NetBackup™ Release Notes

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Product(s): NetBackup & Alta Data Protection (11.0)
  1. About NetBackup 11.0
    1.  
      About the NetBackup 11.0 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 11.0 new features, changes, and enhancements
      1.  
        Changes in Cohesity terminology
      2.  
        RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 11.0
      3.  
        New features and enhancements to the NetBackup web UI
      4.  
        Support for Greenplum database
      5.  
        Support policy based backup of Nutanix-AHV assets
      6.  
        New features and changes for NetBackup for Microsoft SQL Server
      7.  
        NetBackup 11.0 support additions and changes
      8.  
        NetBackup 10.5.0.1 and earlier support additions and changes qualified in NetBackup 11.0
      9.  
        Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
      10.  
        Update cloud configuration file on the primary server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 11.0
      11.  
        Ansible supported playbooks for NetBackup
      12.  
        BMR support for Cloud VM Recovery in AWS
      13.  
        NetBackup 11.0 uses SQLite database to store the MSDP events
      14.  
        Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) support in NetBackup
      15.  
        Multi-person authorization support for malware scan host management and policy management operations
      16.  
        Asset cleanup for Kubernetes assets
      17.  
        Instant access for MSDP object store support
      18.  
        Support for the universal share scale out feature
      19.  
        Enhanced backup performance for Cloud object store in NetBackup 11.0
      20.  
        Changes to Java GUI and JRE for NetBackup 11.0
      21.  
        Support for RHOSP 16.1, 16.2, and Kolla Ussuri has been discontinued in NetBackup for OpenStack 11.0
      22.  
        MSDP load balancing for multi-stream backups on MSDP cluster
      23.  
        MSDP lazy delete feature retains the uploaded data in the cloud for the failed jobs
      24.  
        The file hash server deployment alongside MSDP deployments
      25.  
        Monitor the progress of CRC check for local LSU to understand the MSDP health
      26.  
        Support for running MSDP commands with non-root users
      27.  
        Support for AIR, disaster recovery, and image sharing for cold storage
      28.  
        Support for instant access feature for Nutanix AHV
      29.  
        Newly supported databases for the PaaS workload
      30.  
        Minimum node changes and new permission required for AWS plugin
      31.  
        Support for viewing and extracting the collected logs
      32.  
        Support for Trend Micro malware detection tool
      33.  
        Merge certificates for media servers
      34.  
        Minimum node configuration for cost optimization
      35.  
        Support Nutanix workload for malware scanning
      36.  
        Support for BYO Malware Scan Host using NetBackup Client
      37.  
        Hardware Security Module (HSM) support in NetBackup
      38.  
        Detection of database corruption in Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server
      39.  
        Detection of new risk engine-based anomalies
  3. Operational notes
    1.  
      About NetBackup 11.0 operational notes
    2. NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
      1.  
        If NetBackup 11.0 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 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 11.0
      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 11.0 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.  
        Backup jobs become unresponsive and consume significant space on the temporary staging location.
    7.  
      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
    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 Cloud workload operational notes
      1.  
        VMs and other OCI assets with CMK-encrypted disks are marked as deleted in NetBackup UI.
    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
      3.  
        Localized environments in NetBackup for Windows and UNIX
  4. Appendix A. About SORT for NetBackup Users
    1.  
      About Cohesity 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 11.0 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

Backup jobs become unresponsive and consume significant space on the temporary staging location.

NetBackup Cloud object store data protection feature uses the ListObjects S3 API to iterate over the list of objects to further read and back up the objects in a bucket. The ListObjects S3 API returns up to 1000 objects per request in lexicographical order, based on their key names and the NextContinuationToken. This NextContinuationToken is used for pagination. For example, for a ListObjects S3 API call, to get the next set of 1000 objects and a new NextContinuationToken is used to get the subsequent page.

For certain Cloud object store providers, like Hitachi, the NextContinuationToken does not work correctly if the object names contain certain special characters, potentially hinders backup performance.

This behavior disrupts the cos_sqllite database that NetBackup uses in the temporary staging area. This database stores the object list for a backup job that is in progress. Because of this disruption, the cos_sqllite database drastically grows in size, filling up the disk space in the temporary staging area. This leads the NetBackup jobs to slow down and eventually fail.

Workaround:

  1. Reconfigure the NextContinuationToken in the ListObjects S3 API calls to return the proper value for each batch.

  2. Cancel the existing backup job and retry backup.