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NetBackup™ Release Notes
Last Published:
2022-02-03
Product(s):
NetBackup (9.1)
- About NetBackup 9.1
- New features, enhancements, and changes
- About new enhancements and changes in NetBackup
- NetBackup 9.1 new features, changes, and enhancements
- Changes in Veritas terminology
- Backup and restore of Kubernetes applications
- Backup anomaly detection in NetBackup
- Non-privileged user or service user account to run NetBackup services
- Support for AD user groups in the auth.conf file
- 2 FA support for the NetBackup Administration Console through SAML-based Identity Provider or CAC/PIV smart cards or user certificates
- NetBackup Client Direct deduplication is now supported with WORM
- Case insensitivity for client names in a NetBackup policy
- RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 9.1
- API keys enhancements
- BMR enhancements
- NetBackup support for vCloud Director 9.0, 9.1, and 9.5 has ended
- nbdeployutil renamed to NetBackup Deployment Insights
- About the NetBackup Smart Diagnosis (nbsmartdiag) utility
- EOL for support on RHEL 7.0 through 7.3
- EOL for CentOS 8 support
- NetBackup 9.1 support additions and changes
- Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
- Windows compiler and security requirements for NetBackup 9.1 and later installation and upgrade
- New RBAC default roles
- Changes to the RBAC permissions for jobs
- Update cloud configuration file on the primary server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 9.1
- EOL for CloudPoint version 2.x
- Automated asset protection with intelligent cloud groups
- Changes to Cloud protection policies
- CloudPoint extensions for scalable workflows
- New backup options for cloud workloads
- Backup from snapshot
- Parameterized restore
- Windows agentless support
- Support for Microsoft Azure Stack Hub
- Support for CloudPoint on an RHEL 8.3 Podman environment
- Support for CloudPoint on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)
- Continuous data protection (CDP) provides backup for VMware without stunning the VMs
- Combined deployment of NetBackup family products
- Cloud enhancements for administrators
- Instant rollback for VMs
- For VMware and RHV environments, reduce the size of the job database before upgrade
- Query options added for VMware intelligent policies
- Nutanix AHV enhancements
- Oracle Instance Management to be removed from NetBackup Administration Console
- NetBackup Oracle Intelligent Policy can be configured with options for Data Guard
- Oracle and DB2 policy templates are deprecated in the NetBackup 9.1 release
- NetBackup for Microsoft SQL Server agent enhancements
- New behavior for Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server intelligent policies
- Operational notes
- About NetBackup 9.1 operational notes
- NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
- After initiating CA migration, connection errors may occur
- If NetBackup 9.1 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
- Permissions necessary for redirected restores with non-root service user accounts
- NetBackup anomaly detection management service may not start after a full catalog restore
- Authorization check fails if you change the user after installation or upgrade in an NBAC-enabled setup
- Restore of the Root ("/") folder for NAS-Data-Protection policy fails
- Errors are shown in the jobs detail when NetBackup attempts to expire images from non-WORM capable storage
- Microsoft Azure backup fails if the resource group name contains a period (.)
- Stale devices shown on the device tree
- Temporary devices listed as file system assets
- NetBackup administration interface operational notes
- Access control methods supported in NetBackup 9.1
- Job actions not available for workload administrators with limited RBAC permissions on assets
- 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 Cloud operational notes
- NetBackup with Veritas CloudPoint operational notes
- Connection attempt fails for the VM that is in the unreachable or stopped state, and has the credentials associated with it
- Editing a query with special characters in tag names is not supported for the intelligent Cloud groups
- Starting or restarting the CloudPoint services may fail if a stale IP address entry is retained in the Podamn layer on RHEL 8.3 environment
- CloudPoint discovery status shows as failed in the NetBackup web UI
- New CloudPoint asset information may affect recovery
- After upgrade, assets are unsubscribed from protection plans with GRT option enabled
- Backup now option may fail with the error
- Adding new regions requires a new cloud plug-in configuration
- In backup and restore jobs, the number of files transferred is shown as 0
- VM disks not displayed due to discovery level
- Snapshot jobs fail due to exceptions
- 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
- 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 deduplication operational notes
- NetBackup for NDMP operational notes
- NetBackup for OpenStack operational notes
- Instance volumes in the incremental backups cannot be mounted
- NetBackup master server does not re-issue the token if NetBackup VM is a 3-node cluster
- NetBackup version is displayed as 'Netbackup_9001_beta1' instead of 'NetBackup-CentOS3.10.0 9.0' on the Web UI
- Success message appears along with the error message when you delete the policy that has snapshots
- Unable to connect to NetBackup master server using NBCA
- Excluded Ceph Volume after restore is not mountable or formattable
- Restored VMs have blank metadata config_drive attached
- NBOSVM reconfig fails when you add new NetBackup VM to the cluster
- Database does not sync after NetBackup cluster gets new nodes
- Data on boot disk gets backed up despite exclusion
- After reinitialization and import, OpenStack certificates are missing
- CLI import changes scheduler trust value to disabled
- Unable to get node details after you reinitialize the NetBackup Appliance
- Snapshots fails with "object is not subscriptable" for many policy jobs at the exact same time
- No operation is permitted in insecure way for SSL-enabled Keystone URL
- 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
Cloud enhancements for administrators
NetBackup 9.1 includes the following enhancements:
The NetBackup Web UI Administrator can grant RBAC permissions for:
Managing intelligent cloud groups
Managing CloudPoint extensions
The NetBackup Web UI Administrator can also assign assets at a cloud provider-level, allowing a custom role to manage the assets that are associated with a specific cloud provider.
You can manually trigger the cloud asset discovery if required, using the Discover option for individual cloud provider configurations.
For more information, see the following guides: