NetBackup™ Release Notes

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Product(s): NetBackup (11.1)
  1. About NetBackup 11.1
    1.  
      About the NetBackup 11.1 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 11.1 new features, changes, and enhancements
      1.  
        Changes in Cohesity terminology
      2.  
        Update cloud configuration file on the primary and media server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 11.1
      3.  
        RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 11.1
      4.  
        New features and enhancements to the NetBackup web UI
      5.  
        Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
      6.  
        Support to create instant access VM feature for Nutanix AHV
      7.  
        Support for Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)
      8.  
        NetBackup 11.1 support additions and changes
      9.  
        NetBackup 11.0.0.1 and earlier support additions and changes qualified in NetBackup 11.1
      10.  
        Cohesity will no longer deliver the Java Admin Console for NetBackup after the 11.1 release
      11.  
        MSDP server evacuation in NetBackup
      12.  
        Cloud LSU consolidation support
      13.  
        Object change tracking for Cloud object store protection
      14.  
        Replication is now supported for HPE GreenLake for Block storage arrays
      15.  
        NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center now supports cloud storage arrays
      16.  
        PaaS database support enhancements
      17.  
        Support for NextGen Malware Scanner tool
      18.  
        Responsive updates in Web UI for malware scan operations
      19.  
        Abort malware scan on infection detection
      20.  
        Multi-Account support in single provider plugin
      21.  
        Enhanced Cloud VM backup performance with multi-stream (parallel read) support
      22.  
        Cloud parallel stream job hierarchy for Cloud VM backups
      23.  
        Cloud Scale document change, enhancements and deployment updates
      24.  
        Support for cloud key management service (KMS)
      25.  
        Configuration of rotation for external CA-issued certificates
      26.  
        Support for network access control
      27.  
        Freeze mode in NetBackup
      28.  
        Support for YARA scanning
      29.  
        Support for STIG compliance
      30.  
        Selective Virtual Machine Restore for Kubernetes Workloads
      31.  
        Tape Media Preview for Restores in Cohesity with NetBackup Web UI
      32.  
        New Policy Type for RHV and OLVM Workloads in NetBackup Web UI
      33.  
        Cross-Hypervisor Restore from VMware to Nutanix
      34.  
        pgBackRest Support for PostgreSQL Backups
      35.  
        Support for Percona XtraBackup Utility
      36.  
        SharePoint Recovery Support in Cohesity
      37.  
        Enhanced WebSocket Server Credential Security with JWT Authentication
      38.  
        New Reporting Enhancements in NetBackup Web UI
      39.  
        Vault Management Enhancements in NetBackup Web UI
      40.  
        Storage Unit Groups Overview
      41.  
        Cross-Domain Backup Replication Support
      42.  
        Storage server credentials
      43.  
        Change in the NetBackup default path - application folder and setup logs
  3. Operational notes
    1.  
      About NetBackup 11.1 operational notes
    2. NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
      1.  
        If NetBackup 11.1 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
      5.  
        Change in the default path for NetBackup installation
    3. 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
    4. 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 11.1
      3.  
        NetBackup services may not start automatically after BMR restore on a Linux client
      4.  
        NetBackup Bare Metal Restore on AWS hangs when restoring a Windows 2025 client
    5. NetBackup Cloud Object Store Workload operational notes
      1.  
        Full backup after upgrade to NetBackup 11.1
      2.  
        Supported version of RHEL media server as backup host
      3.  
        Auto Image Replication (AIR) from NetBackup version 11.1 requires NetBackup 10.2 or later
      4.  
        Backup jobs become unresponsive and consume significant space on the temporary staging location.
    6. NetBackup NAS operational notes
      1.  
        Parent directories in the path of a file may not be present in an NDMP incremental image
    7. NetBackup Cloud workload operational notes
      1.  
        VMs and other OCI assets with CMK-encrypted disks are marked as deleted in NetBackup UI.
    8. 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
    9.  
      FIPS compliance operational notes
  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 11.1 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

Backup jobs become unresponsive and consume significant space on the temporary staging location.

NetBackup Cloud object store data protection feature uses the ListObjects S3 API to iterate over the list of objects to further read and back up the objects in a bucket. The ListObjects S3 API returns up to 1000 objects per request in lexicographical order, based on their key names and the NextContinuationToken. This NextContinuationToken is used for pagination. For example, for a ListObjects S3 API call, to get the next set of 1000 objects and a new NextContinuationToken is used to get the subsequent page.

For certain Cloud object store providers, like Hitachi, the NextContinuationToken does not work correctly if the object names contain certain special characters, potentially hinders backup performance.

This behavior disrupts the cos_sqllite database that NetBackup uses in the temporary staging area. This database stores the object list for a backup job that is in progress. Because of this disruption, the cos_sqllite database drastically grows in size, filling up the disk space in the temporary staging area. This leads the NetBackup jobs to slow down and eventually fail.

Workaround:

  1. Reconfigure the NextContinuationToken in the ListObjects S3 API calls to return the proper value for each batch.

  2. Cancel the existing backup job and retry backup.