NetBackup™ Release Notes
- About NetBackup 10.4
- New features, enhancements, and changes
- About new enhancements and changes in NetBackup
- NetBackup 10.4 new features, changes, and enhancements
- Changes in Veritas terminology
- RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 10.4
- Client-side deduplication control from policies in NetBackup web UI
- Changes to the dashboard in the NetBackup web UI
- Malware scan improvements
- Enhancement in multifactor authentication
- Enhancements in anomaly detection
- Enhancements in multi-person authorization
- NetBackup support for OCSF-formatted audit events
- End-of-support-life (EOSL) for NetBackup Replication Director, replaced with NetBackup Snapshot Manager (NBSM)
- NetBackup 10.4 support additions and changes
- Deprecating support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Support for CIS Level 2 v2 benchmark for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 machines
- Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
- Windows compiler and security requirements for NetBackup 10.4 and later installation and upgrade
- Script for setting up image sharing with cloud recovery servers to be deprecated
- AMI is used to create virtual machine in the AWS cloud environment
- Upgraded containerized services
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure support for cloud workloads
- Support for VMware vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA)
- Browse ability for vApps with VMware policy in NetBackup web UI
- New features for NetBackup for VMware in the NetBackup web UI
- Support for XFS-formatted volumes and LVM2 Thin Pool Volumes
- New features and changes for NetBackup for Microsoft SQL Server
- New features and changes for NetBackup for Oracle
- Support for Kubernetes workload type for malware scanning
- Patching mechanism for primary and media servers
- New features for Dynamic NAS (D-NAS)
- Operational notes
- About NetBackup 10.4 operational notes
- NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
- NetBackup administration and general operational notes
- NetBackup administration interface operational notes
- NetBackup Bare Metal Restore operational notes
- NetBackup Cloud Object Store Workload operational notes
- Auto Image Replication (AIR) from NetBackup version 10.4 requires NetBackup 10.2 or later
- For Azure, backups fail when an older policy is updated with a new backup host
- Replicated backups cannot be restored to older NetBackup versions
- Changing the authentication method of existing Cloud object store accounts on Ceph may fail
- Red Hat Ceph does not support the Assume role credential type
- NetBackup Snapshot Manager (formerly NetBackup CloudPoint)
- NetBackup database and application agent operational notes
- NetBackup NAS operational notes
- NetBackup for OpenStack operational notes
- NetBackup for OpenStack appliance re-initalization feature is removed from NetBackup for OpenStack 10.4
- Excluding volumes from the backup is not supported in NetBackup for OpenStack 10.4
- NetBackup for OpenStack 10.4 imports only policies from the older versions
- NetBackup for OpenStack Datamover API (NBOSDMAPI) service times out in the haproxy connection
- Instance volumes in the incremental backups cannot be mounted
- Success message appears along with the error message when you delete the protection that has recovery points
- Restored VMs have blank metadata config_drive attached
- No operation is permitted in insecure way for SSL-enabled Keystone URL
- If the OpenStack project is deleted, importing policy does not work in NetBackup for OpenStack 10.4
- 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
End-of-support-life (EOSL) for NetBackup Replication Director, replaced with NetBackup Snapshot Manager (NBSM)
Veritas plans to end-of-support-life (EOSL) NetBackup Replication Director in an upcoming release. Replication Director provided the ability to create and backup NAS and SAN Storage snapshots from replicated primary storage volumes on secondary controllers. This included Index and Backup from Replica Snapshot. This feature was available in policy types including Standard, VMware, Oracle, and NDMP policies.
Replication Director has been replaced with NetBackup Snapshot Manager (NBSM). NBSM is an integral part of NetBackup and provides snapshot and snapshot replica (replicated snapshot) orchestration by integrating API interfaces to Arrays and Cloud Storage Tiers through a "plug-in" service that communicate to the Storage RestAPI Endpoints.
NBSM differs from Replication Director's OST integration and allows NetBackup to make requests to NBSM using a common set of commands for discovery, creation, and retention of storage snapshots and Snapshot replicas. By abstracting these interfaces, NetBackup can leverage new and updated storage interfaces across workloads when new or updated NBSM plug-ins get introduced without changing NetBackup software. NBSM supports a wide range of Array Controller Architectures and Cloud Storage Platforms that support Storage and Storage replica protection.
Unlike Replication Director that defined Replication Policies for Storage, NBSM 'Discovers" existing Replication Policies on storage controllers and maps the volumes between the controllers. This passive approach insures that you can leverage existing storage replication policies for backup operations without modification of the existing storage replication strategies.
Replication Director Customers should transition policies that use Storage Lifecycle Policies (SLP) specified with Replication Director arguments to new SLPs that used NBSM Snapshot and Replica arguments.
For more information about NBSM, see the NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center Administrator's Guide.
Support for Replication Director on older versions of NetBackup follow the published Veritas Product End of Life policy guidelines.