General Availability: AzAcSnap 8 — Azure Application Consistent Snapshot tool updates

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Published

May 11, 2023

Status

Launched

Timeline

  • May 2023
    General Availability

Product

Azure NetApp Files

Tag

Features
SDK and Tools
Services

Category

Storage

Description

Version 8 of the AzAcSnap tool is now generally available. Azure Application Consistent Snapshot Tool (AzAcSnap) is a command-line tool that enables customers to simplify data protection for third-party databases in Linux environments. AzAcSnap 8 introduces the following new capabilities and improvements:

  • Restore change -  ability to revert volume for Azure NetApp Files
  • New global settings file (.azacsnaprc) to control behavior of azacsnap
  • Logging enhancements for failure cases and new "mainlog" for summarized monitoring
  • Backup (-c backup) and Details (-c details) fixes 

Download the latest release of the installer here.