❗ Important

Our Cloud services are being updated in stages. If you do not see the updates mentioned here yet, they will be available in your region soon. To know more, see Druva Cloud Upgrade Process.

There is a new version of a Linux-based CloudCache, R3, with the following benefits:

📝 Notes

Customer action required: You can deploy CloudCache R3 in your environment, or VMware, or a Physical Server by using the appropriate form factors such as QCOW2, OVA, or a .deb package. For more information, refer to Set up CloudCache and Phoenix Downloads.

We have introduced a new Events API that will allow you to get a list and view of all the events across VMware workload. For more information, see API reference documentation on the Druva developer portal.

Customer action required: None.

You can deploy the VMware proxy using the VMware Proxy Deployer tool, which deploys a proxy VM in your vCenter/ESXi environment to protect vSphere virtual machines. The VMware proxy deployer tool now provides additional features such as OVA upload and pre-checks for better error handling. For more information, see Deploy VMware proxy using VMware Proxy Deployer.

Customer action required: Download the VMware Remote proxy deployer tool (.msi) from the Downloads page and install it on any machine to deploy a new proxy (if required).

You can now restore to an alternate location by using the Restore To Alternate Instance Request API. This actionable API can be used to restore a SQL database to an alternate instance. For more information, see API reference documentation on the Druva developer portal.

Customer action required: None.

❗ Important

The new agents and proxies for Enterprise Workloads will be available for download latest by the next Monday in all the supported AWS regions.

Druva introduces the Auto Configuration Rules feature that allows you to automatically configure your Azure VMs for backup.

Auto config rules automate the process of setting up and filtering Azure VMs using tags. These VMs are then seamlessly protected based on your policy schedules. For more information, see Manage Auto Configuration Rule.

Customer action required : None.

Druva now supports failback and failover of virtual machines on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.0. For more information, see Disaster recovery support matrix, prerequisites, and limitations.

Customer action required: Upgrade VMware backup proxy to version 6.3.4-403650.

If you do not set authentication correctly, the database discovery and backup operations fail. To address this, the RMAN operations are now executed by the SYSDBA role by default if the role is not set correctly, resuming the discovery and backup operations seamlessly. For more information, see Prerequisites for Oracle servers.

Customer action required: Upgrade the Oracle agent to version 6.1.2.399564.

You will need to regenerate activation tokens, if you want to deploy a new proxy or agent and have generated a token in the previous 30 days. All previously generated tokens will automatically expire.

📝 Note
​ This will have no impact on previously deployed agents or proxies.

Customer action required : To register a new server, virtual machine, or NAS proxy, generate a new activation token on the Enterprise Workloads Management Console.
Here's an illustration for File Servers. You can generate the tokens for your respective workloads in a similar fashion.

❗ Important

The new agents and proxies for Enterprise Workloads will be available for download latest by the next Monday in all the supported AWS regions.

All existing activation tokens will expire on November 20, 2023. With the upcoming release, you will need to regenerate activation tokens, if you want to deploy a new proxy or agent and have generated a token in the previous 30 days.

📝 Note
​ This will have no impact on previously deployed agents or proxies.

Customer action required : To register a new server, virtual machine, or NAS proxy, generate a new activation token on the Enterprise Workloads Management Console.
Here's an illustration for File Servers. You can generate the tokens for your respective workloads in a similar fashion.

You can now protect virtual machines deployed in Azure Cloud. The data protection solution leverages Druva's air-gapped backup and restoration solution for end-to-end protection of Azure VMs over Druva cloud. You can now experience seamless and secure onboarding of Azure subscriptions to Druva. The offering provides an agentless, cloud-native SaaS solution that ensures simple, secure, and air-gapped backups for Azure VMs and reduces storage costs significantly. Druva protects Azure VM data from ransomware by creating an encrypted backup copy of your data in Druva's Cloud, that is inaccessible to attackers.

For more information, see Backup and Restore Azure Virtual Machines.

Customer action required : Contact your Account Manager for more information.

Here's a sneak peek:

Druva has consolidated Hybrid, AWS, and Azure workload data protection into a single solution named Enterprise Workloads. To align with this integration, the Hybrid Workloads Management Console has been renamed to Enterprise Workloads Management Console.

Customer action required : None.

Earlier, for performing backup and restore of Oracle database, the user required a SYSDBA role. Now, the user can have either SYSDBA or SYSBACKUP role in order to perform these actions. The authentication fails and you get an error if the user doesn't have either of these roles.

Customer action required : Upgrade the agent to version 6.1.2-391253.

Now, you have the ability to specify a custom name for the database being created when restoring a single database. This feature gives you greater flexibility and control over your database management, ensuring that the restored databases align with your naming conventions and organizational practices. For more information, see our guides to Restore a SQL server database using transaction logs and Restore SQL server databases using recovery points.

Customer action required : Upgrade the agent to version 6.3.3-359142.

❗ Important

The new agents and proxies for Enterprise Workloads will be available for download latest by the next Monday in all the supported AWS regions.

As Archive tier is suitable only for the data that is not changing, additive in nature and retained for long time, Druva is changing the Archive retention mechanism to 'Yearly'-only format. For non-Archive (regular and LTR) policies, customers can continue using retention in Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Yearly formats.

For more information, see Protect File Server and NAS data in Archive storage tier.

Customer action required: Edit the existing Archive settings in the backup policies to provide yearly-only retention.

❗ Important

Archive is not suitable for frequently modified data. As the archive data is retained for one year or more, it may result in higher credit consumption for such data.
Archive is best suited for the data that rarely changes and requires higher retention.

For more information, see Protect File Server and NAS data in Archive storage tier.

Druva customers can now avail benefits of Archive for their sensitive workloads running in the GovCloud, where the data doesn't change frequently but needs to be retained for extended periods for compliance or other purposes. Also, to use the Archive feature, Druva no longer enforces minimum file size limits.

In the event of RedHat's announcement of discontinuation of CentOS, Druva has discontinued CentOS-based AWS proxies that will follow Druva’s EOS cycle. Druva now introduces Ubuntu-based AWS proxies that will be used for the recovery of your virtual machines seamlessly in the event of a disaster. For more information, see Deploying CloudFormation stack template for migrating AWS Proxy from CentOS to Ubuntu.

Customer action required: Migrate the existing CentOS proxy to Ubuntu using the new CloudFormation Template that will be available on September 25.

We have now optimized the restore workflow, leading to time and cost savings.

Customer action required: Upgrade the DR AWS proxy to version 6.3.4-372005. For more information, see Deploying CloudFormation stack template for migrating AWS Proxy from CentOS to Ubuntu.

❗ Important

The new agents and proxies for Enterprise Workloads will be available for download latest by the next Monday in all the supported AWS regions.

Druva now supports VMware backup proxy on the Ubuntu 22.04 operating system to back up and restore​ virtual machines. Going forward, all the new features will only be supported on the Ubuntu-based proxy.
CentOS 7-based VMWare proxy will follow its regular EOS cycle, as the CentOS community and RedHat announced the sunset of CentOS in December 2020. For more information, see End-of-support policy of Druva.
The existing backup and restore will not be impacted.

Customer action required: Deploy the new Ubuntu-based backup proxy and then delete the existing CentOS-based backup proxy. For more information, see article.

Druva now supports sudo users for Linux virtual machines for Unusual Data Activity (UDA). For more information, see Assign credentials.

Customer action required: Upgrade the VMware proxy to version 6.3.2-359254.

You can now use Hybrid Workloads for SAP HANA to restore your database backups to a different SAP HANA system. This new functionality will allow you to create copies of the database. Both SYSTEMDB and tenant databases can be restored to an alternate system. For further details, see Restore a database to a different SAP HANA System.

Customer action required: Upgrade the agent to version 7.0.0-327748.

❗ Important

The new agents and proxies for Enterprise Workloads will be available for download latest by the next Monday in all the supported AWS regions.

Druva now supports the automatic deletion of malicious files during a sandbox recovery workflow. You can now select the Delete Malicious Files option to remove malicious files found from post-restore scan results. In addition, you can view a list of deleted files with details such as file name, path, and reason for deletion. For more information, see Restore virtual machines using sandbox.

Customer action required: Upgrade VMware proxy to version 6.3.2 or above to delete malicious files.

When initiating a backup, you can now enable the Fallback to crash consistent backup option to capture a crash-consistent recovery point if quiescing of the VMware snapshot fails. Recovery points are now categorized as application-consistent and crash-consistent. For more information, see Manage backup policy.

Customer action required: Upgrade the VMware backup proxy to version 6.3.1-343717, and select the Fallback to crash consistent backup flag in the backup policy to perform crash-consistent backups.

Druva has discontinued the support for the following Linux editions as they have reached the End-of-life (EOL) and are no longer supported by their vendor. For more information, see End-of-support life policy for third-party vendor.

Customer action required: None.

Druva has discontinued the support for the following operating system editions:

For more information, see Support Matrix.

Customer action required: None.

❗ Important

The new agents and proxies for Enterprise Workloads will be available for download latest by the next Monday in all the supported AWS regions.

Introducing APIs for Reports

We've added APIs for reports to enable quick access to the data for existing Hybrid Workloads' reports.
You can also build integrations to obtain specific data for various use cases. For example, you can:

With these new APIs, you'll have more flexibility and control over your reporting.

For more information, see Getting Started with Reports API.

📝 Notes

You can now filter the status on the Virtual Machines page for the newly added VMware Tools column and the existing Guest OS Credentials column to check and take appropriate action for successfully running the Unusual Data Activity (UDA) algorithm on VMWare.
You can also filter and export the results of the discovered virtual machines on the Virtual Machines page to a CSV file.

For more information, see View and export discovered VMs.

Customer action required: Upgrade the VMware backup proxy to version 6.3.1-328735.

Druva now supports the Linux operating system to perform post-restore scans during a sandbox recovery workflow. For more information, see Support Matrix and Prerequisites.
For more information on Sandbox Recovery, see Restore virtual machines using sandbox.

Customer action required: None.

Druva now enables non-root users to perform backup and restore operations on VMs hosted on standalone ESXi hosts.

Customer action required : Upgrade the VMware backup proxy to version 6.3.1-328735.

We now support failover and failback of virtual machines with Microsoft Windows Server 2022. For more information, see Support Matrix.

Customer action required: None.

Druva now supports SAP HANA Platform 2.0 SPS 06. You can now backup and restore specific changes to parameters stored in INI configuration files for SAP HANA Platform 2.0 SPS 06.

Customer action required: None.

File Analytics and Recommendations features are now deprecated. For further assistance, contact Support.

Customer action required: None.

❗ Important

The new agents and proxies for Enterprise Workloads will be available for download latest by the next Monday in all the supported AWS regions.

Druva now supports the following 64-bit operating systems for backup and restore.

For more information, see Software requirements for files and folders.

Customer action required: None.

Druva now supports the following 64-bit operating systems for backup and restore.

For more information, see Software requirements for NAS proxy.

Customer action required: None.

We now support the protection of a database over Oracle Server with SUSE Linux 12 SP2 operating system. For more information, see System requirements for Oracle Direct to Cloud.

Customer action required: None.

You can list all snapshots for a specific backup set using the List all snapshots API. Additionally, you can restore files/folders to the:

For more information, see API Reference documentation on the Druva API Developer Portal.

Customer action required: None.

You can now easily provide custom SPFile parameters through the user interface while restoring the database to an alternate server, instead of manually setting the parameters in the SPFile. This also reduces the chances of restore failure due to missing custom SPFile parameters. For more information, see Restore an Oracle database from a recovery point and Restore an Oracle database to a point-in-time.

Customer action required: Upgrade Oracle agent to version 6.1.1-312040 or later.

Druva now supports SQL Server 2022 installed on Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019. With this release, you can seamlessly protect and manage SQL Server 2022 databases with Druva's comprehensive data protection features. For a list of certified platforms, see Support Matrix.

Customer action required: Upgrade the agent to version 6.3.1-312045.

You can now view the names of the databases on the Progress Logs tab for backup jobs. With this update, you'll quickly and easily identify which databases were successfully backed up in each backup job, helping you monitor and manage your databases more effectively.

Customer action required: Upgrade the agent to version 6.3.1-312045.

In addition to the existing incremental backup functionality, you can now manually initiate both full and log backups directly from the backup set details page. This enhancement ensures greater flexibility and control over your data backup processes.

To use this feature, navigate to the backup set details page, and use the dropdown next to the Backup Now button. ​

Customer action required: None.

❗ Important

The new agents and proxies for Enterprise Workloads will be available for download latest by the next Monday in all the supported AWS regions.

Druva has discontinued the support for the following Linux editions to enhance security for the installers.

For more information, see End-of-support life policy for third-party vendor.

Customer action required: None.

Druva has discontinued the support for the following Linux editions to enhance security for the installers.

For more information, see End-of-support life policy for third-party vendor.

Customer action required: None.

Druva now supports the backup and restore of File Server on the following operating systems.

For more information, see System requirements for files and folders.

Customer action required: None.

Druva now supports the backup and restore of NAS proxy on the following operating systems.

For more information, see System requirements for NAS devices.

Customer action required: None.

Druva now certifies vSphere 8.0, including features such as vSphere DataSets. You can now back up and restore the DataSet files stored with the virtual machine files in ESXi/vCenter.
For more information, see vSphere DataSets and Support Matrix.

Customer action required: Upgrade the VMware proxy to version 6.3.1-299480.

The support for images in the .qcow2 and .tar formats is deprecated. Druva now supports upload of images in the .ova format only. This change is not backward compatible, i.e. previously downloaded Hybrid Workloads Common Agent does not support this change and you must download the latest agent from the Downloads page of the Management Console.

Customer action required: Update the proxy version to 6.3.1-277240. Download the updated version of Hybrid Workloads Common Agent Installer from the Downloads page.

You can now protect SAP HANA databases with our SAP-Certified backup and recovery solution. The solution fully integrates with SAP HANA native tools, such as Cockpit, and can send backups directly to Druva Cloud without consuming space on your SAP HANA servers. You can back up SAP HANA databases deployed on physical servers, VMs, and the public cloud. All backup types—full, incremental, differential data backups, log backup and catalog backup—are fully supported. You can also restore backups directly from Druva Cloud to recover your SAP HANA databases. For more information, see Backup and Restore SAP HANA. In addition, you can find answers to frequently asked questions.

Watch the following video for a quick overview:

Customer action required: Refer to the documentation to use SAP HANA protection or contact your Account Manager for more information.

Druva has introduced reporting APIs for Nutanix AHV. Integrate tools and applications with Druva using these APIs for a more customizable experience for reporting, analytics, alerts, and insight into the performances of Nutanix AHV virtual machines that Druva protects. The following is the list of APIs and the information that can be fetched using the APIs:

For more information, see API Reference documentation on the Druva API Developer Portal.

Customer action required: None.

Nutanix AHV now provides Web proxy support for Mac client with the Druva Proxy Deployer utility.

Customer action required: Download the Hybrid Workloads Common Installer (Mac) from the Downloads page.

To avoid any potential storage statistic issues after the automated restore is performed from the previous restore point or during the backup of primary or standby databases, when both are registered with Druva, make sure you have upgraded the oracle agent to the latest version 6.1.0-283342.

Customer action required: Upgrade Oracle agent to version 6.1.0-283342.

❗ Important

This feature is available only for early access customers. To know more about the Early Availability program and sign up for this feature, contact support.

Druva now supports anomaly detection for VMware virtual machines, providing efficient data resiliency from threats. When a VM is successfully backed up, the UDA algorithm detects any malicious, intentional, or unknown activities based on the number of files added, deleted, or modified, and subsequently generates alerts. For information related to Unusual Data Activity for VMware, see Cyber Resilience release notes.

Customer action required: None.

Druva now provides the Load More option to display additional content in a particular folder during a restore. This option is available in a large directory structure to load the next set of results and enables you to restore a specific file/folder. For more information, see Restore virtual machine data.

Customer action required: None.

Druva DRaaS extends its support for failover and failback of VMs with the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware. If you have configured a UEFI VM, during failover, you get a copy of the source machine in AWS in the form of an EC2 instance that boots with UEFI firmware, and during failback, it is recovered in the UEFI mode only. Earlier, the recovered EC2 instance would boot in the BIOS mode only. For more information, see About UEFI firmware support for Failover and Failback.

Customer action required: Upgrade the VMware and AWS proxy to version 6.3.1 or later.

Incremental backup performance is significantly improved with Advanced Smart Scan, which reduces network round trips and API call latencies. This reduces the overall time consumed during a scan, thereby decreasing the incremental backup job's time. For more information, see Advanced Smart Scan and Scanning methods in NAS.

Customer action required: Upgrade agent to version 6.3.1.

Nutanix AHV now provides Web proxy support for Windows client with the Druva Proxy Deployer utility.

Customer action required: Download the Hybrid Workloads Common Installer (Windows) from the Downloads page.

The Druva Console for Hybrid Workloads can now be accessed through the URL console.druva.com/enterpriseworkloads . If you use the previous URL, that is, phoenix.druva.com , you will observe a redirection to the updated URL. It is recommended that you modify any saved bookmarks to reflect the changed URL.

For more information on Enterprise Workloads, you can refer to Introduction to Enterprise Workloads.

Customer action required: None.

There is a new version of a Linux-based CloudCache, R2, with the following benefits:

📝 Note
​ CloudCache R2 version is available for Nutanix AHV virtual machines for versions 6.3.0-241622 and later.

Customer action required: You can deploy the CloudCache R2 in your Nutanix AHV environment, or VMware, or a Physical Server by using the appropriate form factors such as QCOW2, OVA, or a .deb package. For more information, refer to Set up CloudCache and Downloads.

Druva now provides the Load More option to display additional content in a particular folder during a restore workflow. The Load More option is visible to load the next set of results in case of a large directory structure and enables you to restore a specific file or folder. For more information, see Restore a NAS share.

Customer action required: None.

For effective exclusions, the absolute path is now supported for NAS SMB shares. Therefore, in the content rule, folders will be excluded from being backed up if you have any absolute path mentioned in the exclude folder.
For more information, see Configure backup set for NAS share.

Customer action required: Upgrade the proxy to version 6.3.0-263056 and later.