NovaStor DataCenter
Release notes,             life cycle,          supported systems

Improvements

• Deduplicated backups can now be cloned to tape.
• Centos 10 support was added.
• Backups can now be cloned to storage groups containing tape media pools.
• The manual for creating PE images by hand was updated.

Fixes

• Old users that have been created before version 9 and have an empty password set can login again. It is still highly recommended to change the password.
• The error display during granular file restore with missing access rights now points to the root cause of the failure.
• Single file restore of Hyper-V backups can again be performed on any Windows host.
• Reporting no longer shows negative compression rates.
• One can add a second backup/clone target again even if the first attached target is a tape media pool.
• File restore can now be cancelled during preparation phase and not only after the restore has already started.

Microsoft Windows

• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 until 2025
• Microsoft Windows 11
• Microsoft Windows 10
• Microsoft Windows 8.1 

Linux

• RedHat / Centos 7.x – 10.x, Stream
• Debian 8 - 12
• Ubuntu 16.04 – 24.04 LTS
• Fedora 28 - 41

Unix

• IBM AIX 7.2, 7.3
• Solaris 10 (x64, SPARC)
• HP-UX (on request)
• BSD (on request)

Business applications

• Microsoft 365 (Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams)
• Microsoft Active Directory
• Microsoft Exchange 2013 and higher
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and higher  
• Lotus Notes/Domino

Hypervisor

• Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 and higher  
• VMWare vSphere 6.5 and higher 
• Nutanix

Databases

• Adabas 10.x and higher 
• DB2
• Informix 7 and higher 
• MaxDB 7.4 and higher 
• MySQL/MariaDB 5.5 and higher 
• Oracle 11.2 and higher 
• PostgreSQL 9 and higher  
• SAP R/3 (Oracle/backint)
• SAP R/3 (Oracle/RMAN)
• SAP R/3 (MaxDB)
• SAPDB 6.x, 7.

Hardware

• Management Server (Commandserver)
  • CPU: x86-64 processor (4 cores or more)
  • RAM: 4 GB (8 GB recommended) plus an additional 0.1 GB per concurrent job
  • Disk: 2 GB for the basic installation plus additional
    
    • 1 GB per 1,000,000 files to be backed up simultaneously
    • 10 MB per VM backup
• Backup / Tape Server
  • CPU: x86-64 processor (4 cores or more)
  • RAM: 4 GB (8 GB recommended) plus an additional 0.1 GB per concurrent job
  • Disk: 2 GB for the basic installation plus additional
    
    • 500 MB per 1,000,000 files to be backed up simultaneously
    • 10 MB per VM backup
  • Tape: NovaStor Datacenter is completely library/drive manufacturer independent
• Backup Client
  • CPU: x86-32/64 processor (2 cores or more)
  • RAM: 4 GB (depending on the number of files/VMs per backup job
    performance can be increased with more memory
  • Disk : 1 GB for the basic installation plus additional
    
    • 300 MB per 1,000,000 files to be backed up simultaneously
    • 10 MB per VM backup

Operating systems

• Only 64 bit for management / backup / tape server
• 32/64 bit for backup clients
• UNIX system support only on request for backup clients and tape servers

Other

• Die Hostnamen der am Backup beteiligten Maschinen müssen zu IP v4 Adressen auflösbar sein.
• Für Hyper-V wird das .NET Framework in Version >= 4.7.2 benötigt.
• Für VMWare wird mind. die Version 6.7 Update 2 empfohlen.
• Unter Windows 2012 wird für den Management Server und den Tape Manager eine Powershell Version >= 5.1 benötigt.