What's New in NetBackup 8.2
The NetBackup Platform delivers unified data protection for any size enterprise with enterprise-class scale, performance and extensive workload integrations. It's designed to protect the largest and most complex heterogeneous environments — cloud, virtual and physical applications across the enterprise — anywhere data resides. NetBackup supports nearly every enterprise workload — 65+ applications, 100+ operating systems, 2,500+ storage devices, 30+ different array snapshot support and single-click, cloud-integrated storage all managed from a single console.
Maximise your data protection investment while providing unique integrations such as copy data management and recovery, surface actionable insights to help make better decisions, and get a single-click recovery orchestration for when time matters.Veritas lets you to accelerate your digital transformation by leveraging your investment, and establishing a reliable foundation for the future with 360° Data Management.
NetBackup 8.2
Key Features in NetBackup 8.2 – GA Release: 28 June 2019
- Agentless VMware recovery – Granular restore of VM data without agents.
- DR to the cloud – Orchestrate disaster recovery into AWS.
- Enhanced backup to the cloud – Faster deduplication and dedupe to AWS Glacier.
- Backup of snapshots – Create backup copies of supported snapshots.
- Application-aware snapshots – Create application-consistent snapshots of Oracle, DB2.
- NetBackup for Red Hat virtualisation – Simple user experience, role-based access and APIs.
- NetBackup for OpenStack – Parallel streaming backup of OpenStack systems
- Two-factor authentication – More secure access to the NetBackup console.
- Expanded REST API library – Expanded calls and support for SwaggerTM interface.
NetBackup 8.1.2
Key features in 8.1.2 – GA release: 17 Sept 2018
- New web UI – Enjoy a simple, secure, web-based user experience
- Role-based access – Grant limited access to specific users and roles
- VMware Instant Access – Faster, easier VM restores without agents
- NetBackup for VMware Cloud on AWS – Protect VMware VMs in AWS
- NetBackup for HBase – Database-aware backup of HBase systems
- Protect cloud workloads – Orchestrate AWS, Microsoft and Google snapshots
- Automatic client updates – Faster and easier client software upgrades
- Amazon Glacier Vaults – Enforce compliance controls through AWS
- Parallel Streaming SDK – Developer kit to create 3rd party plug-ins
- REST API libraries – Expanded calls to enable more programmatic functions
- GDPR ready – User audit alerting flags for inspection
- Veritas Smart Meter – Monitor usage and consumption from web portal
- NetBackup 8.1.2 Release Notes – Learn more about the details for all features included in this release
NetBackup 8.1.1
Key Features in 8.1.1 – GA Release: 16 February 2018
- AWS Glacier cloud connector – Utilise inexpensive cloud storage for backup and long term retention
- Alibaba cloud connector – Store backup data within the Alibaba cloud
- NetBackup for PostgreSQL – Database-aware backup of PostgreSQL databases
- NetBackup for SQLite – Database-aware backup of SQLite databases
- NetBackup for MariaDB – Database-aware backup of MariaDB databases
- Enhanced Deduplication – Choose fixed or variable length segmentation to optimise performance
- Integration with Veritas CloudPoint – Orchestrate snapshots from 3PAR, HDS, EMC and Pure
- NetBackup RestAPI – RESTful API allows customised UX and integration with 3rd party applications
- NetBackup 8.1.1 Release Notes – Learn more about the details of all the features included in this release
NetBackup 8.1
Key Features in 8.1 - GA Release: 26 September 2017
- NetBackup CloudCatalyst – Faster, storage-efficient backups to the cloud with deduplication
- NetBackup Parallel Streaming – Faster, scale-out backups for Big Data and Hyperconverged clusters
- NetBackup for Hadoop/HDFS – Parallel, scale-out backups of Hadoop/HDFS clusters
- NetBackup for Nutanix – Parallel, scale-out backups of Nutanix clusters
- NetBackup for MySQL – Database-aware backup of MySQL databases
- Granular VMware backup and recovery – Select virtual drives with a new recovery UI
- Instant Recovery for Oracle – Access Oracle databases directly from NetBackup Appliance storage
- NetBackup Accelerator for Dell EMC Isilon – Up to 50% faster NDMP backups for Isilon filers
- Easier Deployment – Deployment templates and native packaging for all clients
- Hardened Security – Secure communications and improved encryption options for MSDP storage
- NetBackup Virtual Appliance – Deploy into existing virtual environments, including data centres and remote offices
- NetBackup 8.1 Release Notes – Learn more about the details for all features included in this release
NetBackup 8.0
Key Features in 8.0 - GA Release: 5 December 2016
- Microsoft Windows Server 2016 - Support ready for the next generation of workloads and leverage MS Resilient Change Tracking (RCT)
- NetBackup Accelerator for Microsoft Hyper-V - Leverage Windows Server 2016 and manage virtual data growth with 100x faster VM backups
- VMware vSphere 6.5 - Support ready for next generation VMware, and individual VMDK file restores to the existing or to an alternate virtual machine
- VMware vRealize plugin for NetBackup Self-Service - Customisable options give VMware vRealize users the power to manage NetBackup protection
- NetBackup Virtual Appliance for Remote Office - Download appliance simplicity and support for remote office protection in VMware environments
- NetBackup Amazon AMI - Simple, fast unified data protection with enterprise-class confidence for workloads running in Amazon EC2 cloud services
- Integrated Cloud Storage Connectors - Greater flexibility and cloud choice with support for Microsoft Azure, IBM Softlayer, OpenStack Swift, SwiftStack
- Enhanced NDMP Backup of EMC Isilon Filers - Improved deduplication rates, faster backups and reduced storage for Isilon filer NDMP backups
- NetBackup 8.0 Release Notes - Learn more about the details for all features included in this release
NetBackup 7.7.3
Key Features in 7.7.3 - GA Release: 6 June 2016
- VMware Intelligent Policies for VMware Tags - Select and automatically protect virtual machines using tabs in VMware vSphere 6
- VMware Individual VMDK File Restore - Easily create a new VM with the restore of an individual VMDK in both Windows and Linux
- Amazon S3 Cloud Connector Compression - Better cloud performance and reduce the cost of sending and storing data in S3 cloud targets
- OpsCenter Alerting Enhancements and Activity Monitor Filtering - Faster troubleshooting with easy drill-down and improved manageability
- Client Native Packaging - Simplify Linux client deployments with RPMs for RHEL, SuSE, CentOS and Oracle Linux
- NetBackup Self-Service Application Protection - Enterprise and MSP multi-tenant self-service backup and restore for Oracle and SQL
- NetBackup Self-Service Multi Policy Protection - Greater flexibility with new "Protection Types" to protect a client with multiple policies
- NetBackup Self-Service vCloud Director - 'Single-step' import simplifies the backup and recovery for vCloud environments
- NetBackup Self-Service System Admin Dashboard - Enhanced administrator view to monitor tenants, data usage and data growth
- NetBackup 7.7.3 Release Notes - Learn more about the details for all features included in this release
NetBackup 7.7.2
Key Features in 7.7.2 - GA Release: 1 February 2016
- Oracle multi-stream restore - A revolutionary new way to accelerate Oracle database recovery with simultaneous restore streams
- Amazon S3 Standard and Infrequent Access Storage support - Simplifed and automated selection of AWS S3 storage classes
- NetBackup SQL Intelligent Policies for HA Clusters - Automated discovery SQL instances and failover protection for HA Clusters
- JAVA UI Enhancements - Added properties editing, more granular filtering and search functions and Single Sign On (SSO) capabilites
- Non-Root User Browse and Restore for Files/Folders from VMware Backups - Seamless self-service operations for VMware restores
- NetBackup 7.7.2 Release Notes - Learn more about the details for all features included in this release
NetBackup 7.7.1
Key Features in 7.7.1 - GA Release: 5 October 2015
- VMware Intelligent Policies for VMware Tags - Select and automatically protect virtual machines using VMware tags
- Microsoft Hyper-V Intelligent Policies with SCVMM - Automated discovery, policy-based protection and performance load balancing
- Microsoft SQL AlwaysOn Availability Groups support - Use native SQL backup tools to protect 24/7 resilient Availability Groups
- Amazon v4 Private Government S3 Cloud support - Enhanced security/authentication requirements for AWS GovCloud storage
- NetBackup Accelerator for NDMP - Accelerate backup of changed blocks only for 100x faster NDMP backups on NetApp arrays
- NetBackup 7.7.1 Release Notes - Get details for all features included in this release
NetBackup 7.7
Key Features in 7.7 - GA Release: 7 July 2015
- VMware Intelligent Policies for vSAN and vVOL datastores - Automatically discover and protect vSAN and vVOL environments
- VMware vSphere Web Client Plugin for Instant Recovery - From vSphere Web Client spin up a VM from backup disk in 60 seconds
- Microsoft Hyper-V System Center VM Manager Addin - NetBackup self-service from Hyper-V console
- Microsoft Hyper-V Intelligent Policies - Automated VM discovery, policy backups and load balancing for Hyper-V environments
- Microsoft SQL Intelligent Policies - Advanced SQL protection with automated discovery and policy-based backups
- NetBackup Replication Director NDMP Indexing - Faster backups and file level recovery from indexed NDMP backups
- NetBackup Replication Director for NetApp cDOT - Integrated lifecycle snapshot management for NetApp Clustered Data OnTap
- NetBackup Self-Service Updates - Leverage the power of self-service with NetBackup for multi-tenant MSPs and the Enterprise
- Enhanced Audit Compliance and Reporting - Login specfic "Who did what and when did they do it"
- FIPS Certification - NIST lab certified for compliance to the FIPS 140-2 standard
- Amazon S3 Cloud Connector Overview and Enhancements - 30x better S3 cloud performance with multi-stream optimisation
- NetBackup 7.7 What's New Comparison Matrix
- NetBackup 7.7 Release Notes - Get details for all features included in this release
NetBackup 7.6.x
Key Features in 7.6 - GA Release: 18 December 2013
- VMware Instant Recovery - Power-up production VMs from backup disk in as little as 60 seconds
- VMware vCloud Suite integration - "Set and Forget" automated protection and recovery for vCloud Director provisioned data centres
- VMware vCenter Plug-in - Easily manage enteprise NetBackup VM protection and recovery through familiar vCenter console
- VMware Physical to Virtual (P2V) Bare Metal Recovery - Fast disaster recovey and simplified "physical to virtual" migration
- NetBackup Accelerator for VMware - Manage virtual data growth with 100x faster VM backups
- NetBackup Replication Director Enhancements - NetApp NAS/FAS snapshot management for VMware, databases, NDMP and more
- NetBackup Replication Director for EMC VNX and Celerra - Manage entire lifecycle of EMC snapshots and snapshot replication
- NetBackup Targeted Auto Image Replication (AIR) - Flexibility to select replicated backup images to individual target domains
- Oracle Intelligent Policy - Automated database discovery with simplified scheduling and checkbox policy wizards
- Citrix VM and Application Protection - Protecting Citrix XenServer virtual environments with Hot, Cold and Off-host snapshot backups
- OpsCenter Enhancements - New 'Look and Feel' with many new 'getting started' wizards and VM reporting
- NetBackup 7.6 Release Notes - Get details for all features included in this release
NetBackup 7.5.x
Key Features in 7.5 - GA Release: 13 March 2012
- VMware VM Application Protection - Full VMDK, File-level, Full and Individual database object recovery from single backup image
- VMware and Hyper-V Policy Enhancements - Performance-optimised, policy-based data protection for VMware and Hyper-V environments
- NetBackup Accelerator - Backup only changed files to reduce CPU, Network and Storage resources and 100x faster backups and faster restores
- NetBackup Auto Image Replication (AIR) - Automated multi-domain replication disaster recovery tool to protect large global deployments
- Cloud Storage for AWS, Rackspace, AT&T - Simplified Cloud Storage with wizard driven integration and intelligent bandwidth management
- Operational Restores with OpsCenter - Faster find and restore with advanced global file search and multi-level filtering capabilities
- Network Resilience - Automatically ensure successful backups when WANs are dropped or become intermittent
- NetBackup 7.5 What's New Comparison Matrix
- NetBackup 7.5 Release Notes - Get details for all features included in this release