NetBackup™ Release Notes

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Product(s): NetBackup & Alta Data Protection (10.4)
  1. About NetBackup 10.4
    1.  
      About the NetBackup 10.4 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 10.4 new features, changes, and enhancements
      1.  
        Changes in Veritas terminology
      2.  
        RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 10.4
      3.  
        Client-side deduplication control from policies in NetBackup web UI
      4.  
        Changes to the dashboard in the NetBackup web UI
      5.  
        Malware scan improvements
      6.  
        Enhancement in multifactor authentication
      7.  
        Enhancements in anomaly detection
      8.  
        Enhancements in multi-person authorization
      9.  
        NetBackup support for OCSF-formatted audit events
      10.  
        End-of-support-life (EOSL) for NetBackup Replication Director, replaced with NetBackup Snapshot Manager (NBSM)
      11.  
        NetBackup 10.4 support additions and changes
      12.  
        Deprecating support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
      13.  
        Support for CIS Level 2 v2 benchmark for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 machines
      14.  
        Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
      15.  
        Windows compiler and security requirements for NetBackup 10.4 and later installation and upgrade
      16.  
        Script for setting up image sharing with cloud recovery servers to be deprecated
      17.  
        AMI is used to create virtual machine in the AWS cloud environment
      18.  
        Upgraded containerized services
      19.  
        Oracle Cloud Infrastructure support for cloud workloads
      20.  
        Support for VMware vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA)
      21.  
        Browse ability for vApps with VMware policy in NetBackup web UI
      22.  
        New features for NetBackup for VMware in the NetBackup web UI
      23.  
        Support for XFS-formatted volumes and LVM2 Thin Pool Volumes
      24.  
        New features and changes for NetBackup for Microsoft SQL Server
      25.  
        New features and changes for NetBackup for Oracle
      26.  
        Support for Kubernetes workload type for malware scanning
      27.  
        Patching mechanism for primary and media servers
      28.  
        New features for Dynamic NAS (D-NAS)
  3. Operational notes
    1.  
      About NetBackup 10.4 operational notes
    2. NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
      1.  
        If NetBackup 10.4 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.  
        Updates to database commands
      2.  
        For some workload environments, reduce the size of the job database before upgrade
      3.  
        Policies using Replication Director fail with error code 4224
      4.  
        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.  
        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 10.4 requires NetBackup 10.2 or later
      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
      4.  
        Changing the authentication method of existing Cloud object store accounts on Ceph may fail
      5.  
        Red Hat Ceph does not support the Assume role credential type
    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 database and application agent operational notes
      1. NetBackup for Microsoft SQL Server operational notes
        1.  
          VMware backups that use T-SQL snapshots fail with error code 114
        2.  
          SQL Server filegroup backups not supported on non-readable secondary
    9. 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
    10. NetBackup for OpenStack operational notes
      1.  
        NetBackup for OpenStack appliance re-initalization feature is removed from NetBackup for OpenStack 10.4
      2.  
        Excluding volumes from the backup is not supported in NetBackup for OpenStack 10.4
      3.  
        NetBackup for OpenStack 10.4 imports only policies from the older versions
      4.  
        NetBackup for OpenStack Datamover API (NBOSDMAPI) service times out in the haproxy connection
      5.  
        Instance volumes in the incremental backups cannot be mounted
      6.  
        Success message appears along with the error message when you delete the protection that has recovery points
      7.  
        Restored VMs have blank metadata config_drive attached
      8.  
        No operation is permitted in insecure way for SSL-enabled Keystone URL
      9.  
        If the OpenStack project is deleted, importing policy does not work in NetBackup for OpenStack 10.4
    11. 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 10.4 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 10.4 binary sizes

Table: NetBackup binary sizes for compatible platforms contains the approximate binary sizes of the NetBackup 10.4 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

1789 MB

No longer supported

 

Alma Linux

 

2029 MB

  

Amazon Linux

 

2029 MB

  

BC-Linux

 

2029 MB

  

Canonical Ubuntu

x86-64

2029 MB

  

CentOS

x86-64

2029 MB

8992 MB

 

Debian GNU/Linux

x86-64

2029 MB

  

Kylin Linux Advanced Server 10.0

 

2029 MB

  

NeoKylin Linux Advanced Server

 

2029 MB

  

Oracle Linux

x86-64

2029 MB

8992 MB

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server

POWER

1437 MB

  

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server

x86-64

1989 MB

8730 MB

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server

z/Architecture

1086 MB

No longer supported

Media server or client compatibility only.

Rocky Linux client

 

2029 MB

  

Solaris

SPARC

946 MB

No longer supported

 

Solaris

x86-64

905 MB

No longer supported

 

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

POWER

443 MB

  

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

x86-64

1642 MB

7083 MB

 

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

z/Architecture

1102 MB

No longer supported

Media server or client compatibility only.

Windows

x86-64

713 MB

5087 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.