Veritas NetBackup™ Release Notes
- About NetBackup 8.3.0.1
- New features, enhancements, and changes
- About new enhancements and changes in NetBackup
- NetBackup 8.3.0.1 new features, changes, and enhancements
- NetBackup now supports data immutability and indelibility with the MSDP WORM instance in Flex Appliance
- Changes to user session default values
- NetBackup with SAN client 16-gigabit target mode HBA support
- Updates to the NetBackup for OpenStack plug-in
- NetBackup supports SSL-enabled (HTTPS) clusters of Hadoop and HBase
- NetBackup 8.3.0.1 support additions and changes
- New cloud providers and region support
- Operational notes
- About NetBackup 8.3.0.1 operational notes
- NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
- After initiating CA migration, connection errors may occur
- If NetBackup 8.3.0.1 upgrade fails on Windows, revert to previous log folder structure
- Native installation requirements
- NetBackup servers must use a host name that is compliant with RFC 1123 and RFC 952
- Do not install from the menu that appears when the installation DVD is inserted
- About support for HP-UX Itanium vPars SRP containers
- NetBackup administration and general operational notes
- The nbdeployutil utility may fail to generate usage reports for traditional licensing
- Backups for workloads that use the BigData policy may fail
- Child backup jobs may enter a queued state for workloads that use BigData policy
- Errors are shown in the jobs detail when NetBackup attempts to expire images from non-WORM capable storage
- NetBackup web server certificate renewal failure during initiation of NetBackup CA migration or upgrade
- Microsoft Azure backup fails if the resource group name contains a period (.)
- SLP does not retry multistreaming backup if child job fails or is canceled
- Granular restores require adequate available space on target
- Stale devices shown on the device tree
- NetBackup administration interface operational notes
- Search limitations for security events lists in the NetBackup web UI
- Using X forwarding to launch the NetBackup Administration Console can fail on certain Linux platforms
- Intermittent issues with X forwarding of NetBackup Administration Console
- NetBackup Administration Console fails in Simplified Chinese UTF-8 locale on Solaris SPARC 64-bit systems with Solaris 10 Update 2 or later
- NetBackup Bare Metal Restore operational notes
- NetBackup Cloud operational notes
- NetBackup with Veritas CloudPoint operational notes
- Public cloud not supported with gov cloud or China region
- Indexing not supported on instances created from AWS Marketplaces AMIs
- Consistent host snapshot might fail
- Image clean-up may fail for Microsoft Azure workloads
- Configuring AWS plug-in with IAM role showed that the Authentication Method field is blank
- MongoDB create snapshot job may freeze
- Updating a cloud plug-in while a job runs causes job failure
- Permission denied error occurs if both user and password are updated
- Different source and target zones for Google Cloud Platform are not supported
- Broken files system detected
- NetBackup deduplication operational notes
- NetBackup internationalization and localization operational notes
- NetBackup for NDMP operational notes
- NetBackup Snapshot Client operational notes
- NetBackup virtualization 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
NetBackup 8.3.0.1 binary sizes
Table: NetBackup binary sizes for compatible platforms contains the approximate binary sizes of the NetBackup 8.3.0.1 master server, media server, and client software for the various supported operating systems. These binary sizes indicate the amount of disk space occupied by the product after an initial installation. Note that for the sizes listed in the table, 1 MB equals 1024 KB.
Note:
As of NetBackup 8.3, the Java GUI and JRE packages are optional with most clients and media servers. The package sizes were calculated with the Java GUI and JRE included.
Note:
Table: NetBackup binary sizes for compatible platforms and Table: NetBackup OpsCenter binary sizes for compatible platforms only list the supported operating systems. For up-to-date information about the specific operating system versions that NetBackup currently supports, check the Installation and Upgrade Checklist on the Services and Operations Readiness Tools (SORT) website, or the NetBackup Operating System Compatibility List document at http://www.netbackup.com/compatibility.
Table: NetBackup binary sizes for compatible platforms
OS | CPU Architecture | 32-bit client | 64-bit client | 64-bit server | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
AIX | POWER | 1721 MB | No longer supported | ||
Canonical Ubuntu | x86-64 | 1299 MB | |||
CentOS | x86-64 | 1305 MB | 6148 MB | Media server or client compatibility only. | |
Debian GNU/Linux | x86-64 | 1300 MB | |||
HP-UX | IA-64 | 2213 MB | No longer supported | ||
Oracle Linux | x86-64 | 1306 MB | 6161 MB | ||
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server | POWER | 314 MB | |||
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server | x86-64 | 1306 MB | 6150 MB | ||
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server | z/Architecture | 906 MB | No longer supported | Media server or client compatibility only. | |
Solaris | SPARC | 1250 MB | 5589 MB | ||
Solaris | x86-64 | 1275 MB | 5948 MB | ||
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server | POWER | 313 MB | |||
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server | x86-64 | 1130 MB | 5408 MB | ||
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server | z/Architecture | 918 MB | No longer supported | Media server or client compatibility only. | |
Windows | x86-64 | 482 MB | 2985 MB | Covers all compatible Windows x64 platforms. |
The following space requirements also apply to some NetBackup installations on Windows:
If you install NetBackup in a custom location on a Windows system, some portions of the software are installed on the system drive regardless of the primary application folder location. The space that is required on the system drive generally accounts for 40 to 50 percent of the total binary size that is listed in Table: NetBackup binary sizes for compatible platforms.
If you install NetBackup server on a Windows cluster, some portions of the software are installed on the cluster shared disk. Note, the space that is required on the cluster shared disk is in addition to the binary size that is listed in Table: NetBackup binary sizes for compatible platforms. The additional required space is equivalent to 15 to 20 percent of the total binary size.
Table: NetBackup OpsCenter binary sizes for compatible platforms contains the approximate binary sizes of the OpsCenter Agent, Server, and ViewBuilder for the various operating systems that are compatible with NetBackup OpsCenter 8.3.0.1.
Table: NetBackup OpsCenter binary sizes for compatible platforms
OS | CPU Architecture | Agent | Server | ViewBuilder |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Oracle Linux | x86-64 | 795 MB | ||
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server | x86-64 | 755 MB | ||
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server | x86-64 | 759 MB | ||
Windows Server | x86-64 | 264 MB | 699 MB | 232 MB |
Disk space requirements for the NetBackup vCenter Web Client Plug-in and the NetBackup System Center Virtual Machine Manager Add-in can be found in the NetBackup Plug-in for VMware vSphere Web Client Guide and the NetBackup Add-in for Microsoft SCVMM Console Guide, respectively.