Veritas NetBackup™ Release Notes
- About NetBackup 8.1.1
- New features, enhancements, and changes
- About new enhancements and changes in NetBackup
- NetBackup 8.1.1 new features, changes, and enhancements
- New RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 8.1.1
- Integrated snapshot framework between NetBackup and CloudPoint
- Bare Metal Restore with secure communications support
- NetBackup 8.1.1 support additions and changes
- End-of-life for multiple NetBackup products, features, and platforms
- Support has ended for vSphere 5.1
- NetBackup support utility (nbsu) has been updated
- Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
- IPv6 support information for NetBackup 8.1.1
- Update cloud configuration file on the master server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 8.1.1
- NetBackup supports backups to Amazon Glacier storage class
- NetBackup supports backups using cloud tiering
- Support for bpstart_notify and bpend_notify scripts using Oracle Intelligent Policy (OIP)
- NetBackup Bare Metal Restore functionality is supported for restoring NetBackup 8.1.1 clients
- MSDP updates in NetBackup 8.1.1
- NetBackup install now includes Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor and Hadoop plug-ins
- Dependency to select the Enterprise Vault version to configure policy directives is removed
- Operational notes
- About NetBackup 8.1.1 operational notes
- NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
- Do not install from the menu that appears when the installation DVD is inserted
- About support for HP-UX Itanium vPars SRP containers
- Web service connection between NetBackup 8.1.1 IPv6-only master server and 8.1 dual stack host is not established during installation
- A Java error can occur on AIX 7.1
- Installation fails for clients with pure IPV6 enabled on HP-UX 11.31 IA64
- NetBackup administration and general operational notes
- NetBackup administration interface operational notes
- "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
- SRT creation may fail using NetBackup 8.1 or 8.1.1 as the BMR boot server on AIX and HP-UX platforms with NetBackup 8.0 and earlier clients
- Allow Auto Reissue Certificate option may remain enabled for a client after a BMR operation is cleaned up by the user
- Discovery task may remain in Finalizing state after client PTD task completes successfully
- BMR restore task may remain in Finalizing state after the client is restored successfully
- NetBackup database and application agent operational notes
- NetBackup internationalization and localization operational notes
- NetBackup for NDMP operational notes
- NetBackup Snapshot Client operational notes
- NetBackup virtualization operational notes
- NetBackup for VMware operational notes
- The NetBackup web UI cannot restore a VM from a replicated backup image
- The NetBackup web UI does not validate VMware server entries
- NetBackup cannot use the nbd or nbdssl transport mode to connect directly to VMware IPv6 ESXi servers
- The NetBackup plug-in for vSphere Web Client cannot start a VM recovery by right-clicking on a successful backup event
- 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
New RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 8.1.1
This release of NetBackup includes a set of RESTful application programming interfaces (APIs). These APIs provide a web-service-based interface that let you configure and administer NetBackup in your environments.
The NetBackup APIs are built on the Representational State Transfer (REST) architecture, which is the most widely used style for building APIs. They use the HTTP protocol to communicate with NetBackup. The NetBackup APIs are therefore easy to use in cloud-based applications, as well as across multiple platforms and programming languages. The APIs use JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) as the message format for request and response messages. They employ client-server communication in the form of HTTP requests and responses. The API client (that is, your program) uses the HTTP protocol to make an API request to the NetBackup server. The NetBackup server processes the request. The server responds to the client with an appropriate HTTP status code indicating either success or failure. The client then extracts the required information from the server's response.
Note:
The NetBackup APIs are not supported on environments where NetBackup Access Control (NBAC) is enabled.
NetBackup 8.1.1 includes the following APIs:
NetBackup Authentication API
The NetBackup Authentication API provides authentication by means of a JSON Web Token (JWT) that is used when making the API requests. The JWT is acquired by executing a login API request and can be invalidated by executing a logout API request.
NetBackup Administration API
NetBackup Administration API provides management of NetBackup jobs. The API can get job details for a specific job or get a list of jobs based on filter criteria; restart or resume a job; suspend, cancel; or delete a job; get a job's file list; and get the job logs.
NetBackup Catalog API
The NetBackup Catalog API provides access to the NetBackup catalog to get details about backup images. The API can list backup images based on filters or get details for a specific backup image ID.
NetBackup Configuration API
The NetBackup Configuration API provides configuration and management controls for NetBackup hosts, NetBackup policies, Web Socket servers, and VM server credentials.
NetBackup Recovery API
The NetBackup Recovery API provides the capability of recovering from VMware backup images. The API supports VMware full VM recovery to the original or alternate location.
NetBackup Security API
The NetBackup Security API provides access to the security resources of NetBackup. The API can manage authorization tokens, host ID-based certificates, security configuration options and auditing.
See the NetBackup API Reference documentation on SORT for more information. This HTML document is a reference tool that describes each API and its options.
Note:
Make sure to read the Getting Started section of the document.
To locate the NetBackup 8.1.1 API Reference on SORT
- From the SORT Home page, select KNOWLEDGE BASE > Documents.
- From the categories under Show documents for, select the following values:
Product: NetBackup
Platform: Windows and UNIX
Document categories: All
Document languages: ALL
- Find NetBackup 8.1.1 in the list of NetBackup product versions and select Product guides.
- Select NetBackup 8.1.1 API Reference.