Veritas NetBackup™ Release Notes
- About NetBackup 9.0
- New features, enhancements, and changes
- About new enhancements and changes in NetBackup
- NetBackup 9.0 new features, changes, and enhancements
- Preventing a rogue media server after the decommissioning of a media server
- HSTS is enabled for the web UI
- NDMP policy management in the NetBackup web UI
- Configure Samba users for SQL Server instant access and universal shares
- RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 9.0
- API keys support for SAML users
- Instance groups for Oracle and nboradm command to be deprecated in a future release
- RBAC enhancements
- Retention Periods with end dates beyond 2038
- New infinity value for NetBackup images affects OpsCenter custom SQL query building
- Deprecation of BigData policy to protect Nutanix AHV VMs
- About restore from a backup in Microsoft Azure Archive
- Take checkpoints every __ minutes attribute support for NAS-Data-Protection policy
- Accelerator disabled for NAS-Data-Protection policy
- NetBackup 9.0 support additions and changes
- Support for MongoDB 4.2
- Support for Azure Stack with managed disks
- Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
- Infinite expiration conversion
- Update cloud configuration file on the primary server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 9.0
- Cloud Catalyst now removed from NetBackup
- Support for Qumolo storage arrays
- Support for Dell EMC PowerScale (Isilon) storage arrays
- Restricted restore mode for VMware agentless restore
- VMware agentless support for Windows User Account Control (UAC)
- Veritas Smart Meter is now Veritas Usage Insights
- OpsCenter Agent and deduplication functionality removed from OpsCenter after the NetBackup 9.0
- Operational notes
- About NetBackup 9.0 operational notes
- NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
- After initiating CA migration, connection errors may occur
- If NetBackup 9.0 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
- Starting NetBackup services may generate a warning on Solaris platforms
- NetBackup Messaging Broker (mqbroker) not listed in services lists even if it is running
- Backup fails with the Status Code 2074 "Disk volume is down"
- Restore of the Root ("/") folder for NAS-Data-Protection policy fails
- 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
- Stale devices shown on the device tree
- Temporary devices listed as file system assets
- NetBackup administration interface operational notes
- Global NDMP credentials option is unavailable from the NetBackup web UI
- Differences exist between browsers in functionality of the NetBackup web UI
- Search limitations for security events lists in the NetBackup web UI
- Access control methods supported in NetBackup 9.0
- 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
- Snapshot jobs fail due to exceptions
- CloudPoint CFT upgrade
- Defunct processes continue on the CloudPoint host
- Deleted snapshots still visible in the NetBackup web UI
- Granular restore fails if target path is deleted and recreated
- 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
- 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 database and application agent operational notes
- NetBackup deduplication operational notes
- Backup jobs fail with "Storage server is down ..." for WORM storage servers in multi-domain environments
- Backup job fails after media server with MSDP on Solaris 10 is upgraded to NetBackup 9.0
- Configuring MSDP storage server on Solaris 10 fails
- The ampersand character (&) not allowed in NetBackup deduplication engine credentials
- NetBackup for NDMP operational notes
- NetBackup internationalization and localization 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
NetBackup 9.0 binary sizes
Table: NetBackup binary sizes for compatible platforms contains the approximate binary sizes of the NetBackup 9.0 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.
Table: NetBackup binary sizes for compatible platforms
OS | CPU Architecture | 32-bit client | 64-bit client | 64-bit server | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
AIX | POWER | 1776 MB | No longer supported | ||
Canonical Ubuntu | x86-64 | 1424 MB | |||
CentOS | x86-64 | 1428 MB | 6698 MB | ||
Debian GNU/Linux | x86-64 | 1424 MB | |||
HP-UX | IA-64 | 2260 MB | No longer supported | ||
Oracle Linux | x86-64 | 1429 MB | 6731 MB | ||
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server | POWER | 315 MB | |||
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server | x86-64 | 1429 MB | 6857 MB | ||
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server | z/Architecture | 969 MB | No longer supported | Media server or client compatibility only. | |
Solaris | SPARC | 1320 MB | 5749 MB | ||
Solaris | x86-64 | 1346 MB | 6108 MB | ||
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server | POWER | 314 MB | |||
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server | x86-64 | 1195 MB | 5982 MB | ||
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server | z/Architecture | 981 MB | No longer supported | Media server or client compatibility only. | |
Windows | x86-64 | 484 MB | 3008 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.
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 9.0.
Table: NetBackup OpsCenter binary sizes for compatible platforms
OS | CPU Architecture | Agent | Server | ViewBuilder |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Oracle Linux | x86-64 | 757 MB | ||
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server | x86-64 | 769 MB | ||
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server | x86-64 | 769 MB | ||
Windows Server | x86-64 | 263 MB | 701 MB | 263 MB |
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.