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NetBackup™ Installation Guide
- Preparing for installation
- General installation information
- Available NetBackup installation methods
- About compatibility between NetBackup versions
- About NetBackup software availability
- Required libraries missing from some Linux distributions
- How to install NetBackup
- About the NetBackup preinstall checker
- About the NetBackup Product Improvement Program
- Creating the user account to support the NetBackup web server
- About storage device configuration
- About security certificates for NetBackup hosts
- Restrictions on the NetBackup installation directory
- Windows compiler and security requirements for NetBackup 11.1 and later installation
- Installation operational notes and limitations for NetBackup 11.1
- Performance and tuning considerations
- SORT information
- Cohesity NetInsights Console information
- General installation information
- NetBackup licenses
- Installing server software on UNIX systems
- Installation requirements for UNIX and Linux
- Do not mix non-English versions of Windows and UNIX platforms unless primary and media servers are NetBackup appliances
- NetBackup installations on environments that run different versions of UNIX-based operating systems
- Special installation guidelines for Solaris systems
- Special installation guidelines for Linux clustered environments
- How the installation script works
- Installing NetBackup primary server software on Linux
- Installing NetBackup media server software on Linux
- About pushing client software from a primary server to clients
- Installation requirements for UNIX and Linux
- Installing server software on Windows systems
- Installation requirements for Windows and Windows clusters
- Requirements for Windows cluster installations
- Performing local, remote, or clustered server installation on Windows systems
- Post-installation tasks for NetBackup cluster environments
- Verifying Windows cluster installations or upgrades
- Installing NetBackup servers silently on Windows systems
- About the administrative interfaces
- About the NetBackup web user interface
- About the NetBackup Administration Console
- Installing the NetBackup Administration Console
- Installing multiple versions of the NetBackup Administration Console on Windows
- Removing earlier versions of the NetBackup Administration Console on Windows
- About the NetBackup Remote Administration Console
- Installing the NetBackup Remote Administration Console
- Installing NetBackup client software
- About NetBackup client installation
- About NetBackup client installation on Windows
- About NetBackup client installation on UNIX and Linux
- Configuring NetBackup
- Removing NetBackup server and client software
- About NetBackup server software removal on Linux systems
- About NetBackup client software removal on UNIX and Linux systems
- Removing NetBackup from UNIX and Linux servers and clients
- About NetBackup server software removal on Windows systems
- Removing NetBackup server and client software from Windows servers, clusters, and clients
- About removal of the Java Console state data from Windows servers and Windows clients
- Removing a clustered media server by migrating all data to a new media server
- Reference
- About the NetBackup answer file
- Add or remove the NetBackup DirectIO package after install
- Previous installation operational notes and limitations
- About binaries installed on primary and media servers
- Environment variable for certificate key size
- NetBackup database is not supported on the btrfs file system
- Ansible supported playbooks for NetBackup
- Client push staging area no longer populated
- NetBackup Administration Console and JRE installation optional for some computers
- Generate a certificate on the inactive nodes of a clustered primary server
- NetBackup database user
- About the IT Analytics Data Collector
- Manually install or uninstall IT Analytics Data Collector binaries
- Manually configure the IT Analytics Data Collector
- Persistent Java Virtual Machine options
- About RBAC bootstrapping
- NetBackup primary server web server user and group creation
- About the NetBackup Java Runtime Environment
- Add or remove Java components after install
- Using NetApp disk arrays with Replication Director
- Security updates to the NetBackup database
- Size guidance for the NetBackup primary server and domain
Adding a UNIX/Linux client after initial server installation
You may want to add UNIX/Linux clients after the server installation if you forgot to select one during the installation. You may also add a new UNIX/Linux client type to your backup environment.
To install client software later, you must first install the NetBackup client software onto the NetBackup server.
To add UNIX/Linux client types to servers after initial installation
- Use one of the following methods to start the installation script:
ESD images (downloaded files)
Navigate to the location where the installation images reside.
Enter the following command:
./install
Native install tools
NetBackup supports the install and upgrade of the UNIX and Linux client binaries with native installers. More information is available.
See Install of the UNIX and Linux client binaries with native installers.
- When the following message appears, press Enter to continue:
NetBackup Installation Script Copyright (c) 2025 Cohesity, Inc. All rights reserved. Installing NetBackup Client Software Please review the COHESITY SOFTWARE TERMS OF USE located on the installation media before proceeding. The agreement includes details on the NetBackup Product Improvement Program. For NetBackup installation and upgrade information specific to your platform and to find out if your installed EEBs or hot fixes are contained in this release, check out the Cohesity Services and Operations Readiness Tools (SORT) Installation and Upgrade Checklist and Hot fix and EEB Release Auditor, respectively, at https://sort.veritas.com/netbackup. Do you wish to continue? [y,n] (y)The client binaries represent the operating system versions where the binaries were compiled. The binaries typically function perfectly on later versions of the operating system. The installation procedure attempts to load the appropriate binaries for your system. If the script does not recognize the local operating system, it presents choices.
- Select the client type that you want to load and follow the prompts to install that client type. Repeat as necessary until all of the client types you want are loaded.
Make sure that you load the software for all of the UNIX/Linux client types that you intend to install remotely from the server.
- Install the NetBackup client software on the clients you specified.
More Information
About remote installation methods for UNIX and Linux clients