Veritas NetBackup™ Release Notes
- About NetBackup 8.3.0.1
- New features, enhancements, and changes
- About new enhancements and changes in NetBackup
- NetBackup 8.3.0.1 new features, changes, and enhancements
- NetBackup now supports data immutability and indelibility with the MSDP WORM instance in Flex Appliance
- Changes to user session default values
- NetBackup with SAN client 16-gigabit target mode HBA support
- Updates to the NetBackup for OpenStack plug-in
- NetBackup supports SSL-enabled (HTTPS) clusters of Hadoop and HBase
- NetBackup 8.3.0.1 support additions and changes
- New cloud providers and region support
- Operational notes
- About NetBackup 8.3.0.1 operational notes
- NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
- After initiating CA migration, connection errors may occur
- If NetBackup 8.3.0.1 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
- 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
- The nbdeployutil utility may fail to generate usage reports for traditional licensing
- Backups for workloads that use the BigData policy may fail
- Child backup jobs may enter a queued state for workloads that use BigData policy
- Errors are shown in the jobs detail when NetBackup attempts to expire images from non-WORM capable storage
- NetBackup web server certificate renewal failure during initiation of NetBackup CA migration or upgrade
- Microsoft Azure backup fails if the resource group name contains a period (.)
- SLP does not retry multistreaming backup if child job fails or is canceled
- Granular restores require adequate available space on target
- Stale devices shown on the device tree
- NetBackup administration interface operational notes
- Search limitations for security events lists in the NetBackup web UI
- Using X forwarding to launch the NetBackup Administration Console can fail on certain Linux platforms
- Intermittent issues with X forwarding of 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 Bare Metal Restore operational notes
- NetBackup Cloud operational notes
- NetBackup with Veritas CloudPoint operational notes
- Public cloud not supported with gov cloud or China region
- Indexing not supported on instances created from AWS Marketplaces AMIs
- Consistent host snapshot might fail
- Image clean-up may fail for Microsoft Azure workloads
- Configuring AWS plug-in with IAM role showed that the Authentication Method field is blank
- MongoDB create snapshot job may freeze
- Updating a cloud plug-in while a job runs causes job failure
- Permission denied error occurs if both user and password are updated
- Different source and target zones for Google Cloud Platform are not supported
- Broken files system detected
- NetBackup deduplication operational notes
- NetBackup internationalization and localization operational notes
- NetBackup for NDMP 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
About the NetBackup 8.3.0.1 release
The NetBackup Release Notes document is meant to act as a snapshot of information about a version of NetBackup at the time of its release. Old information and any information that no longer applies to a release is either removed from the release notes or migrated elsewhere in the NetBackup documentation set.
See About new enhancements and changes in NetBackup.
NetBackup 8.3.0.1 incorporates fixes to many of the known issues that affected customers in previous versions of NetBackup. Some of these fixes are associated with the customer-specific issues. Several of the customer-related fixes that were incorporated into this release were also made available as emergency engineering binaries (EEBs).
Listings of the EEBs and Etracks that document the known issues that have been fixed in NetBackup 8.3.0.1 can be found on the Veritas Operations Readiness Tools (SORT) website and in the .
See About Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools.
The NetBackup appliances run a software package that includes a preconfigured version of NetBackup. When a new appliance software release is developed, the latest version of NetBackup is used as a basis on which the appliance code is built. For example, NetBackup Appliance 3.1 is based on NetBackup 8.1 This development model ensures that all applicable features, enhancements, and fixes that were released within NetBackup are included in the latest release of the appliance.
The NetBackup appliance software is released at the same time as the NetBackup release upon which it is based, or soon thereafter. If you are a NetBackup appliance customer, make sure to review the NetBackup Release Notes that correspond to the NetBackup appliance version that you plan to run.
Appliance-specific documentation is available at the following location: