Veritas NetBackup™ Release Notes
- About NetBackup 8.1.2
- New features, enhancements, and changes
- About new enhancements and changes in NetBackup
- NetBackup 8.1.2 new features, changes, and enhancements
- NetBackup 8.1.2 introduces a new web user interface
- Veritas Smart Meter helps you manage deployment more efficiently
- RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 8.1.2
- Veritas offers the NetBackup Parallel Streaming Framework SDK
- About secure communications in MSDP for Auto Image Replication
- NetBackup 8.1.2 support additions and changes
- VxUpdate replaces LiveUpdate
- NetBackup no longer supports HP-UX and AIX platforms for master and media servers
- Newer Red Hat Linux compilers used with NetBackup 8.1.2
- Linux device persistent binding changes
- BMR introduces secure communication support on AIX and HP-UX
- Supported NetBackup BMR configurations based on operating system and patch release
- Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
- Update cloud configuration file on the master server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 8.1.2
- Support added for Amazon GLACIER_VAULT storage class
- Auditing enhancements
- NetBackup integration with Vnomic
- NetBackup's BigData policy now protects Microsoft Azure Stack and HBase workloads
- Operational notes
- About NetBackup 8.1.2 operational notes
- NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
- NetBackup administration and general operational notes
- NetBackup administration interface operational notes
- Access control methods supported in NetBackup 8.1.2
- NetBackup Administration Console does not show a failure message for incorrect CloudPoint plug-in credentials
- "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 API operational notes
- NetBackup Bare Metal Restore operational notes
- NetBackup with Veritas CloudPoint operational notes
- NetBackup database and application agent operational notes
- NetBackup internationalization and localization operational notes
- NetBackup for NDMP operational notes
- NetBackup SAN Client and Fibre Transport 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
- 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
- Virtual machine alert notification may be incorrect for the VMware policies with specific Replication Director options
- 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
About Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools
Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools (SORT) is a robust set of standalone and web-based tools that support Veritas enterprise products. For NetBackup, SORT provides the ability to collect, analyze, and report on host configurations across UNIX/Linux or Windows environments. This data is invaluable when you want to assess if your systems are ready for an initial NetBackup installation or for an upgrade.
Access SORT from the following webpage:
https://sort.veritas.com/netbackup
Once you get to the SORT page, more information is available as follows:
Installation and Upgrade Checklist
Use this tool to create a checklist to see if your system is ready for a NetBackup installation or an upgrade. This report contains all the software and the hardware compatibility information specific to the information provided. The report also includes product installation or upgrade instructions, as well as links to other references.
Hot fix and EEB Release Auditor
Use this tool to find out whether a release that you plan to install contains the hot fixes that you need.
Custom Reports
Use this tool to get recommendations for your system and Veritas enterprise products.
NetBackup Future Platform and Feature Plans
Use this tool to get information about what items Veritas intends to replace with newer and improved functionality. The tool also provides insight about what items Veritas intends to discontinue without replacement. Some of these items include certain NetBackup features, functionality, 3rd-party product integration, Veritas product integration, applications, databases, and the OS platforms.
Help for the SORT tools is available. Click in the upper right corner of the SORT home page. You have the option to:
Page through the contents of the help similar to a book
Look for topics in the index
Search the help with the search option