Veritas NetBackup™ Release Notes

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Product(s): NetBackup (9.0)
  1. About NetBackup 9.0
    1.  
      About the NetBackup 9.0 release
    2.  
      About NetBackup Late Breaking News
    3.  
      About NetBackup third-party legal notices
  2. New features, enhancements, and changes
    1.  
      About new enhancements and changes in NetBackup
    2. NetBackup 9.0 new features, changes, and enhancements
      1.  
        Preventing a rogue media server after the decommissioning of a media server
      2.  
        HSTS is enabled for the web UI
      3.  
        NDMP policy management in the NetBackup web UI
      4.  
        Configure Samba users for SQL Server instant access and universal shares
      5.  
        RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 9.0
      6.  
        API keys support for SAML users
      7.  
        Instance groups for Oracle and nboradm command to be deprecated in a future release
      8.  
        RBAC enhancements
      9.  
        Retention Periods with end dates beyond 2038
      10.  
        New infinity value for NetBackup images affects OpsCenter custom SQL query building
      11.  
        Deprecation of BigData policy to protect Nutanix AHV VMs
      12.  
        About restore from a backup in Microsoft Azure Archive
      13.  
        Take checkpoints every __ minutes attribute support for NAS-Data-Protection policy
      14.  
        Accelerator disabled for NAS-Data-Protection policy
      15.  
        NetBackup 9.0 support additions and changes
      16.  
        Support for MongoDB 4.2
      17.  
        Support for Azure Stack with managed disks
      18.  
        Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
      19.  
        Infinite expiration conversion
      20.  
        Update cloud configuration file on the primary server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 9.0
      21.  
        Cloud Catalyst now removed from NetBackup
      22.  
        Support for Qumolo storage arrays
      23.  
        Support for Dell EMC PowerScale (Isilon) storage arrays
      24.  
        Restricted restore mode for VMware agentless restore
      25.  
        VMware agentless support for Windows User Account Control (UAC)
      26.  
        Veritas Smart Meter is now Veritas Usage Insights
      27.  
        OpsCenter Agent and deduplication functionality removed from OpsCenter after the NetBackup 9.0
  3. Operational notes
    1.  
      About NetBackup 9.0 operational notes
    2. NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
      1.  
        After initiating CA migration, connection errors may occur
      2.  
        If NetBackup 9.0 upgrade fails on Windows, revert to previous log folder structure
      3.  
        Native installation requirements
      4.  
        NetBackup servers must use a host name that is compliant with RFC 1123 and RFC 952
      5.  
        Do not install from the menu that appears when the installation DVD is inserted
      6.  
        About support for HP-UX Itanium vPars SRP containers
    3. NetBackup administration and general operational notes
      1.  
        Starting NetBackup services may generate a warning on Solaris platforms
      2.  
        NetBackup Messaging Broker (mqbroker) not listed in services lists even if it is running
      3.  
        Backup fails with the Status Code 2074 "Disk volume is down"
      4.  
        Restore of the Root ("/") folder for NAS-Data-Protection policy fails
      5.  
        Backups for workloads that use the BigData policy may fail
      6.  
        Child backup jobs may enter a queued state for workloads that use BigData policy
      7.  
        Errors are shown in the jobs detail when NetBackup attempts to expire images from non-WORM capable storage
      8.  
        NetBackup web server certificate renewal failure during initiation of NetBackup CA migration or upgrade
      9.  
        Microsoft Azure backup fails if the resource group name contains a period (.)
      10.  
        SLP does not retry multistreaming backup if child job fails or is canceled
      11.  
        Stale devices shown on the device tree
      12.  
        Temporary devices listed as file system assets
    4. NetBackup administration interface operational notes
      1.  
        Global NDMP credentials option is unavailable from the NetBackup web UI
      2.  
        Differences exist between browsers in functionality of the NetBackup web UI
      3.  
        Search limitations for security events lists in the NetBackup web UI
      4.  
        Access control methods supported in NetBackup 9.0
      5.  
        Using X forwarding to launch the NetBackup Administration Console can fail on certain Linux platforms
      6.  
        Intermittent issues with X forwarding of NetBackup Administration Console
      7.  
        NetBackup Administration Console fails in Simplified Chinese UTF-8 locale on Solaris SPARC 64-bit systems with Solaris 10 Update 2 or later
    5. NetBackup Bare Metal Restore operational notes
      1.  
        BMR boot server not supported on a NetBackup appliance or a Flex appliance
      2.  
        BMR restore may take significant amount of time for formatting and volume creation step
    6. NetBackup Cloud operational notes
      1.  
        Configuring a cloud recovery host on RHEL 8
    7. NetBackup with Veritas CloudPoint operational notes
      1.  
        Snapshot jobs fail due to exceptions
      2.  
        CloudPoint CFT upgrade
      3.  
        Defunct processes continue on the CloudPoint host
      4.  
        Deleted snapshots still visible in the NetBackup web UI
      5.  
        Granular restore fails if target path is deleted and recreated
      6.  
        Public cloud not supported with gov cloud or China region
      7.  
        Indexing not supported on instances created from AWS Marketplaces AMIs
      8.  
        Consistent host snapshot might fail
      9.  
        Configuring AWS plug-in with IAM role showed that the Authentication Method field is blank
      10.  
        MongoDB create snapshot job may freeze
      11.  
        Updating a cloud plug-in while a job runs causes job failure
      12.  
        Permission denied error occurs if both user and password are updated
      13.  
        Different source and target zones for Google Cloud Platform are not supported
      14.  
        Broken files system detected
    8. NetBackup database and application agent operational notes
      1. NetBackup for Microsoft SQL Server operational notes
        1.  
          Notes and restrictions for Microsoft SQL Server agent
    9. NetBackup deduplication operational notes
      1.  
        Backup jobs fail with "Storage server is down ..." for WORM storage servers in multi-domain environments
      2.  
        Backup job fails after media server with MSDP on Solaris 10 is upgraded to NetBackup 9.0
      3.  
        Configuring MSDP storage server on Solaris 10 fails
      4.  
        The ampersand character (&) not allowed in NetBackup deduplication engine credentials
    10. NetBackup for NDMP operational notes
      1.  
        Parent directories in the path of a file may not be present in an NDMP incremental image
    11. NetBackup internationalization and localization operational notes
      1.  
        Support for localized environments in database and application agents
      2.  
        Certain NetBackup user-defined strings must not contain non-US ASCII characters
    12. NetBackup Snapshot Client operational notes
      1.  
        HPE 3PAR array snapshot import fails with status code 4213
      2.  
        Snapshots are deleted after point-in-time rollbacks
      3.  
        Index from Snapshot operation does not populate contents of the snapshot accurately in the catalog
    13. NetBackup virtualization operational notes
      1. NetBackup for VMware operational notes
        1.  
          VMware protection plan creation can fail when automatic scheduling and WORM storage are used
        2.  
          Media servers cannot access the virtualization server, fails with status code 200
  4. Appendix A. About SORT for NetBackup Users
    1.  
      About Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools
  5. Appendix B. NetBackup installation requirements
    1.  
      About NetBackup installation requirements
    2.  
      Required operating system patches and updates for NetBackup
    3.  
      NetBackup 9.0 binary sizes
  6. Appendix C. NetBackup compatibility requirements
    1.  
      About compatibility between NetBackup versions
    2.  
      About NetBackup compatibility lists and information
    3.  
      About NetBackup end-of-life notifications
  7. Appendix D. Other NetBackup documentation and related documents
    1.  
      About related NetBackup documents

NetBackup 9.0 binary sizes

Table: NetBackup binary sizes for compatible platforms contains the approximate binary sizes of the NetBackup 9.0 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

 

1776 MB

No longer supported

 

Canonical Ubuntu

x86-64

 

1424 MB

  

CentOS

x86-64

 

1428 MB

6698 MB

 

Debian GNU/Linux

x86-64

 

1424 MB

  

HP-UX

IA-64

 

2260 MB

No longer supported

 

Oracle Linux

x86-64

 

1429 MB

6731 MB

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server

POWER

 

315 MB

  

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server

x86-64

 

1429 MB

6857 MB

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server

z/Architecture

 

969 MB

No longer supported

Media server or client compatibility only.

Solaris

SPARC

 

1320 MB

5749 MB

 

Solaris

x86-64

 

1346 MB

6108 MB

 

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

POWER

 

314 MB

  

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

x86-64

 

1195 MB

5982 MB

 

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

z/Architecture

 

981 MB

No longer supported

Media server or client compatibility only.

Windows

x86-64

 

484 MB

3008 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.

NetBackup OpsCenter

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 9.0.

Table: NetBackup OpsCenter binary sizes for compatible platforms

OS

CPU Architecture

Agent

Server

ViewBuilder

Oracle Linux

x86-64

 

757 MB

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server

x86-64

 

769 MB

 

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

x86-64

 

769 MB

 

Windows Server

x86-64

263 MB

701 MB

263 MB

NetBackup plug-ins

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.