windows.
- Run the installer .exe file. It will extract the archive contents and run setup.exe automatically.
- After installation is complete, you can begin using ZCB 4.1. Please refer to ZCB Quick Start guide which is available in the ZCB user interface (Help>Getting Started with ZCB).
- Zmanda Cloud Backup documentation is available in the ZCB user interface (Help>ZCB User Guide, Help>ZCB FAQ).
Note: For known issues and workarounds, please see the Known issues page.