Veritas NetBackup™ Release Notes

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Product(s): NetBackup (8.3.0.1)
  1. About NetBackup 8.3.0.1
    1.  
      About the NetBackup 8.3.0.1 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 8.3.0.1 new features, changes, and enhancements
      1.  
        NetBackup now supports data immutability and indelibility with the MSDP WORM instance in Flex Appliance
      2.  
        Changes to user session default values
      3.  
        NetBackup with SAN client 16-gigabit target mode HBA support
      4.  
        Updates to the NetBackup for OpenStack plug-in
      5.  
        NetBackup supports SSL-enabled (HTTPS) clusters of Hadoop and HBase
      6.  
        NetBackup 8.3.0.1 support additions and changes
      7.  
        New cloud providers and region support
  3. Operational notes
    1.  
      About NetBackup 8.3.0.1 operational notes
    2. NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
      1.  
        After initiating CA migration, connection errors may occur
      2.  
        If NetBackup 8.3.0.1 upgrade fails on Windows, revert to previous log folder structure
      3.  
        Native installation requirements
      4.  
        NetBackup servers must use a host name that is compliant with RFC 1123 and RFC 952
      5.  
        Do not install from the menu that appears when the installation DVD is inserted
      6.  
        About support for HP-UX Itanium vPars SRP containers
    3. NetBackup administration and general operational notes
      1.  
        The nbdeployutil utility may fail to generate usage reports for traditional licensing
      2.  
        Backups for workloads that use the BigData policy may fail
      3.  
        Child backup jobs may enter a queued state for workloads that use BigData policy
      4.  
        Errors are shown in the jobs detail when NetBackup attempts to expire images from non-WORM capable storage
      5.  
        NetBackup web server certificate renewal failure during initiation of NetBackup CA migration or upgrade
      6.  
        Microsoft Azure backup fails if the resource group name contains a period (.)
      7.  
        SLP does not retry multistreaming backup if child job fails or is canceled
      8.  
        Granular restores require adequate available space on target
      9.  
        Stale devices shown on the device tree
    4. NetBackup administration interface operational notes
      1.  
        Search limitations for security events lists in the NetBackup web UI
      2.  
        Using X forwarding to launch the NetBackup Administration Console can fail on certain Linux platforms
      3.  
        Intermittent issues with X forwarding of NetBackup Administration Console
      4.  
        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.  
        BMR boot server not supported on a NetBackup appliance or a Flex appliance
      2.  
        BMR restore may take significant amount of time for formatting and volume creation step
    6. NetBackup Cloud operational notes
      1.  
        Configuring a cloud recovery host on RHEL 8
      2.  
        Indexing error may occur for Micorosft Azure cloud assets
    7. NetBackup with Veritas CloudPoint operational notes
      1.  
        Public cloud not supported with gov cloud or China region
      2.  
        Indexing not supported on instances created from AWS Marketplaces AMIs
      3.  
        Consistent host snapshot might fail
      4.  
        Image clean-up may fail for Microsoft Azure workloads
      5.  
        Configuring AWS plug-in with IAM role showed that the Authentication Method field is blank
      6.  
        MongoDB create snapshot job may freeze
      7.  
        Updating a cloud plug-in while a job runs causes job failure
      8.  
        Permission denied error occurs if both user and password are updated
      9.  
        Different source and target zones for Google Cloud Platform are not supported
      10.  
        Broken files system detected
    8. NetBackup deduplication operational notes
      1.  
        Backup jobs fail with "Storage server is down ..." for WORM storage servers in multi-domain environments
    9. 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
    10. NetBackup for NDMP operational notes
      1.  
        Parent directories in the path of a file may not be present in an NDMP incremental image
    11. NetBackup Snapshot Client operational notes
      1.  
        HPE 3PAR array snapshot import fails with status code 4213
      2.  
        Snapshots are deleted after point-in-time rollbacks
      3.  
        Index from Snapshot operation does not populate contents of the snapshot accurately in the catalog
    12. NetBackup virtualization operational notes
      1. NetBackup for VMware operational notes
        1.  
          VMware protection plan creation can fail when automatic scheduling and WORM storage are used
        2.  
          Media servers cannot access the virtualization server, fails with status code 200
  4. Appendix A. About SORT for NetBackup Users
    1.  
      About Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools
    2.  
      Recommended SORT procedures for new installations
    3.  
      Recommended SORT procedures for upgrades
  5. Appendix B. NetBackup installation requirements
    1.  
      About NetBackup installation requirements
    2.  
      Required operating system patches and updates for NetBackup
    3.  
      NetBackup 8.3.0.1 binary sizes
  6. Appendix C. NetBackup compatibility requirements
    1.  
      About NetBackup compatibility lists and information
    2.  
      About NetBackup end-of-life notifications
  7. Appendix D. Other NetBackup documentation and related documents
    1.  
      About related NetBackup documents

NetBackup 8.3.0.1 binary sizes

Table: NetBackup binary sizes for compatible platforms contains the approximate binary sizes of the NetBackup 8.3.0.1 master server, media server, and client software for the various supported operating systems. These binary sizes indicate the amount of disk space occupied by the product after an initial installation. Note that for the sizes listed in the table, 1 MB equals 1024 KB.

Note:

As of NetBackup 8.3, the Java GUI and JRE packages are optional with most clients and media servers. The package sizes were calculated with the Java GUI and JRE included.

Note:

Table: NetBackup binary sizes for compatible platforms and Table: NetBackup OpsCenter binary sizes for compatible platforms only list the supported operating systems. For up-to-date information about the specific operating system versions that NetBackup currently supports, check the Installation and Upgrade Checklist on the Services and Operations Readiness Tools (SORT) website, or the NetBackup Operating System Compatibility List document at http://www.netbackup.com/compatibility.

See About Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools.

Table: NetBackup binary sizes for compatible platforms

OS

CPU Architecture

32-bit client

64-bit client

64-bit server

Notes

AIX

POWER

 

1721 MB

No longer supported

 

Canonical Ubuntu

x86-64

 

1299 MB

  

CentOS

x86-64

 

1305 MB

6148 MB

Media server or client compatibility only.

Debian GNU/Linux

x86-64

 

1300 MB

  

HP-UX

IA-64

 

2213 MB

No longer supported

 

Oracle Linux

x86-64

 

1306 MB

6161 MB

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server

POWER

 

314 MB

  

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server

x86-64

 

1306 MB

6150 MB

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server

z/Architecture

 

906 MB

No longer supported

Media server or client compatibility only.

Solaris

SPARC

 

1250 MB

5589 MB

 

Solaris

x86-64

 

1275 MB

5948 MB

 

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

POWER

 

313 MB

  

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

x86-64

 

1130 MB

5408 MB

 

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

z/Architecture

 

918 MB

No longer supported

Media server or client compatibility only.

Windows

x86-64

 

482 MB

2985 MB

Covers all compatible Windows x64 platforms.

The following space requirements also apply to some NetBackup installations on Windows:

  • If you install NetBackup in a custom location on a Windows system, some portions of the software are installed on the system drive regardless of the primary application folder location. The space that is required on the system drive generally accounts for 40 to 50 percent of the total binary size that is listed in Table: NetBackup binary sizes for compatible platforms.

  • If you install NetBackup server on a Windows cluster, some portions of the software are installed on the cluster shared disk. Note, the space that is required on the cluster shared disk is in addition to the binary size that is listed in Table: NetBackup binary sizes for compatible platforms. The additional required space is equivalent to 15 to 20 percent of the total binary size.

NetBackup OpsCenter

Table: NetBackup OpsCenter binary sizes for compatible platforms contains the approximate binary sizes of the OpsCenter Agent, Server, and ViewBuilder for the various operating systems that are compatible with NetBackup OpsCenter 8.3.0.1.

Table: NetBackup OpsCenter binary sizes for compatible platforms

OS

CPU Architecture

Agent

Server

ViewBuilder

Oracle Linux

x86-64

 

795 MB

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server

x86-64

 

755 MB

 

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

x86-64

 

759 MB

 

Windows Server

x86-64

264 MB

699 MB

232 MB

NetBackup plug-ins

Disk space requirements for the NetBackup vCenter Web Client Plug-in and the NetBackup System Center Virtual Machine Manager Add-in can be found in the NetBackup Plug-in for VMware vSphere Web Client Guide and the NetBackup Add-in for Microsoft SCVMM Console Guide, respectively.