NetBackup™ Release Notes

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Product(s): NetBackup & Alta Data Protection (10.3.0.1)
  1. About NetBackup 10.3.0.1
    1.  
      About the NetBackup 10.3.0.1 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 10.3.0.1 new features, changes, and enhancements
      1.  
        Changes in Veritas terminology
      2.  
        Data collector registration using the NetBackup web UI
      3.  
        NetBackup 10.3.0.1 support additions and changes
      4.  
        Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
      5.  
        Isolated recovery environment is supported on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server NetBackup BYO
      6.  
        Update cloud configuration file on the primary server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 10.3.0.1
      7.  
        NetBackup supports virtual machines within Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager (OLVM) deployments
      8.  
        NetBackup Dedupe Direct for Oracle plug-in support for Flex Scale
  3. Operational notes
    1.  
      About NetBackup 10.3.0.1 operational notes
    2. NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
      1.  
        If NetBackup 10.3.0.1 upgrade fails on Windows, revert to previous log folder structure
      2.  
        Native installation requirements
      3.  
        NetBackup servers must use a host name that is compliant with RFC 1123 and RFC 952
      4.  
        About support for HP-UX Itanium vPars SRP containers
    3. NetBackup administration and general operational notes
      1.  
        For some workload environments, reduce the size of the job database before upgrade
      2.  
        Policies using Replication Director fail with error code 4224
      3.  
        Failed to get response from NetBackup malware utility
    4. NetBackup administration interface operational notes
      1.  
        Delay in NetBackup web UI when adding or removing columns in Catalog area
      2.  
        Intermittent issues with X forwarding of NetBackup Administration Console
      3.  
        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.  
        AIX BMR Shared Resource Tree (SRT) creation fails in NetBackup 10.3.0.1
      3.  
        NetBackup services may not start automatically after BMR restore on a Linux client
    6. NetBackup Cloud Object Store Workload operational notes
      1.  
        Auto Image Replication (AIR) from NetBackup version 10.3 to 10.1 does not work
      2.  
        For Azure, backups fail when an older policy is updated with a new backup host
      3.  
        Replicated backups cannot be restored to older NetBackup versions
    7. NetBackup Snapshot Manager (formerly NetBackup CloudPoint)
      1.  
        Indexing not supported on instances created from AWS Marketplaces AMIs
      2.  
        Verifying the storage array certificate
    8. NetBackup NAS operational notes
      1.  
        Parent directories in the path of a file may not be present in an NDMP incremental image
      2.  
        RD storage units are not listed as Replication targets
    9. 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.  
        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
  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 10.3.0.1 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 10.3.0.1 binary sizes

Table: NetBackup binary sizes for compatible platforms contains the approximate binary sizes of the NetBackup 10.3.0.1 primary 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:

The table lists only 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 Compatibility List for all Versions.

Table: NetBackup binary sizes for compatible platforms

OS

CPU Architecture

64-bit client

64-bit server

Notes

AIX

POWER

1807 MB

No longer supported

 

Alma Linux

 

2278 MB

  

Amazon Linux

 

2278 MB

  

BC-Linux

 

2278 MB

  

Canonical Ubuntu

x86-64

2278 MB

  

CentOS

x86-64

2278 MB

9893 MB

 

Debian GNU/Linux

x86-64

2278 MB

  

Kylin Linux Advanced Server 10.0

 

2278 MB

  

NeoKylin Linux Advanced Server

 

2278 MB

  

Oracle Linux

x86-64

2278 MB

9893 MB

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server

POWER

429 MB

  

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server

x86-64

2233 MB

9604 MB

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server

z/Architecture

1146 MB

No longer supported

Media server or client compatibility only.

Rocky Linux client

 

2278 MB

  

Solaris

SPARC

1593 MB

No longer supported

 

Solaris

x86-64

1575 MB

No longer supported

 

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

POWER

435 MB

  

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

x86-64

1565 MB

7075 MB

 

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

z/Architecture

1146 MB

No longer supported

Media server or client compatibility only.

Windows

x86-64

692 MB

5067 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 the table.

  • 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 the table. The additional required space is equivalent to 15 to 20 percent of the total binary size.