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NetBackup™ Release Notes
- About NetBackup 11.1.0.2
- New features, enhancements, and changes
- About new enhancements and changes in NetBackup
- NetBackup 11.1.0.2 new features, changes, and enhancements
- Changes in Cohesity terminology
- Update cloud configuration file on the primary and media server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 11.1.0.2
- Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
- NetBackup 11.1.0.2 support additions and changes
- NetBackup 11.1 and earlier support additions and changes
- Support for malware scanning of hypervisor backups on OST targets
- Simplified Cloud Scale upgrade
- BMR now uses Windows ADK 10.1.22621 (ADK 2022)
- Operational notes
- About NetBackup 11.1.0.2 operational notes
- NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
- If NetBackup 11.1.0.2 upgrade fails on Windows, revert to previous log folder structure
- Native installation requirements
- NetBackup servers must use a host name that is compliant with RFC 1123 and RFC 952
- About support for HP-UX Itanium vPars SRP containers
- Change in the default path for NetBackup installation
- NetBackup administration interface operational notes
- NetBackup Bare Metal Restore operational notes
- After PIT restore, "The host ID does not exist" error appears
- NetBackup services may not start automatically after BMR restore on a Linux client
- NetBackup Bare Metal Restore on AWS hangs when restoring a Windows 2025 client
- Mirrored dynamic volume may not receive a drive letter after Windows BMR DDR restore
- BMR Restore Failure for ReFS Volumes on Windows (2016 - 2025)
- Post Bare Metal Restore (BMR) operation, windows Start Menu and Search not functioning
- NetBackup Cloud Object Store Workload operational notes
- Full backup after upgrading from a version prior to NetBackup 11.1
- Supported version of RHEL media server as backup host
- Auto Image Replication (AIR) from NetBackup version 11.1.0.2 requires NetBackup 10.2 or later
- Backup jobs become unresponsive and consume significant space on the temporary staging location.
- NetBackup NAS operational notes
- NetBackup Cloud workload operational notes
- 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.
NetBackup 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: 11.0 NetBackup Snapshot Manager > 10.2 primary server > 10.0 media server > 9.1.0.1 client.
All NetBackup versions are four digits long. The NetBackup 11.0 release is the 11.0.0.0 release. Likewise, the NetBackup 10.2 release is the NetBackup 10.2.0.0 release. For the purposes of supportability, the fourth digit is ignored. A 10.2 primary server supports a 10.2.0.1 media server. An example of what is not supported is a 10.2.0.1 primary server with a 11.0 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 Cohesity SORT website.
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