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Version: 2.9

What's new in 2.9.0?

Version 2.9.0 – Released on July 08, 2025​

Features​

  • Retry backups at VM level: you can now retry only failed VMs in VM backups without reprocessing successful ones, reducing load on backup server. This feature helps maintain efficient backup operations, provides granular control on VM backups and ensures better adherence to RPO targets.

  • PXB deployment on proxy-enabled clusters: you can deploy PXB in proxy-enabled Kubernetes cluster environments across all supported platforms, except IKS. It supports proxy configuration with Helm values or Kubernetes secrets passed as Helm parameters during PXB installation or upgrade.

  • Bulk schedule operations: you can now suspend, resume, or delete multiple backup schedules in bulk, simplifying backup management across large environments. In addition, you can filter schedules by their names, schedule policies, or a combination of both to precisely target the desired schedules.

  • Back up volume resources: you can now back up only the Kubernetes PersistentVolume (PV) and PersistentVolumeClaim (PVC) specifications without including the actual volume data. This helps to optimize backup jobs by reducing data footprint, improving performance, and avoiding redundancy when the volume data is protected through other mechanisms like external snapshots or NFS backups.

Enhancements​

  • Enhanced web console:
    • The PXB web console is enhanced with detailed insights, offering clearer status indicators and granular VM backup information for effective monitoring and management.
    • Web console features a new, intuitive left navigation pane designed for easier access to key functions and a smoother user experience.
    • You can sort few columns in Backup, Restore, and All Backups page either in ascending or descending order by clicking on the arrows at the end or beginning of the column name. When the data is not sorted, page always displays the latest record first.

Fixes​

What's new in 2.8.4?

Version 2.8.4 – Released on April 14, 2025​

Features​

  • Advanced filtering: Portworx Backup allows you to filter VMs and namespaces based on the labels assigned to them and their associated resources. This helps you narrow down the list of virtual machines (VMs) and namespaces for backup operations. You can enter specific namespace or VM labels to view only the resources that match those criteria. This is especially useful in large environments where you need to focus on a subset of resources. By filtering based on labels, you can streamline management, improve performance, and reduce the risk of backing up unnecessary data. The feature enhances precision and efficiency in your backup workflows.

  • Partial success of VM backups: The Partial Success for VM Backup feature improves backup reliability by executing PreExec and PostExec rules on a per-VM basis, instead of applying them to all VMs at once. This granular handling ensures that if one VM fails during execution rule processing, only that VM is marked as failed, and the backup continues with the remaining VMs. Volume failures are now tracked and reported per VM, enabling accurate success/failure status and reducing unnecessary backup failures.

Enhancements​

  • Backup Retry: you can now re-initiate a backup job if some volumes have failed in your multi-VM or multi-namespace backups. In other words if your VM or namespace backup has partially succeeded or completely failed, you can re-initiate the backup job with Retry option.

  • VMs with static IPs: PXB has introduced two new annotations to provide enhanced control over static IPs and MAC addresses of VMs:

    • px-backup/skip-vm-start: stops the VM until users start the VM manually after restore with this annotation, giving them the opportunity to configure a new static IP and avoid conflicts.
    • px-backup/skip-mac-masking: this annotation allows users to retain the original MAC address, which is beneficial for preserving network identity.

Fixes​

Version 2.8.3 – Released on Feb 12, 2025​

Features​

  • Health Check: the health check feature enhances pre-installation and upgrade validations, including Kubernetes version checks, storage class validation, and blocking unsupported upgrade paths. It simplifies debugging with detailed reports, user-friendly error messages, and helm enhancements, to ensure smoother deployments. Besides, health check enhances user experience in install and upgrade scenarios.

  • Parallel Backup Schedule: this feature ensures that scheduled backups occur at every scheduled interval, even if the previous backup is still in progress. It allows subsequent backups to start as long as all Portworx volume snapshots are complete and the user has opted for parallel backup schedules.

Enhancements​

  • Email Alerts with SMTP TLS: this enhancement improves email security by enabling encrypted connections using STARTTLS and custom certificates. With this improvement, users can ensure compliance with organizational security standards by uploading their own certificates, including CA certificates. It supports secure communication over commonly used SMTP ports (25, 465, and 587) and ensures robust encryption for email validation and transmission.

  • Kubervirt enhancements: Portworx Backup now enables you to back up and restore VirtualMachineInstancetype, VirtualMachinePreference and NetworkAttachmentDefinition Kubevirt VM resources in your VM backup environment.

  • Argo CD Mode of Deployment: you can now install Portworx Backup with Argo CD in simple steps by setting few parameters during deployment. This enhancement brings a GitOps-driven approach to manage data protection and ensures that backup policies, schedules, and configurations are applied consistently across environments.

Fixes​

Version 2.8.2 – Released on January 24, 2024​

Fix​

Version 2.8.1 – Released on Dec 13, 2024​

Enhancements​

  • Azure Kubelogin: Portworx Backup now supports Azure kubelogin, enabling secure, token-based authentication for AKS clusters via Azure AD.

  • Ansible Collection: the PXB Ansible collection automates Portworx Backup tasks like scheduling, credential setup, and cluster management.

  • Backup API: PXB adds API enhancements for resource type retrieval and exclusion in backups and schedules.

Fixes​

Version 2.8.0 – Released on Nov 22, 2024​

New Features​

  • Share Clusters: you can now securely share and manage clusters for seamless collaboration and data protection.

  • Super Administrator: a new role in PXB to enable centralized control for unified management of clusters, users, RBAC, and non-RBAC PXB resources.

Enhancements​

  • Concurrent Deletion of Backups: accelerate backup delete management with parallel deletion, optimizing efficiency and effective handling of dependencies.

  • Azure Proxy Parameters: streamline Azure proxy configurations with PXB's new inclusion and exclusion parameters, offering precise control over service-specific and proxy settings.

Fixes​

Portworx Backup is a Kubernetes backup solution that allows you to back up and restore applications and their data across multiple clusters.