NetBackup™ Release Notes

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Product(s): NetBackup & Alta Data Protection (10.4.0.1)
  1. About NetBackup 10.4.0.1
    1.  
      About the NetBackup 10.4.0.1 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 10.4.0.1 new features, changes, and enhancements
      1.  
        Changes in Veritas terminology
      2.  
        NetBackup 10.4.0.1 support additions and changes
      3.  
        Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
      4.  
        Support for OpenStack Kolla Ansible Yoga release added to NetBackup for OpenStack 10.4.0.1
      5.  
        NetBackup for OpenStack 10.4.0.1 does not support upgrade from the previous release
  3. Operational notes
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      About NetBackup 10.4.0.1 operational notes
    2. NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
      1.  
        If NetBackup 10.4.0.1 upgrade fails on Windows, revert to previous log folder structure
      2.  
        Native installation requirements
      3.  
        NetBackup servers must use a host name that is compliant with RFC 1123 and RFC 952
      4.  
        About support for HP-UX Itanium vPars SRP containers
    3. NetBackup administration and general operational notes
      1.  
        For some workload environments, reduce the size of the job database before upgrade
      2.  
        Issues in exporting audit events when the External Credential Management System (ECMS) or Protection Plan audit category is selected
    4. NetBackup administration interface operational notes
      1.  
        Delay in NetBackup web UI when adding or removing columns in Catalog area
      2.  
        Intermittent issues with X forwarding of NetBackup Administration Console
      3.  
        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 Snapshot Manager (formerly NetBackup CloudPoint)
      1.  
        Verifying the storage array certificate
    6. NetBackup NAS operational notes
      1.  
        Parent directories in the path of a file may not be present in an NDMP incremental image
    7. NetBackup for OpenStack operational notes
      1.  
        NetBackup for OpenStack Datamover API (NBOSDMAPI) service times out in the haproxy connection
      2.  
        Instance volumes in the incremental backups cannot be mounted
      3.  
        Restored VMs have blank metadata config_drive attached
      4.  
        No operation is permitted in insecure way for SSL-enabled Keystone URL
      5.  
        NetBackup for OpenStack CentOS-based virtual machine is now replaced with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    8. 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
  4. Appendix A. About SORT for NetBackup Users
    1.  
      About Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools
  5. Appendix B. NetBackup installation requirements
    1.  
      About NetBackup installation requirements
    2.  
      Required operating system patches and updates for NetBackup
    3.  
      NetBackup 10.4.0.1 binary sizes
  6. Appendix C. NetBackup compatibility requirements
    1.  
      About compatibility between NetBackup versions
    2.  
      About NetBackup compatibility lists and information
    3.  
      About NetBackup end-of-life notifications
  7. Appendix D. Other NetBackup documentation and related documents
    1.  
      About related NetBackup documents

About Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools

Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools (SORT) is a robust set of standalone and web-based tools that support Veritas enterprise products. For NetBackup, SORT provides the ability to collect, analyze, and report on host configurations across UNIX/Linux or Windows environments. This data is invaluable when you want to assess if your systems are ready for an initial NetBackup installation or for an upgrade.

Access SORT from the following webpage:

https://sort.veritas.com/netbackup

Once you get to the SORT page, more information is available as follows:

  • Installation and Upgrade Checklist

    Use this tool to create a checklist to see if your system is ready for a NetBackup installation or an upgrade. This report contains all the software and the hardware compatibility information specific to the information provided. The report also includes product installation or upgrade instructions, as well as links to other references.

  • Hot fix and EEB Release Auditor

    Use this tool to find out whether a release that you plan to install contains the hot fixes that you need.

  • Custom Reports

    Use this tool to get recommendations for your system and Veritas enterprise products.

  • NetBackup Future Platform and Feature Plans

    Use this tool to get information about what items Veritas intends to replace with newer and improved functionality. The tool also provides insight about what items Veritas intends to discontinue without replacement. Some of these items include certain NetBackup features, functionality, 3rd-party product integration, Veritas product integration, applications, databases, and the OS platforms.

Help for the SORT tools is available. Click Help in the upper right corner of the SORT home page. You have the option to:

  • Page through the contents of the help similar to a book

  • Look for topics in the index

  • Search the help with the search option