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 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