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NetBackup™ Release Notes

Last Published:
Product(s): NetBackup (11.0.0.1)
  1. About NetBackup 11.0.0.1
    1.  
      About the NetBackup 11.0.0.1 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 11.0.0.1 new features, changes, and enhancements
      1.  
        Changes in Cohesity terminology
      2.  
        Update cloud configuration file on the primary server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 11.0.0.1
      3.  
        Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
      4.  
        New features and enhancements to the NetBackup web UI
      5.  
        New enhancements for NetBackup for Oracle
      6.  
        NetBackup 11.0.0.1 support additions and changes
      7.  
        NetBackup supports MongoDB Ops Manager workload
      8.  
        Configuring FortKnox Google
      9.  
        New features for NetBackup for Microsoft SQL Server
      10.  
        Support for Hyper-V policy type for malware scanning
      11.  
        Veritas Alta View Recovery Vault is now FortKnox for NetBackup
  3. Operational notes
    1.  
      About NetBackup 11.0.0.1 operational notes
    2. NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
      1.  
        If NetBackup 11.0.0.1 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.  
        Policies using Replication Director fail with error code 4224
    4. NetBackup administration interface operational notes
      1.  
        Intermittent issues with X forwarding of NetBackup Administration Console
      2.  
        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 11.0.0.1
      3.  
        NetBackup services may not start automatically after BMR restore on a Linux client
    6. NetBackup Cloud Object Store Workload operational notes
      1.  
        Auto Image Replication (AIR) from NetBackup version 11.0.0.1 requires NetBackup 10.2 or later
      2.  
        For Azure, backups fail when an older policy is updated with a new backup host
      3.  
        Replicated backups cannot be restored to older NetBackup versions
      4.  
        Backup jobs become unresponsive and consume significant space on the temporary staging location.
    7. NetBackup Snapshot Manager (formerly NetBackup CloudPoint)
      1.  
        Single file restore from snapshot copy fails for VM's created from Marketplace images for Alma Linux 9.5 and 8.10
    8.  
      NetBackup for VMware operational notes
    9. NetBackup NAS operational notes
      1.  
        Parent directories in the path of a file may not be present in an NDMP incremental image
    10. 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
    11. NetBackup Cloud workload operational notes
      1.  
        VMs and other OCI assets with CMK-encrypted disks are marked as deleted in NetBackup UI.
    12. 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 Cohesity 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 11.0.0.1 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

NetBackup 11.0.0.1 support additions and changes

Note:

This information is subject to change. See the NetBackup Compatibility List for all versions for the most recent product and services support additions and changes.

The following products and services are supported for NetBackup 11.0 and earlier versions and qualified with NetBackup 11.0.0.1:

Platforms

  • Windows Server 2025 - Disaster Recovery

  • VMware Guest OS (Windows Server 2025)

  • Redhat Linux 9.x (x64)

  • Rocky Linux 9.6

  • Oracle Linux 9.6 (x86-64) Unbreakable Linux Kernel

  • Oracle Linux 9.6 (x86-64) Red Hat Compatible Kernel

  • AIX 7.3 TL3 (Client, File Systems) (POWER)

  • InfoScale 8.0.2 - SLES15SP6

  • Debian 12.10 Client

Database

  • SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 07 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 POWER

  • SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 08 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 (x86_64)

  • SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 08 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 (Power 9)

  • SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 08 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 (Power 9)

  • SAP ASE 16.1 - SLES 15.x (x86-64)

  • SAP ASE 16.1 - RedHat Linux 9.x (x86-64)

  • SAP ASE 16.1 - Windows Server 2022 (x86-64)

  • MySQL 8.x - Debian 11

  • MariaDB 11.x - Windows 2025

  • SAP Oracle - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.x

  • DB2 12.x - Windows Server 2022 (x64-86)

  • DB2 12.x - AIX 7.3 (POWER)

  • DB2 12 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 (x86-64)

  • Informix 15.x - Ubuntu 22.04

  • PostgreSQL 17.x - Windows Server 2022

  • MongoDB 8.0.x - Rocky Linux 9.x

  • PostgreSQL 17.x - Rocky Linux 9.x

  • PostgreSQL 17.x - Rocky Linux 8.x

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2022 - Windows Server 2025

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2019 - Windows Server 2025

  • MariaDB 10.x - Debian 12.x

Other support and changes

  • BMR - Client/Boot Server - Windows Server 2025 preview

  • BMR - Client/Boot Server - IBM AIX 7.3 TL2

  • HPE New tape library - MSL2024 G4 - Windows Server 2025

  • HPE 1x8 G3 AUTOLOADER Tape Library - Windows Server 2025

  • BMR - Client/Boot Server - Oracle Enterprise Linux 8.10 (x86-64)

  • HPE New tape library - 1x8 G3 AUTOLDR - RHEL 9.x

S3ObjectStorage

  • Google Cloud (GCP) region Stockholm (europe-north2)

  • AWS new region Thailand (ap-southeast-7)

  • AWS new region Malaysia (ap-southeast-5)

  • NEC Cloud Storage (St) with object lock

  • Cloud Object Storage Protection for iTernity iCAS FS

  • Google Cloud (GCP) region Santiago (southamerica-west1)

  • NEC Cloud Storage (St)

  • NEC Cloud Storage (St) Object lock - SLES

  • NEC Cloud Storage (St) Object lock - RHEL

NDMP

  • Dell EMC PowerScale OneFS 9.10 NDMP - NB 10.x, 11.0 - Windows

  • Dell EMC PowerStore 4.0 NDMP - NB 10.x - Windows 2022

  • NetApp ONTAP 9.16 NDMP - NB 10.x, 11.0 - Window

  • Dell EMC PowerStore 4.0 NDMP - NB 10.x,11.x - RHEL 9.x

  • Dell EMC PowerStore 4.0 NDMP - NB 11.x - Windows 2025

NetBackup Snapshot Manager

  • AlmaLinux 9.5 Guest VM (NBSM)

  • NetBackup Snapshot Manager - AlmaLinux 8.10

  • AlmaLinux 8.10 Guest VM (NBSM)

  • NetBackup Snapshot Manager - AlmaLinux 9.5

OpenStorage

  • Quantum DXi OST plug-in 11.0 with SuSE 15 SP6

  • Dell Data Domain OST plug-in 8.3 on NB virtual appliances

  • Dell Data Domain OST plug-in 8.3 on Windows 2016, Windows 2019, and Windows 2022

  • Dell Data Domain OST plug-in 8.3 on SLES 12

  • NEC HYDRAStor OST plug-in 2.12 - Windows 2025

  • Quantum DXi OST plug-in 11.0 with RHEL 9

  • Quantum DXi OST plug-in 11.0 with Rocky Linux 9

  • Quantum DXi OST plug-in 11.0 with Windows server 2025

  • Quantum DXi OST plug-in 11.0 with Oracle Linux 9

  • Dell EMC Data Domain Virtual Edition 8.1 and OST plug-in 8.1

Virtualization

  • Azure Stack Hub 2501

  • VMWare - RedHat 8.10 as a Backup Host (VDDK 8.0.3)

  • Nutanix AOS 7.0.0.5 - Windows Server (Backup Host)

  • Nutanix AOS 7.0.0.5 - RedHat Enterprise Linux (Backup Host)

  • K8S - Vanilla 1.32

  • Hyper-V Server 2025 and guest operating system Windows Server 2025

Cloud object store

  • Support added for backup hosts running on SUSE operating system

  • Cloud object store protection (COSP) support on SLES media server

  • Nutanix Tag support fix test on latest Nutanix Objects v5.1.1