Veritas NetBackup™ Release Notes
- About NetBackup 8.1
- New features, enhancements, and changes
- About new enhancements and changes in NetBackup
- NetBackup 8.1 new features, changes, and enhancements
- About secure communications in NetBackup
- Host ID to host name mapping
- Catalog recovery with secure communications
- Communication between a NetBackup 8.1 master server and an OpsCenter 8.1 master server
- NetBackup requirements for inter-host communication
- Two-way trust for adding trusted master server for Targeted Auto Image Replication
- Secure communication between a NetBackup client in a demilitarized zone and a master server
- Introducing NetBackup CloudCatalyst to upload deduplicated data to the cloud
- Faster full backups for Isilon filers using NetBackup Accelerator
- Auto Image Replication (A.I.R.) import confirmation feature introduced to SLPs
- Accurate licensing feature and other updates with nbdeployutil
- NetBackup introduces a new BigData policy type
- End-of-life for multiple NetBackup products, features, and platforms
- NetBackup 8.1 support additions
- NetBackup BMR functionality not supported for restoring clients with NetBackup 8.1
- DHCP client support changes in NetBackup 8.1
- Support has ended for the SYMCquiesce utility for Linux virtual machines
- Several shutdown commands will be deprecated in a future release
- Localization support added for the csconfig command
- New minimum system requirements for NetBackup master servers
- Upgrade considerations regarding MSDP fingerprint algorithm changes
- NetBackup servers must use a host name that is compliant with RFC 1123 and RFC 952
- SCCM and Chef deployment tools and documentation now available
- Changes to media server and SSO device configuration procedures
- Update cloud configuration file on the master server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 8.1
- Changes to Amazon cloud storage server object sizes
- Additional cloud-related enhancements
- New options to exclude disks from VMware backups
- Restore Virtual Machine Disks wizard for VMware
- Support for non-ASCII characters in VMware
- New requirements for clustered file systems, database clusters, and distributed database applications
- Configuring the Distributed Application Restore Mapping host properties
- Changes to policy and other configuration for SQL Server clusters and SQL Server AGs
- Registering authorized locations used by a NetBackup database script-based policy
- DB2 OPTIONS command update
- Late-breaking new status codes for NetBackup 8.1
- Operational notes
- About NetBackup 8.1 operational notes
- NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
- NetBackup administration and general operational notes
- NetBackup administration interface operational notes
- Memory requirements to run the NetBackup Administration Console
- Multiple versions of the NetBackup administration interface
- "Operation timed out" message appears when policies are accessed from the Remote Administration Console
- Using X forwarding to launch the NetBackup Administration Console can fail on certain Linux platforms
- Intermittent issues with X forwarding of NetBackup Administration Console
- Reduced functionality during the initialization of the NetBackup Administration Console
- NetBackup Administration Console may encounter a core dump issue when the Simplified Chinese UTF-8 locale is used on a Solaris SPARC 64-bit system with Solaris 10 Update 2 or later
- NetBackup Accelerator operational notes
- NetBackup Bare Metal Restore operational notes
- Shared Resource Tree (SRT) creation may fail using NetBackup 8.1 as the BMR boot server on AIX and HP-UX platforms with NetBackup 8.0 and earlier clients
- If the boot server has a base installation of Solaris 10 update 11, the creation of SRTs can fail
- Many services on Solaris 11 print warning messages during a system boot and during BMR first boot
- Solaris Zone recovery on Solaris 11 and newer takes time to reconfigure after a BMR restore during first boot
- A Solaris BMR restore operation fails if the text-installer package is not present in the customized AI ISO
- The /boot partition must be on a separate partition for a multiple device-based OS configuration
- Multiple error messages might be displayed during the first boot after the restoration of a client with ZFS storage pools
- BMR may not format or clear the ZFS metadata
- Specifying the short name of the client to protect with Auto Image Replication and BMR
- A restore task may remain in a finalized state in the disaster recovery domain even after the client restores successfully
- IPv6 support for BMR
- Automatic boot may fail for HP-UX after a restore
- Prepare to Restore may not work for a Solaris client
- NetBackup Cloud operational notes
- NetBackup cluster operational notes
- NetBackup database and application agent operational notes
- NetBackup for Exchange operational notes
- NetBackup for SharePoint operational notes
- SharePoint GRT restore can fail if the host names or IP addresses are not mapped with the host ID
- Granular restores skip versioned documents or files that are checked out
- Modified system files or ghosted files are not cataloged or restored during a site collection restore
- Restored wiki pages may not be correct
- NetBackup for Oracle operational notes
- NetBackup deduplication operational notes
- NetBackup internationalization and localization operational notes
- NetBackup for NDMP operational notes
- NetBackup virtualization operational notes
- NetBackup for VMware operational notes
- The VM's swap files are not excluded from the backup if a volume on the VM contains multiple swap files
- Using the NetBackup appliance to install the NetBackup plug-in for VMware vSphere Web Client
- VMware block-level incremental backups expire when the previous full backup expires
- A VM restore to a vCenter fails when NetBackup has credentials for a restore ESX server
- NetBackup for VMware 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
NetBackup 8.1 binary sizes
Table: NetBackup binary sizes for compatible platforms contains the approximate binary sizes of the NetBackup 8.1 master server, media server, and client software for the various supported operating systems. These binary size indicate the amount of disk space occupied by the product after an initial installation.
Note:
Table: NetBackup binary sizes for compatible platforms and Table: NetBackup OpsCenter binary sizes for compatible platforms only list the supported operating systems. For up-to-date information about the specific operating system versions that NetBackup currently supports, check the Installation and Upgrade Checklist on the Symantec Operations Readiness Tools (SORT) website, or the NetBackup Operating System Compatibility List document at http://www.netbackup.com/compatibility.
Table: NetBackup binary sizes for compatible platforms
OS | CPU Architecture | 32-bit client | 64-bit client | 64-bit server | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
AIX | POWER | 1622 MB | 8053 MB | ||
Canonical Ubuntu | x86-64 | 1595 MB | |||
CentOS | x86-64 | 1042 MB | 6252 MB | Media server or client compatibility only. | |
Debian GNU/Linux | x86-64 | 1595 MB | |||
HP-UX | IA-64 | 2117 MB | 9366 MB | ||
OpenVMS | IA-64 | 128 MB | The listed sizes are for the NetBackup 7.5 binaries. No NetBackup 8.1 binaries for OpenVMS are provided. | ||
Oracle Linux | x86-64 | 1053 MB | 6254 MB | ||
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server | x86-64 | 1053 MB | 6946 MB | ||
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server | z/Architecture | 840 MB | 3661 MB | Media server or client compatibility only. | |
Solaris | SPARC | 1127 MB | 6326 MB | ||
Solaris | x86-64 | 1129 MB | 6451 MB | ||
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server | x86-64 | 1013 MB | 6750 MB | ||
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server | z/Architecture | 834 MB | 3610 MB | Media server or client compatibility only. | |
Windows | x86-32 | 833 MB | Covers all compatible Windows x86 platforms | ||
Windows | x86-64 | 646 MB | 1343 MB | Covers all compatible Windows x64 platforms |
The following space requirements also apply to some NetBackup installations on Windows:
If you install NetBackup in a custom location on a Windows system, some portions of the software are installed on the system drive regardless of the primary application folder location. The space that is required on the system drive generally accounts for 40 to 50 percent of the total binary size that is listed in Table: NetBackup binary sizes for compatible platforms.
If you install NetBackup server on a Windows cluster, some portions of the software are installed on the cluster shared disk. Note, the space that is required on the cluster shared disk is in addition to the binary size that is listed in Table: NetBackup binary sizes for compatible platforms. The additional required space is equivalent to 15 to 20 percent of the total binary size.
Table: NetBackup OpsCenter binary sizes for compatible platforms contains the approximate binary sizes of the OpsCenter Agent, Server, and ViewBuilder for the various operating systems that are compatible with NetBackup OpsCenter 8.1.
Table: NetBackup OpsCenter binary sizes for compatible platforms
OS | CPU Architecture | Agent | Server | ViewBuilder |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Oracle Linux | x86-64 | 644 MB | ||
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server | x86-64 | 644 MB | ||
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server | x86-64 | 734 MB | ||
Windows Server | x86-64 | 245 MB | 666 MB | 225 MB |
Disk space requirements for the NetBackup vCenter Web Client Plug-in and the NetBackup System Center Virtual Machine Manager Add-in can be found in the NetBackup Plug-in for VMware vSphere Web Client Guide and the NetBackup Add-in for Microsoft SCVMM Console Guide, respectively.