Veritas NetBackup™ Emergency Engineering Binary Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (8.3.0.2, 8.3.0.1, 8.3)

Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.3

Table: Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.3 contains a listing of known issues with NetBackup that were identified, fixed, and made available to customers in the form of an emergency engineering binary (EEB). NetBackup 8.3 resolves the issues that were fixed with each of these EEBs.

More information on the Etracks that are listed in this topic (and any other service request Etrack) can be found using the Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools (SORT) website.

https://sort.veritas.com/netbackup

Table: Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.3

Etrack Number

EEB Description

3919360

'Restore without access control' does not work with OpsCenter operational restore.

3919447

The NetBackup database server uses a high amount of CPU if the database contains many image fragments and media IDs.

3938993

DFSR backup takes more than 3 days to complete.

3942306

DFSR backup takes more that 3-days to complete.

3952214

Hyper-V SAN backups fails with error code 10 when the cluster name is used in a Hyper-V intelligent policy.

3957730

Child jobs for Oracle and Microsoft SQL policies fail with 196 errors when the Daylight Savings change happens in countries where the time change happens at midnight between Saturday and Sunday (mostly South American such as Brazil, Chile, and Paraguay).

3962001

During Image Cleanup job, Sybase database server hits 100% CPU.

3963053

Child jobs for Oracle and Microsoft SQL policies fail with 196 errors when the Daylight Savings change happens in countries where the time change happens at midnight between Saturday and Sunday (mostly South American such as Brazil, Chile, and Paraguay).

3963213, version 1

Beginning one week after a Daylight Savings Time change, SQL and Oracle intelligent policy jobs can fail with a 196 error (window is closed). The jobs will then be retried every minute and continue to fail.

3965078

DFSR backups take a long time because the backup did not handle DFSR reparse points correctly.

3969572

During Image Cleanup job, Sybase database server hits 100% CPU.

3977233

In the case of a Flex set-up, unable to perform catalog recovery restore of the ACL when the owner is not root.

3978133

'Restore without access control' does not work with OpsCenter operational restore.

3980797

During Image Cleanup NB_dbsrv i.e., Sybase database hits 100% CPU.

3981161

HBase Backup run only has discovery job, no child jobs.

3981479

Disabled curl verbosity as it was displaying client_secret, password values for AAD and ADFS mechanisms, respectively.

3983247

VXupdate shuts down vmd.exe without checking to see if it is a Veritas process.

3983414

Higher capacity usage for clients since FEDS posting started. Duplicate entries are seen for client and policy combination one with FQDN and other with shortname. Lower usage reported for NDMP policies.

3986209, version 2

nbrestorevm fails when using the -vcdlfree switch.

3986477

Nbdeployutil and OpsCenter Capacity Report are not similar

3986700

Clients Not Backed Up report showing clients with successful backups.

3987098

nbdeployutil incremental report shows duplicate entries for VMWare VMs, one with lowercase and the other with uppercase in the Itemization tab. Also, higher usage is reported in the Summary tab.

3987300

Individual nodes are being listed in itemization tab for Clustered FS backup. Duplicate entries are being seen for Exchange clients in itemization tab.

3987480, version 2

nbrestorevm fails with -vcdlfree switch. vCloud Director VIP smart query and restore times out/fails. Support for vCloud director 9.5.

3987911

During image cleanup nb_dbsrv is getting 100% cpu and media servers lose connection to nbemm.

3988297

In the case of a Flex set-up, unable to perform catalog recovery restore of the ACL when the owner is not root.

3988709

AIX standard backup failing with status 69.

3989338

SQL Server backup fails when Windows security prevents use of CryptAcquireContext API.

3989691

For restore the GUI fetches the ESX server list every time from the VC. This takes a long time during configuration of the restore jobs from the GUI.

3990280

NBSL Issues

3990515

nbdeployutil is failing to generate usage file required for Smart Meter.

3990841

Hyper-V SAN backups fails with error code 10 when the cluster name is used in a Hyper-V intelligent policy.

3991031

When switching a VMware vCloud policy from Advanced Mode to Basic Mode, the AND operator is removed from 'AND NOT' causing policy to fail to save or jobs to fail with Status 46.

3992152, version 3, 2, 1

Backup jobs of NetBackup Hypervisor backup policy for Nutanix AHV fails with an error code 84 when the Accelerator option is enabled in the policy configuration.

3992514

Unable to add NDMP host credentials for Master server

3993530

Required EEB for OpsCenter 8.2.

3993547

nbdbadmin command fails to launch in cluster master. Error: 'This tool can not be run remotely. You can only run it on the master server.'

3993555

DFSR backups take a long time because the backup did not handle DFSR reparse points correctly.

3994645

An error occurs when nbdeployutil is run manually and incremental: "SQL query failed to execute". This EEB also adds a fix to use master-server name in a non-case-sensitive way.

3994786

Clients Not Backed Up report showing clients with successful backups.

3994999

nbdeployutil capacity report shows duplicate client entries and causing discrepancy.

3995025

Improving the efficiency and behavior of hostdb.cache

3995098

DB backup too slow, Arithmetic overflow error converting expression to data type int.

3995706

When choosing use defaults from master in the SAN client preferences, the box is no longer checked when reopening the preferences.

3996001

Security Vulnerabilities with the older version of Tomcat.

3996035

Nbdeployutil and OpsCenter Capacity Report are not similar

3996226

Fix for Certificate Revocation List( CRL) issue for cloud storage server.

3996230

The new nbstlutil completion_report option will display the completion status for SLP processing on a per-client basis.

3996231

Addresses bpbkar logging vulnerability (symlink highjack of log file by non-root user can overwrite system files).

3996316

nbaudit seems to block security events and restore functionality in NetBackup when OpsCenter Datacollection is enabled

3996429

A one-time script was created to address a specific condition. The script will not be included in any other release vehicle.

3996471

JRE needs to be upgraded to 1.8_241

3996729

Lower version of Tomcat has a security vulnerability.

3997079

BMR backup completes with status 1.

3997462

8.2 - Security Scanner has detected TomCat version needs to be updated.

3998442

VM backup images were corrupt with the wrong file number due to another EEB. This EEB fixes the file number in the case that it's needed to be able to perform a full VM restore.

3998503, version 1

Current NetBackup SLP practice is to submit jobs containing the oldest images first. This EEB provides the option to submit jobs containing the newest images first.

3998707

EMC Isilon backups failing with "got unexpected name from Paxheader," unexpected extended header content, index, size.

3998779

Alerts not being generated and not displayed in manage/alerts API output for vault jobs.

3999093

AIX standard backup failing with status 69.

3999095

Standard Backup failed with Status Code 69 on AIX.

3999254

PostGreSQL - VxBSACreateObject: ERR - resourceType too long: 33 bytes.

3999332

The instant access VM didn't restore the VM option 'Synchronize guest time with host'.

3999636

If a virtual machine data is protected, irrespective of the policy type, it is part of a virtual workload. This EEB is applicable for NetBackup clients installed on VMs hosted on VMware, Hyper-V, RHV, Nutanix-AHV, OpenStack, and AzureStack platform.

3999639

If a virtual machine data is protected, irrespective of the policy type, it is part of a virtual workload. This EEB is applicable for NetBackup clients installed on VMs hosted on VMware, Hyper-V, RHV, Nutanix-AHV, OpenStack, and AzureStack platform.

3999706

Windows install using silentclient.cmd will not work if Master Server cannot be contacted, even with all NBCA/ECA entries marked as 'SKIP'

3999724, version 1

Backport of new In Place Disk Option for VMDK Restore feature along with VMware bundle.

3999785

OpsCenter becomes unresponsive

3999796

Support of MongoDB over CentOS for 8.2 MongoDB plugin version

4000090

Hyper-V VM is backed up by Hyper-V policy and the NetBackup client installed inside the same guest VM is backing non file-system workloads (using policy types other than Standard/MS-Windows). You are only charged for the virtual machine (VM) backup.

4000113

NB_dbsrv utilizing high memory - OpsCenter Audit Data Collection issue

4000122

Child jobs for Oracle and Microsoft SQL policies fail with 196 errors when the Daylight Savings change happens in countries where the time change happens at midnight between Saturday and Sunday (mostly South American such as Brazil, Chile, and Paraguay).

4000213

VM backup images were corrupt with the wrong file number due to another EEB. Restore of these VM's fails with status 1.

4000324

The postMerge stored procedure marks valid=0, status=6 master servers as valid=1, status=3 and also adds them to the ALL MASTER SERVERS view

4000364

Hyper-V VM is backed up by Hyper-V policy and the NetBackup client installed inside the same guest VM is backing non file-system workloads (using policy types other than Standard/MS-Windows). You are only charged for the virtual machine (VM) backup.

4000365

8.2 - Security Scanner has detected TomCat version needs to be updated. [Netbackup.war fix]

4000366

RHV VM is backed up by Hypervisor policy and the NetBackup client installed inside the same guest VM is backing file-system or application workloads (using policy types such as Standard/MS-Windows, MS-SQL-Server). You are only charged for the VM backup.

4000656

Netbackup 8.2 build your own Apache/Tomcat vulnerability

4001978, version 1

Current NetBackup SLP practice is to submit jobs containing the oldest images first. This EEB provides the option to submit jobs containing the newest images first.

4002172, version 2, 1

EEB Bundle containing two NBSL fixes: OpsCenter Data Collection is not working and the NBSL service is getting crash frequently on cluster master server.

4002686

Frequent abnormal growth of DBM DATA and processes crashing intermittently.

4002934

MySQL scripts fail to execute.

4003351

Microsoft started supporting async snapshot support for azurestack. Few customers reported that application crashed if we take backup while heavy IO is in process.

4003461

(8.1.2) NetBackup for SQL Server backup fails but reports success to Microsoft SQL Server.

4003934

When using ECA and disabled CRL check from client, customers are able to see CRL refresh request from client host to master server. This unexpected communication might overload the master server in large environments.

4004205, version 1

Bundle to address web services/API issues in 8.2 along with Tomcat upgrade to 8.5.53

4005496

Hyper-V SAN backups fails with error code 10 when the cluster name is used in a Hyper-V intelligent policy.

4006143, version 1

Master server hangs, jobs are not starting and cannot be cancelled.

4006890, version 1

Isilon NDMP backup failing with a 'network connection timed out' error.

4007693, version 1

Combining EEBs which address issues with nbdeployutil and web services

4007892, version 2, 1

Storage Unit and Storage Unit group collectors are failing in OpsCenter

4008096

For restore the GUI fetches the ESX server list every time from the VC. This takes a long time during configuration of the restore jobs from the GUI.