NetBackup™ Release Notes
- About NetBackup 11.0
- New features, enhancements, and changes
- About new enhancements and changes in NetBackup
- NetBackup 11.0 new features, changes, and enhancements
- Changes in Cohesity terminology
- RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 11.0
- New features and enhancements to the NetBackup web UI
- Support for Greenplum database
- Support policy based backup of Nutanix-AHV assets
- New features and changes for NetBackup for Microsoft SQL Server
- NetBackup 11.0 support additions and changes
- NetBackup 10.5.0.1 and earlier support additions and changes qualified in NetBackup 11.0
- Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
- Update cloud configuration file on the primary server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 11.0
- Ansible supported playbooks for NetBackup
- BMR support for Cloud VM Recovery in AWS
- NetBackup 11.0 uses SQLite database to store the MSDP events
- Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) support in NetBackup
- Multi-person authorization support for malware scan host management and policy management operations
- Asset cleanup for Kubernetes assets
- Instant access for MSDP object store support
- Support for the universal share scale out feature
- Enhanced backup performance for Cloud object store in NetBackup 11.0
- Changes to Java GUI and JRE for NetBackup 11.0
- Support for RHOSP 16.1, 16.2, and Kolla Ussuri has been discontinued in NetBackup for OpenStack 11.0
- MSDP load balancing for multi-stream backups on MSDP cluster
- MSDP lazy delete feature retains the uploaded data in the cloud for the failed jobs
- The file hash server deployment alongside MSDP deployments
- Monitor the progress of CRC check for local LSU to understand the MSDP health
- Support for running MSDP commands with non-root users
- Support for AIR, disaster recovery, and image sharing for cold storage
- Support for instant access feature for Nutanix AHV
- Newly supported databases for the PaaS workload
- Minimum node changes and new permission required for AWS plugin
- Support for viewing and extracting the collected logs
- Support for Trend Micro malware detection tool
- Merge certificates for media servers
- Minimum node configuration for cost optimization
- Support Nutanix workload for malware scanning
- Support for BYO Malware Scan Host using NetBackup Client
- Hardware Security Module (HSM) support in NetBackup
- Detection of database corruption in Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server
- Detection of new risk engine-based anomalies
- Operational notes
- About NetBackup 11.0 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 11.0 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
- Backup jobs become unresponsive and consume significant space on the temporary staging location.
- NetBackup for VMware operational notes
- NetBackup NAS operational notes
- NetBackup for OpenStack operational notes
- NetBackup for OpenStack Datamover API (NBOSDMAPI) service times out in the haproxy connection
- Instance volumes in the incremental backups cannot be mounted
- Restored VMs have blank metadata config_drive attached
- No operation is permitted in insecure way for SSL-enabled Keystone URL
- NBOS Backups and NBOS Backup Admin tabs disappear from Horizon UI after stack is updated
- NetBackup Cloud workload operational notes
- 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 11.0, 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 Cohesity 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.
Cohesity 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.