NetBackup™ Installation Guide
- Preparing for installation
- General installation information
- Available NetBackup installation methods
- About compatibility between NetBackup versions
- About NetBackup software availability
- Required libraries missing from some Linux distributions
- How to install NetBackup
- Creating the user account to support the NetBackup web server
- About storage device configuration
- About security certificates for NetBackup hosts
- Environment variable for certificate key size
- Restrictions on the NetBackup installation directory
- NetBackup database is not supported on the btrfs file system
- Installation operational notes and limitations
- Windows compiler and security requirements for NetBackup 10.4 and later installation
- Java GUI and JRE installation optional for some computers
- Enable 8dot3 name file setting for the NetBackup primary servers
- NetBackup servers must use a host name that is compliant with RFC 1123 and RFC 952
- Host ID-based certificate is not deployed during installation on 8.1 media server or client host with dual stack configuration
- External certificate authority certificates supported in NetBackup 8.2 and later
- SCCM and Chef deployment tools and documentation now available
- Known SUSE Linux primary server install issue
- Performance and tuning considerations
- SORT information
- Veritas NetInsights Console information
- General installation information
- NetBackup licenses
- Installing server software on UNIX systems
- Installation requirements for UNIX and Linux
- Do not mix non-English versions of Windows and UNIX platforms unless primary and media servers are NetBackup appliances
- NetBackup installations on environments that run different versions of UNIX-based operating systems
- Special installation guidelines for Solaris systems
- Special installation guidelines for Linux clustered environments
- How the installation script works
- Installing NetBackup primary server software on Linux
- Installing NetBackup media server software on Linux
- About pushing client software from a primary server to clients
- Installation requirements for UNIX and Linux
- Installing server software on Windows systems
- Installation requirements for Windows and Windows clusters
- Requirements for Windows cluster installations
- Performing local, remote, or clustered server installation on Windows systems
- Post-installation tasks for NetBackup cluster environments
- Verifying Windows cluster installations or upgrades
- Installing NetBackup servers silently on Windows systems
- About the administrative interfaces
- About the NetBackup web user interface
- About the NetBackup Administration Console
- Installing the NetBackup Administration Console
- Installing multiple versions of the NetBackup Administration Console on Windows
- Removing earlier versions of the NetBackup Administration Console on Windows
- About the NetBackup Remote Administration Console
- Installing the NetBackup Remote Administration Console
- Installing NetBackup client software
- About NetBackup client installation
- About NetBackup client installation on Windows
- About NetBackup client installation on UNIX and Linux
- Configuring NetBackup
- Removing NetBackup server and client software
- About NetBackup server software removal on Linux systems
- About NetBackup client software removal on UNIX and Linux systems
- Removing NetBackup from UNIX and Linux servers and clients
- About NetBackup server software removal on Windows systems
- Removing NetBackup server and client software from Windows servers, clusters, and clients
- About removal of the Java Console state data from Windows servers and Windows clients
- Removing a clustered media server by migrating all data to a new media server
- Reference
- Generate a certificate on the inactive nodes of a clustered primary server
- NetBackup database user
- About the NetBackup answer file
- About the NetBackup IT Analytics Data Collector
- Manually install or uninstall NetBackup IT Analytics Data Collector binaries
- Manually configure the NetBackup IT Analytics Data Collector
- Persistent Java Virtual Machine options
- About RBAC bootstrapping
- NetBackup primary server web server user and group creation
- About the NetBackup Java Runtime Environment
- Add or Remove Java GUI and JRE after install
- Using NetApp disk arrays with Replication Director
- Security updates to the NetBackup database
- Size guidance for the NetBackup primary server and domain
Windows compiler and security requirements for NetBackup 10.4 and later installation
NetBackup 10.4 and later for Windows uses the Visual Studio 2022 compiler and the Windows 11 Software Development Kit (SDK). To run NetBackup 10.4, Windows computers require Visual C++ run-time libraries version 14.36.32532 or later. Microsoft makes available the redistributable utilities that install these libraries. More information on these redistributable utilities is available.
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads
These utilities from Microsoft can alter Windows hosts such that a restart is required. The restart requirement can occur if the Visual C++ run-time libraries are in use by one or more processes on the system. Before you install NetBackup 10.4 or later, Veritas recommends that you install Visual Studio 2022 C++ run-time libraries on Windows computers. The installation of these libraries should take place within a maintenance window where you can safely restart the computer.
On Windows computers that do not have compatible Visual C++ run-time libraries present, the NetBackup installation process may offer to do it for you. You are required to acknowledge the risks and opt-in. More information about the risks and the opt-in process is available.
https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/article.100062924
The redistributable utilities can fail or behave unexpectedly on hosts without all security updates in place. If a Windows host is not current with security updates, the following behaviors can occur:
NetBackup's installation process fails shortly after start with a message about inability to deploy Visual Studio 2022 C++ run-time libraries.
The nbcertcmdtool application fails unexpectedly when run by the NetBackup installation or upgrade process. This failure is difficult to distinguish from nbcertcmdtool failures that result from invalid or insufficient security configuration.
MSDP applications fail unexpectedly near the conclusion of the NetBackup installation or upgrade process.