NetBackup™ Release Notes
- About NetBackup 10.5
- New features, enhancements, and changes
- About new enhancements and changes in NetBackup
- NetBackup 10.5 new features, changes, and enhancements
- Changes in Veritas terminology
- RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 10.5
- Updates to the nbdb2adutl command
- Changes to the dashboard in the NetBackup web UI
- New features for NetBackup for VMware in the NetBackup web UI
- New features for NetBackup for DB2
- New features and changes for NetBackup for Microsoft SQL Server
- Managing policies for cloud assets
- Cloud Scale and decoupling of Cloud Scale
- Search files using a file hash in NetBackup
- Support for tape as a media option for Kubernetes workloads using Kubernetes policies
- NetBackup 10.5 support additions and changes
- Minimum operating system versions
- Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
- Multi-person authorization support for encryption key management and API key operations
- BMR support for Cloud VM Recovery in AWS
- Support for TLS 1.3 protocol
- Support for Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) with Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Support for viewing hash values of malware infected files and malware
- Support of disk type Premium SSD v2 for NetBackup Snapshot Manager Microsoft Azure plug-in
- Support of SSL/TLS for Proxy Service
- Support for double encryption method in Azure
- Support for regional endpoint in Amazon Web Services
- End of life (EOL) for NetBackup for OpenStack - PSF
- MSDP volume group support
- Support for Cloud-Object-Store workload type for malware scanning
- Support for cross-cloud provider restore
- Client push staging area no longer populated
- About binaries installed on primary and media servers
- Update cloud configuration file on the primary server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 10.5
- NetBackup protection for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
- Private key encryption support
- About security configuration risk
- Changes to NetBackup guide titles
- Operational notes
- About NetBackup 10.5 operational notes
- NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
- NetBackup administration and general operational notes
- NetBackup administration interface operational notes
- NetBackup Cloud Object Store Workload operational notes
- 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 Datamover API (NBOSDMAPI) service times out in the haproxy connection
- Instance volumes in the incremental backups cannot be mounted
- Restored VMs have blank metadata config_drive attached
- No operation is permitted in insecure way for SSL-enabled Keystone URL
- NBOS Backups and NBOS Backup Admin tabs disappear from Horizon UI after stack is updated
- 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 compatibility between NetBackup versions
You can run mixed versions of NetBackup between primary servers, media servers, and clients. This back-level support lets you upgrade NetBackup one server at a time, which minimizes the effect on overall system performance.
Veritas supports only certain combinations of servers and clients. In mixed version environments, certain computers must be the highest version. Specifically, the version order is: NetBackup Snapshot Manager computer, primary server, media server, and then clients. For example, the scenario that is shown is supported: 10.2 NetBackup Snapshot Manager > 10.0 primary server > 9.0 media server > 8.3.0.1 client.
All NetBackup versions are four digits long. The NetBackup 10.0 release is the 10.0.0.0 release. Likewise, the NetBackup 9.1 release is the NetBackup 9.1.0.0 release. For the purposes of supportability, the fourth digit is ignored. A 9.1 primary server supports a 9.1.0.1 media server. An example of what is not supported is a 9.1 primary server with a 10.0 media server.
The NetBackup catalog resides on the primary server. Therefore, the primary server is considered to be the client for a catalog backup. If your NetBackup configuration includes a media server, it must use the same NetBackup version as the primary server to perform a catalog backup.
For complete information about compatibility between NetBackup versions, refer to the Veritas SORT website.
Veritas recommends that you review the End of Support Life information available online.