NetBackup™ Release Notes

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Product(s): NetBackup (10.0)
  1. About NetBackup 10.0
    1.  
      About the NetBackup 10.0 release
    2.  
      About NetBackup Late Breaking News
    3.  
      About NetBackup third-party legal notices
  2. New features, enhancements, and changes
    1.  
      About new enhancements and changes in NetBackup
    2. NetBackup 10.0 new features, changes, and enhancements
      1.  
        Changes in Veritas terminology
      2.  
        RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 10.0
      3.  
        Improvements to Activity monitor in the NetBackup web UI
      4.  
        Veritas announces NetBackup SaaS Protection (NSP) integration with web UI
      5.  
        NetBackup MSDP catalog shadow copy duplicates on data volumes
      6.  
        Malware detection in NetBackup
      7.  
        Accessing NetBackup Flex Scale from the NetBackup web UI
      8.  
        Non-root users with the required access can access CLIs
      9.  
        A new host ID-based certificate in NetBackup 10.0 cannot have a key size greater than 4096
      10.  
        Configure smart card or certificate user authentication without AD or LDAP domain validation
      11.  
        EOL for support of BMR clients on HP-UX
      12.  
        Last release for NetBackup OpsCenter and OpsCenter Analytics
      13.  
        NetBackup 10.0 support additions and changes
      14.  
        Workloads supported in the FIPS-compliant mode
      15.  
        Support for data-in-transit encryption (DTE)
      16.  
        NetBackup 10.0 removes support for direct backup to storage units (non-SLP) in ISM policies
      17.  
        BMR now supports ADK 10 for Windows restores
      18.  
        MSDP disk pool creation in the web UI supports AWS SSE-CMK
      19.  
        MSDP cloud immutable storage support for S3-compatible platforms and Azure
      20.  
        NetBackup for OpenStack supports OpenStack-Ansible
      21.  
        Guided Recovery for Oracle is no longer supported in OpsCenter
      22.  
        Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
      23.  
        Snapshot and Recovery of Windows VMs residing on the Google Cloud Platform
      24.  
        Support for configuring license types in the NetBackup web UI
      25.  
        Change in accessibility of the legacy logs
      26.  
        Notifications, Messages, and Resiliency configuration information are not upgraded
      27.  
        CloudPoint 8.3.x servers require upgrade to NetBackup 9.1.x before upgrading to version 10.0
      28.  
        Changes in vCenter plug-in support
      29.  
        Update cloud configuration file on the primary server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 10.0
      30.  
        File path changes for CloudProvider.xml and cacert.pem
      31.  
        Upcoming changes for Oracle instance groups and commands
      32.  
        NetBackup Copilot for Oracle with instant access and universal share
      33.  
        NetBackup for Oracle and NetBackup for DB2 prevent the direct expiration of backup images
      34.  
        Plug-in to store the RMAN backups to MSDP storage directly
      35.  
        Backup and restore of Cassandra clusters
      36.  
        Recovery Vault for NetBackup
      37.  
        NetBackup Bare Metal Restore (BMR) operations in the NetBackup web UI
  3. Operational notes
    1.  
      About NetBackup 10.0 operational notes
    2. NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
      1.  
        After initiating CA migration, connection errors may occur
      2.  
        If NetBackup 10.0 upgrade fails on Windows, revert to previous log folder structure
      3.  
        Native installation requirements
      4.  
        NetBackup servers must use a host name that is compliant with RFC 1123 and RFC 952
      5.  
        About support for HP-UX Itanium vPars SRP containers
    3. NetBackup administration and general operational notes
      1.  
        Permissions necessary for redirected restores with non-root service user accounts
      2.  
        Restore of the Root ("/") folder for NAS-Data-Protection policy fails
      3.  
        Stale devices shown on the device tree
      4.  
        Temporary devices listed as file system assets
    4. NetBackup administration interface operational notes
      1.  
        Certain NetBackup web UI nodes do not work when NBAC is configured in the 'Required' or 'Automatic' mode
      2.  
        Some columns in the web UI are not searchable
      3.  
        Delay in NetBackup web UI when adding or removing columns in Catalog area
      4.  
        Job actions not available for workload administrators with limited RBAC permissions on assets
      5.  
        Using X forwarding to launch the NetBackup Administration Console can fail on certain Linux platforms
      6.  
        Intermittent issues with X forwarding of NetBackup Administration Console
      7.  
        NetBackup Administration Console fails in Simplified Chinese UTF-8 locale on Solaris SPARC 64-bit systems with Solaris 10 Update 2 or later
    5. NetBackup Cloud operational notes
      1.  
        Provider configuration for Azure Stack Hub fails with error "Authentication failed: invalid_instance"
      2.  
        Restore of cloud VM backup images replicated with AIR fails Pre-recovery check
      3.  
        Error in calculating the snapshot size in smart metering for Cloud workloads
      4.  
        Configuring a cloud recovery host on RHEL 8
    6. NetBackup with Veritas CloudPoint operational notes
      1.  
        Offline VM backup fails with status code 156
      2.  
        Restoring a VM (with a Read-only disk) from an app-consistent snapshot fails
      3.  
        Editing a query with special characters in tag names is not supported for the intelligent Cloud groups
      4.  
        Starting or restarting the CloudPoint services may fail if a stale IP address entry is retained in the Podamn layer on RHEL 8.3 environment
      5.  
        VM disks not displayed due to discovery level
      6.  
        Granular restore fails if target path is deleted and recreated
      7.  
        Public cloud not supported with gov cloud or China region
      8.  
        Indexing not supported on instances created from AWS Marketplaces AMIs
      9.  
        Consistent host snapshot might fail
      10.  
        Configuring AWS plug-in with IAM role showed that the Authentication Method field is blank
      11.  
        Permission denied error occurs if both user and password are updated
      12.  
        Different source and target zones for Google Cloud Platform are not supported
      13.  
        Broken files system detected
    7. NetBackup for NDMP operational notes
      1.  
        Parent directories in the path of a file may not be present in an NDMP incremental image
    8. NetBackup for OpenStack operational notes
      1.  
        CentOS repository mirror URL is updated
      2.  
        NetBackup for OpenStack Datamover API (NBOSDMAPI) service times out in the haproxy connection
      3.  
        Policy schedule start time on the Horizon UI is different than configured in the policy
      4.  
        Instance volumes in the incremental backups cannot be mounted
      5.  
        NetBackup primary server does not re-issue the token if NetBackup VM is a 3-node cluster
      6.  
        NetBackup version is displayed as 'NetBackupforOpenStack_10.0.1Beta1' instead of 'NetBackup-CentOS3.10.0 9.0' on the Web UI
      7.  
        Success message appears along with the error message when you delete the policy that has snapshots
      8.  
        Unable to connect to NetBackup primary server using NBCA
      9.  
        Excluded Ceph Volume after restore is not mountable or formattable
      10.  
        Restored VMs have blank metadata config_drive attached
      11.  
        NBOSVM reconfig fails when you add new NetBackup VM to the cluster
      12.  
        Database does not sync after NetBackup cluster gets new nodes
      13.  
        Data on boot disk gets backed up despite exclusion
      14.  
        After reinitialization and import, OpenStack certificates are missing
      15.  
        CLI import changes scheduler trust value to disabled
      16.  
        Unable to get node details after you reinitialize the NetBackup Appliance
      17.  
        Snapshots fails with "object is not subscriptable" for many policy jobs at the exact same time
      18.  
        No operation is permitted in insecure way for SSL-enabled Keystone URL
    9. NetBackup internationalization and localization operational notes
      1.  
        Support for localized environments in database and application agents
      2.  
        Certain NetBackup user-defined strings must not contain non-US ASCII characters
    10. NetBackup Snapshot Client operational notes
      1.  
        Snapshot job fails with status code 927
      2.  
        HPE 3PAR array snapshot import fails with status code 4213
      3.  
        Snapshots are deleted after point-in-time rollbacks
      4.  
        Index from Snapshot operation does not populate contents of the snapshot accurately in the catalog
    11. NetBackup virtualization operational notes
      1. NetBackup for VMware operational notes
        1.  
          Discovery fails for policies with queries that contain "&" in VM displayName values
        2.  
          Backup of a virtual machine fails with status code 11
  4. Appendix A. About SORT for NetBackup Users
    1.  
      About Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools
  5. Appendix B. NetBackup installation requirements
    1.  
      About NetBackup installation requirements
    2.  
      Required operating system patches and updates for NetBackup
    3.  
      NetBackup 10.0 binary sizes
  6. Appendix C. NetBackup compatibility requirements
    1.  
      About compatibility between NetBackup versions
    2.  
      About NetBackup compatibility lists and information
    3.  
      About NetBackup end-of-life notifications
  7. Appendix D. Other NetBackup documentation and related documents
    1.  
      About related NetBackup documents

Improvements to Activity monitor in the NetBackup web UI

This version of NetBackup includes improvements to the display of jobs in the Activity monitor.

  • A faster display of jobs.

  • The addition of a jobs hierarchy view in the Jobs tab.

    Note: If you have an RBAC role that allows access to jobs, you can see the jobs list in the job hierarchy view. For example, the Default VMware Administrator role lets you see VMware jobs in the hierarchy view. However, if you only have access to one or more VMs (asset-level access), no jobs display in the job hierarchy view.

    The job hierarchy view displays the jobs so you can see the complete hierarchy of the jobs. This view includes the top-level job (or root job) and its child jobs (if applicable). A child job can, in turn, be a parent of additional child jobs.

    In the Jobs tab, click the Hierarchy view and List view buttons to switch between the job views.

  • When you open the job details, a new Job hierarchy tab displays the job hierarchy for that job.

  • Ability to create job filters.

    The previous job filters are removed. You can now create specific filters based on one or more query criteria. For example, you can create a filter that displays jobs for any clients that have a name that starts with "a" and have the job type "Restore".

  • A Display density that provides a more compact listing of jobs.

  • Sorting is now case-insensitive for the following user-defined fields: Storage unit, Policy name, Schedule, and Client or display name.

  • For an individual job, you can click on the link for the Policy name and the Storage unit to see details for the policy or the storage unit.

  • Any changes to the column widths and column order are retained for the user.