Veritas NetBackup™ Release Notes

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Product(s): NetBackup (8.1.2)
  1. About NetBackup 8.1.2
    1.  
      About the NetBackup 8.1.2 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 8.1.2 new features, changes, and enhancements
      1.  
        NetBackup 8.1.2 introduces a new web user interface
      2.  
        Veritas Smart Meter helps you manage deployment more efficiently
      3.  
        RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 8.1.2
      4.  
        Veritas offers the NetBackup Parallel Streaming Framework SDK
      5.  
        About secure communications in MSDP for Auto Image Replication
      6.  
        NetBackup 8.1.2 support additions and changes
      7.  
        VxUpdate replaces LiveUpdate
      8.  
        NetBackup no longer supports HP-UX and AIX platforms for master and media servers
      9.  
        Newer Red Hat Linux compilers used with NetBackup 8.1.2
      10.  
        Linux device persistent binding changes
      11.  
        BMR introduces secure communication support on AIX and HP-UX
      12.  
        Supported NetBackup BMR configurations based on operating system and patch release
      13.  
        Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
      14.  
        Update cloud configuration file on the master server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 8.1.2
      15.  
        Support added for Amazon GLACIER_VAULT storage class
      16.  
        Auditing enhancements
      17.  
        NetBackup integration with Vnomic
      18.  
        NetBackup's BigData policy now protects Microsoft Azure Stack and HBase workloads
  3. Operational notes
    1.  
      About NetBackup 8.1.2 operational notes
    2. NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
      1.  
        Do not install from the menu that appears when the installation DVD is inserted
      2.  
        About support for HP-UX Itanium vPars SRP containers
    3. NetBackup administration and general operational notes
      1.  
        The net start command does not start the NetBackup Web Management Console service
      2.  
        NetBackup limitations when using IPv6 address as client name or image name
    4. NetBackup administration interface operational notes
      1.  
        Access control methods supported in NetBackup 8.1.2
      2.  
        NetBackup Administration Console does not show a failure message for incorrect CloudPoint plug-in credentials
      3.  
        "Operation timed out" message appears when policies are accessed from the Remote Administration Console
      4.  
        Using X forwarding to launch the NetBackup Administration Console can fail on certain Linux platforms
      5.  
        Intermittent issues with X forwarding of NetBackup Administration Console
      6.  
        Reduced functionality during the initialization of the NetBackup Administration Console
      7.  
        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
    5. NetBackup API operational notes
      1.  
        If a restarted backup or snapshot job fails, the job initiator ID no longer appears in the NetBackup Jobs API response
      2.  
        GET Policy API response may return an incorrect ScheduleType for policy schedules
    6. NetBackup Bare Metal Restore operational notes
      1.  
        Media restores of Solaris x86 11.2 or later clients may prompt for maintenance mode user name and password
    7. NetBackup with Veritas CloudPoint operational notes
      1.  
        Image clean-up may fail for Microsoft Azure workloads
    8. NetBackup database and application agent operational notes
      1. NetBackup for SharePoint operational notes
        1.  
          GRT backup fails for SharePoint if the SharePoint database object path exceeds the Windows maximum path limit
    9. 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
    10. NetBackup for NDMP operational notes
      1.  
        Parent directories in the path of a file may not be present in an NDMP incremental image
    11. NetBackup SAN Client and Fibre Transport operational notes
      1.  
        Unable to stop the nbftclnt process on the NetBackup client
    12. NetBackup Snapshot Client operational notes
      1.  
        CloudPoint plug-in configuration fails with Status 109
    13. NetBackup virtualization operational notes
      1. NetBackup for VMware operational notes
        1.  
          The NetBackup web UI cannot restore a VM from a replicated backup image
        2.  
          The NetBackup web UI does not validate VMware server entries
        3.  
          NetBackup cannot use the nbd or nbdssl transport mode to connect directly to VMware IPv6 ESXi servers
        4.  
          VMware block-level incremental backups expire when the previous full backup expires
        5.  
          A VM restore to a vCenter fails when NetBackup has credentials for a restore ESX server
        6.  
          Virtual machine alert notification may be incorrect for the VMware policies with specific Replication Director options
  4. Appendix A. About SORT for NetBackup Users
    1.  
      About Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools
    2.  
      Recommended SORT procedures for new installations
    3.  
      Recommended SORT procedures for upgrades
  5. Appendix B. NetBackup installation requirements
    1.  
      About NetBackup installation requirements
    2.  
      Required operating system patches and updates for NetBackup
    3.  
      NetBackup 8.1.2 binary sizes
  6. Appendix C. NetBackup compatibility requirements
    1.  
      About NetBackup compatibility lists and information
    2. About NetBackup end-of-life notifications
      1.  
        End-of-life for NetBackup supported cloud connectors
      2.  
        Scheduled deprecation of the update_clients script
  7. Appendix D. Other NetBackup documentation and related documents
    1.  
      About related NetBackup documents
    2.  
      About NetBackup release notes documents
    3. About NetBackup administration documents
      1.  
        About administration of NetBackup options
      2.  
        About administration of NetBackup database agents
    4.  
      About NetBackup installation documents
    5.  
      About NetBackup configuration documents
    6.  
      About NetBackup troubleshooting documents
    7.  
      About other NetBackup documents

RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 8.1.2

NetBackup 8.1.2 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.

The NetBackup APIs are built on the Representational State Transfer (REST) architecture, which is the most widely used style for building APIs. They use the HTTP protocol to communicate with NetBackup. The NetBackup APIs are therefore easy to use in cloud-based applications, as well as across multiple platforms and programming languages. The APIs use JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) as the message format for request and response messages. They employ client-server communication in the form of HTTP requests and responses. The API client (that is, your program) uses the HTTP protocol to make an API request to the NetBackup server. The NetBackup server processes the request. The server responds to the client with an appropriate HTTP status code indicating either success or failure. The client then extracts the required information from the server's response.

Note:

The NetBackup APIs are not supported on environments where NetBackup Access Control (NBAC) is enabled.

NetBackup 8.1.2 includes the following APIs:

  • NetBackup Authentication API

    Provides authentication by means of a JSON Web Token (JWT) that is used when making the API requests. The JWT is acquired by executing a login API request and can be invalidated by executing a logout API request.

  • NetBackup Administration API

    Provides access to administrative operations in NetBackup. The APIs can get job details for a specific job or get a list of jobs based on filter criteria; restart or resume a job; suspend, cancel; or delete a job; get a job's file list; and get the job logs.

  • NetBackup Asset API (new)

    Provides access to NetBackup asset information.

  • NetBackup Catalog API

    Provides access to the NetBackup catalog to get details about backup images. The APIs can list backup images based on filters or get details for a specific backup image ID.

  • NetBackup Configuration API

    Provides configuration and management controls for NetBackup hosts, NetBackup policies, WebSocket servers, and VM server credentials.

  • NetBackup Licensing API (new)

    Provides details of FEDS consumption. The Front-end Terabytes (FETBs) consumption is provided for a single master server or for multiple trusted master servers. Details include consumption by policy type and the trend of capacity consumption.

  • NetBackup Manage API (new)

    Provides access to the alerting operations. It can generate alerts, fetch alert details, and send alert notifications. The APIs also provide a facility to exclude the status codes for which you do not want to send alert notifications.

  • NetBackup Recovery API

    Provides the ability to perform a recovery from previous backups.

  • NetBackup Role-based Access Control Administration API (new)

    Provides access to NetBackup role-based access control (RBAC) configuration.

  • NetBackup Security API

    Provides access to the security resources of NetBackup. The APIs manage authorization tokens, host ID-based certificates, security configuration options, and auditing.

  • NetBackup Storage API (new)

    Provides access to the backup storage of the NetBackup master servers.

See the NetBackup API Reference documentation on SORT for more information. This HTML document is a reference tool that describes each API and its options.

Note:

Make sure to read the Getting Started section of the document.

To locate the NetBackup 8.1.2 API Reference on SORT

  1. From the SORT Home page, select KNOWLEDGE BASE > Documents.
  2. From the categories under Show documents for, select the following values:

    • Product: NetBackup

    • Platform: Windows and UNIX

    • Document categories: All

    • Document languages: ALL

  3. Find NetBackup 8.1.2 in the list of NetBackup product versions and select Product guides.
  4. Select NetBackup 8.1.2 API Reference.
Versioned APIs

The following APIs that have been versioned in NetBackup 8.1.2. The previous version of these APIs is still supported if you specify the correct version.

  • GET /config/policies/{policyName}

  • PUT /config/policies/{policyName}/schedules/{scheduleName}

  • GET /config/servers/vmservers

  • GET /security/cacert

Note:

See the NetBackup 8.1.2 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.