Backup and Recovery
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Backup and Recovery 7.1
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  • Storware Backup & Recovery documentation
    • Table of Contents
  • Changelog
  • Overview
    • Main Features
    • Storware Backup and Recovery concepts
      • Support Matrix
      • Architecture
      • Components
      • Backup types
      • Typical Scenarios
    • Licensing
    • Product Life Cycle
  • Deployment
    • Component requirements
    • Supported platforms requirements
    • Sizing Guide
      • Small
      • Medium
      • Large
    • Installation
      • ISO-based installation
      • Quick Installation using all-in-one script
      • Installation using Ansible playbook
      • Installation with RPMs
      • Deployment in Microsoft Azure
      • Virtual Appliance
        • RHV/oVirt/OLVM Virtual Appliance
        • Citrix Hypervisor | XCP-ng Virtual Appliance
        • VMware Virtual Appliance
        • Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV)
    • Initial Configuration
    • Backup Destinations
      • File System
        • Synthetic File System
          • XFS
          • DD Boost
        • isoLayer (Synthetic)
        • File system
          • Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO)
        • Catalogic Software vStor
      • Deduplication Appliances
        • Dell EMC Data Domain
        • Huawei OceanProtect
        • HPE StoreOnce
        • Exagrid
        • Neverfail HybriStor
      • Object Storage
        • Alibaba Cloud OSS
        • AWS S3 or S3-compatible
        • Ceph Rados Gateway
        • Cloudian S3
        • Wasabi
        • Google Cloud Storage
        • IBM Cloud Object Storage
        • Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
        • Nutanix Objects
        • OpenStack SWIFT
        • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage
        • Scality RING
      • Enterprise Backup Providers
        • Dell EMC Avamar
        • Dell EMC Networker
        • IBM Spectrum Protect
        • Micro Focus Data Protector
        • Veritas NetBackup
        • Rubrik Managed Volumes
      • Tape Pools
    • High Availability
      • 2 Node Cluster
      • 3 Node Cluster
    • Common tasks
      • Staging space configuration
      • Enabling HTTPS connectivity for nodes
      • LVM setup on Storware Backup & Recovery Node for disk attachment backup mode
      • Full versions of libvirt/qemu packages installation
      • SSH public key authentication
      • Enabling HTTP(S) Proxy for Storware Backup & Recovery
  • Protecting Virtual Environments
    • Virtual Machines
      • VMware vSphere/ESXi
      • Microsoft Hyper-V
      • Azure Stack HCI
      • Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV)
      • Red Hat Openshift Virtualization
      • Red Hat Virtualization
      • oVirt
      • Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager
      • Oracle VM
      • Proxmox VE
      • KVM/Xen
      • OpenStack
      • OpenNebula
      • Virtuozzo
      • Verge
      • Citrix Hypervisor (XenServer)
      • XCP-ng
      • Huawei FusionCompute
      • HPE SimpliVity
      • SC//Platform
    • Cloud
      • Amazon EC2
      • GCP GCE
      • Azure Cloud
    • Containers
      • Kubernetes
      • Red Hat OpenShift
      • Proxmox VE
    • Backup & Restore
    • v2v migration
  • Protecting Microsoft 365
    • Microsoft 365 organization management
      • Configure Microsoft 365 access
      • Add Microsoft 365 organization manually
      • Add Microsoft 365 organization using the Setup Assistant
      • Account auto-synchronization
    • Backup & Restore
    • Suppoted Sharepoint templates and limitations
  • File Level Backup and Restore - OS Agent
  • Protecting Applications
    • Applications
      • MSSQL
      • MySQL/MariaDB
      • PostgreSQL
      • DB2
      • Oracle
      • Relax and Recover - ReaR
      • Git
      • oVirt/RHV/OLVM
      • Kubernetes/OpenShift etcd
    • Backup & Restore
  • Protecting Storage Providers
    • Storage Providers
      • Ceph RBD
      • Nutanix Files
      • Nutanix Volume Groups
    • Backup & Restore
  • Administration
    • Dashboard
    • Virtual Environments
      • Instances
        • Backup on-demand
        • Restore on-demand
        • Snapshot Management
      • Virtualization Providers
      • Backup SLAs
        • Policies
        • Schedules
      • Snapshot SLAs
        • Policies
        • Schedules
      • Recovery Plans
        • Policies
        • Schedules
      • Mounted Backups (File-level Restore)
    • Storage
      • Instances
        • Backup on-demand
        • Restore on-demand
      • Infrastructure
      • Backup SLAs
        • Policies
        • Schedules
      • Snapshot SLAs
        • Policies
        • Schedules
      • Mounted Backups (File-level Restore)
    • Cloud
      • Instances
      • Service Providers
      • Backup SLAs
        • Policies
        • Schedules
      • Download
    • Applications
      • Instances
      • Execution Configurations
      • Backup SLAs
    • Endpoints
      • Environment
      • Administrators
      • Endpoints Server Management
        • Dashboard
        • Packages
        • Organizations
      • Endpoints Administrator
        • Dashboard
        • Users
          • Local users
          • LDAP users
        • Devices
          • Devices list view
          • Device status
        • Backup SLA
          • Create a Backup SLA
            • GENERAL
            • WINDOWS
            • MAC OS (technical preview)
            • EMAIL CLIENTS
          • Backup SLA management
          • Backup SLA removal
        • Restore Jobs
        • Client Deployments
    • Reporting
      • Virtual Environments
      • Storage
      • Microsoft 365
      • Applications
      • Notifications
      • Audit Log
    • Nodes
      • Instances
      • Node Configurations
    • Access Management
      • Users
      • Groups
      • Roles
      • OS Credentials
    • Settings
      • Global Settings
      • Internal DB Backup
      • Notification Rules
      • Mailing Lists
      • Endpoints Global Settings
    • Upgrade
    • CLI Reference
    • CLI v2 Reference
  • Integration
  • Integration Plugins
    • Red Hat Virtualization UI Plugin
    • oVirt UI Plugin
    • Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager UI Plugin
    • OpenStack UI Plugin
  • Troubleshooting
    • Enable DEBUG mode in Storware Backup and Recovery
    • Collecting logs
    • External log targets
    • Disaster Recovery
  • Known software issues and limitations
  • Glossary
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  • Life Cycle Dates
  • Storware Backup and Recovery Life Cycle
  • Full Support Phase:
  • Maintenance Support Phase:
  • Upgrade Policy for Major Releases:
  • Upgrade Policy for Minor Releases:
  • Security Updates:
  • Delivery of Storware Backup and Recovery Advisories:
  • Storware Backup and Recovery compatibility
  1. Overview

Product Life Cycle

The Storware Backup and Recovery product Support Life Cycle phases are described here:

Description
Full Support
Maintenance Support

Access to previously released content

Yes

Yes

Technical Support

Yes

Yes

Problems and Bugs Fixes

Yes

No

Security Issues Fixes

Yes

Yes (if possible)

  1. Technical Support depends on the service level included in your Storware Backup and Recovery license agreement.

  2. Storware may choose, as an intermediate measure, to address serious issues that have an impact to customer business with a hotfix, while a Storware Bug Fix Advisory is created and verified.

Life Cycle Dates

The Storware Backup and Recovery Product Support Life Cycle dates are described here:

General Availability
Full support ends
End of support

Storware Backup and Recovery 7.1

01.01.2025

01.01.2026

01.01.2027

Storware Backup and Recovery 7.0

25.09.2024

25.09.2025

25.09.2026

Storware Backup and Recovery 6.2

14.03.2024

14.03.2025

14.03.2026

Storware Backup and Recovery 6.1

25.10.2023

25.10.2024

25.10.2025

Storware Backup and Recovery 6.0

04.07.2023

04.07.2024

04.07.2025

Storware Backup and Recovery 5.2

12.12.2022

12.12.2023

12.12.2024

Storware Backup and Recovery 5.1

08.07.2022

08.07.2023

08.07.2024

Storware Backup and Recovery 5.0

31.01.2022

30.01.2023

30.01.2024

vProtect 4.3

28.07.2021

27.07.2022

27.07.2023

Kodo for Cloud 4.3

31.08.2021

30.08.2022

30.08.2023

Kodo for Cloud 4.2

16.02.2021

15.01.2022

15.01.2023

Kodo for Endpoint 4.1

24.06.2021

23.06.2022

23.06.2023

Kodo for Endpoint 4.0

15.04.2020

14.04.2021

14.04.2022

Storware Backup and Recovery Life Cycle

Full Support Phase:

During the Full Support phase, qualified Critical and Important Security issues will be addressed with released High Priority Bug Fix as they become available. Other Fix Advisories, may be delivered as appropriate.

For any minor release made available during this phase, the available and qualified Fix Advisories will be cumulatively included with the contents of previously released product updates. This means that if a customer is running an older version of the product and reports a bug, that bug will be fixed in the latest version of the software and a customer may need to upgrade to take advantage of that fix.

Maintenance Support Phase:

During the Maintenance Support phase, which starts with the second year after release, the defined Critical and Important Security Fix Advisories may be released as they become available. No other fixes to the software are available.

Upgrades and updates are still to be delivered within this period.

Upgrade Policy for Major Releases:

Storware will provide a supported upgrade path between major releases for Storware Backup and Recovery. Upgrades will be supported between the latest minor release of previous version to the most current version of the next higher major release. In these cases, the upgrade process will be limited to support upgrading from the latest minor release of the previous version to the new major version.

For example:

  • Upgrading from vProtect 4.0 to Storware Backup and Recovery 5.0 is supported, assuming vProtect 4.3 being the most current release of the 4.x series and intermediary update to 4.3 is required in such case.

Upgrade from Beta / Pre-release releases to a fully supported release is not supported.

Upgrade Policy for Minor Releases:

Customers are expected to update new minor releases as and when they become available. Accelerated fixes will not be provided for issues that have been previously fixed in a subsequent release; customers are expected and encouraged to keep their systems current and upgraded to the latest version of product to keep up to date on all patches and fixes.

In circumstances where the reported issue is not fixed in the current shipping release, the customer is still expected to upgrade their systems to the latest release (n) or in some exceptional cases, the immediate previous release (n-1). This is to ensure that any fixes are developed and verified against the latest or the immediate previous release.

Security Updates:

Throughout the support lifecycle, qualified security issues of Critical or Important impact, as well as select mission-critical bugs, will be addressed by updated packages.

Delivery of Storware Backup and Recovery Advisories:

For the high-priority bugs and vulnerabilities Storware announces Fix Advisories with the recommendation to update to the specified version. Fixes are always included with the next version of packages (as the regular RPM updates).

Fix Advisories may contain security or bug fixes. All Fix Advisories are tested and qualified against the respective, active Storware Backup and Recovery major release.

All released Fix Advisories remain accessible to active subscribers for the entire Storware Backup and Recovery life cycle.

Storware actively develops only the last major version’s minor release (for example a bug found in vProtect 4.3 or vProtect 4.2 after the release of Storware Backup and Recovery 5.0 could only be fixed in the newest build of vProtect 4.3 release).

Fix Advisories or hotfixes for earlier releases are provided at the discretion of Storware to address critical impact security issues with a significant customer business impact.

During the life cycle of a major release Storware makes commercially reasonable efforts to maintain binary compatibility for the core runtime environment across all minor releases and Fix Advisories. If necessary, Storware may make exceptions to this compatibility goal for critical impact security issues or other significant issues.

Storware Backup and Recovery compatibility

Each minor version of product delivers a new Compatibility Level based on the minor version number. Each release supports at least the current and previous minor release Compatibility Level.

Release
Release Date
Supported Compatibility Levels

7.1

01.01.2025

Storware Backup and Recovery 5.x; Storware Backup and Recovery 6.x;

7.0

25.09.2024

Storware Backup and Recovery 5.x; Storware Backup and Recovery 6.x;

6.2

14.03.2024

vProtect: 3.9.x, 4.x; Storware Backup and Recovery 5.x; Storware Backup and Recovery 6.x; Kodo for Endpoints: 4.1

6.1

25.10.2023

vProtect: 3.9.x, 4.x; Storware Backup and Recovery 5.x; Storware Backup and Recovery 6.x; Kodo for Endpoints: 4.1

6.0

04.07.2023

vProtect: 3.9.x, 4.x; Storware Backup and Recovery 5.x; Kodo for Endpoints: 4.1

5.2

12.12.2022

vProtect: 3.9.x, 4.x; Storware Backup and Recovery 5.x; Kodo for Endpoints: 4.1

5.1

08.07.2022

vProtect: 3.9.x, 4.x; Storware Backup and Recovery 5.0; Kodo for Endpoints: 4.1

5.0

31.01.2022

vProtect: 3.9.x, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3;

Kodo for Cloud: migration required;

Kodo for Endpoints: 4.1

4.1 (vProtect)

28.01.2021

vProtect: 3.9, 3.9.1, 3.9.2

4.3 (Kodo for Cloud)

31.08.2021

4.2, 4.1

4.1 (Kodo for Endpoints)

24.06.2021

4.0

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