NetBackup™ Release Notes
- About NetBackup 10.2
- New features, enhancements, and changes
- About new enhancements and changes in NetBackup
- NetBackup 10.2 new features, changes, and enhancements
- Changes in Veritas terminology
- Improvements to the NetBackup web UI
- New EEB management view
- Configuring Veritas Alta Recovery Vault Azure and Azure Government
- RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 10.2
- NetBackup 10.2 support additions and changes
- Bare Metal Restore (BMR) operating system support additions
- End of support for older authorization models
- Accurate licensing support
- Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
- New NetBackup Scale-Out Relational Database in NetBackup 10.2
- Prerequisites for upgrading to NetBackup 10.2
- Linux environments require a new non-root database user when the root user starts NetBackup daemons
- New connection pooler on port 13787
- Update cloud configuration file on the primary server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 10.2
- Web UI support for single-file recovery from a VMware guest VM backup using a stored credential (access to username or password is not required)
- Default VMware Administrator role has new credential permissions
- Support for Oracle Copilot with multiple universal shares
- Using Azure recovery points with Snapshot Manager
- Single file restore from a backup of snapshot
- Elastic media server provides autoscaling of replicas
- Documentation changes
- Operational notes
- About NetBackup 10.2 operational notes
- NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
- If NetBackup 10.2 upgrade fails on Windows, revert to previous log folder structure
- Information for NetBackup native installs and upgrades is incorrect in the installation and upgrade guides
- Native installation requirements
- NetBackup servers must use a host name that is compliant with RFC 1123 and RFC 952
- About support for HP-UX Itanium vPars SRP containers
- NetBackup administration and general 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
- 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
- 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 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