Veritas NetBackup™ Release Notes

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Product(s): NetBackup (9.0.0.1)
  1. About NetBackup 9.0.0.1
    1.  
      About the NetBackup 9.0.0.1 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 9.0.0.1 new features, changes, and enhancements
      1.  
        Supercharged functionality for OpenStack workloads
      2.  
        NetBackup support for vCloud Director 9.0, 9.1, and 9.5 reaching EOL
      3.  
        Update cloud configuration file on the primary server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 9.0.0.1
  3. Operational notes
    1.  
      About NetBackup 9.0.0.1 operational notes
    2. NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
      1.  
        After initiating CA migration, connection errors may occur
      2.  
        If NetBackup 9.0.0.1 upgrade fails on Windows, revert to previous log folder structure
      3.  
        Native installation requirements
      4.  
        NetBackup servers must use a host name that is compliant with RFC 1123 and RFC 952
      5.  
        Do not install from the menu that appears when the installation DVD is inserted
      6.  
        About support for HP-UX Itanium vPars SRP containers
    3. NetBackup administration and general operational notes
      1.  
        Starting NetBackup services may generate a warning on Solaris platforms
      2.  
        NetBackup Messaging Broker (mqbroker) not listed in services lists even if it is running
      3.  
        Backup fails with the Status Code 2074 "Disk volume is down"
      4.  
        Restore of the Root ("/") folder for NAS-Data-Protection policy fails
      5.  
        Backups for workloads that use the BigData policy may fail
      6.  
        Child backup jobs may enter a queued state for workloads that use BigData policy
      7.  
        Errors are shown in the jobs detail when NetBackup attempts to expire images from non-WORM capable storage
      8.  
        NetBackup web server certificate renewal failure during initiation of NetBackup CA migration or upgrade
      9.  
        Microsoft Azure backup fails if the resource group name contains a period (.)
      10.  
        Stale devices shown on the device tree
      11.  
        Temporary devices listed as file system assets
    4. NetBackup administration interface operational notes
      1.  
        Search limitations for security events lists in the NetBackup web UI
      2.  
        Access control methods supported in NetBackup 9.0.0.1
      3.  
        Using X forwarding to launch the NetBackup Administration Console can fail on certain Linux platforms
      4.  
        Intermittent issues with X forwarding of NetBackup Administration Console
      5.  
        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 Bare Metal Restore operational notes
      1.  
        BMR restore may take significant amount of time for formatting and volume creation step
    6. NetBackup with Veritas CloudPoint operational notes
      1.  
        Snapshot jobs fail due to exceptions
      2.  
        Deleted snapshots still visible in the NetBackup web UI
      3.  
        Granular restore fails if target path is deleted and recreated
      4.  
        Public cloud not supported with gov cloud or China region
      5.  
        Indexing not supported on instances created from AWS Marketplaces AMIs
      6.  
        Consistent host snapshot might fail
      7.  
        Configuring AWS plug-in with IAM role showed that the Authentication Method field is blank
      8.  
        MongoDB create snapshot job may freeze
      9.  
        Updating a cloud plug-in while a job runs causes job failure
      10.  
        Permission denied error occurs if both user and password are updated
      11.  
        Different source and target zones for Google Cloud Platform are not supported
      12.  
        Broken files system detected
    7. NetBackup deduplication operational notes
      1.  
        Backup jobs fail with "Storage server is down ..." for WORM storage servers in multi-domain environments
      2.  
        Backup job fails after media server with MSDP on Solaris 10 is upgraded to NetBackup 9.0.0.1
      3.  
        Configuring MSDP storage server on Solaris 10 fails
      4.  
        The ampersand character (&) not allowed in NetBackup deduplication engine credentials
    8. NetBackup for NDMP operational notes
      1.  
        Parent directories in the path of a file may not be present in an NDMP incremental image
    9. NetBackup for OpenStack operational notes
      1.  
        Instance volumes in the incremental backups cannot be mounted
      2.  
        NetBackup master server does not re-issue the token if NetBackup for OpenStack VM is a 3-node cluster
      3.  
        NetBackup version is displayed as 'Netbackup_9001_beta1' instead of 'NetBackup-CentOS3.10.0 9.0' on the Web UI
      4.  
        Success message appears along with the error message when you delete the policy that has snapshots
      5.  
        Unable to connect to NetBackup master server using NBCA
      6.  
        Excluded Ceph Volume after restore is not mountable or formattable
      7.  
        Restored VMs have blank metadata config_drive attached
      8.  
        NBOSVM reconfig fails when you add new NetBackup for OpenStack VM to the cluster
      9.  
        Database does not sync after NetBackup for OpenStack cluster gets new nodes
      10.  
        Data on boot disk gets backed up despite exclusion
      11.  
        After reinitialization and import, OpenStack certificates are missing
      12.  
        CLI import changes scheduler trust value to disabled
      13.  
        Unable to get node details after you reinitialize the NetBackup for OpenStack Appliance
      14.  
        Snapshots fails with "object is not subscriptable" for many policy jobs at the exact same time
      15.  
        No operation is permitted in insecure way for SSL-enabled Keystone URL
    10. 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
    11. NetBackup Snapshot Client operational notes
      1.  
        HPE 3PAR array snapshot import fails with status code 4213
      2.  
        Snapshots are deleted after point-in-time rollbacks
      3.  
        Index from Snapshot operation does not populate contents of the snapshot accurately in the catalog
    12. NetBackup virtualization operational notes
      1. NetBackup for VMware operational notes
        1.  
          VMware protection plan creation can fail when automatic scheduling and WORM storage are used
        2.  
          Media servers cannot access the virtualization server, fails with status code 200
  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 9.0.0.1 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

NetBackup 9.0.0.1 binary sizes

Table: NetBackup binary sizes for compatible platforms contains the approximate binary sizes of the NetBackup 9.0.0.1 master server, media server, and client software for the various supported operating systems. These binary sizes indicate the amount of disk space occupied by the product after an initial installation. Note that for the sizes listed in the table, 1 MB equals 1024 KB.

Note:

As of NetBackup 8.3, the Java GUI and JRE packages are optional with most clients and media servers. The package sizes were calculated with the Java GUI and JRE included.

Note:

Table: NetBackup binary sizes for compatible platforms and Table: NetBackup OpsCenter binary sizes for compatible platforms only list the supported operating systems. For up-to-date information about the specific operating system versions that NetBackup currently supports, check the Installation and Upgrade Checklist on the Services and Operations Readiness Tools (SORT) website, or the NetBackup Operating System Compatibility List document at http://www.netbackup.com/compatibility.

Table: NetBackup binary sizes for compatible platforms

OS

CPU Architecture

32-bit client

64-bit client

64-bit server

Notes

AIX

POWER

 

1835 MB

No longer supported

 

Canonical Ubuntu

x86-64

 

1486 MB

  

CentOS

x86-64

 

1492 MB

7084 MB

 

Debian GNU/Linux

x86-64

 

1486 MB

  

HP-UX

IA-64

 

2313 MB

No longer supported

 

Oracle Linux

x86-64

 

1493 MB

7073 MB

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server

POWER

 

315 MB

  

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server

x86-64

 

1493 MB

6963 MB

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server

z/Architecture

 

1028 MB

No longer supported

Media server or client compatibility only.

Solaris

SPARC

 

1381 MB

5937 MB

 

Solaris

x86-64

 

1406 MB

6295 MB

 

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

POWER

 

314 MB

  

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

x86-64

 

1255 MB

6287 MB

 

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

z/Architecture

 

1039 MB

No longer supported

Media server or client compatibility only.

Windows

x86-64

 

482 MB

3122 MB

Covers all compatible Windows x64 platforms.

The following space requirements also apply to some NetBackup installations on Windows:

  • If you install NetBackup in a custom location on a Windows system, some portions of the software are installed on the system drive regardless of the primary application folder location. The space that is required on the system drive generally accounts for 40 to 50 percent of the total binary size that is listed in Table: NetBackup binary sizes for compatible platforms.

  • If you install NetBackup server on a Windows cluster, some portions of the software are installed on the cluster shared disk. Note, the space that is required on the cluster shared disk is in addition to the binary size that is listed in Table: NetBackup binary sizes for compatible platforms. The additional required space is equivalent to 15 to 20 percent of the total binary size.

NetBackup OpsCenter

Table: NetBackup OpsCenter binary sizes for compatible platforms contains the approximate binary sizes of the OpsCenter Agent, Server, and ViewBuilder for the various operating systems that are compatible with NetBackup OpsCenter 9.0.0.1.

Table: NetBackup OpsCenter binary sizes for compatible platforms

OS

CPU Architecture

Agent

Server

ViewBuilder

Oracle Linux

x86-64

 

748 MB

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server

x86-64

 

750 MB

 

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

x86-64

 

763 MB

 

Windows Server

x86-64

No longer supported as of NetBackup 9.0.0.1

688 MB

231 MB

NetBackup plug-ins

Disk space requirements for the NetBackup vCenter Web Client Plug-in and the NetBackup System Center Virtual Machine Manager Add-in can be found in the NetBackup Plug-in for VMware vSphere Web Client Guide and the NetBackup Add-in for Microsoft SCVMM Console Guide, respectively.