Veritas NetBackup™ Release Notes
- About NetBackup 8.1.1
- New features, enhancements, and changes
- About new enhancements and changes in NetBackup
- NetBackup 8.1.1 new features, changes, and enhancements
- New RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 8.1.1
- Integrated snapshot framework between NetBackup and CloudPoint
- Bare Metal Restore with secure communications support
- NetBackup 8.1.1 support additions and changes
- End-of-life for multiple NetBackup products, features, and platforms
- Support has ended for vSphere 5.1
- NetBackup support utility (nbsu) has been updated
- Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
- IPv6 support information for NetBackup 8.1.1
- Update cloud configuration file on the master server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 8.1.1
- NetBackup supports backups to Amazon Glacier storage class
- NetBackup supports backups using cloud tiering
- Support for bpstart_notify and bpend_notify scripts using Oracle Intelligent Policy (OIP)
- NetBackup Bare Metal Restore functionality is supported for restoring NetBackup 8.1.1 clients
- MSDP updates in NetBackup 8.1.1
- NetBackup install now includes Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor and Hadoop plug-ins
- Dependency to select the Enterprise Vault version to configure policy directives is removed
- Operational notes
- About NetBackup 8.1.1 operational notes
- NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
- Do not install from the menu that appears when the installation DVD is inserted
- About support for HP-UX Itanium vPars SRP containers
- Web service connection between NetBackup 8.1.1 IPv6-only master server and 8.1 dual stack host is not established during installation
- A Java error can occur on AIX 7.1
- Installation fails for clients with pure IPV6 enabled on HP-UX 11.31 IA64
- NetBackup administration and general operational notes
- NetBackup administration interface operational notes
- "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 may encounter a core dump issue when the Simplified Chinese UTF-8 locale is used on a Solaris SPARC 64-bit system with Solaris 10 Update 2 or later
- NetBackup Accelerator operational notes
- NetBackup Bare Metal Restore operational notes
- SRT creation may fail using NetBackup 8.1 or 8.1.1 as the BMR boot server on AIX and HP-UX platforms with NetBackup 8.0 and earlier clients
- Allow Auto Reissue Certificate option may remain enabled for a client after a BMR operation is cleaned up by the user
- Discovery task may remain in Finalizing state after client PTD task completes successfully
- BMR restore task may remain in Finalizing state after the client is restored successfully
- NetBackup database and application agent operational notes
- NetBackup internationalization and localization operational notes
- NetBackup for NDMP operational notes
- NetBackup Snapshot Client operational notes
- NetBackup virtualization operational notes
- NetBackup for VMware operational notes
- The NetBackup web UI cannot restore a VM from a replicated backup image
- The NetBackup web UI does not validate VMware server entries
- NetBackup cannot use the nbd or nbdssl transport mode to connect directly to VMware IPv6 ESXi servers
- The NetBackup plug-in for vSphere Web Client cannot start a VM recovery by right-clicking on a successful backup event
- Using the NetBackup appliance to install the NetBackup plug-in for VMware vSphere Web Client
- VMware block-level incremental backups expire when the previous full backup expires
- A VM restore to a vCenter fails when NetBackup has credentials for a restore ESX server
- NetBackup for VMware 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
About administration of NetBackup database agents
The following administrator guides for NetBackup database agents are published for NetBackup software:
NetBackup for DB2 Administrator's Guide
This guide explains how to install, configure, and use the NetBackup for DB2 database agent.
NetBackup for Enterprise Vault Agent Administrator's Guide
This guide explains how to install, configure, and use the NetBackup for Enterprise Vault agent to protect Veritas Enterprise Vault configuration information and archived data.
NetBackup for Informix Administrator's Guide
This guide explains how to install, configure, and use the NetBackup for Informix agent to back up and restore the Informix databases that are on a UNIX NetBackup client.
NetBackup for Lotus Notes Administrator's Guide
This guide explains how to configure and use the NetBackup for Lotus Notes agent to back up and restore Lotus Notes databases and transaction logs on NetBackup clients.
NetBackup for MariaDB Administrator's Guide
This guide describes how to install, configure, and manage the NetBackup for MariaDB agent.
NetBackup for Microsoft Exchange Server Administrator's Guide
This guide explains how to configure and use the NetBackup for Exchange Server agent to perform online backups and restores of Microsoft Exchange Server.
NetBackup for Microsoft SharePoint Server Administrator's Guide
This guide explains how to configure and use the NetBackup for SharePoint Server agent to back up and restore the SharePoint databases that are on a Windows NetBackup client.
NetBackup for Microsoft SQL Server Administrator's Guide
This guide explains how to configure and use the NetBackup for Microsoft SQL Server agent to back up and restore Microsoft SQL Server databases and transaction logs.
NetBackup for Oracle Administrator's Guide
This guide explains how to configure and use the NetBackup for Oracle agent to back up and restore the Oracle databases that are on a NetBackup client.
NetBackup for PostgreSQL Administrator's Guide
This guide describes how to install, configure, and manage the NetBackup for PostgreSQL agent.
NetBackup for SAP Administrator's Guide
This guide explains how to configure and use the NetBackup for SAP agent to back up and restore SAP and SAP HANA databases that are on a NetBackup client.
NetBackup for SQLite Administrator's Guide
This guide describes how to install, configure, and manage the NetBackup for SQLite agent.
NetBackup for Sybase Administrator's Guide
This guide explains how to configure and use the NetBackup for Sybase agent to back up and restore Sybase databases that are on a NetBackup client.