Veritas NetBackup™ Release Notes
- 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
NetBackup 8.2 support additions and changes
Note:
This information is subject to change. See the NetBackup Master Compatibility Lists for the most recent product and services support additions and changes.
The following products and services are supported starting with NetBackup 8.2:
Platforms
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 (Power) - client
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 (x86-64) - master server, client
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 (POWER) - client
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 (x86-64) - master server, media server, client
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 (z/Architecture) - media server, client
Windows Server 2019 (x86-64) - master server, media server
Virtualization
Nutanix support
AOS version 5.10
VMware support
vCloud Director 9.1, 9.5 New features, enhancements, and changes 18 NetBackup 8.2 new features, changes, and enhancements
VDDK 6.7 U2
Guest OS support for Hyper-V on Windows Server 2016
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
Databases
Apache Hadoop HDFS 3.x
Microsoft Exchange Server 2019
Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 CU1
Oracle Database 18.4 (18c)
Guest OS support for Hyper-V on Windows Server 2016
BMR support
BMR client and BMR boot server
Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.10 (x86-64)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 (x86-64)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 (x86-64)
Solaris 11.2 (SPARC)
Solaris 11.3 (SPARC)
Windows Server 2019
BMR server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 (x86-64)
Windows Server 2019
This release of NetBackup includes these Cloud provider changes and enhancements:
Support for the following cloud providers is discontinued with NetBackup 8.2. However, NetBackup OpsCenter reports job data for these providers for the media servers that use an older version.
AT&T
Rackspace
Atmos
The following Amazon S3 cloud providers are supported:
Kingsoft Standard Storage Service
Veritas Cognitive Object Storage
Support is added for the following Amazon S3 regions:
Amazon EU (Paris) and CN: Ningxia
Amazon GovCloud US-East region
Support is added for the Amazon AWS IAM Roles for stream-based backup operations.
Support is added for Azure Germany region.
Backing up data to the Microsoft Azure Archive tier is supported.
Support is added for Glacier Deep Archive storage class for Amazon and AmazonGov.
For backups to Glacier, the zero the lifecycle policy is changed to direct uploads.
NetBackup CloudCatalyst now supports Amazon S3 Glacier.
For more information about cloud vendor support, see the NetBackup Cloud Administrator's Guide .