NetBackup™ Release Notes

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Product(s): NetBackup (10.2.0.1)
  1. About NetBackup 10.2.0.1
    1.  
      About the NetBackup 10.2.0.1 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 10.2.0.1 new features, changes, and enhancements
      1.  
        Changes in Veritas terminology
      2.  
        NetBackup 10.2.0.1 support additions and changes
      3.  
        Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
      4.  
        Update cloud configuration file on the primary server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 10.2.0.1
  3. Operational notes
    1.  
      About NetBackup 10.2.0.1 operational notes
    2. NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
      1.  
        If NetBackup 10.2.0.1 upgrade fails on Windows, revert to previous log folder structure
      2.  
        Native installation requirements
      3.  
        NetBackup servers must use a host name that is compliant with RFC 1123 and RFC 952
      4.  
        About support for HP-UX Itanium vPars SRP containers
    3. NetBackup administration and general operational notes
      1.  
        Changes to database commands
      2.  
        Multiple postgres processes on Linux NetBackup servers
      3.  
        For some workload environments, reduce the size of the job database before upgrade
    4. NetBackup administration interface operational notes
      1.  
        Delay in NetBackup web UI when adding or removing columns in Catalog area
      2.  
        Job actions not available for workload administrators with limited RBAC permissions on assets
      3.  
        Intermittent issues with X forwarding of NetBackup Administration Console
      4.  
        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.  
        After PIT restore, "The host ID does not exist" error appears
      2.  
        NetBackup services may not start automatically after BMR restore on a Linux client
      3.  
        BMR direct P2V VM conversion task fails with status code 7
    6. NetBackup Snapshot Manager (formerly NetBackup CloudPoint)
      1.  
        Backups from snapshot jobs for NAS data protection policy fail with error 927
    7. NetBackup for NDMP operational notes
      1.  
        Parent directories in the path of a file may not be present in an NDMP incremental image
    8. NetBackup for OpenStack operational notes
      1.  
        CentOS repository mirror URL is updated
      2.  
        NetBackup for OpenStack Datamover API (NBOSDMAPI) service times out in the haproxy connection
      3.  
        Instance volumes in the incremental backups cannot be mounted
      4.  
        NetBackup primary server does not re-issue the token if NetBackup VM is a 3-node cluster
      5.  
        Success message appears along with the error message when you delete the policy that has snapshots
      6.  
        Unable to connect to NetBackup primary server using NBCA
      7.  
        Excluded Ceph Volume after restore is not mountable or formattable
      8.  
        Restored VMs have blank metadata config_drive attached
      9.  
        NBOSVM reconfig fails when you add new NetBackup VM to the cluster
      10.  
        Database does not sync after NetBackup cluster gets new nodes
      11.  
        Data on boot disk gets backed up despite exclusion
      12.  
        After reinitialization and import, OpenStack certificates are missing
      13.  
        CLI import changes scheduler trust value to disabled
      14.  
        Unable to get node details after you reinitialize the NetBackup Appliance
      15.  
        Snapshots fails with "object is not subscriptable" for many policy jobs at the exact same time
      16.  
        No operation is permitted in insecure way for SSL-enabled Keystone URL
    9. 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
  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 10.2.0.1 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 for NDMP operational notes

NetBackup for NDMP is an optional NetBackup application. It enables NetBackup to use the Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) to initiate and control backups and restores of Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems. This topic contains some of the operational notes and known issues that are associated with NetBackup for NDMP in NetBackup 10.2.0.1.