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
RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 9.0
NetBackup 9.0 includes both updated and new RESTful application programming interfaces (APIs). These APIs provide a web-service-based interface that lets you configure and administer NetBackup in your environments.
You can find documentation for the NetBackup APIs in these locations:
On your master server
APIs are stored in YAML files on the master server:
https://<master_server>/api-docs/index.htmlThe APIs are documented in Swagger format. This format lets you review the code and test the functionality by making actual calls with the APIs. You must have the appropriate security permissions to access the master server and APIs to use the Swagger APIs.
Caution:
Veritas recommends that you test APIs only in a development environment. Because you can make actual API calls from the Swagger files, you should not test the APIs in a production environment.
On SORT
NetBackup API documentation is also available on SORT:
HOME > KNOWLEDGE BASE > Documents > Product Version > 9.0
Look under . A Getting Started document provides background information about using NetBackup APIs. The API YAML files are also available for reference, however, they are not functional. You cannot test the APIs from the documents on SORT.
NetBackup 9.0 includes these new and enhanced APIs:
Access Control: Lists roles for a principal, list effect ACLs for a managed object.
Diagnostics: Provides diagnostic information about the NetBackup Web Management Console.
External CA Certificates: Manage external CA certificates for smart card authentication.
Passphrase Constraints: Provides ability to configure passphrase constraints per workflow.
Recovery: Pre-recovery check for full VM restores with VMware.
See the New APIs topic in the What's New in NetBackup 9.0 section of the NetBackup 9.0 API Reference on SORT for more information.
The following APIs have been versioned in NetBackup 9.0. The previous version of these APIs is still supported if you specify the correct version.
Images:
GET Images /catalog/images and GET Image By Backup ID /catalog/images/{backupId} have renamed and changed data types for several fields.
RecoveryPoints:
GET RecoveryPoints /recovery-point-service/workloads/{workload}/recovery-points and GET RecoveryPoint By RecoveryPoint ID /recovery-point-service/workloads/{workload}/recovery-points/{recoveryPointId} have renamed and changed data types for several fields.
Configuration:
GET Configuration /security/properties is modified. The existing response fields in version 4.0 do not change, but the values may differ depending on whether authentication token is passed with the request or not.
See the Versioned APIs topic in the What's New in NetBackup 9.0 section of the NetBackup 9.0 API Reference on SORT for more information.
Note:
See the NetBackup 9.0 API Reference on SORT for more information. Make sure to review the Versioning topic and the What's New topic in the Getting Started section.