NetBackup™ Release Notes
- About NetBackup 10.5
- New features, enhancements, and changes
- About new enhancements and changes in NetBackup
- NetBackup 10.5 new features, changes, and enhancements
- Changes in Veritas terminology
- RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 10.5
- Updates to the nbdb2adutl command
- Changes to the dashboard in the NetBackup web UI
- New features for NetBackup for VMware in the NetBackup web UI
- New features for NetBackup for DB2
- New features and changes for NetBackup for Microsoft SQL Server
- Managing policies for cloud assets
- Cloud Scale and decoupling of Cloud Scale
- Search files using a file hash in NetBackup
- Support for tape as a media option for Kubernetes workloads using Kubernetes policies
- NetBackup 10.5 support additions and changes
- Minimum operating system versions
- Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
- Multi-person authorization support for encryption key management and API key operations
- BMR support for Cloud VM Recovery in AWS
- Support for TLS 1.3 protocol
- Support for Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) with Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Support for viewing hash values of malware infected files and malware
- Support of disk type Premium SSD v2 for NetBackup Snapshot Manager Microsoft Azure plug-in
- Support of SSL/TLS for Proxy Service
- Support for double encryption method in Azure
- Support for regional endpoint in Amazon Web Services
- End of life (EOL) for NetBackup for OpenStack - PSF
- MSDP volume group support
- Support for Cloud-Object-Store workload type for malware scanning
- Support for cross-cloud provider restore
- Client push staging area no longer populated
- About binaries installed on primary and media servers
- Update cloud configuration file on the primary server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 10.5
- NetBackup protection for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
- Private key encryption support
- About security configuration risk
- Changes to NetBackup guide titles
- Operational notes
- About NetBackup 10.5 operational notes
- NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
- NetBackup administration and general operational notes
- NetBackup administration interface operational notes
- NetBackup Cloud Object Store Workload operational notes
- NetBackup Snapshot Manager (formerly NetBackup CloudPoint)
- NetBackup database and application agent operational notes
- NetBackup NAS operational notes
- NetBackup for OpenStack operational notes
- NetBackup for OpenStack Datamover API (NBOSDMAPI) service times out in the haproxy connection
- Instance volumes in the incremental backups cannot be mounted
- Restored VMs have blank metadata config_drive attached
- No operation is permitted in insecure way for SSL-enabled Keystone URL
- NBOS Backups and NBOS Backup Admin tabs disappear from Horizon UI after stack is updated
- 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 10.5, 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.