NetBackup™ Release Notes

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Product(s): NetBackup (10.2)
  1. About NetBackup 10.2
    1.  
      About the NetBackup 10.2 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 10.2 new features, changes, and enhancements
      1.  
        Changes in Veritas terminology
      2.  
        Improvements to the NetBackup web UI
      3.  
        New EEB management view
      4.  
        Configuring Veritas Alta Recovery Vault Azure and Azure Government
      5.  
        RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 10.2
      6.  
        NetBackup 10.2 support additions and changes
      7.  
        Bare Metal Restore (BMR) operating system support additions
      8.  
        End of support for older authorization models
      9.  
        Accurate licensing support
      10.  
        Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
      11.  
        New NetBackup Scale-Out Relational Database in NetBackup 10.2
      12.  
        Prerequisites for upgrading to NetBackup 10.2
      13.  
        Linux environments require a new non-root database user when the root user starts NetBackup daemons
      14.  
        New connection pooler on port 13787
      15.  
        Update cloud configuration file on the primary server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 10.2
      16.  
        Web UI support for single-file recovery from a VMware guest VM backup using a stored credential (access to username or password is not required)
      17.  
        Default VMware Administrator role has new credential permissions
      18.  
        Support for Oracle Copilot with multiple universal shares
      19.  
        Using Azure recovery points with Snapshot Manager
      20.  
        Single file restore from a backup of snapshot
      21.  
        Elastic media server provides autoscaling of replicas
      22.  
        Documentation changes
  3. Operational notes
    1.  
      About NetBackup 10.2 operational notes
    2. NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
      1.  
        If NetBackup 10.2 upgrade fails on Windows, revert to previous log folder structure
      2.  
        Information for NetBackup native installs and upgrades is incorrect in the installation and upgrade guides
      3.  
        Native installation requirements
      4.  
        NetBackup servers must use a host name that is compliant with RFC 1123 and RFC 952
      5.  
        About support for HP-UX Itanium vPars SRP containers
    3. NetBackup administration and general operational notes
      1.  
        Changes to database commands
      2.  
        After PIT restore, "The host ID does not exist" error appears
      3.  
        After DR, jobs using Veritas Alta Recovery Vault volumes may fail
      4.  
        Multiple postgres processes on Linux NetBackup servers
      5.  
        For some workload environments, reduce the size of the job database before upgrade
    4. NetBackup administration interface operational notes
      1.  
        Delay in NetBackup web UI when adding or removing columns in Catalog area
      2.  
        Job actions not available for workload administrators with limited RBAC permissions on assets
      3.  
        Intermittent issues with X forwarding of NetBackup Administration Console
      4.  
        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.  
        After PIT restore, "The host ID does not exist" error appears
      2.  
        NetBackup services may not start automatically after BMR restore on a Linux client
      3.  
        BMR direct P2V VM conversion task fails with status code 7
    6. NetBackup Snapshot Manager (formerly NetBackup CloudPoint)
      1.  
        Backups from snapshot jobs for NAS data protection policy fail with error 927
    7. NetBackup for NDMP operational notes
      1.  
        Parent directories in the path of a file may not be present in an NDMP incremental image
    8. NetBackup for OpenStack operational notes
      1.  
        CentOS repository mirror URL is updated
      2.  
        NetBackup for OpenStack Datamover API (NBOSDMAPI) service times out in the haproxy connection
      3.  
        Instance volumes in the incremental backups cannot be mounted
      4.  
        NetBackup primary server does not re-issue the token if NetBackup VM is a 3-node cluster
      5.  
        Success message appears along with the error message when you delete the policy that has snapshots
      6.  
        Unable to connect to NetBackup primary server using NBCA
      7.  
        Excluded Ceph Volume after restore is not mountable or formattable
      8.  
        Restored VMs have blank metadata config_drive attached
      9.  
        NBOSVM reconfig fails when you add new NetBackup VM to the cluster
      10.  
        Database does not sync after NetBackup cluster gets new nodes
      11.  
        Data on boot disk gets backed up despite exclusion
      12.  
        After reinitialization and import, OpenStack certificates are missing
      13.  
        CLI import changes scheduler trust value to disabled
      14.  
        Unable to get node details after you reinitialize the NetBackup Appliance
      15.  
        Snapshots fails with "object is not subscriptable" for many policy jobs at the exact same time
      16.  
        No operation is permitted in insecure way for SSL-enabled Keystone URL
    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
  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 10.2 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

After PIT restore, "The host ID does not exist" error appears

After a point in time (PIT) restore operation (which may include either a Full File System restore or a BMR restore), the error message The host ID does not exist appears.

In this scenario, a full backup is taken when a SERVICE_USER as root/administrator account is configured. This account takes the backup of the NetBackup installed binaries with root/administrator ownership. Before a restore, SERVICE_USER is configured with an account other than root/administrator, and then an incremental backup is taken where the service user is backed up as part of bp.conf. In a PIT restore operation with the incremental backup, the SERVICE_USER entry gets restored. However, the binaries are restored in the root account ownership.

Workaround:

After changing the service user, you must take a full backup, whether it is a MS-Windows\Standard Policy for File System or BMR policy configuration.