The NetBackup 7 Compatibility List http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH76648 (page 71) specifies that with Windows 8 the Java Admin Console and the Remote Admin Console are: "Supported with NetBackup 7.6 and later".
We installed 7.5 Java GUI and 7.5.0...
With UNIX/Linux master/media servers, does LDAP authentiation (NBAT) work with NBAC in NBU 7.5 ?
The "NBU 7.5 Security and Encryption Guide" mentions NIS/NIS+ and Active Directory, and does not mention LDAP at all.
Oracle 12c is not supported with NetBackup yet, but we have tried in the lab (7.5.0.6 and 7.1.0.4) and so far we cannot get it to fail. Maybe the basic functionality with RMAN is the same and only "new features" of 12c will require a NetBackup update...
Technote 201235 (http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH201235) recommends use of NBU Accelerator as an alternative for backing up large DFS shares.
Has anyone done this on a large scale ? (Successfully ?) Wondered if it would work with 15TB volumes, ma...
Thank you, Marianne. That 7.5.0.6 Technote announces suport for Windows 8 as a client but specifies in the "LIMITATIONS" section:
8. Remote Admin Console is not supported on Windows 2012/8.
9. Java Windows Administration Console is not supported o...
We had the exact same issue: Accelerator with master/media/client at 7.5.0.6 worked for all drive letters except C:\, which failed with "status: 27: child process killed by signal"
After upgrading the client to 7.5.0.7, the full was successful. - Se...
In additional tests with 7.5.0.6 master, 7.1.0.2 and 7.5.0.6 clients, every 12c restore has been successful so far.
We are only using the basic backup and restore through RMAN, we have not tested the new 12c CDB "container" multitenancy features, et...
If you searh for "hcart" in the "ideas" section there have been several proposals to have NetBackup recognize media types instead of using these labels. (e.g. recognize that an LTO6 drive can read but not write to LTO4 tapes) I've voted thumbs-up ...