NetBackup™ Release Notes

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Product(s): NetBackup (10.5.0.1)
  1. About NetBackup 10.5.0.1
    1.  
      About the NetBackup 10.5.0.1 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 10.5.0.1 new features, changes, and enhancements
      1.  
        Changes in Veritas terminology
      2.  
        Update cloud configuration file on the primary server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 10.5.0.1
      3.  
        Support for OpenStack Caracal added to NetBackup for OpenStack 10.5.0.1
      4.  
        MSDP volume group (MVG) supports WORM storage
      5.  
        Changes to the VRTSpddes.rpm package in 10.5.0.1 for BYO storage server
      6.  
        Enhancements for Cassandra workload
      7.  
        Support for backup of Azure Disk Encryption (ADE) enabled VMs
      8.  
        Support for file hash search with malware search
      9.  
        NetBackup 10.5.0.1 support additions and changes
      10.  
        Minimum operating system versions
      11.  
        Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
  3. Operational notes
    1.  
      About NetBackup 10.5.0.1 operational notes
    2. NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
      1.  
        If NetBackup 10.5.0.1 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.  
        Intelligent catalog archiving (ICA) is not supported for MSDP cloud
      2.  
        For some workload environments, reduce the size of the job database before upgrade
      3.  
        Policies using Replication Director fail with error code 4224
    4. NetBackup administration interface operational notes
      1.  
        Delay in NetBackup web UI when adding or removing columns in Catalog area
      2.  
        Intermittent issues with X forwarding of NetBackup Administration Console
      3.  
        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.  
        AIX BMR Shared Resource Tree (SRT) creation fails in NetBackup 10.5.0.1
      3.  
        NetBackup services may not start automatically after BMR restore on a Linux client
    6.  
      NetBackup for VMware operational notes
    7. NetBackup NAS operational notes
      1.  
        Parent directories in the path of a file may not be present in an NDMP incremental image
      2.  
        RD storage units are not listed as Replication targets
    8. NetBackup for OpenStack operational notes
      1.  
        NetBackup for OpenStack Datamover API (NBOSDMAPI) service times out in the haproxy connection
      2.  
        Instance volumes in the incremental backups cannot be mounted
      3.  
        Restored VMs have blank metadata config_drive attached
      4.  
        No operation is permitted in insecure way for SSL-enabled Keystone URL
      5.  
        NBOS Backups and NBOS Backup Admin tabs disappear from Horizon UI after stack is updated
    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 10.5.0.1 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 servers must use a host name that is compliant with RFC 1123 and RFC 952

Starting with NetBackup 8.0, all NetBackup server names must use a host name that is complaint with RFC 1123 ("Requirements for Internet Hosts - Application and Support") and RFC 952 ("DOD Internet Host Table Specification") standards. These standards include the supported and unsupported characters that can be used in a host name. For example, the underscore character ( _ ) is not a supported character for host names.

More information is available about these standards and about this issue:

RFC 952

RFC 1123

http://www.veritas.com/docs/000125019

These standards should be applied to all computing hosts, including all NetBackup hosts. To accommodate legacy environments and functionality, features of NetBackup that were implemented before 2010 continue to allow some non-compliant characters. But newer features, as well as more recently integrated 3rd-party components, are not tested with nor expected to be compatible with host names that do not adhere to the industry standards.

In some situations, it may be possible to configure name services with a network hostname alias that is standards-compliant, and then use the alias when you configure NetBackup. But using host names that are standards-compliant is the only way to ensure compatibility with all features.