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NetBackup™ Release Notes
- About NetBackup 11.1.0.2
- New features, enhancements, and changes
- About new enhancements and changes in NetBackup
- NetBackup 11.1.0.2 new features, changes, and enhancements
- Changes in Cohesity terminology
- Update cloud configuration file on the primary and media server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 11.1.0.2
- Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
- NetBackup 11.1.0.2 support additions and changes
- NetBackup 11.1 and earlier support additions and changes
- Support for malware scanning of hypervisor backups on OST targets
- Simplified Cloud Scale upgrade
- BMR now uses Windows ADK 10.1.22621 (ADK 2022)
- Operational notes
- About NetBackup 11.1.0.2 operational notes
- NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
- If NetBackup 11.1.0.2 upgrade fails on Windows, revert to previous log folder structure
- Native installation requirements
- NetBackup servers must use a host name that is compliant with RFC 1123 and RFC 952
- About support for HP-UX Itanium vPars SRP containers
- Change in the default path for NetBackup installation
- NetBackup administration interface operational notes
- NetBackup Bare Metal Restore operational notes
- After PIT restore, "The host ID does not exist" error appears
- NetBackup services may not start automatically after BMR restore on a Linux client
- NetBackup Bare Metal Restore on AWS hangs when restoring a Windows 2025 client
- Mirrored dynamic volume may not receive a drive letter after Windows BMR DDR restore
- BMR Restore Failure for ReFS Volumes on Windows (2016 - 2025)
- Post Bare Metal Restore (BMR) operation, windows Start Menu and Search not functioning
- NetBackup Cloud Object Store Workload operational notes
- Full backup after upgrading from a version prior to NetBackup 11.1
- Supported version of RHEL media server as backup host
- Auto Image Replication (AIR) from NetBackup version 11.1.0.2 requires NetBackup 10.2 or later
- Backup jobs become unresponsive and consume significant space on the temporary staging location.
- NetBackup NAS operational notes
- 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 Cohesity Services and Operations Readiness Tools
Cohesity Services and Operations Readiness Tools (SORT) is a robust set of standalone and web-based tools that support enterprise products. For NetBackup, SORT provides the ability to collect, analyze, and report on host configurations across UNIX/Linux or Windows environments. This data is invaluable when you want to assess if your systems are ready for an initial NetBackup installation or for an upgrade.
Access SORT from the following webpage:
https://sort.veritas.com/netbackup
Once you get to the SORT page, more information is available as follows:
Installation and Upgrade Checklist
Use this tool to create a checklist to see if your system is ready for a NetBackup installation or an upgrade. This report contains all the software and the hardware compatibility information specific to the information provided. The report also includes product installation or upgrade instructions, as well as links to other references.
Hot fix and EEB Release Auditor
Use this tool to find out whether a release that you plan to install contains the hot fixes that you need.
Custom Reports
Use this tool to get recommendations for your system.
NetBackup Future Platform and Feature Plans
Use this tool to determine what items you can expect to see replaced with newer and improved functionality. The tool also provides insight about what items you can expect to see discontinued without replacement. Some of these items include certain NetBackup features, functionality, 3rd-party product integration, other product integration, applications, databases, and the OS platforms.
Help for the SORT tools is available. Click in the upper right corner of the SORT home page. You have the option to:
Page through the contents of the help similar to a book
Look for topics in the index
Search the help with the search option