Veritas NetBackup™ Release Notes
- About NetBackup 8.1.2
- New features, enhancements, and changes
- About new enhancements and changes in NetBackup
- NetBackup 8.1.2 new features, changes, and enhancements
- NetBackup 8.1.2 introduces a new web user interface
- Veritas Smart Meter helps you manage deployment more efficiently
- RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 8.1.2
- Veritas offers the NetBackup Parallel Streaming Framework SDK
- About secure communications in MSDP for Auto Image Replication
- NetBackup 8.1.2 support additions and changes
- VxUpdate replaces LiveUpdate
- NetBackup no longer supports HP-UX and AIX platforms for master and media servers
- Newer Red Hat Linux compilers used with NetBackup 8.1.2
- Linux device persistent binding changes
- BMR introduces secure communication support on AIX and HP-UX
- Supported NetBackup BMR configurations based on operating system and patch release
- Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
- Update cloud configuration file on the master server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 8.1.2
- Support added for Amazon GLACIER_VAULT storage class
- Auditing enhancements
- NetBackup integration with Vnomic
- NetBackup's BigData policy now protects Microsoft Azure Stack and HBase workloads
- Operational notes
- About NetBackup 8.1.2 operational notes
- NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
- NetBackup administration and general operational notes
- NetBackup administration interface operational notes
- Access control methods supported in NetBackup 8.1.2
- NetBackup Administration Console does not show a failure message for incorrect CloudPoint plug-in credentials
- "Operation timed out" message appears when policies are accessed from the Remote Administration Console
- Using X forwarding to launch the NetBackup Administration Console can fail on certain Linux platforms
- Intermittent issues with X forwarding of NetBackup Administration Console
- Reduced functionality during the initialization of the NetBackup Administration Console
- NetBackup Administration Console may encounter a core dump issue when the Simplified Chinese UTF-8 locale is used on a Solaris SPARC 64-bit system with Solaris 10 Update 2 or later
- NetBackup API operational notes
- NetBackup Bare Metal Restore operational notes
- NetBackup with Veritas CloudPoint operational notes
- NetBackup database and application agent operational notes
- NetBackup internationalization and localization operational notes
- NetBackup for NDMP operational notes
- NetBackup SAN Client and Fibre Transport operational notes
- NetBackup Snapshot Client operational notes
- NetBackup virtualization operational notes
- NetBackup for VMware operational notes
- The NetBackup web UI cannot restore a VM from a replicated backup image
- The NetBackup web UI does not validate VMware server entries
- NetBackup cannot use the nbd or nbdssl transport mode to connect directly to VMware IPv6 ESXi servers
- VMware block-level incremental backups expire when the previous full backup expires
- A VM restore to a vCenter fails when NetBackup has credentials for a restore ESX server
- Virtual machine alert notification may be incorrect for the VMware policies with specific Replication Director options
- NetBackup for VMware operational notes
- Appendix A. About SORT for NetBackup Users
- Appendix B. NetBackup installation requirements
- Appendix C. NetBackup compatibility requirements
- Appendix D. Other NetBackup documentation and related documents
About other NetBackup documents
The following documents are published for NetBackup software:
NetBackup Backup, Archive, and Restore Getting Started Guide
This guide provides basic information about backup and restore procedures for new users of NetBackup. These procedures include how to back up, archive, and restore files, folders or directories, and volumes or partitions that reside on a computer.
NetBackup Commands Reference Guide
This guide contains detailed information on the commands that run on UNIX systems and Windows systems, including all of the NetBackup man page commands.
NetBackup Clustered Master Server Administrator's Guide
This guide provides information on how to install and configure a NetBackup master server in a cluster.
NetBackup Getting Started Guide
This guide provides a high-level description of preinstallation information that is related to this release of NetBackup. The guide also includes descriptions of the NetBackup media kit, the NetBackup Electronic Software Distribution (ESD) images, and the NetBackup license key requirements.
NetBackup in Highly Available Environments Guide
This guide discusses various methods for using NetBackup in highly available environments and provides guidelines for protecting NetBackup against single points of failure.
NetBackup Network Ports Reference Guide
This guide provides a reference to NetBackup network ports, including master server and media server ports, client ports, default ports, and other ports that NetBackup uses.
NetBackup Security and Encryption Guide
This guide provides information about on how to secure NetBackup using access control, enhanced authorization and authentication, and encryption.
NetBackup Third-party Legal Notices
This document contains proprietary notices for the Third-Party Programs and the licenses for the Third-Party Programs, where applicable, that pertain to the Veritas NetBackup and OpsCenter products.