NetBackup™ Release Notes

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Product(s): NetBackup & Alta Data Protection (10.5)
  1. About NetBackup 10.5
    1.  
      About the NetBackup 10.5 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 10.5 new features, changes, and enhancements
      1.  
        Changes in Veritas terminology
      2.  
        RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 10.5
      3.  
        Updates to the nbdb2adutl command
      4.  
        Changes to the dashboard in the NetBackup web UI
      5.  
        New features for NetBackup for VMware in the NetBackup web UI
      6.  
        New features for NetBackup for DB2
      7.  
        New features and changes for NetBackup for Microsoft SQL Server
      8.  
        Managing policies for cloud assets
      9.  
        Cloud Scale and decoupling of Cloud Scale
      10.  
        Search files using a file hash in NetBackup
      11.  
        Support for tape as a media option for Kubernetes workloads using Kubernetes policies
      12.  
        NetBackup 10.5 support additions and changes
      13.  
        Minimum operating system versions
      14.  
        Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
      15.  
        Multi-person authorization support for encryption key management and API key operations
      16.  
        BMR support for Cloud VM Recovery in AWS
      17.  
        Support for TLS 1.3 protocol
      18.  
        Support for Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) with Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS)
      19.  
        Support for viewing hash values of malware infected files and malware
      20.  
        Support of disk type Premium SSD v2 for NetBackup Snapshot Manager Microsoft Azure plug-in
      21.  
        Support of SSL/TLS for Proxy Service
      22.  
        Support for double encryption method in Azure
      23.  
        Support for regional endpoint in Amazon Web Services
      24.  
        End of life (EOL) for NetBackup for OpenStack - PSF
      25.  
        MSDP volume group support
      26.  
        Support for Cloud-Object-Store workload type for malware scanning
      27.  
        Support for cross-cloud provider restore
      28.  
        Client push staging area no longer populated
      29.  
        About binaries installed on primary and media servers
      30.  
        Update cloud configuration file on the primary server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 10.5
      31.  
        NetBackup protection for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
      32.  
        Private key encryption support
      33.  
        About security configuration risk
      34.  
        Changes to NetBackup guide titles
  3. Operational notes
    1.  
      About NetBackup 10.5 operational notes
    2. NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
      1.  
        If NetBackup 10.5 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.  
        Intelligent catalog archiving (ICA) is not supported for MSDP cloud
      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. 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 Cloud Object Store Workload operational notes
      1.  
        Auto Image Replication (AIR) from NetBackup version 10.5 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
    6. NetBackup Snapshot Manager (formerly NetBackup CloudPoint)
      1.  
        Indexing not supported on instances created from AWS Marketplaces AMIs
    7. NetBackup database and application agent operational notes
      1.  
        NetBackup for Microsoft SQL Server operational notes
      2.  
        NetBackup for VMware operational notes
    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.  
        NetBackup for OpenStack Datamover API (NBOSDMAPI) service times out in the haproxy connection
      2.  
        Instance volumes in the incremental backups cannot be mounted
      3.  
        Restored VMs have blank metadata config_drive attached
      4.  
        No operation is permitted in insecure way for SSL-enabled Keystone URL
      5.  
        NBOS Backups and NBOS Backup Admin tabs disappear from Horizon UI after stack is updated
    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 10.5 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

New features and changes for NetBackup for Microsoft SQL Server

The following features are available in this release:

  • A new command nbsqlcmd provides the ability to manage SQL Server assets from the command-line. Note that any delegation privileges that were configured with the command nbsqladm -add_dba are not converted to RBAC. Administrators must separately apply the needed RBAC role or roles to SQL Server administrators.

  • Added the recovery option Disconnect active users to disconnect any active users before a restore operation runs.

Announcement of future changes:

  • In an upcoming release the use of the command nbsqladm will be disabled. The bp.conf entry ENABLE_NBSQLADM will be disabled by default and not allow any requests from nbsqladm. Administrators can enable the ENABLE_NBSQLADM option if they choose.

  • Instance groups will be removed from the NetBackup Administration Console and the NetBackup web UI in a future release.

The following items are deprecated in the NetBackup 10.5 release:

  • The command nbsqladm is deprecated.

    The command-line options to configure instance groups and credentials are no longer applicable and are not available with the new command nbsqlcmd.

    The nbsqladm command is no longer part of the NetBackup 10.5 package but is still supported for NetBackup clients that use NetBackup 10.4 and earlier.