NetBackup™ Release Notes
- About NetBackup 9.1
- New features, enhancements, and changes
- About new enhancements and changes in NetBackup
- NetBackup 9.1 new features, changes, and enhancements
- Changes in Veritas terminology
- Backup and restore of Kubernetes applications
- Backup anomaly detection in NetBackup
- Non-privileged user or service user account to run NetBackup services
- Support for AD user groups in the auth.conf file
- 2 FA support for the NetBackup Administration Console through SAML-based Identity Provider or CAC/PIV smart cards or user certificates
- NetBackup Client Direct deduplication is now supported with WORM
- Case insensitivity for client names in a NetBackup policy
- RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 9.1
- API keys enhancements
- BMR enhancements
- NetBackup support for vCloud Director 9.0, 9.1, and 9.5 has ended
- nbdeployutil renamed to NetBackup Deployment Insights
- About the NetBackup Smart Diagnosis (nbsmartdiag) utility
- EOL for support on RHEL 7.0 through 7.3
- EOL for CentOS 8 support
- NetBackup 9.1 support additions and changes
- Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
- Windows compiler and security requirements for NetBackup 9.1 and later installation and upgrade
- New RBAC default roles
- Changes to the RBAC permissions for jobs
- Update cloud configuration file on the primary server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 9.1
- EOL for CloudPoint version 2.x
- Automated asset protection with intelligent cloud groups
- Changes to Cloud protection policies
- CloudPoint extensions for scalable workflows
- New backup options for cloud workloads
- Backup from snapshot
- Parameterized restore
- Windows agentless support
- Support for Microsoft Azure Stack Hub
- Support for CloudPoint on an RHEL 8.3 Podman environment
- Support for CloudPoint on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)
- Continuous data protection (CDP) provides backup for VMware without stunning the VMs
- Combined deployment of NetBackup family products
- Cloud enhancements for administrators
- Instant rollback for VMs
- For VMware and RHV environments, reduce the size of the job database before upgrade
- Query options added for VMware intelligent policies
- Nutanix AHV enhancements
- Oracle Instance Management to be removed from NetBackup Administration Console
- NetBackup Oracle Intelligent Policy can be configured with options for Data Guard
- Oracle and DB2 policy templates are deprecated in the NetBackup 9.1 release
- NetBackup for Microsoft SQL Server agent enhancements
- New behavior for Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server intelligent policies
- Operational notes
- About NetBackup 9.1 operational notes
- NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
- After initiating CA migration, connection errors may occur
- If NetBackup 9.1 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
- Permissions necessary for redirected restores with non-root service user accounts
- NetBackup anomaly detection management service may not start after a full catalog restore
- Authorization check fails if you change the user after installation or upgrade in an NBAC-enabled setup
- Restore of the Root ("/") folder for NAS-Data-Protection policy fails
- Errors are shown in the jobs detail when NetBackup attempts to expire images from non-WORM capable storage
- Microsoft Azure backup fails if the resource group name contains a period (.)
- Stale devices shown on the device tree
- Temporary devices listed as file system assets
- NetBackup administration interface operational notes
- Access control methods supported in NetBackup 9.1
- Job actions not available for workload administrators with limited RBAC permissions on assets
- 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 Cloud operational notes
- NetBackup with Veritas CloudPoint operational notes
- Connection attempt fails for the VM that is in the unreachable or stopped state, and has the credentials associated with it
- Editing a query with special characters in tag names is not supported for the intelligent Cloud groups
- Starting or restarting the CloudPoint services may fail if a stale IP address entry is retained in the Podamn layer on RHEL 8.3 environment
- CloudPoint discovery status shows as failed in the NetBackup web UI
- New CloudPoint asset information may affect recovery
- After upgrade, assets are unsubscribed from protection plans with GRT option enabled
- Backup now option may fail with the error
- Adding new regions requires a new cloud plug-in configuration
- In backup and restore jobs, the number of files transferred is shown as 0
- VM disks not displayed due to discovery level
- Snapshot jobs fail due to exceptions
- Deleted snapshots still visible in the NetBackup web UI
- Granular restore fails if target path is deleted and recreated
- 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
- Configuring AWS plug-in with IAM role showed that the Authentication Method field is blank
- 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 for NDMP operational notes
- NetBackup for OpenStack operational notes
- Instance volumes in the incremental backups cannot be mounted
- NetBackup master server does not re-issue the token if NetBackup VM is a 3-node cluster
- NetBackup version is displayed as 'Netbackup_9001_beta1' instead of 'NetBackup-CentOS3.10.0 9.0' on the Web UI
- Success message appears along with the error message when you delete the policy that has snapshots
- Unable to connect to NetBackup master server using NBCA
- Excluded Ceph Volume after restore is not mountable or formattable
- Restored VMs have blank metadata config_drive attached
- NBOSVM reconfig fails when you add new NetBackup VM to the cluster
- Database does not sync after NetBackup cluster gets new nodes
- Data on boot disk gets backed up despite exclusion
- After reinitialization and import, OpenStack certificates are missing
- CLI import changes scheduler trust value to disabled
- Unable to get node details after you reinitialize the NetBackup Appliance
- Snapshots fails with "object is not subscriptable" for many policy jobs at the exact same time
- No operation is permitted in insecure way for SSL-enabled Keystone URL
- NetBackup internationalization and localization 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 9.1 binary sizes
Table: NetBackup binary sizes for compatible platforms contains the approximate binary sizes of the NetBackup 9.1 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.
Table: NetBackup binary sizes for compatible platforms
OS | CPU Architecture | 32-bit client | 64-bit client | 64-bit server | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
AIX | POWER | 1863 MB | No longer supported | ||
Canonical Ubuntu | x86-64 | 1360 MB | |||
CentOS | x86-64 | 1336 MB | 7529 MB | ||
Debian GNU/Linux | x86-64 | 1359 MB | |||
HP-UX | IA-64 | 2356 MB | No longer supported | ||
Oracle Linux | x86-64 | 1336 MB | 7354 MB | ||
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server | POWER | 298 MB | |||
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server | x86-64 | 1336 MB | 7430 MB | ||
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server | z/Architecture | 1049 MB | No longer supported | Media server or client compatibility only. | |
Solaris | SPARC | 2104 MB | 6326 MB | ||
Solaris | x86-64 | 1486 MB | 6468 MB | ||
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server | POWER | 297 MB | |||
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server | x86-64 | 1289 MB | 6497 MB | ||
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server | z/Architecture | 1059 MB | No longer supported | Media server or client compatibility only. | |
Windows | x86-64 | 504 MB | 3384 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 9.1.
Table: NetBackup OpsCenter binary sizes for compatible platforms
OS | CPU Architecture | Agent | Server | ViewBuilder |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Oracle Linux | x86-64 | 715 MB | ||
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server | x86-64 | 714 MB | ||
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server | x86-64 | 727 MB | ||
Windows Server | x86-64 | 263 MB | 662 MB | 222 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.