NetBackup™ Release Notes

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Product(s): NetBackup (10.5.0.1)
  1. About NetBackup 10.5.0.1
    1.  
      About the NetBackup 10.5.0.1 release
    2.  
      About NetBackup Late Breaking News
    3.  
      About NetBackup third-party legal notices
  2. New features, enhancements, and changes
    1.  
      About new enhancements and changes in NetBackup
    2. NetBackup 10.5.0.1 new features, changes, and enhancements
      1.  
        Changes in Veritas terminology
      2.  
        Update cloud configuration file on the primary server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 10.5.0.1
      3.  
        Support for OpenStack Caracal added to NetBackup for OpenStack 10.5.0.1
      4.  
        MSDP volume group (MVG) supports WORM storage
      5.  
        Changes to the VRTSpddes.rpm package in 10.5.0.1 for BYO storage server
      6.  
        Enhancements for Cassandra workload
      7.  
        Support for backup of Azure Disk Encryption (ADE) enabled VMs
      8.  
        Support for file hash search with malware search
      9.  
        NetBackup 10.5.0.1 support additions and changes
      10.  
        Minimum operating system versions
      11.  
        Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
  3. Operational notes
    1.  
      About NetBackup 10.5.0.1 operational notes
    2. NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
      1.  
        If NetBackup 10.5.0.1 upgrade fails on Windows, revert to previous log folder structure
      2.  
        Native installation requirements
      3.  
        NetBackup servers must use a host name that is compliant with RFC 1123 and RFC 952
      4.  
        About support for HP-UX Itanium vPars SRP containers
    3. NetBackup administration and general operational notes
      1.  
        Intelligent catalog archiving (ICA) is not supported for MSDP cloud
      2.  
        For some workload environments, reduce the size of the job database before upgrade
      3.  
        Policies using Replication Director fail with error code 4224
    4. NetBackup administration interface operational notes
      1.  
        Delay in NetBackup web UI when adding or removing columns in Catalog area
      2.  
        Intermittent issues with X forwarding of NetBackup Administration Console
      3.  
        NetBackup Administration Console fails in Simplified Chinese UTF-8 locale on Solaris SPARC 64-bit systems with Solaris 10 Update 2 or later
    5. NetBackup Bare Metal Restore operational notes
      1.  
        After PIT restore, "The host ID does not exist" error appears
      2.  
        AIX BMR Shared Resource Tree (SRT) creation fails in NetBackup 10.5.0.1
      3.  
        NetBackup services may not start automatically after BMR restore on a Linux client
    6.  
      NetBackup for VMware operational notes
    7. NetBackup NAS operational notes
      1.  
        Parent directories in the path of a file may not be present in an NDMP incremental image
      2.  
        RD storage units are not listed as Replication targets
    8. NetBackup for OpenStack operational notes
      1.  
        NetBackup for OpenStack Datamover API (NBOSDMAPI) service times out in the haproxy connection
      2.  
        Instance volumes in the incremental backups cannot be mounted
      3.  
        Restored VMs have blank metadata config_drive attached
      4.  
        No operation is permitted in insecure way for SSL-enabled Keystone URL
      5.  
        NBOS Backups and NBOS Backup Admin tabs disappear from Horizon UI after stack is updated
    9. NetBackup internationalization and localization operational notes
      1.  
        Support for localized environments in database and application agents
      2.  
        Certain NetBackup user-defined strings must not contain non-US ASCII characters
  4. Appendix A. About SORT for NetBackup Users
    1.  
      About Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools
  5. Appendix B. NetBackup installation requirements
    1.  
      About NetBackup installation requirements
    2.  
      Required operating system patches and updates for NetBackup
    3.  
      NetBackup 10.5.0.1 binary sizes
  6. Appendix C. NetBackup compatibility requirements
    1.  
      About compatibility between NetBackup versions
    2.  
      About NetBackup compatibility lists and information
    3.  
      About NetBackup end-of-life notifications
  7. Appendix D. Other NetBackup documentation and related documents
    1.  
      About related NetBackup documents

After PIT restore, "The host ID does not exist" error appears

After a point in time (PIT) restore operation (which may include either a Full File System restore or a BMR restore), the error message The host ID does not exist appears.

In this scenario, a full backup is taken when a SERVICE_USER as root/administrator account is configured. This account takes the backup of the NetBackup installed binaries with root/administrator ownership. Before a restore, SERVICE_USER is configured with an account other than root/administrator, and then an incremental backup is taken where the service user is backed up as part of bp.conf. In a PIT restore operation with the incremental backup, the SERVICE_USER entry gets restored. However, the binaries are restored in the root account ownership.

Workaround:

After changing the service user, you must take a full backup, whether it is a MS-Windows\Standard Policy for File System or BMR policy configuration.