Veritas NetBackup™ Emergency Engineering Binary Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (8.2)

Other known issues resolved in NetBackup 8.2

This topic contains a list of some of the known issues that were fixed and included in the NetBackup 8.2 release.

Etrack Incident: 3921813

  • Associated Primary Etrack: 3921705

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3921704

  • Description:

    P2V conversion failed with VMware Tools 10.1

Etrack Incident: 3922140

  • Associated Primary Etrack: N/A

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A

  • Description:

    User-specified input value maximum lengths were not validated for CSCONFIG CLI.

Etrack Incident: 3943799

  • Associated Primary Etrack: 3943476

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3943475

  • Description:

    OpsCenter alerts were not generated when queries contain syntax errors.

Etrack Incident: 3945248

  • Associated Primary Etrack: 3944475

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3944474

  • Description:

    A discrepancy existed between expiration time and retention level in bpimagelist output after running bpexpdate.

Etrack Incident: 3947105

  • Associated Primary Etrack: 3945615

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3945614

  • Description:

    A client on one virtual machine in a VMWare backup unexpectedly terminated while skipping independent disks.

Etrack Incident: 3947678

  • Associated Primary Etrack: 3941429

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3941428

  • Description:

    Exchange discovery did not work on Windows 2016 when the NetBackup Discovery Framework service runs as LocalSystem.

Etrack Incident: 3949640

  • Associated Primary Etrack: N/A

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A

  • Description:

    NetBackup recognized the BTRFS sub-volume as a different file system and the contents of the sub-volumes were skipped during the backup process.

Etrack Incident: 3949874

  • Associated Primary Etrack: N/A

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A

  • Description:

    Jobs API documentation did not match functionality.

Etrack Incident: 3950207

  • Associated Primary Etrack: 3946881

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3946880

  • Description:

    Status code 90 occurred for streams where drive letters were excluded.

Etrack Incident: 3951073

  • Associated Primary Etrack: 3938343

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3938342

  • Description:

    AIR imports from an ExaGrid storage server failed with status code 191, error code 226, entity already exists.

Etrack Incident: 3951301

  • Associated Primary Etrack: 3941650

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3941649

  • Description:

    Unable to configure Cloud Catalyst with server names in the environment longer than 60 characters.

Etrack Incident: 3952055

  • Associated Primary Etrack: 3949711

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3949710

  • Description:

    nbmysql agent asked for the database password although the password was authenticated using the mysql_config_editor.

Etrack Incident: 3952067

  • Associated Primary Etrack: 3946852

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3946851

  • Description:

    Target MSDP credentials were stored in ASCII code on source MSDP pool.

Etrack Incident: 3952068

  • Associated Primary Etrack: 3946852

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3946851

  • Description:

    During AIR replications, target MSDP credentials were stored in ASCII code on source MSDP pool.

Etrack Incident: 3952455

  • Associated Primary Etrack: N/A

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A

  • Description:

    NetBackup Troubleshooting API documentation was not available to customers.

Etrack Incident: 3952484

  • Associated Primary Etrack: N/A

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A

  • Description:

    Restore of Veritas Filesystem files to ext3/4 failed because of the nbtar binary on UNIX servers.

Etrack Incident: 3952926

  • Associated Primary Etrack: 3950642

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3950640

  • Description:

    A DR package could not be recovered in a DR environment without the domain controller.

Etrack Incident: 3953692

  • Associated Primary Etrack: N/A

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A

  • Description:

    VxFS FCL support for multistreaming needed to be added.

Etrack Incident: 3953983

  • Associated Primary Etrack: 3951679

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3951678

  • Description:

    The Images API did not finding images when specifying client name with space, such as "VMWare display name".

Etrack Incident: 3954408

  • Associated Primary Etrack: 3952302

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3952301

  • Description:

    The message "NetBackup Web Management Console -- NOT STARTED" was displayed, although the console actual started.

Etrack Incident: 3954473

  • Associated Primary Etrack: 3952941

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3952940

  • Description:

    5240 upgrade from 3.1 to 3.1.1 failed multiple times while unmounting vxfs partitions due to MSDP partition used by handlehelper. Handlehelper was not stopped after stopping NBU service by running bp.kill_all.

Etrack Incident: 3956872

  • Associated Primary Etrack: 3956780

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3956779

  • Description:

    Push install to a client host failed.

Etrack Incident: 3958080

  • Associated Primary Etrack: 3956347

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3956346

  • Description:

    OpsCenter Daily Disk Pool Usage reports did not return any data for the previous 24 hours.

Etrack Incident: 3959007

  • Associated Primary Etrack: N/A

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A

  • Description:

    GET /catalog/images API failed with any schedule type except FULL.

Etrack Incident: 3962062

  • Associated Primary Etrack: N/A

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A

  • Description:

    Image cleanup exited with status 0 but failed to delete images for VMware hosts whose display names begin with a period.

Etrack Incident: 3962262

  • Associated Primary Etrack: N/A

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A

  • Description:

    Enhancements from 8.1 EEBs that improve the system performance were added.

Etrack Incident: 3962661

  • Associated Primary Etrack: N/A

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A

  • Description:

    On a 5240 appliance, the system appeared to hang. After rebooting the appliance to correct the problem, the VPFSD service failed to start automatically.

Etrack Incident: 3962918

  • Associated Primary Etrack: N/A

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A

  • Description:

    VPFSD service did not start automatically after reboot.

Etrack Incident: 3963205

  • Associated Primary Etrack: N/A

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A

  • Description:

    NDMP accelerated backup failed with status 13.

Etrack Incident: 3963448

  • Associated Primary Etrack: N/A

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A

  • Description:

    VMware backup completed successfully despite an error while reading the sector.

Etrack Incident: 3964106

  • Associated Primary Etrack: 3956897

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3956896

  • Description:

    Sybase 'dump database' failed with error 'Maximum length is 127'

Etrack Incident: 3964227

  • Associated Primary Etrack: 3959187

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3959185

  • Description:

    Unable to verify whether VMware backup images were successfully duplicated.

Etrack Incident: 3965509

  • Associated Primary Etrack: 3964784

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3964782

  • Description:

    NetBackup Services failed to automatically start on a Linux platform using systemd.

Etrack Incident: 3966336

  • Associated Primary Etrack: 3966199

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3966198

  • Description:

    Unable to add second Flex Master Instance to OpsCenter due to duplicate host ID.

Etrack Incident: 3967952

  • Associated Primary Etrack: 3967418

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3967416

  • Description:

    When running a VMware backup of SQL Server, "Events out of sequence -image inconsistency (229)" was shown for ASC job, but all of the jobs including ASC finished with Status 0.

Etrack Incident: 3969029

  • Associated Primary Etrack: 3966917

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3966915

  • Description:

    Installation failed when attempting to install NetBackup with specified password string for a nbwebsvc user.

Etrack Incident: 3969030

  • Associated Primary Etrack: 3966917

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3966915

  • Description:

    Installation failed when attempting to install NetBackup with specified password string for a nbwebsvc user.

Etrack Incident: 3969803

  • Associated Primary Etrack: N/A

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A

  • Description:

    BMR Media SRT did not accept boot arguments when new 3PP CD (version 2) was used for creation.

Etrack Incident: 3969926

  • Associated Primary Etrack: 3969626

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3969625

  • Description:

    The bp.kill_all command didn't work properly on a Solaris platform because of incorrectly parsing of the output of the bpps command with awk script.

Etrack Incident: 3971581

  • Associated Primary Etrack: 3971569

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3971568

  • Description:

    Application protection setting was cleared in a VMware backup policy when the Schedules and Clients icon was clicked.

Etrack Incident: 3972282

  • Associated Primary Etrack: 3972159

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3972158

  • Description:

    SLP duplications seemed to be running twice the sizing that was needed.

Etrack Incident: 3972511

  • Associated Primary Etrack: 3970785

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3970784

  • Description:

    After upgrading media app_cluster to 8.1.2, restore from BAR client-side to clustername failed with status 31.

Etrack Incident: 3973746

  • Associated Primary Etrack: N/A

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A

  • Description:

    When MSDP storage contains a lot of data, the first run of dsstat after the service starts was taking an excessive amount of time.

Etrack Incident: 3975371

  • Associated Primary Etrack: 3973216

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3973215

  • Description:

    Backing up files were successful for VXFS with error messages "Failed to get VxFS Write Once Read Many attribute for /oracle/xxx. Errno = 95: Operation not supported".

Etrack Incident: 3975484

  • Associated Primary Etrack: 3973248

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3973247

  • Description:

    Missing data from OpsCenter.

Etrack Incident: 3976368

  • Associated Primary Etrack: 3970108

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3970982

  • Description:

    File Server backups with forced rescan took an excessive amount of time to complete.

Etrack Incident: 3977430

  • Associated Primary Etrack: 3959259

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3959258

  • Description:

    With OpsCenter installed, java0.log filled up the file system.

Etrack Incident: 3977607

  • Associated Primary Etrack: N/A

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A

  • Description:

    NetBackup Java GUI allowed a user to log in to an account that had been locked out.

Etrack Incident: 3977870

  • Associated Primary Etrack: 3975183

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3975182

  • Description:

    After backing up a Linux VM with many small files, file name mapping for individual files was incomplete when restoring a selection of files from the BAR GUI.

Etrack Incident: 3978254

  • Associated Primary Etrack: 3977076

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3977075

  • Description:

    The backup/duplicate job failed or hung with error "esfs_dir.cpp:3070(esfs_pwrite) ERROR - "Failed to write" after high watermark cache space was used.

Etrack Incident: 3978669

  • Associated Primary Etrack: N/A

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A

  • Description:

    In a multi-tenant environment, instance backup from a different project name failed.

Etrack Incident: 3979259

  • Associated Primary Etrack: N/A

  • Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A

  • Description:

    A CloudCatalyst storage server creation failed when a long access key ID (length greater than 63) was used.