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Veritas NetBackup™ Release Notes
Last Published:
2019-11-07
Product(s):
NetBackup (8.2)
- About NetBackup 8.2
- New features, enhancements, and changes
- About new enhancements and changes in NetBackup
- NetBackup 8.2 new features, changes, and enhancements
- External certificate authority certificates supported by NetBackup 8.2
- Configure external security certificates from the NetBackup Administration Console
- NetBackup supports file-based certificates and Windows certificate store as external certificate sources
- Support for NetBackup web UI sign-in with a smart card or software certificate
- More backup jobs can start per second
- Compression rates and deduplication rates are now reported separately for MSDP storage
- RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 8.2
- New API keys feature provides user authentication to APIs and commands
- NetBackup 8.2 support additions and changes
- NetBackup licensing enhancements
- About NAT support in NetBackup
- BMR client restores from NetBackup 8.2 servers require NetBackup CA-signed certificates
- The update_clients script is no longer available for client pushes
- Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
- OpenStack workloads protected with BigData policies
- New pre-installation checks added
- Assign RBAC roles during UNIX installations
- Media server install and upgrade improvements
- VxUpdate support for upgrading media servers
- Update cloud configuration file on the master server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 8.2
- Certificate validation for cloud providers against Certificate Revocation List (CRL)
- Configure custom object chunk size for new cloud storage
- Change in NetBackup Cloud configuration service
- New parameter (CSSC_ALLOW_LEGACY_AUTH) added to support older cloud storage media servers
- Backup data to cloud using NetBackup with Amazon Snowball and Amazon Snowball Edge
- Auto Image Replication (AIR) and target AIR now support CloudCatalyst storage server
- Integrated snapshot management enhancements
- New option (reinitialize) added to the csconfig command utility
- NetBackup enhancements for VMware
- NetBackup protection for Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)
- New Instant Access features
- Changes to global resource limits for VMware, RHV, and Hyper-V resources
- Enhanced recovery process for Nutanix AHV virtual machines
- NetBackup introduces Accelerator support for Nutanix AHV through the upcoming Nutanix AHV plug-in
- Enhancements for the Microsoft SQL Server agent
- Operational notes
- About NetBackup 8.2 operational notes
- NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
- Linux daemon shutdown issues
- Native installation requirements
- NetBackup 8.2 and SUSE 15 installation issue
- NetBackup 8.2 and RHEL 8 installation issue
- NetBackup servers must use a host name that is compliant with RFC 1123 and RFC 952
- Do not install from the menu that appears when the installation DVD is inserted
- About support for HP-UX Itanium vPars SRP containers
- NetBackup administration and general operational notes
- NetBackup master server is not supported on a btrfs file system
- Non-administrator users in environments with NBAC cannot read or update resource limits
- Media servers and backup host must use the same NetBackup version for BigData policies
- Backups for workloads that use the BigData policy may fail
- OpenStack restore jobs successful even when instance recreation fails
- NetBackup limitations when using IPv6 address as client name or image name
- NetBackup administration interface operational notes
- Terminating a NetBackup Administration Console session from the web UI does not log the user out
- Terminating a NetBackup web UI session does not log the user out immediately
- Access control methods supported in NetBackup 8.2
- "Operation timed out" message appears when policies are accessed from the Remote Administration Console
- Using X forwarding to launch the NetBackup Administration Console can fail on certain Linux platforms
- Intermittent issues with X forwarding of NetBackup Administration Console
- Reduced functionality during the initialization of the NetBackup Administration Console
- NetBackup Administration Console fails in Simplified Chinese UTF-8 locale on Solaris SPARC 64-bit systems with Solaris 10 Update 2 or later
- NetBackup API operational notes
- NetBackup Cloud operational notes
- OpenStack backup job fails with error 6619
- Automated Disaster Recovery recovers VMs with AWS VM import prerequisites
- Import and recoverec2 jobs may fail on automated DR servers
- Unable to obtain the administrator password to use an AWS EC2 instance that has a Windows OS
- Certificate Revocation check using CRL not supported with Veritas Access cloud storage
- Storage server may display incorrect value of CRL if SSL is off
- NetBackup with Veritas CloudPoint operational notes
- NetBackup database and application agent operational notes
- NetBackup deduplication operational notes
- NetBackup internationalization and localization operational notes
- NetBackup for NDMP operational notes
- NetBackup SAN Client and Fibre Transport operational notes
- NetBackup Snapshot Client operational notes
- NetBackup virtualization 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
The update_clients script is no longer available for client pushes
Be aware you cannot use the update_clients installation script to push NetBackup 8.2 or later clients. You must use VxUpdate. For more information on VxUpdate, see the NetBackup Upgrade Guide.