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
Recommended SORT procedures for upgrades
Veritas recommends current NetBackup users perform the three procedures that are listed for an initial introduction to SORT. The tool has many other features and functions, but these serve as a good introduction to SORT for users who already use NetBackup. In addition, the procedures provide a helpful base of knowledge for other SORT functionality.
Table:
Procedure | Details |
|---|---|
Create a Veritas Account on the SORT webpage | |
Create a system-specific upgrade report | See “To create a system-specific installation report for Windows”. See “To create a system-specific installation report for UNIX or Linux”. |
Review the future platform and feature plans. Review the hot fix and emergency engineering binary release auditor information. |
To review future platform changes and feature plans
- In your web browser, navigate to:
- Find and select the NetBackup Future Platform and Feature Plans widget.
- Select Display Information.
- Review the information provided
- Optional - sign in to create notification - Click Sign in and create notification.
To review hot fix and emergency engineering binary information
- In your web browser, navigate to:
- Find and select the NetBackup Hot Fix and EEB Release Auditor widget.
- Enter the hot fix or emergency engineering binary (EEB) information.
- Click Search.
- The new page shows a table with the following columns:
Hot fix of EEB Identifier
Shows the hot fix or EEB number that was entered on the previous screen.
Description
Displays a description of the problem that is associated with the hot fix or EEB.
Resolved in Versions
Provides the version of NetBackup where this issue is resolved.
More Information
“To review hot fix and emergency engineering binary information”