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
NetBackup 8.1.1 binary sizes
Table: NetBackup binary sizes for compatible platforms contains the approximate binary sizes of the NetBackup 8.1.1 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 | 1692 MB | 7722 MB | ||
Canonical Ubuntu | x86-64 | 1700 MB | |||
CentOS | x86-64 | 1105 MB | 6860 MB | Media server or client compatibility only. | |
Debian GNU/Linux | x86-64 | 1700 MB | |||
HP-UX | IA-64 | 2162 MB | 2162 MB | ||
OpenVMS | IA-64 | 128 MB | The listed sizes are for the NetBackup 7.5 binaries. No NetBackup 8.1.1 binaries for OpenVMS are provided. | ||
Oracle Linux | x86-64 | 1105 MB | 6423 MB | ||
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server | x86-64 | 1105 MB | 6861 MB | ||
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server | z/Architecture | 889 MB | 3905 MB | Media server or client compatibility only. | |
Solaris | SPARC | 1191 MB | 6111 MB | ||
Solaris | x86-64 | 1180 MB | 6111 MB | ||
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server | x86-64 | 1059 MB | 6597 MB | ||
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server | z/Architecture | 883 MB | 3857 MB | Media server or client compatibility only. | |
Windows | x86-64 | 442 MB | 2255 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 8.1.1.
Table: NetBackup OpsCenter binary sizes for compatible platforms
OS | CPU Architecture | Agent | Server | ViewBuilder |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Oracle Linux | x86-64 | 710 MB | ||
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server | x86-64 | 709 MB | ||
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server | x86-64 | 678 MB | ||
Windows Server | x86-64 | 246 MB | 676 MB | 236 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.