Version history for AWS Backint agent - SAP HANA on AWS

Version history for AWS Backint agent

The following table summarizes the changes for each release of AWS Backint agent.

Version Details Release date

2.0.5.892

* Added Region support: ap-southeast-5 / Asia Pacific (Malaysia) * Bug fix: Agent binary signature verification in silent mode

December 9, 2024

2.0.5.873

Improved management of SSM documents.

September 24, 2024

2.0.5.862

* Improved Agent logging.

July 16, 2024

2.0.5.824

* Improved resiliency for AWS Backup connection timeouts. * Added Region support: il-central-1 / Israel (Tel Aviv) and ca-west-1 / Canada West (Calgary)

April 17, 2024

2.0.4.797

Manual installer update

January 10, 2024

2.0.4.779

* Added Region support: ap-southeast-4 / Asia Pacific (Melbourne), eu-central-2 / Europe (Zurich), and eu-south-2 / Europe (Spain)

January 2, 2024

2.0.4.768

* Improved resiliency for Amazon S3 connection timeouts.

October 06, 2023

2.0.3.755

* Improved AWSSAP-InstallBackint and AWSSAP-InstallBackintForAWSBackup input validation. * Removed boto3 requirement for installation of the agent.

September 13, 2023

2.0.2.732

* Set config file permissions to sapsys group. * Added Region support: ap-south-2 / Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and me-central-1 / Middle East (UAE)

July 14, 2023

2.0.1.671

* Added support for AWS Backup as storage media. * Added support for backint protocol 1.5. * Added support for Python 3.

April 17, 2023

1.05.4

* Added Region support: ap-southeast-3 / Asia Pacific (Jakarta)

February 22, 2023

1.05.4

* Improved AWSSAP-InstallBackint SSM document AWS KMS input validation.

February 25, 2022

1.05.3

* Improved AWSSAP-InstallBackint SSM document input validation.

February 04, 2022

1.05.2

* Bug fix: Robust error handling for Amazon S3 connection failures.

December 08, 2021

1.05

* Added support for Intelligent-Tiering S3 storage class. * Add support for shortening S3 paths. * Added support for separate log, data, and catalog backup S3 paths.

* Added support for python3 non-compiled version of the installer. * Added support for installation through Ansible configurations. * Bug fix: Removal of ASCII characters.

* Bug fix: Agent binary signature verification in silent mode.

August 30, 2021

1.04

* Added support for bucket owner full control access to backup objects for cross-account backups. * Bug fix: Parallel restore configuration issue.

* Added support for Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service (IMDS) v2.

May 28, 2021

1.03

* Added Region support: ap-northeast-3 / Asia Pacific (Osaka) * Added support for rotating agent log files. * Added support for additional S3 object tags. * Improved parallel restore using efficient parallelism.

* Bug fix: SSM document to locate python2 library for installation.

* Bug fix: Support for isolated instances to make Regional S3 calls. * Add support for automatic agent signature verification.

March 31, 2021

1.02.1

* Bug fix: kms-key formatting issue.

December 4, 2020

1.02

* Bug fix: Backup failure at high throughput due to failed connection with S3.

November 19, 2020

1.01

* Added Region support: AWS GovCloud (US) * Added support for specifying number of S3 threads that can run in parallel using UploadConcurrency parameter in configuration file.

* Removed -o flag. * Added -l flag, which allows you to specify the location of the agent .tar file.

* Added support for specifying the agent installation version. * Added support to ignore S3 bucket validations.

* Bug fix: Occasional installation failure when AWS CLI installation is selected.

July 17, 2020

1.0

Initial release

May 18, 2020