NetBackup™ Release Notes
- About NetBackup 10.3
- New features, enhancements, and changes
- About new enhancements and changes in NetBackup
- NetBackup 10.3 new features, changes, and enhancements
- Changes in Veritas terminology
- RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 10.3
- Introducing universal share accelerator
- Restore logs in the NetBackup web UI and location of restore logs
- Restore types added to NetBackup web UI for MS-Windows, Standard, and VMware policy types
- Recovery for additional policy types added to the NetBackup web UI
- NetBackup web UI new policy features
- Enhancements in system anomaly detection
- Entropy computation in NetBackup
- About multi-person authorization
- About multi-factor authentication
- Certificate-based transport layer security (TLS) authentication
- NetBackup 10.3 support additions and changes
- Support for AWS Snowball Edge
- End of life (EOL) for the Enhanced Auditing feature in NetBackup
- End of life (EOL) for the NetBackup Access Control (NBAC) authorization model in NetBackup
- Protecting assets with Snapshot Manager's agentless restore feature will require Microsoft Windows Server 2019 or later
- NetBackup for OpenStack support for CentOS has ended
- Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
- License file required for upgrade
- Upgrades to NetBackup 10.3 may take a long time
- Before upgrade, default credentials category is NONE
- Data-in-transit encryption (DTE) mode is set to 'Preferred On' by default
- Update cloud configuration file on the primary server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 10.3
- Additional permissions added for new features
- Integrate MSDP Cloud credentials into NetBackup generic Credential Management System
- MSDP Cloud is now supported on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
- Cloud Catalyst to MSDP Cloud migration is not supported on 10.3 MSDP servers
- New features for NetBackup for Microsoft SQL Server
- New features for NetBackup for Oracle
- Upgrading to Snapshot Manager for Data Center 10.3 for Qumulo plug-in users
- New D-NAS features
- Operational notes
- About NetBackup 10.3 operational notes
- NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
- NetBackup administration and general operational notes
- NetBackup administration interface operational notes
- NetBackup Bare Metal Restore operational notes
- NetBackup Cloud Object Store Workload operational notes
- NetBackup Snapshot Manager (formerly NetBackup CloudPoint)
- NetBackup NAS operational notes
- NetBackup for OpenStack operational notes
- CentOS repository mirror URL is updated
- NetBackup for OpenStack Datamover API (NBOSDMAPI) service times out in the haproxy connection
- Instance volumes in the incremental backups cannot be mounted
- NetBackup primary server does not re-issue the token if NetBackup VM is a 3-node cluster
- Success message appears along with the error message when you delete the policy that has snapshots
- Unable to connect to NetBackup primary 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
- 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 NetBackup installation requirements
This release of NetBackup may contain changes to the minimum system requirements and procedures that are required for installation. These changes affect the minimum system requirements for both Windows and UNIX platforms. Much of the installation instructional information in the NetBackup Release Notes is provided for convenience. Detailed installation instructions are found in the NetBackup Installation Guide and the NetBackup Upgrade Guide.
See NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes.
Before you upgrade the NetBackup server software, you must back up your NetBackup catalogs and verify that the catalog backup was successful.
Before upgrading to NetBackup 10.3, you must ensure that you have the free disk space that is twice the size of the NetBackup relational database. That means for default installations of the primary server, you are required to have that amount of free space on the file system containing the
/usr/openv/db/data(UNIX) or<install_path>\Veritas\NetBackupDB\data(Windows) directories. If you have changed the location of some of the files in either of these directories, free space is required in those locations equal to or greater than the size of the files in those locations. Refer to the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I for more information about storing NBDB database files in alternate locations.Note:
This free disk space requirement assumes that you have already performed the best practice of completing a successful catalog backup before you begin the upgrade.
Primary and media servers must have a minimum soft limit of 8000 file descriptors per process for NetBackup to run correctly.
For more information about the effects of an insufficient number of file descriptors, refer to the following articles on the Veritas Support website:
NetBackup primary and media servers exchange server version information at startup, and every 24 hours. This exchange occurs automatically. During startup after an upgrade, the upgraded media server uses the vmd service to push its version information to all of the servers that are listed in its server list.
Veritas recommends that you have the primary server services up and available during a media server upgrade.
All compressed files are compressed using gzip. The installation of these files requires gunzip and gzip, so make sure that they are installed on the computer before you attempt to install NetBackup. For all UNIX platforms except HP-UX, the binaries are expected to be in /bin or /usr/bin and that directory is a part of the root user's PATH variable. On HP-UX systems, the gzip and gunzip commands are expected to be in /usr/contrib/bin. Installation scripts add that directory to the PATH variable. These commands must be present to have successful UNIX installations.