NetBackup™ Release Notes
- About NetBackup 10.1
- New features, enhancements, and changes
- About new enhancements and changes in NetBackup
- NetBackup 10.1 new features, changes, and enhancements
- Changes in Veritas terminology
- Malware detection enhancements
- RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 10.1
- Additional policy types supported in the NetBackup web UI
- Activity monitor improvements in the NetBackup web UI
- Enhancements in FIPS support
- NetBackup 10.1 support additions and changes
- About the TLS session resumption feature in Global security
- Support updates for universal share
- Support updates for instant access for cloud backups
- Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
- NetBackup Snapshot Manager must run the same version as NetBackup primary and media servers
- Update cloud configuration file on the primary server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 10.1
- Migrating Google Cloud Platform (GCP) configurations from zones to regions
- Support for new PaaS databases
- Support for cloud immutable (WORM) storage in a cluster environment
- Support for S3 interface for MSDP
- Malware scanner available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace and the AWS Marketplace
- Setting the cloud cache size in the MSDP disk pool cloud LSU
- Cloud object store workload support
- VMware NAS storage snapshots and replication using NetBackup Snapshot Manager
- Reinstall Kubernetes-based extension for Azure
- MySQL enhancements
- PostgreSQL enhancements
- Workloads that require a custom RBAC role for specific job permissions in the NetBackup web UI
- Web UI support for Microsoft SQL Server recovery using existing credentials and gMSA credentials
- Accurate licensing support
- XBSA workloads available with the NetBackup client
- No release of NetBackup OpsCenter and OpsCenter Analytics
- Transition from Replication Director to NetBackup Snapshot Manager Replication
- NetBackup Bare Metal Restore (BMR) operations in the NetBackup web UI
- IRE limitations
- Limitations for running NetBackup services with non-privileged user (service user) account in NetBackup 10.1
- Operational notes
- About NetBackup 10.1 operational notes
- NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
- NetBackup administration interface operational notes
- Delay in NetBackup web UI when adding or removing columns in Catalog area
- Job actions not available for workload administrators with limited RBAC permissions on assets
- Child job details for a NetBackup catalog backup display the policy type "Sybase"
- Cloud snapshot replication jobs are not visible to the Default Cloud Administrator in the NetBackup web UI
- Policy name link does not work for some failed jobs in the web UI Activity Monitor
- Intermittent issues with X forwarding of NetBackup Administration Console
- NetBackup Administration Console fails in Simplified Chinese UTF-8 locale on Solaris SPARC 64-bit systems with Solaris 10 Update 2 or later
- NetBackup Bare Metal Restore operational notes
- NetBackup Snapshot Manager (formerly NetBackup CloudPoint)
- NetBackup for NDMP operational notes
- NetBackup for OpenStack operational notes
- CentOS repository mirror URL is updated
- NetBackup for OpenStack Datamover API (NBOSDMAPI) service times out in the haproxy connection
- Policy schedule start time on the Horizon UI is different than configured in the policy
- Instance volumes in the incremental backups cannot be mounted
- NetBackup primary server does not re-issue the token if NetBackup VM is a 3-node cluster
- Success message appears along with the error message when you delete the policy that has snapshots
- Unable to connect to NetBackup primary server using NBCA
- Excluded Ceph Volume after restore is not mountable or formattable
- Restored VMs have blank metadata config_drive attached
- NBOSVM reconfig fails when you add new NetBackup VM to the cluster
- Database does not sync after NetBackup cluster gets new nodes
- Data on boot disk gets backed up despite exclusion
- After reinitialization and import, OpenStack certificates are missing
- CLI import changes scheduler trust value to disabled
- Unable to get node details after you reinitialize the NetBackup Appliance
- Snapshots fails with "object is not subscriptable" for many policy jobs at the exact same time
- No operation is permitted in insecure way for SSL-enabled Keystone URL
- NetBackup internationalization and localization 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 NetBackup installation requirements
This release of NetBackup may contain changes to the minimum system requirements and procedures that are required for installation. These changes affect the minimum system requirements for both Windows and UNIX platforms. Much of the installation instructional information in the NetBackup Release Notes is provided for convenience. Detailed installation instructions are found in the NetBackup Installation Guide and the NetBackup Upgrade Guide.
See NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes.
Before you upgrade the NetBackup server software, you must back up your NetBackup catalogs and verify that the catalog backup was successful.
Database rebuilds are likely to occur in each major, minor (single-dot), and release update (double-dot) version of NetBackup. Therefore, before upgrading to NetBackup 10.1, you must ensure that you have an amount of free disk space available that is equal to or greater than the size of the NetBackup database. That means for default installations, you are required to have that amount of free space on the file system containing the
/usr/openv/db/data(UNIX) or<install_path>\Veritas\NetBackupDB\data(Windows) directories. If you have changed the location of some of the files in either of these directories, free space is required in those locations equal to or greater than the size of the files in those locations. Refer to the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I for more information about storing NBDB database files in alternate locations.Note:
This free disk space requirement assumes that you have already performed the best practice of completing a successful catalog backup before you begin the upgrade.
Primary and media servers must have a minimum soft limit of 8000 file descriptors per process for NetBackup to run correctly.
For more information about the effects of an insufficient number of file descriptors, refer to the following articles on the Veritas Support website:
NetBackup primary and media servers exchange server version information at startup, and every 24 hours. This exchange occurs automatically. During startup after an upgrade, the upgraded media server uses the vmd service to push its version information to all of the servers that are listed in its server list.
Veritas recommends that you have the primary server services up and available during a media server upgrade.
All compressed files are compressed using gzip. The installation of these files requires gunzip and gzip, so make sure that they are installed on the computer before you attempt to install NetBackup. For all UNIX platforms except HP-UX, the binaries are expected to be in /bin or /usr/bin and that directory is a part of the root user's PATH variable. On HP-UX systems, the gzip and gunzip commands are expected to be in /usr/contrib/bin. Installation scripts add that directory to the PATH variable. These commands must be present to have successful UNIX installations.