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
Required operating system patches and updates for NetBackup
NetBackup server and client installations are only supported on a defined set of operating systems (OSs) that are listed in the NetBackup compatibility lists. Most OS vendors provide patches, updates, and service packs (SPs) for their products. The best practice of NetBackup Quality Engineering is to test with the latest SP or update level of the OS when a platform is tested. Therefore, NetBackup is supported on all vendor GA updates (n.1, n.2, and so on) or SPs (SP1, SP2, and so on). However, if a known compatibility issue exists on a specific SP or updated OS level, this information is identified in the compatibility lists. If no such compatibility issues are noted, Veritas recommends that you install the latest OS updates on your servers and clients before you install or upgrade NetBackup.
The compatibility lists include information about the minimum OS level that is required to support a minimum NetBackup version in the latest major release line. In some cases, new releases of NetBackup may require specific vendor OS updates or patches. Table: Required operating system patches and updates for NetBackup 9.1 includes the OS updates and patches that are required for NetBackup 9.1. However, this information may sometimes change in between releases. The most up-to-date required OS patch information for NetBackup 9.1 and other NetBackup releases can be found on the Veritas Services and Operational Readiness Tools (SORT) website and in the NetBackup compatibility lists.
See About NetBackup compatibility lists and information.
See About Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools.
Note:
An OS vendor may have released a more recent update or patch that supersedes or replaces a patch that is listed in Table: Required operating system patches and updates for NetBackup 9.1. The OS patches that are listed here and in SORT should be considered at the minimum patch level that is required to install and run NetBackup. Any OS updates, patches, or patch bundles that supersede or replace those listed in Table: Required operating system patches and updates for NetBackup 9.1 are supported unless otherwise specified. Veritas recommends that you visit the Support website of your particular OS vendor for their latest patch information.
Note:
Any required patch that is listed in Table: Required operating system patches and updates for NetBackup 9.1 for the NetBackup client should also be installed on your primary servers and media servers to ensure proper client functionality.
Table: Required operating system patches and updates for NetBackup 9.1
Operating system type and version | NetBackup role | Patch | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
Beijing Linx Software Corp Linx OS | Primary, media, client | Kernel 2.6.32.26 or later | |
CentOS 6.x | Primary, media, client | Kernel 2.6.32-608.el6 or later | |
CentOS 7.x | Primary, media, client | Kernel 3.10.0-241.el7 or later | |
Debian 8 | Primary, media, client | Kernel 3.16.7-1 or later | More information is available: |
HP-UX IA-64 | Client only | Networking.NET-RUN: /usr/lib/libipv6.sl | |
Client only | Networking.NET-RUN-64: /usr/lib/pa20_64/libipv6.1 | ||
Client only | Networking.NET-RUN-64: /usr/lib/pa20_64/libipv6.sl | ||
Client only | Networking.NET2-RUN: /usr/lib/hpux32/libipv6.so | ||
Client only | Networking.NET2-RUN: /usr/lib/hpux32/libipv6.so.1 | ||
Client only | Networking.NET2-RUN: /usr/lib/hpux64/libipv6.so | ||
Client only | Networking.NET2-RUN: /usr/lib/hpux64/libipv6.so.1 | ||
Client only | Networking.NET2-RUN: /usr/lib/libipv6.1 | ||
HP-UX 11.31 | Media | QPK1131 (B.11.31.1003.347a) patch bundle | This patch bundle is required for NetBackup media server support. It is an HP-UX March 2010 patch bundle. |
Oracle Linux 7 | Media, client | Kernel 3.10.0-229.7.1 or later | More information is available: |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Primary, media, client | Kernel 3.10.0-229.7.2.el7 or later | More information is available: |
SUSE Linux 11 | Primary, media, client | SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 3 or later | More information is available: |
SUSE Linux 12 | Primary, media, client | Kernel 3.12.31 or later | More information is available: |
Veritas recommends the following updates when you run NetBackup on Windows operating systems:
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Symeventdriver updates (required). Update to latest driver version.