Veritas NetBackup™ Installation Guide
- Preparing for installation
- General installation information
- Available NetBackup installation methods
- About compatibility between NetBackup versions
- About NetBackup software availability
- How to install NetBackup
- Creating the user account to support the NetBackup web server
- About storage device configuration
- About security certificates for NetBackup hosts
- Environment variable for certificate key size
- Restrictions on the NetBackup installation directory
- NetBackup database is not supported on the btrfs file system
- Installation operational notes and limitations
- Windows compiler and security requirements for NetBackup 9.1 and later installation and upgrade
- Java GUI and JRE installation optional for some computers
- Enable 8dot3 name file setting for NetBackup master servers that support NAT
- NetBackup servers must use a host name that is compliant with RFC 1123 and RFC 952
- Host ID-based certificate is not deployed during installation on 8.1 media server or client host with dual stack configuration
- NetBackup 8.2 and later RHEL 8 installation issue
- NetBackup 8.2 and later SUSE 15 installation issue
- External certificate authority certificates supported in NetBackup 8.2 and later
- SCCM and Chef deployment tools and documentation now available
- Known SUSE Linux master server install issue
- SORT information
- Veritas NetInsights Console information
- General installation information
- NetBackup licenses
- Installing server software on UNIX systems
- Installation requirements for UNIX and Linux
- Do not mix non-English versions of Windows and UNIX platforms unless master and media servers are NetBackup appliances
- NetBackup installations on environments that run different versions of UNIX-based operating systems
- Special installation guidelines for Solaris systems
- Special installation guidelines for UNIX clustered environments
- How the installation script works
- Installing NetBackup master server software on UNIX
- Installing NetBackup media server software on UNIX
- About pushing client software from a master server to clients
- Installation requirements for UNIX and Linux
- Installing server software on Windows systems
- Installation and upgrade requirements for Windows and Windows clusters
- Requirements for Windows cluster installations and upgrades
- Performing local, remote, or clustered server installation on Windows systems
- Post-installation tasks for NetBackup cluster environments
- Verifying Windows cluster installations or upgrades
- Installing NetBackup servers silently on Windows systems
- About the administrative interfaces
- About the NetBackup web user interface
- About the NetBackup Administration Console
- Installing the NetBackup Administration Console
- Installing multiple versions of the NetBackup Administration Console on Windows
- Removing earlier versions of the NetBackup Administration Console on Windows
- About the NetBackup Remote Administration Console
- Installing the NetBackup Remote Administration Console
- Installing NetBackup client software
- About NetBackup client installation
- About NetBackup client installation on Windows
- About NetBackup client installation on UNIX and Linux
- Configuring NetBackup
- Upgrading NetBackup software
- Removing NetBackup server and client software
- About NetBackup server software removal on UNIX systems
- About NetBackup client software removal on UNIX and Linux systems
- Removing NetBackup from UNIX and Linux servers and clients
- About NetBackup server software removal on Windows systems
- Removing NetBackup server and client software from Windows servers, clusters, and clients
- About removal of the Java Console state data from Windows servers and Windows clients
- Removing a clustered media server by migrating all data to a new media server
- Reference
- Generate a certificate on the inactive nodes of a clustered master server
- About the NetBackup answer file
- Persistent Java Virtual Machine options
- About RBAC bootstrapping
- NetBackup master server web server user and group creation
- About the NetBackup Java Runtime Environment
- Add or Remove Java GUI and JRE after install
- Using NetApp disk arrays with Replication Director
- Security updates to the NetBackup database
- Size guidance for the NetBackup master server and domain
- Index
Windows compiler and security requirements for NetBackup 9.1 and later installation and upgrade
NetBackup 9.1 and later for Windows uses the Visual Studio 2019 compiler and the Windows 10 Software Development Kit (SDK). The installation and the upgrade process use Microsoft redistributable utilities to install Visual Studio 2019 C++ run-time libraries on Windows hosts where they are not already installed. These utilities can fail or behave unexpectedly on hosts without all the security updates in place. Windows hosts must have all security updates in place before you install or upgrade to NetBackup 9.1 or later.
More information on the Microsoft redistributable utilities is available: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/
Failures and unexpected behaviors include:
NetBackup's installation process fail shortly after start with a message about inability to deploy Visual Studio 2019 C++ run-time libraries.
The nbcertcmdtool application failing unexpectedly when executed by the NetBackup installation process. This failure is difficult to distinguish from nbcertcmdtool failures that result from invalid or insufficient security configuration.
MSDP applications fail unexpectedly near the conclusion of the NetBackup installation process.
To prevent this problem, apply all Windows security updates before any install or any upgrade attempts.
For Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1, the list of required security updates includes KB 2919355 (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/windows-rt-8-1-windows-8-1-and-windows-server-2012-r2-update-april-2014-3c9d820b-7079-359d-8660-21de648fa31d).
For Windows Server 2012 R2, 2008 Service Pack 2, Windows 8.1, and all other earlier supported versions, you must install the Universal C run-time in Windows update. This update lets NetBackup run correctly. Microsoft KB 3118401 is the minimum patch level to ensure the appropriate C++ run-time binaries are present. Other later patches should contain this fix.
More information about this requirement is available: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/update-for-universal-c-runtime-in-windows-322bf30f-4735-bb94-3949-49f5c49f4732