NetBackup™ Release Notes
- About NetBackup 10.3
- New features, enhancements, and changes
- About new enhancements and changes in NetBackup
- NetBackup 10.3 new features, changes, and enhancements
- Changes in Veritas terminology
- RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 10.3
- Introducing universal share accelerator
- Restore logs in the NetBackup web UI and location of restore logs
- Restore types added to NetBackup web UI for MS-Windows, Standard, and VMware policy types
- Recovery for additional policy types added to the NetBackup web UI
- NetBackup web UI new policy features
- Enhancements in system anomaly detection
- Entropy computation in NetBackup
- About multi-person authorization
- About multi-factor authentication
- Certificate-based transport layer security (TLS) authentication
- NetBackup 10.3 support additions and changes
- Support for AWS Snowball Edge
- End of life (EOL) for the Enhanced Auditing feature in NetBackup
- End of life (EOL) for the NetBackup Access Control (NBAC) authorization model in NetBackup
- Protecting assets with Snapshot Manager's agentless restore feature will require Microsoft Windows Server 2019 or later
- NetBackup for OpenStack support for CentOS has ended
- Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
- License file required for upgrade
- Upgrades to NetBackup 10.3 may take a long time
- Before upgrade, default credentials category is NONE
- Data-in-transit encryption (DTE) mode is set to 'Preferred On' by default
- Update cloud configuration file on the primary server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 10.3
- Additional permissions added for new features
- Integrate MSDP Cloud credentials into NetBackup generic Credential Management System
- MSDP Cloud is now supported on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
- Cloud Catalyst to MSDP Cloud migration is not supported on 10.3 MSDP servers
- New features for NetBackup for Microsoft SQL Server
- New features for NetBackup for Oracle
- Upgrading to Snapshot Manager for Data Center 10.3 for Qumulo plug-in users
- New D-NAS features
- Operational notes
- About NetBackup 10.3 operational notes
- NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
- NetBackup administration and general operational notes
- NetBackup administration interface operational notes
- NetBackup Bare Metal Restore operational notes
- NetBackup Cloud Object Store Workload operational notes
- NetBackup Snapshot Manager (formerly NetBackup CloudPoint)
- NetBackup NAS 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 10.3
NetBackup 10.3 includes both updated and new RESTful application programming interfaces (APIs). These APIs are built on the Representational State Transfer (REST) architecture. They provide a web-service-based interface that lets you configure and administer NetBackup in your environments.
You can find documentation for the NetBackup APIs in on SORT and on your primary server. Make sure to review the Versioning topic and the What's New topic in the Getting Started section.
On SORT:
NetBackup API documentation is available on SORT:
HOME > KNOWLEDGE BASE > Documents > Product Version > 10.3
Look under API Reference. A Getting Started document provides background information about using NetBackup APIs. The API YAML files are also available for reference, however, they are not functional. You cannot test the APIs from the documents on SORT.
On your primary server:
APIs are stored in YAML files on the primary server:
https://<primary_server>/api-docs/index.htmlThe APIs are documented in Swagger format. This format lets you review the code and test the functionality by making actual calls with the APIs. You must have the appropriate security permissions to access the primary server and APIs to use the Swagger APIs.
Caution:
Veritas recommends that you test APIs only in a development environment. Because you can make actual API calls from the Swagger files, you should not test the APIs in a production environment.
NetBackup 10.3 includes these new and enhanced APIs:
Licensing:
Add entitlements.
Get entitlements.
Delete entitlements.
Multi-person Authorization:
Update MPA tickets by ID.
Obtain list of MPA tickets.
Obtain MPA ticket by ID.
Obtain list of MPA configurations.
Update MPA configure by ID.
Pre-Check:
Perform pre-check on workload asset.
Rate Limiter:
Create rate-limit configuration.
Update rate-limit configuration.
Delete rate-limit configuration.
Obtain list of rate-limit configurations.
Obtain rate-limit configuration by ID.
OpenStack Workload:
Create instant access mount for OpenStack recovery point.
Obtain instant access mount by ID.
Obtain list of instant access mounts.
Delete instant access mount by ID.
NetBackup OpenStack VM Servers:
Register NetBackup OpenStack VM.
Delete NetBackup OpenStack VM.
Media Servers:
Remove media servers.
Obtain media server directory information.
Update media server state.
Update media service daemon state.
Restore Logs:
Obtain details of restore log by ID.
Download restore log file by ID.
Delete restore log file by ID.
Snapshot Managers:
Register Snapshot Manager with NetBackup.
Anomaly Extension:
Obtain list of anomalies for extension.
Obtain anomaly for extension by ID.
Delete anomaly record for extension by ID.
Update anomaly status by ID.
Obtain template configuration by ID.
Create configuration by ID.
Update configuration by ID.
Obtain configuration by ID.
These APIs that have been versioned in NetBackup 10.3 due to breaking changes. The previous version of these APIs is still supported by specifying the correct version. See the Versioning section in the on SORT for more details.
Post snapshot-mgmt-servers:
`POST /config/servers/snapshot-mgmt-servers` has the following attribute changes:
`username`, `password`, `fingerprint` and `securityToken` removed from the request body payload of the object `snapshotMgmtServer`.
These attributes are not supported as TLS certificate based authentication mechanism is used for Snapshot Manager communication.