NetBackup™ Release Notes
- About NetBackup 10.0
- New features, enhancements, and changes
- About new enhancements and changes in NetBackup
- NetBackup 10.0 new features, changes, and enhancements
- Changes in Veritas terminology
- RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 10.0
- Improvements to Activity monitor in the NetBackup web UI
- Veritas announces NetBackup SaaS Protection (NSP) integration with web UI
- NetBackup MSDP catalog shadow copy duplicates on data volumes
- Malware detection in NetBackup
- Accessing NetBackup Flex Scale from the NetBackup web UI
- Non-root users with the required access can access CLIs
- A new host ID-based certificate in NetBackup 10.0 cannot have a key size greater than 4096
- Configure smart card or certificate user authentication without AD or LDAP domain validation
- EOL for support of BMR clients on HP-UX
- Last release for NetBackup OpsCenter and OpsCenter Analytics
- NetBackup 10.0 support additions and changes
- Workloads supported in the FIPS-compliant mode
- Support for data-in-transit encryption (DTE)
- NetBackup 10.0 removes support for direct backup to storage units (non-SLP) in ISM policies
- BMR now supports ADK 10 for Windows restores
- MSDP disk pool creation in the web UI supports AWS SSE-CMK
- MSDP cloud immutable storage support for S3-compatible platforms and Azure
- NetBackup for OpenStack supports OpenStack-Ansible
- Guided Recovery for Oracle is no longer supported in OpsCenter
- Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
- Snapshot and Recovery of Windows VMs residing on the Google Cloud Platform
- Support for configuring license types in the NetBackup web UI
- Change in accessibility of the legacy logs
- Notifications, Messages, and Resiliency configuration information are not upgraded
- CloudPoint 8.3.x servers require upgrade to NetBackup 9.1.x before upgrading to version 10.0
- Changes in vCenter plug-in support
- Update cloud configuration file on the primary server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 10.0
- File path changes for CloudProvider.xml and cacert.pem
- Upcoming changes for Oracle instance groups and commands
- NetBackup Copilot for Oracle with instant access and universal share
- NetBackup for Oracle and NetBackup for DB2 prevent the direct expiration of backup images
- Plug-in to store the RMAN backups to MSDP storage directly
- Backup and restore of Cassandra clusters
- Recovery Vault for NetBackup
- NetBackup Bare Metal Restore (BMR) operations in the NetBackup web UI
- Operational notes
- About NetBackup 10.0 operational notes
- NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
- After initiating CA migration, connection errors may occur
- If NetBackup 10.0 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
- About support for HP-UX Itanium vPars SRP containers
- NetBackup administration and general operational notes
- NetBackup administration interface operational notes
- Certain NetBackup web UI nodes do not work when NBAC is configured in the 'Required' or 'Automatic' mode
- Some columns in the web UI are not searchable
- Delay in NetBackup web UI when adding or removing columns in Catalog area
- 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
- Provider configuration for Azure Stack Hub fails with error "Authentication failed: invalid_instance"
- Restore of cloud VM backup images replicated with AIR fails Pre-recovery check
- Error in calculating the snapshot size in smart metering for Cloud workloads
- Configuring a cloud recovery host on RHEL 8
- NetBackup with Veritas CloudPoint operational notes
- Offline VM backup fails with status code 156
- Restoring a VM (with a Read-only disk) from an app-consistent snapshot fails
- 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
- VM disks not displayed due to discovery level
- 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
- 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 for NDMP operational notes
- NetBackup for OpenStack operational notes
- CentOS repository mirror URL is updated
- NetBackup for OpenStack Datamover API (NBOSDMAPI) service times out in the haproxy connection
- Policy schedule start time on the Horizon UI is different than configured in the policy
- Instance volumes in the incremental backups cannot be mounted
- NetBackup primary server does not re-issue the token if NetBackup VM is a 3-node cluster
- NetBackup version is displayed as 'NetBackupforOpenStack_10.0.1Beta1' 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 primary 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 10.0 includes the OS updates and patches that are required for NetBackup 10.0. However, this information may sometimes change in between releases. The most up-to-date required OS patch information for NetBackup 10.0 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 10.0. 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 10.0 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 10.0 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 10.0
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.