Veritas NetBackup™ Emergency Engineering Binary Guide
Other known issues resolved in NetBackup 8.1
This topic contains a list of some of the known issues that were fixed and included in the NetBackup 8.1 release.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3863844
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3867093
Description:
In the Cost tabular report, values in the Amount column display too many characters after the decimal point.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3865854
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3865853
Description:
OpsCenter added a second forward slash ("/") to the destination path, causing restore jobs to fail with status code 185: "tar did not find all the files to be restored."
Associated Primary Etrack: 3866697
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3866695
Description:
Renaming a file restore from OpsCenter to a NAS/NDMP client created files with additional "~1" (tilde followed by a numeral one) characters in the name.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3893571
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3893570
Description:
The Java GUI was unable to restore a virtual machine located on CSV to an SMB 3.0 share, and vice versa. This etrack checked in the GUI code changes.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3877831
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3877830
Description:
If the date range of a "NetBackup Disk Pool Size vs. Percentage Full" report began before daylight savings time and included the current date, the current date appeared as 0% used.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3868088
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3868087
Description:
VMware Single File Restore failed on RedHat Linux for folders which had Access Control Lists set using the setfacl utility. The restore failed with the error "errno = 22: Invalid argument" due to "chmod 40444 /logs/part3 to reset permissions."
Associated Primary Etrack: 3895317
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3895315
Description:
When configuring Cloud Storage Server, the data compression checkbox did not appear on some master servers.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3897581
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3897580
Description:
"Awaiting resource" messages in the job details of a bpdbjobs report were not comma-separated.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3898219
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3898218
Description:
The saved value of a custom retention period changed when the user selected another retention period and then selected the custom retention period again.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3899540
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3899539
Description:
After replication, a target master server recorded hundreds of "invalid entry" warnings in the bperror log.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3900384
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3900383
Description:
Microsoft Exchange DAG resolution does not differentiate between two DAGs with the same short name, even if their FQDNs differ.
Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
Description:
This etrack added parent-inode support to libcatalog for NDMP backups.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3901288
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3901287
Description:
When running the "Configure Storage Devices" wizard on a clustered master server, the device scan failed with the error message "Invalid host(88) The host is not defined in EMM".
Associated Primary Etrack: 3806950
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3806948
Description:
Sharepoint GRT cataloging process slowed to a crawl on certain List objects because the physical objects resided outside the SQL Content Database.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3903265
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3903264
Description:
When attempting to browse backup files in the Policy Backup Selection wizard, any byte size over 4GB was displayed as a stack overflow.
Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
Description:
The NetBackup GUI did not display the correct server version in connection error messages. The GUI truncated the second decimal point and third digit (for example: 7.7 instead of 7.7.3).
Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
Description:
When Auditing was disabled, NetBackup would not report some events, which may have been highly relevant to domain security. Because we do not report changes to AUDITING in the reports, the customer may have had a false sense of security.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3903495
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3903493
Description:
OpsCenter reports did not correctly filter clients for Windows 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2. Many clients which should have been displayed were instead omitted.
Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
Description:
After a restart due to system panic, web services were not running due to a PID conflict.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3904195
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3904194
Description:
The Activity Monitor did not correctly display the Detailed Status of an active duplication job when the user attempted to navigate to the active job details from the Detailed Status screen of the previous job.
Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
Description:
The nbtar process produced a large amount of extraneous logs when verbosity was set to 0.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3903582
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3903581
Description:
When attempting to browse the results of a large import job in the NetBackup GUI, the NetBackup console hangs and opens several dialogue boxes with "Memory usage ~95-100%" messages.
Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
Description:
The bpps command fails to report the nbwebsvc process when run by a non-root user.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3905860
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3905859
Description:
Setting the schedule frequency too high caused nbpem to stop with an assertion failure
Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
Description:
If MAX_NUM_LOGFILES was set to 0 or 1 in the bp.conf file, this file was overwritten continuously. This could cause processes to generate core dumps.
Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
Description:
vCenter credentials were always associated with "Any" media server, even when the credentials were added to a specific server.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3908177
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3908176
Description:
When trying to add a new node to a High Availability Cluster Multiprocessing cluster while installing NetBackup 7.1, the following error appeared: "Service label [label] is already configured into a resource group. Initial NetBackup HA configuration must be into a resource group that does not already exist. Please rerun this script, specifying either a preexisting, unassigned service label, or a not yet configured virtual name which will be configured as an ipaliased service label by this utility."
Associated Primary Etrack: 3907815
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3907814
Description:
If a Windows backup host had an asterisk (*) as an entry in the exclude list, full backups of any virtual machine failed with status 90, and incremental backups showed status 0 and did not back anything up.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3909776
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3909775
Description:
In a SIP policy, the "Parallel Backup Operations" parameter is present in both the "Transaction Log Options" and the "Database Options". If a value was given for this parameter in "Database Options", the value specified in the "Transaction Log Options" was ignored.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3907798
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3907796
Description:
The nbemm process exhibited a memory leak when an invalid server name was repeatedly provided to the bpmedialist -h command.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3909489
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3909488
Description:
If the Web Service Account and Group named during installation were not Domain-based, the pre-install check failed with the error "Critical error found during pre-install check" was thrown.
Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
Description:
The volume master daemon did not authenticate any incoming connections or command requests by default. The daemon only autheticated based on the server list if AUTHENTICATION_REQUIRED was set in vm.conf.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3910475
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3910474
Description:
The "Configure Cloud Storage Server" wizard failed with the error message "Login credentials verification failed for server xxxx."
Associated Primary Etrack: 3912466
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3912465
Description:
The VIP query editor did not display queries correctly if any filters in the query contained the words "and" or "or".
Associated Primary Etrack: 3913060
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3913059
Description:
A VIP query truncated virtual machine network names if they ended with any characters in parentheses, and did not report these VMs in query results.
Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
Description:
VMware backups did not report virtual machine parameters in snapshot jobs.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3910002
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3910001
Description:
The "VirtiFile.Sys" minifilter setting did not use the default altitude value which Microsoft recommended (280700).
Associated Primary Etrack: 3914062
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3914060
Description:
After backing up a VM, powering it off, restoring it with the original settings, and running the backup again, the original VM is backed up instead of the new one, even though the original VM is powered off.
Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
Description:
vxms logs were not being cleaned up because they did not conform to the filename patterns used to determine what files were logs.
Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
Description:
This etrack implemented a new web service which creates audit records if certificate validation fails. For more information, see NBU-40376.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3916928
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3916927
Description:
When the user attempted to change the NetBackup time zone through the "Adjust Application Timezone" option in NetBackup interface, the Activity Monitor did not reflect the change.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3917051
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3917049
Description:
After an upgrade to NetBackup 8.0, some NetBackup Web Management Console and Tomcat services prevented the creation of host ID-based certificates to allow access to the NetBackup user interface.
Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
Description:
This etrack implemented several TPIP upgrades for OpsCenter. It upgraded iTect from version 5.2.1 to 5.5.11, mail from 1.4.4 to 1.4.7, cloning from 1.7.4 to 1.9.3, and objensis from 1.2 to 2.5.1.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3917456
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3917455
Description:
The Backup Archive and Restore Preview button failed with the error "No media required for restore. Images are on a disk" if the client name contained a space character.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3918990
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3918988
Description:
The Backup and Archive Manager crashed when running a backup with Active Directory Application Mode enabled.
Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
Description:
After upgrading to NetBackup 8.0, the NetBackup CloudStore Service Container tried to use an old certificate whose hostname was no longer present in the environment.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3919894
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3919892
Description:
A Bare Metal Restore failed with the error "Could not create first boot script".
Associated Primary Etrack: 3912307
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3912306
Description:
During a manual failover of a clustered master server, the NetBackup EMM daemon froze.
Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
Description:
This etrack created a mailing infrastructure to send email notifications from SLP.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3922694
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3922691
Description:
This etrack fixes security vulnerabilities on server ports 13783 and 5637.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3919970
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3919969
Description:
After upgrading to NetBackup 8.0, the -getCACertificate operation fails with status code 5969 ("Response from the NetBackup Web Management Console service could not be parsed")
Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
Description:
After upgrading to NetBackup 8.0, certificate deployment failed with status code 8503 ("Unknown error returned by CURL").
Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
Description:
This etrack stamps .war files with static strings to identify the version of its EEB.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3910460
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3910459
Description:
User was unable to set the granular proxy server for a Database Availability Group in the NetBackup GUI.