Veritas NetBackup™ Release Notes
- About NetBackup 8.1.1
- New features, enhancements, and changes
- About new enhancements and changes in NetBackup
- NetBackup 8.1.1 new features, changes, and enhancements
- New RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 8.1.1
- Integrated snapshot framework between NetBackup and CloudPoint
- Bare Metal Restore with secure communications support
- NetBackup 8.1.1 support additions and changes
- End-of-life for multiple NetBackup products, features, and platforms
- Support has ended for vSphere 5.1
- NetBackup support utility (nbsu) has been updated
- Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
- IPv6 support information for NetBackup 8.1.1
- Update cloud configuration file on the master server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 8.1.1
- NetBackup supports backups to Amazon Glacier storage class
- NetBackup supports backups using cloud tiering
- Support for bpstart_notify and bpend_notify scripts using Oracle Intelligent Policy (OIP)
- NetBackup Bare Metal Restore functionality is supported for restoring NetBackup 8.1.1 clients
- MSDP updates in NetBackup 8.1.1
- NetBackup install now includes Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor and Hadoop plug-ins
- Dependency to select the Enterprise Vault version to configure policy directives is removed
- Operational notes
- About NetBackup 8.1.1 operational notes
- NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
- Do not install from the menu that appears when the installation DVD is inserted
- About support for HP-UX Itanium vPars SRP containers
- Web service connection between NetBackup 8.1.1 IPv6-only master server and 8.1 dual stack host is not established during installation
- A Java error can occur on AIX 7.1
- Installation fails for clients with pure IPV6 enabled on HP-UX 11.31 IA64
- NetBackup administration and general operational notes
- NetBackup administration interface operational notes
- "Operation timed out" message appears when policies are accessed from the Remote Administration Console
- Using X forwarding to launch the NetBackup Administration Console can fail on certain Linux platforms
- Intermittent issues with X forwarding of NetBackup Administration Console
- Reduced functionality during the initialization of the NetBackup Administration Console
- NetBackup Administration Console may encounter a core dump issue when the Simplified Chinese UTF-8 locale is used on a Solaris SPARC 64-bit system with Solaris 10 Update 2 or later
- NetBackup Accelerator operational notes
- NetBackup Bare Metal Restore operational notes
- SRT creation may fail using NetBackup 8.1 or 8.1.1 as the BMR boot server on AIX and HP-UX platforms with NetBackup 8.0 and earlier clients
- Allow Auto Reissue Certificate option may remain enabled for a client after a BMR operation is cleaned up by the user
- Discovery task may remain in Finalizing state after client PTD task completes successfully
- BMR restore task may remain in Finalizing state after the client is restored successfully
- NetBackup database and application agent operational notes
- NetBackup internationalization and localization operational notes
- NetBackup for NDMP operational notes
- NetBackup Snapshot Client operational notes
- NetBackup virtualization operational notes
- NetBackup for VMware operational notes
- The NetBackup web UI cannot restore a VM from a replicated backup image
- The NetBackup web UI does not validate VMware server entries
- NetBackup cannot use the nbd or nbdssl transport mode to connect directly to VMware IPv6 ESXi servers
- The NetBackup plug-in for vSphere Web Client cannot start a VM recovery by right-clicking on a successful backup event
- Using the NetBackup appliance to install the NetBackup plug-in for VMware vSphere Web Client
- VMware block-level incremental backups expire when the previous full backup expires
- A VM restore to a vCenter fails when NetBackup has credentials for a restore ESX server
- NetBackup for VMware 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
MSDP updates in NetBackup 8.1.1
NetBackup 8.1.1 introduces the following MSDP enhancements:
MSDP is FIPS validated
MSDP is now Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) validated and can be operated in FIPS mode.
MSDP Encryption using KMS service
NetBackup incorporates Key Management Server (KMS) with MSDP. KMS is a master server-based symmetric Key Management Service that ensures a secure data path for MSDP. A customer key is retrieved from NetBackup KMS to encrypt the data in MSDP.
Fixed-length deduplication and variable-length deduplication
You can now choose between fixed-length deduplication and variable-length deduplication. In variable-length deduplication, NetBackup processes the data, calculates the size boundaries, and segments the data in variable sizes. Each data segment is assigned a unique ID and NetBackup intelligently evaluates whether any data segment with the same ID exists so that it is not backed up again. Variable-length deduplication improves deduplication rates, reduces backup storage, improves backup performance, and lowers the overall cost that is spent on data protection.
For more information about these updates, see the NetBackup Deduplication Guide.