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SEP sesam Release 3.6 Beta 1

SEP sesam 3.6.3.5 is the first public beta version of upcoming SEP sesam 3.6.

Attention

This is a beta version for testing only. Don't use it for productive environments.

Withdrawn Sesam Server support

Installation of SEP sesam Server isn't supported one the following systems anymore:

  • SLES 7
  • RHEL 3
  • FreeBSD 5/6
  • all Linux with glibc < 2.1
  • Windows 2000

This does not affect SEP sesam client packages. Available Support for SEP sesam Clients see the SEP sesam Support Matrix --LINK

New supported systems

  • Windows 2008 R2
  • SuSE Enterprise Server 11
  • Debian Lenny

End of maintenace

Maintenance for SEP Sesam version 3.0 will end at 31.12.2009.

End of Support

Support for SEP sesam Server 3.0 will end at 31.12.2011. Available Support for SEP sesam Clients see the SEP sesam Support Matrix --LINK


Know Issues

  • Update of SEP sesam on Windows is not possible in Beta 1
  • Break of migrations and restore doesn't work


New features

Command Line Interface

SEP sesam can now be configured completely by command line. Please read LINK

Migration

The saveset migration has been completely redesigned. Especially more selection filters has been added.

Enhanced GUI logging

All GUI actions are now logged on SEP Sesam server side


Ingres

New SEP sesam extension for online backups of Ingres databases

Media read check

Other

  • Faster restore from DISK device
  • Online help links to SEP WIKI now
  • For Novell clients login information can be entered task based. Usefull, if eDirectory and filesystem backups need different authorization.

Fixed Issues

  • Media could be overwritten during migration

System requirements

SEP sesam Server and GUI need Java Runtime Environment >=1.6.


Update

  • Before starting update of SEP sesam Server make sure, that SESAM_BACKUP has been executed successfully.
  • Valid update license
  • JRE 1.6. Please have a look into the SEP sesam/JRE support matix
  • The communication between Sesam Server and GUI has been changed, therefore the Sesam GUI client must be updated after the server update, as well.
  • Also Sesam GUI from 3.6 will no longer connect to a 3.4 server.

Note

SEP sesam GUI Jar file has been divided into two parts. So JAVA Classpath has to be changed:

UNIX

  <SESAM_ROOT>/bin/gui/sm_gui.jar:<SESAM_ROOT>/bin/gui/sm_lib.jar

Windows

<SESAM_ROOT>\bin\gui\sm_gui.jar:<SESAM_ROOT>\bin\gui\sm_lib.jar