Features

• To reduce the time to generate a backup usingghe-backup, administrators can choose to prune old backup snapshots after a new backup has been generate. For more information, see "Scheduling backups & snapshot pruning."
• On instances with large MySQL databases , administrators who wish to save storage space can use the new--incremental flag withghe-backup andghe-restore. For more information, see "Incremental MySQL Backups and Restores"
• Administrators can choose to skip the storage and software version checks that are run duringghe-backup using the--skip-checks flag. For more information, see "Using the backup and restore commands".

Changes

• Removed thegit clone path for setting upbackup-utils from thegetting started instructions.
• Addedbc v1.07 or newer to therequirements for a backup host machine.