NetBackup™ Release Notes
- About NetBackup 10.4
- New features, enhancements, and changes
- About new enhancements and changes in NetBackup
- NetBackup 10.4 new features, changes, and enhancements
- Changes in Veritas terminology
- RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 10.4
- Client-side deduplication control from policies in NetBackup web UI
- Changes to the dashboard in the NetBackup web UI
- Malware scan improvements
- Enhancement in multifactor authentication
- Enhancements in anomaly detection
- Enhancements in multi-person authorization
- NetBackup support for OCSF-formatted audit events
- End-of-support-life (EOSL) for NetBackup Replication Director, replaced with NetBackup Snapshot Manager (NBSM)
- NetBackup 10.4 support additions and changes
- Deprecating support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Support for CIS Level 2 v2 benchmark for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 machines
- Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
- Windows compiler and security requirements for NetBackup 10.4 and later installation and upgrade
- Script for setting up image sharing with cloud recovery servers to be deprecated
- AMI is used to create virtual machine in the AWS cloud environment
- Upgraded containerized services
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure support for cloud workloads
- Support for VMware vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA)
- Browse ability for vApps with VMware policy in NetBackup web UI
- New features for NetBackup for VMware in the NetBackup web UI
- Support for XFS-formatted volumes and LVM2 Thin Pool Volumes
- New features and changes for NetBackup for Microsoft SQL Server
- New features and changes for NetBackup for Oracle
- Support for Kubernetes workload type for malware scanning
- Patching mechanism for primary and media servers
- New features for Dynamic NAS (D-NAS)
- Operational notes
- About NetBackup 10.4 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
- Auto Image Replication (AIR) from NetBackup version 10.4 requires NetBackup 10.2 or later
- For Azure, backups fail when an older policy is updated with a new backup host
- Replicated backups cannot be restored to older NetBackup versions
- Changing the authentication method of existing Cloud object store accounts on Ceph may fail
- Red Hat Ceph does not support the Assume role credential type
- NetBackup Snapshot Manager (formerly NetBackup CloudPoint)
- NetBackup database and application agent operational notes
- NetBackup NAS operational notes
- NetBackup for OpenStack operational notes
- NetBackup for OpenStack appliance re-initalization feature is removed from NetBackup for OpenStack 10.4
- Excluding volumes from the backup is not supported in NetBackup for OpenStack 10.4
- NetBackup for OpenStack 10.4 imports only policies from the older versions
- NetBackup for OpenStack Datamover API (NBOSDMAPI) service times out in the haproxy connection
- Instance volumes in the incremental backups cannot be mounted
- Success message appears along with the error message when you delete the protection that has recovery points
- Restored VMs have blank metadata config_drive attached
- No operation is permitted in insecure way for SSL-enabled Keystone URL
- If the OpenStack project is deleted, importing policy does not work in NetBackup for OpenStack 10.4
- 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
About NetBackup installation requirements
This release of NetBackup may contain changes to the minimum system requirements and procedures that are required for installation. These changes affect the minimum system requirements for both Windows and UNIX platforms. Much of the installation instructional information in the NetBackup Release Notes is provided for convenience. Detailed installation instructions are found in the NetBackup Installation Guide and the NetBackup Upgrade Guide.
See NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes.
Before you upgrade the NetBackup server software, you must back up your NetBackup catalogs and verify that the catalog backup was successful.
Before upgrading to NetBackup 10.4, you must ensure that you have the free disk space that is twice the size of the NetBackup relational database. That means for default installations of the primary server, you are required to have that amount of free space on the file system containing the
/usr/openv/db/data(UNIX) or<install_path>\Veritas\NetBackupDB\data(Windows) directories. If you have changed the location of some of the files in either of these directories, free space is required in those locations equal to or greater than the size of the files in those locations. Refer to the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I for more information about storing NBDB database files in alternate locations.Note:
This free disk space requirement assumes that you have already performed the best practice of completing a successful catalog backup before you begin the upgrade.
Primary and media servers must have a minimum soft limit of 8000 file descriptors per process for NetBackup to run correctly.
For more information about the effects of an insufficient number of file descriptors, refer to the following articles on the Veritas Support website:
NetBackup primary and media servers exchange server version information at startup, and every 24 hours. This exchange occurs automatically. During startup after an upgrade, the upgraded media server uses the vmd service to push its version information to all of the servers that are listed in its server list.
Veritas recommends that you have the primary server services up and available during a media server upgrade.
All compressed files are compressed using gzip. The installation of these files requires gunzip and gzip, so make sure that they are installed on the computer before you attempt to install NetBackup. For all UNIX platforms except HP-UX, the binaries are expected to be in /bin or /usr/bin and that directory is a part of the root user's PATH variable. On HP-UX systems, the gzip and gunzip commands are expected to be in /usr/contrib/bin. Installation scripts add that directory to the PATH variable. These commands must be present to have successful UNIX installations.