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This article contains information about the latest Alerts, releases notifications, patches as well as known issues for NetBackup 8.1.x. We recommend that you frequently check this article for updates.
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Alerts
Veritas Technologies LLC issues alerts for issues involving potential data loss, security vulnerabilities or other critical issues often requiring immediate action. Below you will find links to the latest Alerts for NetBackup:
Note: On May 5, 2019, NetBackup 7.7.x will reach End of Standard Support and Extended Technical Support (ETS) will be required to continue receiving support. Please contact Veritas Support to purchase ETS.
Note: The current version of NetBackup is 8.1. If you currently have a support subscription with Veritas, an upgrade may be available for no additional charge. You may verify your eligibility and download the current version of NetBackup at our Entitlement site. If you have additional questions or need assistance please contact Veritas Support. Note that Extended Technical Support (ETS) will be required to receive support for all NetBackup versions 7.7.x and older. Please contact Veritas Support to purchase ETS.
| Article Title | Article Number | Type |
|---|---|---|
| NetBackup & OpsCenter Tech Alert Open SSL DIR on Windows | 100049186 | Security Advisory |
| Duplication jobs to CloudCatalyst may complete with status 0, but if cache fills up, dataloss could result | 100047024 | Data Loss |
| Incremental backup with Archive bit set completes with status 0, but some files don't backup and Archive bit is cleared | 100046605 | Data Loss |
| Cloud Catalyst Disaster Recovery will fail if the MSDP DR Policy Full backup expires before DR steps are performed. | 100046424 | Data Loss |
| NetBackup 8.1.2: Unable to boot a restore of a Win2012 R2 Virtual Machine with MBR dynamic boot disk (with System Reserved partition) | 100045664 | Data Loss |
| NDMP Accelerator backup contained unavailable backup selection path may produce a corrupt backup, from which restore or verify cannot be performed. | 100044613 | Data Loss |
| Veritas End of Life (EOL) announcement for NetBackup with HP-UX and AIX Master/Media Servers | 100041478 | Information |
| Differential backup with "Use Change Journal" and "Allow multiple data streams" settings for non-ASCII path name may result in data loss | 100044060 | Data Loss |
Major and Minor Releases
NetBackup 8.1 was made Generally Available on September 26, 2017.
Downloads:
See the Related Article, Veritas Entitlement Management System Guide, for more information on licenses and downloads.
Release Updates
NetBackup 8.1.2 was made Generally Available on September 17, 2018
NetBackup 8.1.1 was made Generally Available on February 16, 2018.
nbdeployutil - Overlap detection feature for NetBackup versions 7.7.2, 7.7.3, 8.0, 8.1, and 8.1.1
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100040123
Downloads:
See the Related Article, Veritas Entitlement Management System Guide, for more information on licenses and downloads.
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Known Issues
Please review the Release notes for a listing of known issues.
See: NetBackup 8.1 Release Notes
See: NetBackup 8.1.1 Release Notes
See: NetBackup 8.1.2 Release Notes
The following entries have been reported as defects by our Support team:
| Article Title | Article Number |
|---|---|
| NetBackup 8.1.2 EEB Hotfix for Issue related to Etrack 3976070, VIrtual Machine will not boot after restore | 100045660 |
| Tomcat and nbwebsvc certificates are not renewed automatically on the master server with non-English locale. | 100044601 |
| HotFix EEB: Configure Oracle 18c for backup with NetBackup 8.1.1 client | 100044406 |
| NetBackup 8.1.2 upgrade failure at nbcheck - EEB for Etrack 3959505 | 100044220 |
| NetBackup 8.1.2 MSDP EEB HotFix | 100044088 |
| Apache Struts vulnerability in NetBackup OpsCenter - CVE-2018-11776 | 100043979 |
| The NetBackup install and upgrade Web Services validation tool, nbdiagutil | 100039978 |
| NetBackup Master Server Policy Execution Manager (nbpem) and Client fixes to address issues when Daylight Savings Time (DST) changes take place at midnight | 100043984 |
| NetBackup 8.1.1 MSDP EEB Bundle 3942191 | 100043461 |
| NetBackup 8.1.1 Differential Backup EEB 3953554 | 100043898 |
| Upgrades to NetBackup 8.1.1 or NetBackup Appliances 3.1.1 may fail near the end of installation during the attempt to update the NBDB database. | 100042241 |
| VMware snapshot job fails with error code 4277 if the datastore name contains a colon character | 100041422 |
| NetBackup Deduplication Engine (spoold) crashes after upgrade to NetBackup version 8.1 or NetBackup Appliances 3.1. | 100041057 |
| Slow performance when upgrading to NetBackup 8.1 or NetBackup Appliance 3.1 with MSDP storage | 100041390 |
| NetBackup 8.1 Storage Lifecyle Policy (SLP) configuration screen will report error "network read failed(42)" or "premature eof encountered(233)", if the storage unit group is used for any SLP operations. | 100041101 |
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Documentation
See the Related Articles for a link to complete sets of NetBackup 8.1, 8.1.1, 8.1.2 Documentation.
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